Sound and Vision

Laurie Nye is an artist born in Memphis, TN who received her BFA from the Memphis College of Art, and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. In December 2021, Laurie’s solo exhibition, “It Wasn’t A Dream It Was A Flood,” at Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) was an Artforum Best of Year 2021 feature. Nye's work is currently part of a group exhibition "Here Comes the Suns," at Bark Berlin Gallery (Berlin, Germany). In April 2021, Laurie’s artist project, “Chickasaw Moon,” at Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA) was the subject of an Artforum Critic’s Pick. Laurie’s work has recently been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA);  Bark Berlin Gallery (Berlin, Germany); The Pit (Glendale, CA), Odd Ark (Los Angeles, CA); Big Pictures LA (Los Angeles) Blake and Vargas, (Berlin, Germany); The Dot Project, (London, UK); Day and Night Gallery (Atlanta, GA); La Loma Projects, (Pasadena, CA); and Unpaved Gallery (Yucca Valley, CA). Her work has been reviewed in such publications as Artillery, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, FAD Magazine and LA Weekly. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Matthew Stone, born in 1982 in London, is an artist that works across a number of different disciplines including painting, sculpture, photography, new media and performance. Matthew began his career as a leading influencer in a number of counter-cultural movements in London. He was instrumental in developing the South London art collective !WOWOW! as well as a central figure in the shift of sub-cultural understanding that came to re-imagine and later define areas of the East End of London during the mid 00’s. The artist has been part of a number of critically acclaimed solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. In the United Kingdom he has shown at Tate Britain, the ICA and the Royal Academy of Art, and internationally at the Marrakech Biennale, Fiorucci Foundation and Viafarini, Milan. He’s shown at The Hole, Choi & Lager in Korea, Gallery V1 in Copenhagen and many more. His work has been covered in the New York Times, Hypebeast, Hi-Fructose, Whitewall, Cultured, Dazed and Confused amoung many more outlets. Matthew Stone (@MatthewStoneart) is releasing a fine art print titled "Play". Its available now, and for the next 24 hrs only at misa.art (@misa.artmarket)  https://misa.art/collections/matthew-stone/products/stone-matthew_play_2022

Jia Sung is an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, raised in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn.
Her paintings and artist books have been exhibited across North America, including the Knockdown Center, RISD Museum, Wave Hill, EFA Project Space, Lincoln Center, Yale University, and MOMA PS1. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, Hyperallergic, Jacobin Magazine, and Asian American Writers Workshop, and collected by the Met, SFMOMA, and the Special Collections at Yale, SAIC, and RISD. She has taught at organizations like the AC Institute, Abrons Arts Center, Children’s Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Chinese in America. She was a 2018-2019 Smack Mellon Studio Artist and Van Lier Fellow, and is currently an adjunct professor at RISD, where she received her BFA in 2015.

Kate Clark is a sculptor who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her first solo exhibit was at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York in 2008. Since then she has exhibited in museum shows at the Aldrich Museum, Islip Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, MobileMuseum, MOFA: Florida State, Cranbrook Art Museum, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Winnepeg Art Gallery, GlenbowMuseum, Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Cleveland State University, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Brown University, Newcomb Museum, Hilliard Museum, Bemis Center, Biggs Museum, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the J. Paul Getty Museum.    Kate’s work is collected internationally and she has collaborated with Claudia Rankine for Claudia’s book Citizen, and Kanye West and Desiigner for the video Panda. Kate attended Cornell University and Cranbrook Academy of Art, and received fellowships and grants from the Jentel Artists Residency, The Fine Arts Work Center, Marie Walsh Sharpe, The Virginia Groot Foundation and NYFA.   Clark’s sculptures have been featured in the NYTs, New York Magazine, Art21, Village Voice, PAPERmag, The Atlantic, NYArts, BBC, Time Out, ID Paris, Cool Hunting, Wallpaper, Huffington Post, and the WSJ. National Geographic did a documentary on Kate’s work in 2015.

Allison Jae Evans was born in New Haven, CT and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and an MFA from Hunter College in NYC. Evans has exhibited her work at TSA in Brooklyn, 106 Green, Moneygramme, The Journal Gallery and Edward Thorp Gallery, among other venues. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and Hyperallergic, Maake Magazine and has been reviewed in The New York Times. She was a 2016 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant Nominee. The Sound & Vision Podcast book is now available for preorder. Why I Make Art features an in-depth look at 30 artists from Chris Martin to Robin Williams. There’s also thematic quote sections and images from sketches artist contributed to the S&V guestbook. It has a forward written by Hirishikesh Hirway of the Song Exploder podcast and Netflix show. Preorder here: http://atelier-editions.com/store/why-i-make-art My solo show “Escape Plan” is up now at Miles MceEnery Gallery, 511 W22nd street in Manhattan. The show will be up until April 23rd. You can check out the catalog at the Miles McEnery website. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. You can find them in your local art store or online at goldenpaints.com Sound & Vision is also sponsored by Fulcrum coffee roasters. Based in Seattle, Fulcrum makes incredible coffee that you can have delivered to your door They have subscription services where you can have different blends delivered that you tailor to your favorite balance of coffee beans. You can save 20% on your order by entering the code alfredstudio when you order from their site. Check out their amazing coffee at fulcrumcoffee.com

Paul Natkin is widely considered Chicago’s greatest music photographer. The son of a photojournalist, Paul’s career flourished in the heyday of rock & roll as he traveled from show to show, documenting both rising stars and icons of the music industry. A true music fan, Paul’s passion and workmanlike approach to his trade has made him the photographer to the stars over a four-decade career. He was the official touring photographer for the Rolling Stones, becoming friends with Keith Richards and documenting the North America tour of the New Barbarians. He continues to attend shows and shoot portraits at his studio on Chicago’s north side. I talked to Paul about everything from the Stones to the Beatles, from Prince to Steve Albini, traveling, getting access, what makes a good photo and so much more. Here’s our conversation.. Check out Paul’s upcoming book out on Trope publishing: Trope  |  3020 W Carroll Ave  |  Chicago, IL 60612  USA Trope Publishing Co  www.trope.com  |  Trope Gallery www.wildmanbt.com   The Sound & Vision Podcast book is now available for preorder. Why I Make Art features an in-depth look at 30 artists from Chris Martin to Robin Williams. There’s also thematic quote sections and images from sketches artist contributed to the S&V guestbook. It has a forward written by Hirishikesh Hirway of the Song Exploder podcast and Netflix show. You can get your copy at the Atelier Editions website. http://atelier-editions.com/store/why-i-make-art My solo show “Escape Plan” is up now at Miles McEnery Gallery, 511 W22nd street in Manhattan. The show will be up until April 23rd. You can check out the catalog at the Miles McEnery website. https://www.milesmcenery.com/

Anna Conway was born in 1973 in Durango, Colorado. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and later received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. Conway is the recipient of two awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2005 and 2011), the William Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008), and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2014). Recent solo exhibitions include Anna Conway, Fergus McCaffrey, New York; Anna Conway: Purpose, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Anna Conway, American Contemporary, New York; and Anna Conway, Guild & Greyshkul, New York. Recent group exhibitions include In My Room, Fralin Museum of Art, Virginia; The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York; Uncharted, University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany; Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City. She lives and works in New York.

Anne Wu (b. 1991) is an artist from Queens, New York. She received a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. She has exhibited at Real Art Ways, The Shed, NARS Foundation, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, and the New York Public Library, among others. Her work has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, Curbed, and Artnet News. In 2020, she was an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation Satellite Residency on Governors Island, and she is currently a 2021-22 Studio Artist at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY.

Andrew Schoultz (1975, Milwaukee, WI) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco, CA. Schoultz has participated in several international solo and group exhibitions, including Joshua Liner Gallery NY, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, GER or Galerie LJ in Paris, FR. His works are represented in important collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), the Berkeley Art Museum or the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Schoultz utilizes a signature style of densely-packed, meticulously-rendered motifs – archaic war machines, the iconography of the American Dollar bill, and cataclysmic events, both natural and man-made – to represent the turmoil of the contemporary world. He makes historic references to antique etchings and Persian miniature painting as well as to William T. Wiley, M. C. Escher and Mission School street art. But Schoultz’s art is very much his own – an intense vision of a planet threatened by overcrowding and overconsumption and societies under siege by the governments that are there to protect them.

Benjamin Edwards is an artist born in Iowa City, Iowa and lives and works in Washington DC. He recieved a BA from UCLA, attended the San Francisco Art Institute then earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has had solo shows at Greenberg Van Doren in NYC, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo, Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard in Paris and Kravets Wehby in NYC. He has had group exhibitions at Mucciaccia Contemporary in Rome, Neumann Wolfson in NY, Nicole Ripka in Watermill, NY, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Chelsea Art Museum in NY, the Cleveland Museum of Art and shows in Barcelona, Austria, Prague, Wolfsburg, Copenhagen and many more. His work has been covered in The New Yorker, Art in America, Tokyo Art Beat, Time Out NY, The New York Times, New York Magazine, October, Artforum and many more. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The Progressive Corporation to just name a few.