Episode 33: John Park
Happy No Fear
English - June 13, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 218 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Comedy street art design mural art los angeles how-to advice visual art Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
John Park is an artist living in LA who paints around the US. We talk about Cannibal Flower, coming up in Ohio, attending RISD, the CIA using Modern Art in a covert operation in the '50s to combat the cultural Cold War, soft power flexes, Alphonse Mucha, Frog Tape, the 28,000 square feet Nike job, cracking sidewalks with lifts, hand-painted giant advertisements, the process of painting a basketball court, investigating the things that scare you, the power of saying yes, regulating self-talk, Saturdays feeling like Mondays, becoming friends with your past, teaching art at Concord High School and being the whistleblower on its corruption, always over-delivering, having 50 non-artists paint 50 paintings on a fictional show called 'Striver: The Art Edition," and being the last of the analogues.