Interviews by Brainard Carey
Episodes
Adrianne Rubenstein
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adrianne Rubenstein (b. Montreal, 1983) is a painter based in New York. Solo exhibitions include Magic Show at Broadway Gallery, New York; Blue at ...
Ryan Wallace
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
RYAN WALLACE’s (b. 1977) mixed media paintings conjure an ethereal space between the material and intangible. Repurposing fragments from earlier a...
Elizabeth Hazan
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Portrait of the artist. Photo credit: Jenny Gorman Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist. Hazan was awarded a fellowship to the Skowheg...
Asad Raza
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asad Raza (born in Buffalo, USA) creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active expe...
Devon Reina
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Portrait of the Artist. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Devon Reina (b. 1996) is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist and designer. Devon’s cross-disciplinary...
Mark Yang
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Yang’s colorful, incongruous arrays of anonymous limbs entangled together investigate the nuances of human interaction through a critical lens ...
Andrew Edlin
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Edlin Andrew Edlin, owner of his eponymously named gallery and the Outsider Art Fair talks about the current show at the gallery and the upc...
Tiril Hasselknippe
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tiril Hasselknippe is a sculptor working with steel, concrete, fiberglass, and resin who proposes object-based solutions to evade humanity’s downfal...
Emma Safir
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Photo by Yael Malka Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) Safir makes paintings that utilize fabric manipulation, lens–based media, smocking, rasterization, u...
Sandi Haber Fifield
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Thing in Front of You, an exhibition of unique photocollages and small-scale wall sculptures by artist Sandi Haber Fifield, will be on view at Yan...
Oda Jaune
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oda Jaune Portrait 2024 © Charles Roussel For her first solo exhibition in the United States, the rare and uncanny Oda Jaune unveils a challenging...
Molly Lowe
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Lowe (b. 1983, Palo Alto, CA) received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has had s...
Devin B. Johnson
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992, Los Angeles) obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and received a Ma...
Sydney G. James
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Photo credit: Lamar Landers Sydney G. James (b. 1979, Detroit, MI) is a fine arts painter and muralist living and working in Detroit. James began her...
Donna Green
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donna Green, photo by Joe Kramm Donna Green wrestles with coils of stoneware, manipulating and prodding to create anthropomorphic gestural shapes tha...
Loren Erdrich
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Loren Erdrich creates paintings that both aspire toward transcendence and revel in their physicality. Erdrich’s deliberate and open collaboration wi...
Alexander Ross
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Ross in his studio, 2021, Great Barrington, MA Alexander Ross (b. 1960 in Denver, CO) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massach...
Ava Werner
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
photo of Ava (pictured with House Flips) Ava Werner is an American multi-media artist, working with 2D media and installation. Broadly, her work ...
Omari Douglin
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Omari Douglin lives and works in Los Angeles. He received an MFA in Painting from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2019. Selected solo and...
Oidie Kuijpers
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oidie Kuijpers (b. 1993) is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Kuijpers makes work which explores representation and investigates painting as a ...
Gregg Louis
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gregg Louis received a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2009. His work has been featured in exhibi...
Brad Kunkle
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Portrait of the Artist, Photo by Josh Wool. Brad Kunkle, b. 1978 Lehighton, Pennsylvania, BFA, Kutztown University, 2001. A decade after selling out ...
Cynthia Lahti
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cynthia Lahti (b. 1963) lives and works in her birthplace of Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lahti h...
Helia Chitsazan
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
photo is by Tyson Housman Originating from vintage video clips, Helia Chitsazan (b. 1995, Tehran, Iran) invokes a visualblur and static of old came...
Karla Knight
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Karla Knight in her studio Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to announce Universal Remote, a solo exhibition of new work for artist Karla Knight, ru...
Alva Mooses
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alva Mooses photographed by Mauricio Cortes Ortega at Shandaken Projects, Governor's Island 2023. Alva Mooses is an interdisciplinary artist. Her w...
Matthew Kirk
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Kirk’s (Navajo Nation) practice combines the materiality of his long-held job as an art-handler with mark-making inspired by comics, abstrac...
Cyle Warner
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cyle Warner is a Brooklyn-based artist of Afro-Caribbean descent. A recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Photography, he works a...
Heather Dewey-Hagborg
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Dewey-Hargborg, American artist and bio-hacker most knowned for the project Stranger Visions. Ana Brígida for The New York Times Dr. Heath...
Jonathan Herbert
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Herbert (b. 1952, New York City) explores the nonverbal relationship between cosmology and consciousness. He creates unique, intuitive formul...
Mickalene Thomas
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mickalene Thomas Photographed by Malike Sidibe At Yale Gallery for The New York Times Magazine. Mickalene Thomas was born and raised in New Jersey ...
Anna Berlin
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, Anna Berlin was awarded a Fulbright Research and Study Scholarship to Berlin, Germany, and has since painted between her new home and her fam...
Marleen Sleeuwits
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marleen Sleeuwits (NL), Multidisciplinary artist Marleen Sleeuwits, born in 1980 in Enschede, currently lives and works in The Hague. In 2001 she grad...
Sarah Lubin
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Lubin (Boston, MA) earned a B.A. in Art History from McGill University in 2001, followed by a year in Foundation Studies at Central Saint Martin...
Julie Severino
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Severino is a Brooklyn based painter. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art. Severino creates psychological narratives that function...
Edward Povey
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Povey was born in London, England in 1951, the only child of a merchant seaman and a seamstress. He studied at the Eastbourne College for Art a...
Floria Gonzalez
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Floria González was born in Monterrey on July 20th, 1980. She moved to Acuña Coahuila in 1983, eventually moving to Mexico City at 16 where she curr...
David Winner
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Enemy Combatant, David Winner's third novel (March 2021) received a Kirkus-starred review and was a Publisher's Weekly/Booklife Editor's Pick. H...
Laura Anderson Barbata
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Portrait, Laura Anderson Barbata. Photo: Jake Holler Born in 1958 in Mexico City, Laura Anderson Barbata is a transdisciplinary artist, performer, ...
Mikael Levin
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mikael Levin explores our conceptions of place, identity and temporarily. His photographs are often of commonplace, everyday sites that, while seeming...
Skuja Braden
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Skuja Braden portrait in porcelain 2020 Skuja Braden is a pseudonym & the surnames of International duo Ingūna Skuja (Latvia), & Melissa Braden (U...
Laura Whitcomb
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1932, Paulina Peavy (1901 – 1999) attended a séance at the home of Ida L. Ewing in Santa Ana, California, where she claims to have met a UFO nam...
Julien Gardair
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julien Gardair portrait by Catherine Talese Julien Gardair is a French artist based in New York City since 2007. His cutout paintings, installation...
Ruiji Aiba
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aiba Riji 相場るい児 Based in Seto City, the epicenter of Japanese ceramic making since 10th century, Ruiji Aiba (b. 1964 in Fukuoka) creates ...
Kandy G Lopez
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kandy G Lopez As a multi-media Afro-Caribbean American portrait artist, Kandy G Lopez explores identity through marginalized individuals who repres...
Henry Mandell
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Photo: Keith Stein Anita Rogers Gallery is pleased to present Superunknown, an exhibition of new work by Henry Mandell. Superunknown, Mandell’...
Judy Fox
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Judy Fox is a sculptor who works in the Hudson Valley, with a studio in Rhinebeck, New York. As an undergraduate she studied sculpture at Yale (BA1978...
Michael Polakowski
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Polakowski is a painter based in Detroit, MI. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Oever Gallery in Oo...
Jasmin Anoschkin
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with Jasmin Anoschkin, her husband, Severi Haapala serves as the translator for part of the interview Jasmin Anoschkin creates he...
Keiran Brennan Hinton
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
photo is by Colin Outridge, image courtesy Charles Moffett Keiran Brennan Hinton (b. 1992, Toronto) lives and works in Toronto and Elgin, Ontario. ...
Polina Barskaya
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Polina Barskaya (b. 1984, Cherkassy, USSR) received a MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and a BA from Hunter College, NY. Barskaya received a...
Will Pappenheimer
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist and educator working in new media, performance and installation. His current work explores the collage of...
Isaac Aden
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac Aden is an American artist. Aden’s work has always engaged painting from the periphery and approached content as a conceptualist. Deeply infor...
Joel-Peter Witkin
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the 2nd interview with Joel-Peter Witkin on this program, the fist one can be found here. Note: All the images discussed in order in the in...
Se Yoon Park
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Se Yoon Park, 2023. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park, New York. Se Yoon Park 박세윤 (b. 1979, South Korea) is a sculptor living and working in Ne...
Daniel Handal
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Originally from Honduras, Daniel Handal lives and works in New York City. He received his BS in Applied Sciences from Rutgers University and studied p...
David Kennedy Cutler
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Kennedy Cutler (b. 1979, Sandgate, VT) is an artist, writer and performer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His practice addresses ...
Tomás Díaz Cedeño
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tomás Díaz Cedeño (b. 1983, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. Most recently his work has been shown in a solo exhibition at Silke Lindne...
Sara Berman
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Berman (b. 1975, UK) received a BA in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins in 1999 after which she founded and ran her eponymous fashion b...
Tanya Minhas
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Minhas is a New York based visual artist. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, the artist moved to the United States to attend Princeton University. She...
Zhang Dali
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali Zhang Dali was born in Harbin, China in 1963. He graduated from the painting department at...
Cristina Canale
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cristina Canale (b. 1961, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) rose to prominence following her participation in the iconic group exhibition Como vai você, Geraç...
Owen Westberg
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Owen Westberg (b. 1986, Pittsburgh) received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been included ...
Alison Judd
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alison Judd is a multi-media artist whose work is rooted in themes relating to nature, the passage of time, and mothering. Recent shows include Vit...
Esther Sibiude
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Sibiude: The Song of Dirt Stammers our Tongue performance at the Kitchen at Westbeth on June 16, 2023. Credit: Rebecca Smeyne for The Kitchen ...
David Bordett
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Bordett (b. 1991, Shenandoah Valley, VA) is an interdisciplinary sculptor whose work critically examines American lore, half truths, and false p...
Susan Vecsey
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Vecsey adapts the Color Field technique of pouring paint to create a personal language of abstraction, rooted in the natural world and the human...
Diana Copperwhite
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diana Copperwhite (b. 1969, Ireland) lives and works in Dublin and New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Driven by Distraction, Royal Hibernian ...
Bjørn Friborg
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bjørn Friborg by Joe Kramm Bjørn Friborg (Danish, b. 1983) is a glass artist who defies historical methods of making and reinvents process with a d...
Tom Duncan
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Duncan’s love for sculpture began at age 4 when he was given a clay set by his aunt. Born in Scotland in 1939 just before World War II broke out...
Julia Felsenthal
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Felsenthal (b. 1983) is a painter and writer working in Brooklyn and Cape Cod. Born and raised in Chicago, she studied English at Yale Universit...
Amy Winstanley
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
portrait by Emma Dove Amy Winstanley (b. 1983, Dumfries, UK) is based in Glasgow, UK. She is currently having a solo show, Lost Hap, at Margot S...
Kristen Sanders
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kristen Sanders (b. 1989, California) lives and works in St. Paul, MN. She received a BA from the University of California Davis, and an MFA from Virg...
Rachel Stern
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
photo: Matthew Leifheit Rachel Stern (b. 1989, NYC) is a photographer whose work considers the intersection of beauty and power. Her photo-based in...
rafa esparza
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
image credit: Star Montana rafa esparza (b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) received a BA from University of California, Los Ang...
Hulda Guzman
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hulda Guzman in the studio, 2023 Hulda Guzmán (b. 1984, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) depicts her tropical surroundings as she explores persp...
Fatemeh Burnes
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fatemeh Burnes is an artist, educator, curator, and activist based in Los Angeles. Classically trained in Persian art and verse, Burnes also studied b...
Li Wang
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Li Wang (b. 1995) is a New York-based painter, born in Beijing, China. Li holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, where...
Elzie Williams III
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elzie Williams III (American, b. 1993) holds an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University School of the Arts, New York (2022), and a BFA from The Coo...
Raymond Saá
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Raymond Saá in his studio Raymond Saá is a Cuban-American artist born in New Orleans and raised in Miami. He graduated from the New World Schoo...
Anthony James
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By Diana Lehr June 12, 2023 Artist Anthony James and his first exhibition in the region entitled Light at Opera Gallery in DIFC.Antonie Robertson/T...
Masako Miki
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Masako Miki (b. 1973, Osaka, Japan) is a multimedia artist whose work ranges installation and large-scale sculpture, printmaking, watercolor and felti...
Destiny Haven Trujillo
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Destiny Haven Trujillo (b. 1994, New Mexico, United States) received her BFA in 2016 from the University of New Mexico. In 2022, she had a solo exhibi...
Tim Brawner
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Omaha-born, New York-based artist Tim Brawner produces a practice of painting that mines the space between the uncanny and the grotesque. Seeking to p...
Jessica Cannon
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Photo by Lila Barth Jessica Cannon (b. 1979, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design and teaches...
Deanna Havas
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Deanna Havas (b. 1989 in New York, US) is an artist based in Budapest, Hungary. Havas received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and ...
Zoe Pettijohn Schade
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zoe Pettijohn Schade’s densely researched, seductively beautiful drawings and paintings of varying size explore the scientific, art historical, and ...