Sound and Vision

On the occasion of The Pollinator, Tracy Thomason’s fourth exhibition with Marinaro gallery, inhabiting both of their gallery spaces, we are reissuing this conversation with Tracy from over six years ago. Tracy Thomason is an artist born in Maryland who received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Exhibitions include a solo shows at Marinaro in 2022, 2020, 2017 and the current one. NADA Projects with Cuevas Tilleard Projects, NY, NY and a two-person exhibition with Peter Halley at Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY. Select group exhibitions include Analog Diary, Beacon, NY; Over the Influence, Los Angeles; 56 Henry, Asya Geisberg, James Fuentes, and Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York, NY, 106 Green in Brooklyn, NY, and Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE. Tracy lives and works in Brooklyn and you can see her current show at Marinaro until October 21st.

Sam Dunson is an artist born in Dayton, Ohio who is a professor in art at Tennessee State Univeristy. He recieved his BS in studio art there before getting his MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has received several awards including 100 under 100: The New Superstars of Southern Art Selected By Peers of Oxford American Magazine, the Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient (Graduate Painting) from the Savannah College of Art and Design, the Artlink International Young Artist Auction at Sotheby’s, NY, the Presidential Fellowship Recipient from the Savannah College of Art and Design just to name a few. He has had exhibits too numerous to list with extensive solo and group shows and his work has been covered by the Nashville Arts Magazine, The Oxford American Magazine, New American paintings and many more. Get the Sound & Vision official book Why I Make Art here: https://atelier-editions.com/products/why-i-make-art

Hiejin Yoo is a German born, Korean artist currently living and working in Los Angeles Her work has been shown at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Half Gallery, Frederic Snitzer, Blum & Poe, Almine Rech, Konig Gallery, Loyal Gallery, Stems Gallery, The Pit, Spurs Gallery in Beijing and many others. Her work has been covered in Galerie Magazine, Juxtapoz, Hypebeast, Whitewall, ArtForum, It’s Nice That, Elle Indonasia, New American Paintings, the LA Times and many more.

SHULING GUO is an artist born in Guangdong Province, China who graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a BFA in 2010. She immigrated to the United States in 2019, and now lives in Philadelphia and aboard the Sailing Vessel Selkie. In 2012, she had her first solo exhibition Secret Fragrance in Beyond Art Space in Beijing. Since then, her work has been widely exhibited in Beijing, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and among other places. Her works have been included in the permanent collections of Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (Beijing) and Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (Guangzhou). In 2020 she held a solo exhibition in New York at Fou Gallery: 5—6 pm. Followed by a second solo exhibition at Fou Gallery in 2022 - Sotto Voce. In Autumn 2022 her work was featured in Platform, in partnership with David Zwirner gallery.

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.