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PAINTER MAN

15 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings

PAINTER MAN is a podcast about art and life by Sam Spano.

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Episodes

Painting Doesn't Lie - with Justine Rivas

April 21, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MB

Justine Rivas is a painter and writer based out of Los Angeles, and a good friend of mine. She recently had her MFA thesis exhibition at UCLA, which we get into a little bit.  We also talk about her time as an apprentice for an herbalist that went awry and how she wrote a play about it,  how we met at the San Francisco Art Institute, our short-lived band, balancing sincerity with humor,  psychedelia, dating red flags and green flags, and so much more. Enjoy this very special episode.  Just...

Yeah, Yeah

April 13, 2022 21:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MB

I answer some listener questions about last week's episode: fantasy movies, Carl Jung, being sensitive. Also some mythology talk and working with pastels.  Another classic episode. instagram samspano.com 

The Return

April 03, 2022 06:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

Season 2 premiere. We're back. A painting is never finished. instagram samspano.com 

The Critic - with Harry Tafoya

August 31, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MB

Art and music critic Harry Tafoya joins us this week to get to the bottom of it all-   We take a look at a recent New York Times article by art critic Holland Cotter on the Titian show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to explore why museums and critics might feel the need to frame art from the past through a contemporary political lens, especially when it doesn't need to. Is it productive,  cynical, or just completely clueless? Is it possible to show reverence for art on social media?...

Miss World - with Jennifer Sullivan

August 05, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Back with a very special episode, the first interview/studio visit on the show, with NYC-based painter Jennifer Sullivan. I visited Jennifer's studio in July following her show of paintings at Turn Gallery in New York, titled SLEEPER.  We talk about everything going into her new work  including Courtney Love,  earnestness and vulnerability as a transgressive act, painting as a diary, meditation and breathing exercises, cats as muses, becoming a "serious painter",  the power of seeing Susan R...

Miss World with Jennifer Sullivan

August 05, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MB

Back with a very special episode, the first interview/studio visit on the show, with NYC-based painter Jennifer Sullivan. I visited Jennifer's studio in July following her show of paintings at Turn Gallery in New York, titled SLEEPER.  We talk about everything going into her new work  including Courtney Love,  earnestness and vulnerability as a transgressive act, painting as a diary, meditation and breathing exercises, cats as muses, becoming a "serious painter",  the power of seeing Susan R...

Driving Arcadia

May 28, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB

It's really nice out so I take the show on the road, driving up the North Shore of Massachusetts.  Along the way I talk about one of my favorite painters, Pierre Bonnard, and think about how he influenced my work when I moved from abstraction to representational painting.      SAMSPANO.COM instagram Sam's Museum 

Sunlight Effect

May 19, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MB

Another late night, laid-back and loose episode. I talk about my bungled attempt at recording while walking outside, visiting the MFA in Boston to see a Monet show, starting some new still lives, and my love of window paintings. SAMSPANO.COM instagram  sam's museum

Truth and Lies

April 28, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MB

I go outside to paint for the first time,  and have an experience with a cherry blossom tree. Plus, my thoughts on the recent art forgery documentary MADE YOU LOOK, the nature of  truth in art,  magic,  and one of my all-time favorite movies- a better movie about art forgery,  Orson Welles' F FOR FAKE.  SAMSPANO.COM instagram 

TRAILER for PAINTER MAN

April 23, 2021 03:00 - 3 minutes - 2.68 MB

A clip from an episode of PAINTER MAN. Subscribe to the show to hear more. To see my artwork and learn more visit spanostudio.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/painterman)

This Is Not a Photograph

April 19, 2021 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MB

A late night meditation on information overload, the speed of life, the trouble with working from photographs, and painting landscapes. follow along on instagram  SAMSPANO.COM

You Set the Scene

April 03, 2021 07:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB

Talking about painting as a performance and knowing what motivates your work internally. I started a group of quick paintings where I try not to overthink it, work quickly, and hopefully stumble into something exciting.  The importance of leaving room for discovery.  I find a clarifying quote, and have brief visions of paradise. Follow along on  instagram  SAMSPANO.COM

Pilot - Light My Fire

March 25, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutes - 9.25 MB

Pilot episode for a podcast about my life as a painter. I talk about creative blocks, engineering ways to trip yourself up, fast and slow painting, and how podcasting is like painting. Follow on Instagram See my artwork here Shop paintings, prints and more

Light My Fire

March 25, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutes - 9.25 MB

Pilot episode for a podcast about my life as a painter. I talk about creative blocks, engineering ways to trip yourself up, fast and slow painting, and how podcasting is like painting. Follow on Instagram and Twitter  See my artwork here Shop paintings, prints and more Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/painterman)

0. Light My Fire

March 25, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutes - 9.25 MB

Pilot episode for a podcast about my life as a painter. I talk about creative blocks, engineering ways to trip yourself up, fast and slow painting, and how podcasting is like painting. Follow on Instagram and Twitter  See my artwork here Shop paintings, prints and more

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