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Janina Myronova is a Ukranian ceramic sculptor who creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops. Utilizing a specific and distorted representation of the body, each composition shows a different personality and personal story to collectively reference a graphic novel and arcing story. Imparting her own emotion through linework, Janina’s works are strategically charged with color to saturate and amplify their individual stories.    Janina received her MFA at the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts (Lviv, Ukraine) in 2012, an MFA  at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Wroclaw, Poland) in 2013, and her PhD at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Wroclaw, Poland) in 2019. Continually developing her work and practice, she has attended numerous residencies including opportunities’ at Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, USA); Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, USA); New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan); Clayarch Gimhae Museum (Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea); Lefebvre and Fils (Paris, France); International Ceramic Research Center (Guldagergaard, Denmark); International Ceramics Studio (Kecskemet, Hungary).

Tahnee Lonsdale is an artist rendering emotional divinity through the use of layered oil paints and ethereal, intuitive compositions. Born in 1982 and raised in Sussex, UK, Tahnee attended the University of the Arts in London where she primarily studied painting, graduating with a BFA in 2007. After moving to LA in 2015, her practice evolved to embrace large-scale painting, soft sculpture, and works on paper. This September, Tahnee is debuting a solo booth of new work with Cob Gallery at the Armory Show in New York, releasing with a limited-edition print collaboration with Avant Arte, and will have new work on view in the group exhibition High Voltage 4 at Nassima Landau in Tel-Aviv. Other recent exhibitions include Our Humans at Fabian Lang in Zurich, Switzerland; Observation at Perrotin in Dubai, UAE; True Romance at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; and Under the Shell at Cob Gallery, London, UK. Prominent acquisitions of Tahnee’s work include the X Museum in Beijing, China and Fundación MEDIANOCHE0 in Grenada, Spain. Tahnee Lonsdale lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Jodi Hays is a painter who has had recent solo shows at Night Gallery (Los Angeles) and two-person shows at Susan Inglett Gallery (New York City) and Devening Projects (Chicago). Brooks Museum, Fisk University, and Devening Projects, among others. She was a 2019 Finalist for the Hopper Prize and the recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Residencies include Oxbow School of Art, Stoveworks, The Cooper Union School of Art and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in Art Forum, New American Painting, Hyperallergic, New Art Examiner and Two Coats of Paint. Her paintings can be found in many public and corporate collections including the J Crew Group, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

This week we are releasing a classic episode. This is one of the first podcasts we released from 2016. Robin is an amazing artist who shares her process and insights.

Karen Seapker lives and works in Nashville, TN. She has an MFA in Painting from Hunter College in New York City and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally— in New York, Miami, Pittsburgh, London, and Shanghai. She is a member of the curatorial collective, COOP in Nashville, TN and has curated and co-curated several exhibitions— in Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Brooklyn. She is represented by Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville.

Sebastian has a solo opening tonight at Miles McEnery Gallery called "She's My Best Friend." On the occasion, we are rereleasing this classic episode from our first couple months of the podcast. Go check out his show up through August.

Ella Hohnen-Ford is a singer and songwriter from North London, England. She studied Jazz Voice at the Royal Academy of music. Ella garnered much attention from her live streams during lockdown and has recently released her debut EP “Infinity” on Young Poet. Links: https://hohnenford.com https://www.instagram.com/hohnenford/ https://open.spotify.com/user/bettinahohnen?si=6b145a07ab324afa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwUyq19J8IxlS-RcYo1E9pQ

Jim Isermann (b. 1955, Kenosha, WI) received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Jim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Center, London, United Kingdom; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs, CA; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, among others. He has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA jus to name a few. He lives and works in Palm Springs, CA.

Natalie Frank was born in Austin, TX and received her Master of Fine Arts in 2006 from Columbia University, New York, NY and her Bachelor of Arts in 2002 from Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 2004, Frank was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway. Natalie has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Salon 94, New York, NY; Lyles & King, New York, NY; Half Gallery, New York, NY; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; ACME., Los Angeles, CA; Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and The Drawing Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brattleboro Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT; The Corcoran, Washington, D.C.; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; London Museum of Design, London, United Kingdom; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Bunker, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach, FL; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and elsewhere.

Simphiwe Mbunyuza was born in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and lives and works in Norman, OK. He has been the subject of exhibitions in the United States and internationally, including recent presentations with Dyman Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa; South Willard, Los Angeles, CA; and Gallery 1957, London and Accra, Ghana; and is the recipient of awards and residencies including the Red Clay Faction Award and Oscar Jacobson Award from The University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Museum, Norman, OK in 2019, and a residency with A.I.R Vallauris, France, in 2017.