Sound and Vision

Born in Manchester, England, Jane South worked in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. She has a BFA in Theater from Central St. Martins, London, UK, and an MFA in Painting & Sculpture from UNC Greensboro. Solo exhibitions include Shifting Structures: Survey (2019), Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA; Raked (2014), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Floor/Ceiling (2013), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Box (2011), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN and Shifting Structures: Stacks (2010), the New York Public Library, NY. Selected group exhibitions include the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, NY, SLASH: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), NY; Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions, Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria; The Drawing Center, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD. Southʼs work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, NY Arts Magazine, and The New Yorker. She is a contributor to the book “The Artist as Cultural Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” (editor: Sharon Louden). Grants and residencies include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009); Dora Maar House, Menérbes, France (2010); Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2010); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001 & 2008); New York Foundation for the Arts (2007); Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008); MacDowell Colony, NH (2002 & 2004); Yaddo, NY (2001 & 2002). In 2018 South was elected to the National Academy of Design. Jane South is currently Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.

Nick Sowersby, known professionally as Sunbeam Sound Machine is an Australian multi-instrumentalist musician. Sunbeam Sound Machine first garnered attention with the 2013 EPs One and Sunbeam Sound Machine. In November 2014, the debut studio album Wonderer received widespread acclaim, leading to nationwide touring in Australia, followed by a tour of the US. In February 2019, Sunbeam Sound Machine released "Talking Distance", the lead single from the second studio album. In May 2019, Sunbeam Sound Machine released Goodness Gracious and his most recent full length, ‘Possom.’ was released October of last year. Since debut album Wonderer served to introduce the project back in 2014, Sunbeam Sound Machine has amassed over 35 million Spotify streams.

Denise Treizman is a Chilean-Israeli artist, currently based in Miami. Her work has been exhibited at PROTO GOMEZ Gallery, New York, New York; Wave Hill, Bronx, New York; Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Penn State University, Pennsylvania; Latino Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York; Cuchifritos Gallery/Artist’s Alliance, New York, New York, Soho20 Gallery, New York, New York and PROTO Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey, among others. Treizman has completed artist residencies at Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; NARS Foundation International Artists Residency, Brooklyn, New York; Triangle Workshop, Salem, New York; ACRE Residency, Steuben, Michigan; Ox-Bow Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, among others. 
In 2015, she was a fellow at the Bronx’s Museum Artist in the Marketplace program, culminating with “The Bronx Calling”, a biennial exhibition at the museum. That same year, Treizman was awarded a studio residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York City, where she developed her work until 2019.  In 2016, Treizman created an interactive public artwork at Randall’s Island Park in New York, commissioned by the NYC Parks Alliance and the Bronx Museum for the Arts.
Treizman earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is currently a studio resident at Laundromat Art Space in Miami, Florida.  Having lived in many densely populated cities over the years—Santiago, London, San Francisco, New York City, Haifa, and now Miami—her practice has stemmed from and benefited from throwaway culture. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Fulcrum Coffe Roasters and the New York Studio School. The School welcomes artists from around the world to join the 5-Day Virtual Intersession Drawing Marathon entitled “Drawing on Your Past / The Mind’s Eye” with Graham Nickson & Guests, held from Thursday, March 23rd – Monday, March 27th, 2023. Rigorous and immersive, the Studio School’s legendary Marathons present an extensive range of artmaking strategies, comprehensive critiques, and inspirational discussions. Expansive first-hand discoveries in Marathons propel artists to relate to drawing, painting, and sculpture as direct methodologies for understanding their experience in the world; the profound impact of which continues far beyond each Marathon’s conclusion. Visit nyss.org to apply today!

Kevin Umaña was born in 1989 and grew up in El Salvador and Los Angeles. He received a BFA from San Francisco State University in 2014 and lives and works in Kansas City.  Umaña is the co-founder of The Ekru Project, an artist-run Kansas City gallery focused on contemporary, emerging and underrepresented artists. In 2017, he created a permanent installation at The United Nations Headquarters in New York City. He has completed residencies at The Center for Book Arts, New York City (2019); Plop Residency, London, England (2018); and SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland (2018). His work was featured in “Pattern Recognition,” curated by Amy Lincoln at Sperone Westwater in 2022. Institutions owning his work include The United Nations Art Collection, Fidelity Mutual Funds Collection, Center for Book Arts Library and The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.

Madeleine Bialke (b. 1991 in New York) received her BFA in Studio Art from the Plattsburgh State University of New York, and earned an MFA in Painting at the Boston University, Massachusetts. Recent solo exhibitions include Death Motel at Newchild Gallery, Antwerp;  Nine Lives at Steve Turner, Los Angeles; Long Summer at Huxley- Parlour, London. She has exhibited in group shows at Max Hetzler, Alexander Berggruen, Berkshire Botanic Gardens, CICA Vancouver, and Dinner Gallery.  Madeleine Bialke was the Artist-in-Residence at North Western Oklahoma State University in 2018 and was awarded the John Walker MFA Painting and Sculpture Award in 2016. Her work has been included in the Brooklyn Rail, The Boston Globe, and New American Paintings. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Sophie Treppendahl is a painter currently based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her BA from College of Charleston in Charleston, SC in 2013. She currently has a solo exhibition at Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles, CA titled "Take Care of Yourself". She has had solo shows at Johannson Projects in Oakland in May 2022, Quirk Gallery in Richmond in November 2020, and Indianapolis Art Center in June 2019. Sophie is represented by Philip Martin Gallery in LA and Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, and has a solo show planned for the fall at Jack Hanley. Treppendahl has been awarded residencies with the Golden Foundation in New Berlin, NY, 100 W Corsicana in Corsicana, TX, and The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.

Ludovic Nkoth is a painter based in New York. Born in Cameroon in 1994, he moved with his family to Spartanburg, North Carolina, when he was 13 years old. After completing his undergraduate studies at UNC, he moved to New York to attend Hunter College's MFA program, which he finished in 2021. Last year, Nkoth was awarded a prestigious residency through the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he is currently living. Among the key comparisons for Nkoth’s work are Kerry James Marshall, who similarly taps into art history to enliven present-day subjects; Noah Davis, whose work is also sophisticated and subtle; and Alex Katz, who maintained a long career and a unique sense of artistic vision amid rapidly changing fashions.

Philip Akkerman (Vaassen, The Netherlands, 1957) is a painter of self-portraits. He studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague and Ateliers ’63 in Haarlem. In 1981 he began to paint self-portraits. His oeuvre now nears 5,000 self-portraits and is unique in its multiformity. Every self-portrait is unusual and the extraordinary variations appear endless. He lives in The Hague. Philip has had solo shows at Derek Eller Gallery, BravinLee, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, A-M-G5 in Glasgow, Torch in Amsterdam amongst others. He’s had numerous group shows over the years and his work has been covered in numerous publications.

Suzan Shutan is a CT based Artist, Curator, Educator and recipient of multiple grants including an Artslink grant, Art Matters grant, Berkshire Taconic Foundation grant, two NY Foundation for Contemporary Art grants and three CT Commission Artist Fellowships. She has attended artist residencies at Bemis Foundation NE, Yaddo NY, Proyecto Ace, Argentina. Her work has been featured in 23 solo exhibits including Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw Poland, Aldrich Museum CT, The Painting Center, NY, University of Massachusetts Hampton Gallery, Amherst, Islip Art Museum NY, Kenise Barnes Gallery NY, Garrison Art Center, NY, Housatonic Museum, CT, Five Points Center for the Visual Arts, CT, Arts & Cultural Center of Florida and has had work exhibited in 198 group exhibitions throughout Germany, Poland, Ukraine, France, Holland, Australia, Canada, Argentina, Columbia and USA. Her work has been published in the books Paper Art Installations II, Post Road Literary Books and has been reviewed by Smithsonian Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, NY Times, Art New England Magazine, Artscope, High Performance, and blogs such as Art Spiel & Yale University Radio/Praxis Museum of Non Visible Art. Public commissions include Log-Me-In Headquarters, Boston, MA and Sloan Kettering Hospital, NY and her work can be found in private and museum collections as well as viewed on Artsy, First Dibs, Geoform, Instagram (@sshutan), FB, Pinterest, Linked in and at www.suzanshutan.com. Suzan has worked as a Museum Director & Curator of Education, Director of a Municipal Public Art Program, and has taught at RISD, University of Massachusetts, University of Nebraska, Quinnipiac University, currently teaches in low residency MFA programs including Lesley College at Harvard, MA and has taught Sculpture for fifteen years at Housatonic Community College

Some highlights of conversations about music with artists interviewed in 2022. A year end look back at some music talk with Alice Tippet, Jose Lerma, Karen Krifka, Andrew Ross, Delphine Hennelly, Jean Pierre Roy and Evan Mast.