Vanessa Conte makes paintings, drawings, and stories that involve erotic images of fleshy women’s bodies being being punished and pounded. We had a very deep and sexy conversation about kink, Italo Calvino, obliteration fantasies, submission and domination, origins in erotic writing, playing with and denying narrative, fantasy vs reality, making art that people jerk off to, vulnerability, being artistically driven my need and desire, translating physicality and feeling into images, and being inspired by film.
Jared Buckhiester
Jared Buckhiester is an artist who makes works in sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. We talk about psychoanalysis, pocketknives, early work in fashion photography and NYC in the 90s, putting a little disco into everything, wrestling magazines and jail reports, broken narratives, editing and collage, creating games for one’s self to generate work, and the importance of relaxing in the studio.
Kimia Ferdowsi Kline
Kimia Ferdowsi Kline is a painter and sculptor who splits her time between Nashville and New York. She also curates the private collection at Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. We talk about the challenge of not trying too hard, how pregnancy and motherhood has changed the work, the genius of Ali Wong, the metaphoric potential of her new materials, resisting the pressure to make work solely about identity politics, the difficulties of working during the pandemic, the practice of play in using salvaged wood, meditation as a creative tool, and art as a spiritual practice and way of healing.
Acacia Marable
Acacia Marable is a painter and drawer with a background in photo, performance and video. We spoke about their daily drawing and meditation practice, Animal Crossing, working without a plan, the allure of cowboys, making work that is both political and personal, Robert Colescott vs Peter Saul, caterpillar as spirit animal, the pleasures of slowing down, and copying other artists as a way of learning.
Ricardo Gonzalez
Ricardo Gonzalez paints moody characters, objects, and scenes that draw influence in film noir and German expressionism, among other things. We talk about his early years, inspirations in music and movies, painting over the parts you like best, the psychodrama of dealing with yourself in the studio, the uses of text and the lessons of graphic design, plus shared anecdotes and inspirations from Guston, Picasso, De Chirico, Twombly, Schnabel, Milton and March Avery and Susan Rothenberg.
Nick Irzyk
Nick Irzyk is a NYC based painter with a background in printmaking (and one of the impresarios behind A.D. gallery in the LES). We talk about his recent paintings which draw from the visual vernacular of the office and the factory via diagrammatic imagery. We also get into the tyranny of Modernism, the fleeting fatalism of Utopia, the beauty of UK rave flyers, and the relationship of painting to drawing and time.
Jamie Chan
Jamie Chan makes loving paintings of baseball players, Post-it notes, and angels, among other things. We talk about making intimate images, her slow burn style, spirituality, identity, history, and how a day job can influence the creative process or become a stage for aesthetic experience.
Eduardo Navarro
Eduardo Navarro is an Argentinian artist who works in a wide range of mediums including sculpture, performance, installation, and drawing. We spoke about his first UK solo exhibition (breathspace) currently on view at Gasworks in London, which includes a small humanoid sculpture called Self-Doll which became a surrogate for the artist. We also spoke about previous work including Timeless Alex in which he performs as a giant turtle, and Poema Volcanico, in which he visits and creates drawings while climbing to an active volcano.
Joy Curtis
Joy Curtis is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. We talked about her solo show Skeleton Woman at Klaus Von Nichtsaggend gallery which is on view through January 9, 2020, the ideas around healing, surrender, and transformation that are woven into the work, and her turn towards softer and more vulnerable forms since her last solo show at Klaus.
J.A. Feng
J.A. Feng is a Brooklyn based painter who recently presented a new body of work at NADA Miami with gallery 12.26 that imagines “worlds within worlds” and alternate models and origins of the universe. We also discuss her own origin story of becoming an artist, and the spiraling path of time and painting.
Anna Rosen
Anna Rosen is a painter working in fresco and on paper in her most recent work. She spoke about the process of creating her solo show Egg and Dart which is currently on view at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. We explore the cast of characters and elements that show up in her paintings, including aristocrats, vessels, eggs, ducks, spaghetti dinners, and time travel.
Juliana Paculli
Juliana Paciulli is an artist in deep dialogue with the phenomenology of pop culture, the weird poetics of mass produced objects, and the discombobulated imagining of women’s bodies. We talk about her inspirations in the cinematography of sitcoms and advertisements, her love of Three’s Company, the surrealism of the 80s, moving off the screen, her recent uses of toilet paper, and the ethos of the Riot Grrrl movement.
Timothy Hull
Timothy Hull is an “archeologist of the soul” — an artist who gathers inspiration in the field of history, and draws connections between antiquity and the present in elegant paintings that are often covered in patterns, ancient texts, and fragments of figures and architecture. We cover a lot of bases in this episode from seeing his beautiful home in Upstate New York as an ongoing work of art in collaboration with his husband, to esoteric spiritual interests, to our shared love of emo music and inspirational quotes.
Nicholas Sullivan
Nicholas Sullivan is a very process driven sculptor and one of two Nicks who run A.D. gallery on NYC’s LES. We talk about his new studio, his cool artist mom, materials and their meaning, the power of work that is both personal and political, the tenderness of paper, Orwell’s 1984, and learning to trust one’s self in the creative process wherever it goes.
Alicia Gibson
Alicia Gibson is a painter and drawer with “a collage mentality”. We chat about working and collecting materials from her current locale in South Carolina, poetic and cathartic uses of text, the transformative potential of art, pet portraits, and her upcoming solo show at Grifter gallery in NYC!
Introducing It's a Process
A brief introduction to the pod, and to me, your host, Jennifer Sullivan
Max Maslansky
Interview with artist Max Maslansky about his recent solo show at Five Car Garage in Los Angeles, CA