Sound and Vision

David Scanavino (b. 1978, Denver, Colorado) lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.  A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA Painting 2001) and the Yale University School of the Arts (MFA Painting 2003), Scanavino has shown widely in the past 15 years in New York, across the country, and internationally.  He has had solo museum exhibitions including "Imperial Texture" at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT (2014), "Candy Crush" at the Pulitzer Foundation of Art in St. Louis, MO (2014), and “Repeater” at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, TX (2017).  He has permanent public commissions installed in the Columbus Metropolitan Public Library in Columbus, Ohio and the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.  Scanavino has had multiple solo gallery exhibitions with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York, as well as solo and group exhibitions at Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; Marlborough Gallery Broome Street, New York; Team Gallery, New York; Bureau Gallery, New York; Marianne Boesky, New York; and Derek Eller Gallery, New York. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtReview, The New York Times, and the New York Observer, along with numerous other publications, and is held in public collections including the RISD Museum, The Cleveland Clinic, The Progressive Art Collection, the The Pizzuti Collection and the Rice University Art Collection.  Scanavino is a faculty member of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Sue de Beer's work spans the diverse disciplines of film and installation, sculpture and photography. She received her BFA from Parsons and her MFA from Columbia University. Solo exhibitions include the Kunst Werke, Berlin, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, The Park Avenue Armory, and the High Line, New York, as well as Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, where she is represented. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in such venues as the New Museum, the Whitney Museum, PS1/MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, a, the Deste Foundation in Greece, the Museum of Modern Art, Busan,in South Korea amongst others. Sue’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Deste Foundation, the Goetz Collection, and others. She is a recipient of an American Academy in Berlin Fellowship (2002), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019).

Michelle Blade is an artist born in Los Angeles who makes paintings and drawings documenting time, closely examining the stillness, strength, and persistence of the natural world and our relationship to it.   Recent exhibitions include her solo show "The Blue Horse" at Loyal, Stockholm (2022), and “Into the Forest” at Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2020). Some recent group exhibitions include When The Sun Loses It’s Light at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles(2022); High Voltage 3 at The Nassima-Landau Project, Tel Aviv, Israel (2022); Machines of Desire at Simon Lee, London (2022);  “If you Forget My Name I will go Astray) at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2022), and “My Secret Garden” at Asia Art Center curated by Emilia Yin and Melanie Ouyang Lum (Taipei). She has also exhibited at Anat Ebgi (LA), La Loma Gallery, (LA); The Pit (LA), WOAW Gallery (Hong Kong), Make Room (Los Angeles), F2T Gallery, (Milan); The Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe), The Bonnefanten Museum (Netherlands), Jack Hanley, Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles), and The Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles). Blade’s work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Juxtapoz, The California Sunday Magazine, and Art Maze. Michelle Michelle has a BA from Loyola Marymount and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco.

Raffi Kalenderian is an artist who studied painting at the University of California, in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he did artist residency at Idyllwild Arts Academy, California, and at Medium, St. Barthélemy. Raffi uses oil paint, watercolors, graphite, and colored pencils, sometimes combined with a collage of photocopied material. His portraits show people surrounded by domestic environments; patterns of clothing and furniture build elaborate abstractions. In his work, The artist reflects on leisure and portrays a young society that seems to be always waiting for something.  Raffi has held solo shows at the Buchmann Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Brand New Gallery, Milan; Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, and Black Dragon Society gallery, both in Los Angeles. His participation in group shows was notably at Setareh Gallery, Dusserdolf; Saatchi Gallery, London, and Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.

Delphine Hennelly received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2002 and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Visual Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 2017. A painter, drawer and occasional printmaker, Hennelly explores figuration primarily using the female form. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. Recent presentations include “What A Day!” a group exhibition at EveryDay Mooonday (Seoul, Korea); “Fluuuuudio,” a group exhibition curated by Edoardo Monti presented at Cassina Projects (Milano, Italy); a participation in David Zwirner’s Platform; and the solo “Beguiling Tedious Hours” at Pangée (Montreal, Canada). In November 2022, she will have a solo at Carvalho Park (New York, New York). She recently completed a residency at Palazzo Monti (Brescia, Italy). She lives and works in Montreal and is represented by Pangée. Get the Sound & Vision podcast book, WHY I MAKE ART here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733622098/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_PK38BAC5AR28BWG8ADHR

Iliodora Margellos is an artist born in Minneapolis who lives and works in Athens, Greece. She graduated from Yale University in 2006 with a BA in Art, and later worked at the studio of Peter Halley. She expanded her artistic practice with studies in photography and printmaking at the Columbia School of Arts and drawing at the Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts in Austria. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Bedroom Situation (Up in the Air)’ at Enter, Dio Horia Gallery, Copenhagen; ‘One Sun For All’ at Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos; ‘Francesca Gabbiani | Iliodora Margellos‘ at Baert Gallery, Los Angeles. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘(Home) Situation Afloat‘ at Frieze LA, Baert Gallery, Los Angeles; ‘Tyranny: A Modern Intimacy’, 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival at The Project Gallery, Athens; ‘Summer Group Exhibition’ at Baert Gallery, Los Angeles; ‘Notions of Female Leadership’ at Dio Horia Gallery & Art Virtual Online, Athens; Future Fair, Dio Horia Gallery, Online edition, Artsy; ‘Omega to Alpha’, at the Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens. Her work has been featured in the FT ‘How To Spend It’ issue in September 2020. In 2021, she won the Ruya Maps finalist prize for the Spirit Issue of Creative Cities Project open call, Athens.A note, we talk a bit about blankets in the beginning of the pod. For reference“Securities”, or security blankets, are her ongoing series of thread-on-iron-mesh embroideries. She reimagines these symbols of childhood vulnerability and post-partum co-dependency as rigidly metallic - yet malleable - wire mesh screens decoratively penetrated by brightly-hued islands of delicate thread.

Jose Lerma was born in Spain and grew up in Puerto Rico. He earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison and BA from Tulane University, and attended the CORE Residency Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME. He lives and works in Chicago and San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work has been in solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de San Juan, Puerto Rico, among others; as well as in group exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Institute Valecia d’art Modern, Spain; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, and others. His work has been written about extensively in the press, including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Artforum.

Casey Cook received her masters degree from the University of California Los Angeles. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, NYC and NC at galleries and museums including Dan Bernier Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, I-20, Branch Gallery, Light Art and Design, LUMP Gallery and The Nasher Museum. Her most recent solo show, Kissing The Scarecrow, was in May of this year at Shrine in NYC. Cook works in a multitude of genres including sculpture, video, film, music and predominately painting.  She was a founding members of the art rock band Americans in France and currently fronts Sunny Slopes. She is working on a solo album of her music collaborations to be released in 2023.

Mason Kimber is a Perth-born, Sydney-based artist who makes paintings that extend into sculptural relief and installation to look at how the histories within surfaces can speak to the memory of place. Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Art (Honours) from Curtin University, Perth in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the National Art School, Sydney, in 2013. He's currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art + Design, Sydney. After graduating with his MFA, Mason was awarded a three-month studio residency at the British School at Rome, Italy, the following year. It was here that he studied ancient fresco painting, which led him to look closely at the various connections between painting and the built fabric of cities. Selected exhibitions include: MCA Collection: Perspectives on place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2021); Lustre at Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne; Strata at Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney; Prologue: Tongue on tongue / nos salives dans ton oreille at Galerie Allen, Paris (2019); Slanted Mansions at COMA, Sydney (2018); and NEW16 at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016). Mason has been a finalist for the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the New South Wales Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at Artspace, Sydney, among others. His work is held in the collections of Artbank and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Mason is also a sessional Painting Lecturer at the National Art School, Sydney, and a Lecturer at UNSW Art + Design. This episode is sponsored by NYC Crit Club. NYC Crit Club is now enrolling through September 18th for their Fall 2022 Semester. NYC Crit Club offers Zoom courses that connect artists around North America and across the world, as well as in-person courses which are hosted in their 550 sq. ft studio space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Course options range from group critique, visiting critic programs, seminars and writing as well as material-based courses. NYC Crit Club is proud to offer 17 different courses, which will be led by new & returning faculty members including the Director of Anton Kern Gallery, Brigitte Mulholland, and artists, Anna Valdez, Avery Z. Nelson, Jarrett Key, Mira Schor, Chris Bogia, Rose Nestler, among many others! NYC Crit Club is a Brooklyn based artist-run program and was founded by Catherine Haggarty & Hilary Doyle in 2017 and is currently directed by Catherine Haggarty. NYC Crit Club is proud to offer BIPOC Scholarships and financial aid for artists in need. If you would like to learn more, please visit www.nyccritclub.com or follow on Instagram at @nyccritclub.

Andrew Ross received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011, where he was awarded the Gelman Trust Award for Excellence in Sculpture. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. He’s been a resident and/or fellow of programs including The Triangle Arts Association, The Drawing Center's Open Sessions, LMCC's Swing Space, The Macedonia Institute, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, and he is a current awardee of Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program. Ross has exhibited in group exhibitions at The Hessel Museum, The Drawing Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, Center for the Humanities at CUNY, White Columns, and Greene Naftali. He has staged solo exhibitions at Signal (Brooklyn, NY), American Medium (NY, NY), Clima Gallery (Milan, Italy), and False Flag (Long Island City, NY). Ross’ work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Cultured, Flash Art, Mousse, and the Brooklyn Rail. Ross is a sculptor and new media artist who creates fragmentary constructions with figurative elements and everyday objects. With attention to metaphoric associations that his imagery elicits Ross’ tableau scenes oscillate between speculative fiction and cartoonish satire. His figures are chimeric and mythical in appearance yet typically occupied with some form of work and juxtaposed with commonplace detritus. Joining traditional sculpture, assemblage and digital imaging, Ross’s works capture existential issues regarding the conundrum of representation in our age of many avatars.