I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists, Curators & Collectors
214 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 144 ratingsI Like Your Work supports artists! Each week artist Erika b Hess interviews artists, gallerists, collectors, and curators to cover topics that will help you in your art practice! From inspiring interviews from the lives of artists to business practices you will walk away ready to get in the studio!
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Field Projects: NYC Space Supporting Artists, Curating Through Open Calls, Pop Ups and More
February 28, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBField Projects is an artist-run project space in Chelsea NYC and online venue dedicated to emerging and mid-career artists. Centered on long-term curatorial projects, Field Projects presents monthly exhibitions at their Chelsea location in addition to participating in pop-up exhibitions in and around New York as well as art fairs around the world. The gallery invites artists to submit their work for consideration twice a year through an open call submission process. They discover about 80% o...
Artist Nadia Waheed-Women Having Human Experiences
February 21, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBI absolutely love the work of Nadia Waheed and am excited to have her on the show! Nadia has lived in places such as Islamabad, Paris, Sydney, Cairo, and the USA. In this episode, we discuss relocation, identity and how it plays into her work. She states that the figures in her paintings are herself but also others: “The women are me, but also others. They’re two women, but also one woman…women contain multitudes”. We dive into topics of sexism, racism, and creating safe spaces. This epi...
Lucas Spivey: How to Make Art and Make A Living- Culture Hustlers - BFA/MBA
February 14, 2020 12:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBLucas Spivey has traveled to all 50 states to build a business school for creators. Born in MN, raised in rural WI, AK, SC, and GA, and living between WA and MA, he’s moved almost every year of his life. In 2016, he scrapped his Ph.D. plans and built the Mobile Incubator - a recording studio inside a ‘57 camper towed by a ‘73 ambulance. He has sat down with thousands of artists, performers, writers, designers, makers, and other entrepreneurs in every state. Their hard-fought wisdom inspire...
Artist Mychaelyn Michalec: Motherhood, Taking Time Off & Taking the Reigns of Your Art Career
February 07, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBCheck out this week's interview with artist Mychaelyn Michalec! Mychaelyn is an artist whose work has exploded in terms of material and exposure. This is a really uplifting interview that I am excited to share with you because it dives into ideas on motherhood and creativity, taking time off and taking control of your career. I was really inspired personally by this interview because we dive into a ton of helpful topics. We talk about a topic that isn't discussed enough, taking time off af...
Emily Marie Miller: Painting Bodies & What Creatives Can Learn Through Astrology
January 31, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBI am excited to share my interview with Brooklyn based painter, Emily Marie Miller! Emily's work has been published in ArtMaze Mag and Playboy. She recently showed in the group exhibitions Seed, curated by Yvonne Force, at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York City and A Fairly Secret Army, curated by Paul Whiting, at Wildpalms Gallery in Düsseldorf. She had her first solo show in New York City open at Barney Savage Gallery in TriBeCa this past fall and she has two shows coming up this summer wi...
Gallerist & Author Bridgette Mayer: Building Your Art Career, Money Mindset, & Working w Galleries
January 24, 2020 17:56 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBGallerist and Author Bridgette Mayer has spent the past two decades running a multimillion-dollar gallery business and leading artists in crafting their careers. In this episode, we talk about overcoming childhood abuse to find her true passion in the arts, her love of working with artists, adjusting your money mindset and business end of your practice and her new book, The Modern Artist's Way! The Modern Artist's Way guides you in defining what makes you happy, how to value your wor...
Painter Mark Milroy: Stories of Discovery, Overcoming Failure & the Psychology of Portrait Painting
January 17, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBI am thrilled to share the work of Mark Milroy! I've followed Mark's work for a few years which is why I am so excited to have him on the show! It was so much fun to record this interview in his Brooklyn studio where Mark share's hilarious stories of his background growing up in Canada, how he came to art, painting adults with mental illness and developmental disabilities, and how this lead to his interest in portrait painting and pursuing art as his career. We also discuss health setbacks...
Artist Taylor O. Thomas: The Physical Act of Painting and Embracing the Process
January 10, 2020 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBI am really excited to bring you this episode with Taylor O. Thomas! I first connected with Taylor when she submitted her work to be a Studio Visit artist and have followed and loved her work ever since. I am thrilled to now have her on the show! I had such a great time talking to Taylor about how she became interested in the arts, spoiler she almost went to a very different type of school! How she starts a day in her studio and where she draws color inspiration. Taylor O. Thomas is an...
Carve Out Time For Art-Motherhood, Making Time & Embracing Efficiency
January 03, 2020 14:15 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBI am so excited to welcome Marissa Huber and Heather Kirtland to the show! Marissa and Heather are both artists and they also created the amazing site Carve Out Time For Art. The mission of COTFA is to empower people to stop dreaming and start doing! From 2015-2016 they posted an artist/mother interview a week and they are now releasing their book, The Motherhood of Art Book in April! This is such an amazing resource and I wish I would have had this when I had my first child. Marissa an...
Artpreneur & Coach Michelle Gomez-Reflecting on the Past, Moving into the Future
December 27, 2019 11:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBIn this episode, we get into all the high vibe things I love. From awesome books to help empower you to mantras, meditations, and manifestation, we talk about how Michelle works with artists to help them explore their fears to move forward and have the career they want! I had a lot of fun talking to Michelle and I hope this episode gears you up for 2020! 2020 is happening in a few days and I am psyched for it! Over the past few years, I’ve gotten into making lists and goals and writin...
Artist Sean Downey: From Oil Painting to Virtual Reality-Working Across Technology & Mediums, Meditation, and being an Artist Parent
December 20, 2019 13:14 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this episode with artist Sean Downey, we cover a ton of wonderful topics from meditation to the concepts driving Sean’s work, how the starts into one of his very complex paintings, using virtual reality and also how being a parent has impacted him. Sean Downey received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from Boston University. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston, MA), LaMontagne Gallery (Boston, MA), and University of Massachusetts Lo...
Jasmine Zelaya-Setting Goals & Making It Happen: From Magazine Covers to BET+
December 13, 2019 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBIn this episode, I had a wonderful time connecting with the Houston based artist Jasmine Zelaya. A lot of you guys may be familiar with Jasmine's work from the cover of New American Paintings. In this interview, we touch on the topic of why Jasmine decided to start applying to opportunities such as New American Paintings and how by setting that goal for herself, she has been in multiple publications, exhibitions, mural projects and now has had her work featured in the show First Wives Club...
Robert Gamblin: Pigment, Paint & Passion-Creating Paintings & an International Paint Making Company
December 06, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBI am thrilled you are here for this episode with the artist and creator of the fabulous oil paints, Robert Gamblin! Robert makes wonderful landscape paintings and is the founder of Gamblin Artists Colors, an international brand of oil painting and printmaking materials. In this episode we talk about Robert’s time in art school, how and why Robert started Gamblin Paints, how he grew the company, his work as a painter and also tons of great info about pigments, mediums and grounds! I know y...
Artist Pia Pack: Creating Community through Art & Family -Motherhood, Music, Food, and Podcasting!
November 29, 2019 11:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBI loved every minute connecting with Los Angeles based artist Pia Pack! From talking about art school, dealing with post-grad school anxiety, moving internationally, to balancing work and family. Pia was such a treat to talk to! We dive into creating community through podcasting and how she is doing all of this with a new baby along for the ride! Pia sees her work as that of a cartographer of social situations. Focusing on the way people connect and interact, translating movements and mapp...
Artist Carly Glovinski: Living an Authentic & Artistic Life, DIY & Homesteading
November 22, 2019 11:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBI absolutely love the work of artist Carly Glovinski. From her use of color to her exploration of pattern, Carly's work plays with the idea of the decorative and utilitarian. Her work investigates patterns and organizing systems found in everyday life with reverence for the history and behaviors contained in objects and places. In this episode, we discuss living an authentic life and following our passions, from our work in the studio to DIY projects and restoring old homes. Carly ...
Artist Melanie Parke: Strength in Creation, Me Too & Activism in the Arts
November 15, 2019 11:30 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBMelanie Parke is a painter with an extensive exhibition record and an incredible eye which has resulted in not only making amazing work but also a solid and inspirational curatorial resume. She created The Provincial, an artist-run project space & curatorial program committed to camaraderie and intellectual verve. Her and her husband, the painter Richard Kooyman, are devoted to supporting artists in new and experimental work. They believe experiencing artist-driven endeavors is to glimpse ...
Artist Tomory Dodge: Brushstrokes as Image & Finding Something to Hold Onto
November 08, 2019 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBI had such a great time talking to the LA-based painter, Tomory Dodge. Tomory is a painter's painter and I felt like I was hanging out in his studio talking about his painting process, life, and where the two overlap. From talking about how he works in his studio, to how time constraints from having kids can push your work into weird unknown places, it was a pleasure to hear about his process. Tomory recently had a show at Phillip Martin in L.A. You can read a review of the show in the...
Gallerist Joanna Fink of Alpha Gallery: Connections between Art & Audience
November 01, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBJoanna Fink is the Director of Alpha Gallery, a highly successful gallery in Boston, MA that focuses on contemporary painting and works on paper. Alpha represents incredible painters such as Susanna Coffey and William Bailey, exhibits emerging talent in the annual New Talent Show, and holds special shows of master artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fairfield Porter, Max Beckmann, Arnulf Rainer, Arthur Dove, John Marin, as well as Milton Avery, whose estate Alpha represents. Alpha hits a sw...
Artist Jolene Powell: The Power of Travel, Investigating the Landscape, Teaching & Running a Gallery Space
October 25, 2019 09:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBJolene Powell is a McCoy Professor of Art and Director of Gallery 310 at Marietta College. Although she lives in the Midwest, she has spent several summers painting the coast of Maine; her fog-saturated residency at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation generated much of her recent visual inspiration. I was so excited to visit Jolene's studio to record this episode! It was great to see her gorgeous work in person, dive into how she creates her pieces and also hear about what has impacted her ...
Hannah Cole-Money Insight for Artists & Tax Info for Creatives
October 18, 2019 20:09 - 1 hour - 55 MBHannah is an artist and tax expert who specializes in working with creative people and their businesses. Though she’s worked at a couple “buttoned-up” tax firms in New York, she loves bringing her tax skills to the aid of the creative world. Her passion for helping creative businesses began when she was an Account Executive and Interactive Producer for a New York interactive design agency, where she saw the struggles and triumphs from the inside. A long-time working artist with a hig...
Ann Toebbe: Life of an Artist- Balancing Creation & Family
October 11, 2019 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBAnn Toebbe is an american contemporary artist born in 1974. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago . the Saatchi Gallery, Steven Zevitas Gallery (represented), Monya Rowe Gallery, and Tibor de Nagy Gallery (represented). Ann Toebbe has been featured in articles in Artforum, The New York Times, NY Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Art in America and Hyperallergic among others. Her...
Curator Kate Mothes: Tips for Applying to Shows, Posting on Social Media, and Curating YoungSpace
October 04, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBKate Mothes is an independent curator and founder of Young Space, an extremely successful online exhibition space that also partners with galleries. In this episode, we cover tons of helpful info for artists looking to apply to juried shows from how to contact curators, what to share, and studio visits. Kate talks about why she started Young Space and what she looks for when curating an exhibition. Kate is extremely generous with her knowledge and is such a supporter of artists! You will h...
Artist Kim Dorland: Going Somewhere- Life in the Studio and Painting the Psyche
September 27, 2019 18:12 - 50 minutes - 46 MBI am excited to share this week's interview with the incredibly successful and talented painter, Kim Dorland! I have been a fan of Kim for a long time. His thick oil paintings depict the landscape and the psyche of the individuals in them. In this episode, we talk about Kim's background and overcoming hardships in Wainwright, Alberta Canada, meeting the person that is now his wife, how he started studying art, his studio practice, how his work has shifted, and the importance of his family ...
Lisa Solomon: A Passion for Color- Her New Book on Working with Watercolor & Creative Meditations
September 20, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBLisa Solomon is a studio artist, educator, and graphic designer. Solomon received her BA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. Solomon, being half Japanese and half Caucasian, is interested in the idea of hybridization and mixed media work. Her work revolves around themes of domesticity, craft, and archetypes of masculinity and femininity. Obsessed with color theory, she is naturally drawn to altering objects conceptually so that their meanings and original intende...
Ashley Longshore: You Are Good Enough-Entrepreneurship, Self-Confidence & Global Brands
September 14, 2019 01:35 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBAshley Longshore talks about her life, work and how she stays positive! From working with Gucci to having collectors like Blake Lively and Eli Manning. She talks about not becoming an artist but BEING BORN an artist, showing up to do the work, loving yourself and how she started partnering with brands such as Bentley, and her new partnership with Maybelline. Ashley is on fire! Not just in her career where just walked the catwalks for NYC's fashion week but in her life! Ashley shares he...
Artist Lisa Congdon: Finding Your Artistic Voice, Imposter Syndrome & Generosity
September 07, 2019 09:00 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBLisa Congdon is an incredibly talented, successful and humble artist. I am pretty much obsessed with Lisa because she is an organized, artistic, kind and genuine dynamo! She is an illustrator and author best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering. She works for clients around the world including Comme des Garçons, Crate and Barrel, Facebook, MoMA, REI, and Harvard University among many others. She is the author of eight books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing ...
Eps 36: Artist Allison Reimus-Questioning the Decorative, Feminism & Choice
May 18, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBAllison Reimus's work explores the relationship between decoration and function and similarly, how painting operates as both an object and an idea. Simple compositions depicting singular moments and objects, within a shallow pictorial space, allow Reimus to freely explore her interests in formalism, geometry and abstraction. Thoughtful investigations regarding tactility and surface often lead to experiments with media closely associated with domesticity and the feminine-- glitter, gold le...
Eps 35: Artist Crystalle Lacouture-Painting, Collecting & Working with Nancy Spero & Leon Golub
May 11, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBIn this episode, I talk to the Boston based artist Crystalle Lacouture about her work, her experience working as a longtime assistant to Nancy Spero & Leon Golub, collecting artwork and working as an arts consultant. Crystalle is a painter based in Boston and North Adams, MA and received her Bachelor’s degree in Painting/Printmaking from Skidmore College in 2000. During the 10 years she lived in NYC, Crystalle was a longtime assistant to activist artists Nancy Spero and Leon Golub...
Eps 34: Artist Daisy Patton-Memory, Storytelling & Death
May 04, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBI had such an amazing time talking to the incredible painter Daisy Patton! Daisy is so easy to talk to and incredibly sharp, it was a blast to record this with her. In this episode we talk about getting out of grad school, changing mediums, death, photography, painting, treating yourself and a ton of other great topics! I felt like I was hanging out with my painting BFF. From Los Angeles, California, Daisy Patton moved back and forth between Oklahoma and California during her childhood. Sh...
BONUS: Applying to Academic Jobs in the Arts
May 03, 2019 21:39 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBFATE Conference 2019 "The Secret Handshake" Abstract: The mysterious inner workings of academia, museum and gallery systems, and granting agencies are not always evident to individuals who desire to work with/in them. If only we had insight into what the hiring committee/ granting agency/ juries were thinking, we could customize our submissions materials to be most appropriate. We all know that we need to have sharp images and equally strong written content, but what are the more nu...
Eps 33: Artist John Bokor-Painting Life: Interior Spaces, Still Lives & Landscape
April 27, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBJohn Bokor is an Australian artist. He graduated from the National Art School in 1993. John’s work ranges from domestic interiors and Still Lifes to suburban landscapes. For over 12 years he has been represented by King Street Gallery on William in Sydney. He is also represented by Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne and Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane. He has had 20 solo exhibitions at both commercial Galleries and at regional galleries across Australia. His work has been included ...
Eps 32: Artist Phillip J Mellen-Generosity, Making, and Painting
April 20, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBIn this episode, we discuss his process, inspiration, and continuing to make work when you know you are called to do so. Phillip lives and works in Taunton, Massachusetts and studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In addition to being a painter, he has multiple podcasts such as Ahtcast, The Mixed Media TAPES, Ahtakes, and has the blog Artist Family Tree. LINKS: phillipjmellen.com Podcast projects: Ahtcast – Visual Artist Interview Podcast-http://www.ahtcast.c...
Eps 31: Artist Ashley Norwood Cooper-The Humanity of Being an Artist-Painting the Life that Surrounds You
April 13, 2019 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBAshley Norwood Cooper has exhibited her paintings in solo and group shows around the country. These include exhibitions at Zinc Contemporary in Seattle, Art Garage in Cooperstown, NY, the College of William and Mary, Silvermine Arts Center, Bennington Museum of Art, SUNY Oneonta, Earlville Opera House, Santa Clara University and two previous shows at First Street Gallery. She will be featured in the upcoming 2019 issue of “New American Paintings: Northeast Edition.” She holds her MFA from ...
Eps 30: Kimberly Brooks-The Overlap of Art & Science: Art, Physics, & Writing
April 06, 2019 09:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBI am excited to share this episode with you because it is packed with such great content! Kimberly Brooks is a Renaissance Women who is a painter, researcher, writer, teacher, and all around wonderful mind. In this episode, we talk about David Hockney and his use of technology, the history of technology in painting, the book her father wrote "Art & Physics" and how she edited it during her teenage years. We also discuss her studio practice, work, color and how she became the founding e...
Eps 29: Artist David Linneweh-Painter & Podcast Host of Studio Break
March 30, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 64 MBThis is such a great episode mostly for the painters out there! I loved talking the David Linneweh, a painter who also runs the podcast Studio Break, about his background growing up in suburbia and how that feeds into his paintings, his experience working en plein air and photo transfers, his wonderful advice to artists and what he has learned from running a podcast. David Linneweh received his MFA in painting at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2007 and his BFA from Illinois...
Eps 28: Gallerist Abigail Ogilvy-Listening to Stories & Tips for Artists Approaching Gallerists
March 23, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, I talk to Abigail about interest in other people’s stories, how she moved from the tech world into the art world, and her tips for artists approaching gallerists. Abigail Ogilvy Gallery exhibits contemporary art with a heavy emphasis on concept driven artwork by emerging to mid career artists located across the country and internationally. The gallery primarily focuses on paintings, but also exhibits a range of other medias including photography, sculpture, mixed med...
Eps 27: Artist Amy Lincoln- Color, Community, & Starbucks Coffee Murals
March 16, 2019 09:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBToday I am excited to share my interview with Amy Lincoln! I met up with Amy in Queens, NY where she lives/works and I felt like I was sitting down with a good friend even though I had never met her. I love that this interview keeps it really real because Amy has a 4mth old baby and a 4-year-old. This is the place where she creates, paints and has her family and I love that you can hear it in the interview. We talk about how she came to the work she is making, working with Urban Outfitters...
Eps 26: Artist Joanne Greenbaum- Making the Work, Making a Living, and a Deep Knowledge of Painting
March 09, 2019 10:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBIn this episode, I talk to artist Joanne Greenbaum about education, politics of art language, the deep internal intelligence in painting, the power of introversion, mark-making, color and her exploration of materials. We dive into so many wonderful topics including the myth that "real artists don't have day jobs" and "everything has been done". Joanne Greenbaum earned a BA from Bard College, Annadale-on- Hudson, NY. Over the past twenty years, Joanne Greenbaum has exhibited widely at...
Eps 25: Artist Joan Lemay-Celebrating Lives, Supporting Artists & the Music Industry
March 02, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBJoan LeMay is a portraitist and illustrator who is interested in pattern, gesture and Byzantine halos. She loves painting people, animals, plants and things (a kind of anthropomorphic approach to portraiture) in equal measure, and packs referential objects, color-based symbolism and other subject-specific elements into the busy backgrounds of her work in order to reflect the soul and life of the person or creature depicted. We talk about creating opportunities, RuPaul, the music industry a...
Eps 24: Finding the Right Space- Curator Lynne Cooney
February 23, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBLynne Cooney is the Artistic Director and chief curator of the Boston University Art Galleries where she has organized numerous group and solo exhibitions. Lynne received a BA in English from Simmons College, Boston, an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and an MA in Art History from Boston University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University’ in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Her dissertation examines concepts of ra...
Eps 23: Artist Melissa Meyer- Filled With LIfe-Painting in NYC 1960s-Present
February 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBI am excited to talk to the NYC based artist Melissa Meyer. In this episode, we talk about painting in the 1960's, her work with Miriam Schapiro on the essay that coined the term "femmage" and her current studio work. Melissa received undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University. Her development has been surveyed in traveling exhibitions originating at the New York Studio School and Swarthmore College. She has completed public commissions in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Bi...
Eps 22: Artist Ling Chun -Exploring a Shifting Cultural Identity Through Ceramics
February 09, 2019 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBI discovered Ling Chun’s work on instagram and fell in love with her use of color and materials in her ceramic work and wanted to know more. Ling was born in Hong Kong and came to the United States at the age of seventeen. She then earned her BFA in visual communication design and ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been an artist in residence at various long term and short term residencies which we ta...
Eps 21: Artist, Writer & Change Maker Sharon Louden
February 02, 2019 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBI had the incredible fortune to meet up with Sharon Louden in Queens a couple of weeks ago to talk about her work and I had such a wonderful time! Sharon is an artist, educator, advocate for artists, editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books and the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution. In this interview, we talk about her work, sharing opportunities, and her new opportunity that she is sharing as the artistic director of the visual arts ...
Eps 20: Artist Chelsea Gibson
January 26, 2019 09:30 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBIn this episode the painter Chelsea Gibson and I discuss her musical background, building a home and studio from the ground up and dealing with criticism. Chelsea Gibson paints portraits of home. Her paintings investigate what it means to call a place “home” and how the lives lived there are interdependent on the spaces within. She paints about the decision to live in such a rural community, and what those choices look like for her friends and models. She is interested in the dichotomy bet...
Eps 19: Good Witches & Fairy Godmothers: Creating Opportunity in the Art World with Sarah Potter
January 19, 2019 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBI had such an amazing time connecting with the kind and exuberant Sarah Potter! Also known as, The Good Witch of the Art World, Sarah is the founder and owner of SP Projects, an independent art advisory and consulting business based in New York. With more than a decade of experience in the fine art world, Sarah has placed an emphasis on curating private and corporate collections with artwork that is aesthetically satisfying and a good financial investment. Sarah graduated with honors from ...
Eps 18: Shandra Smith: What is Surface Design, Licensing Work and Learning on the Ground
January 12, 2019 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBI am really excited to introduce you the artist and surface designer, Shandra Smith! Shandra is based in British Columbia, Canada who uses a variety of mixed media techniques to create vibrant work that are sold on various home decor items and fashion accessories such as wallpaper, shoes, and books. Shandra talks about her process, how she got into surface design, having the guts to go for it, dealing with rejection and her experience and tips for licensing work. Shandra's work appears...
Eps 17 Artist & Tax Pro Hannah Cole
January 05, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBHannah is a painter living in Asheville. She studied at Yale University and Boston University and has exhibited internationally. She is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC and Slag Gallery in New York. Her work was shown recently at The Drawing Center and at Volta, Basel. Last year she had her fourth solo show in New York at The Lodge Gallery and her first solo museum show at the University of Maine Museum of Art. Hannah is a tax expert who specializes in working with...
Eps 16: Gallerist and Entrepreneur Bridget Mayer- Not Giving Your Power Away
December 29, 2018 01:51 - 49 minutes - 59.2 MBBridgette Mayer is an art dealer & art consultant with locations in Philadelphia & Jacksonville, Florida. She opened Bridgette Mayer Gallery on Philadelphia's historic Washington Square in 2001. In this episode, we discuss her book The Art Cure, empowering artists through her story, how she started her gallery, and how she is now working with artists as an Art Coach. She gives tips to artists from her experience as a gallerist and from privately working with artists in her coaching pr...
Eps 15: Curator Kate McNamara Discusses Curation & Criticism Today
December 22, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBKate McNamara is the Director of Galleries at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, where she has organized recent solo exhibitions with Polly Apfelbaum and Anna Craycroft. Previously, she held the position of Director and Chief Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery where she organized exhibitions with Leidy Churchman, Destroy All Monsters, and Vlatka Horvat, among others. McNamara is also co-founder of Cleopatra’s, an alternative Brooklyn-based project space founded in 200...
Eps 14: Artist Lanie Wurzel
December 14, 2018 23:20 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBToday I am so excited to introduce you to the artist Lanie Wurzel. Lanie is an artist and teacher living and working in Cambridge, MA. Lanie has found successes outside of the traditional gallery sphere. In 2011, she started working with the online start-up www.20x200.com, which sells high-quality archival prints of her work. It was through this venue that a design director at Kate Spade saw her painting “My Butt” and asked Helena to paint an ad campaign for the promotion of their new Sat...