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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.

Alice Tippit received both her BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Tippit addresses her interest in language and the drift of meaning through her paintings and drawings. Her boldly graphic imagery is familiar yet rendered strange through a series of shifts: in scale; interaction of color; from negative to positive space. Tippit’s work is currently on view in The Regional, a survey of artists from the Midwest, at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, ArtForum, and Frieze, among other publications. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY; PATRON, Chicago, IL; Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA; Kimmerich Galerie, Berlin; Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL; CHART Gallery, New York, NY; Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY. Tippit lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Robert Russell is a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA (b. 1971, Kansas City, MO) he received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 
Recent solo exhibitions include Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “A Theory of Clouds,” OSMOS Station, Stamford, NY; “Book Paintings,” Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Tonic Immobility,” Burrard Arts Foundation,Vancouver, BC, Canada; Big Pond Artworks, Munich, Germany; “Men Who are Named Robert Russell,” OSMOS, New York, NY; “Scattershot,” Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Pink,” Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Robert Russell: Recent Work,” Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and “Skaters,” Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. 
Recent group exhibitions include “Mystic Truths” (curated by Brooke Wise), NeueHouse Bradbury, Los Angeles, CA; “Good Company: Pt. 1,” Anat Ebgi Gallery, “Perfect Day,” Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “The Art of Politics,” Pasadena Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA; “The Dorian Project,” Second Guest Projects, New York, NY; “The Los Angeles Initiative - Rema Hort Mann Foundation,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Dilettantes, Dandied and Divas,” Gavlak Projects, Palm Beach, FL amongst many others.

Based in New York, Victoria Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape for several months per year. Equipped with a 5x7 inch field camera, film, a video camera and research material, she crosses the country alone tenting on top of her car. Her large-scale project-based photographs document the continuing transformation of the American landscape with specific attention given to expanding political, technological and industrial interventions. Sambunaris received her MFA from Yale University in 1999. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography Award, the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award. In 2011 a twelve-year survey of her work was exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY and travelled throughout the US. Her work is held in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Lannan Foundation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art. In 2019, Sambunaris was commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation to photograph Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty for the 50th anniversary and Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt. Radius Books Published her first monograph Taxonomy of a Landscape. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in NY.

Villareal was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua. He attended Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and received his BA in sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and his master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University in 1994. After graduating from NYU, Villareal moved to San Francisco to work for three years at Paul Allen’s private research lab, Interval Research, in Palo Alto. Since 2004, Villareal has served on the board of Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas, a dynamic, contemporary cultural arts space. In 2011, Villareal joined the board of the Burning Man Project. He currently lives in downtown Manhattan with his wife Yvonne Force Villareal and their two children.

Cheryl Donegan received her B.F.A. in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. at Hunter College in New York. In her breakthrough videos of the 1990’s, Donegan combined time-based, gestural media of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in her first career survey at Kunsthalle Zurich (summer 2017). In June 2018, Cheryl opened another survey of her works from 2009 to present at the Aspen Museum of Art, traveling to Contemporary Art Museum in Houston in 2019. Other venues include a one person exhibitions at The New Museum, New York City (2016), the 1995 Whitney Biennial, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Tang Museum of Art, New York Film and Video Festival, 1993 Venice Biennale, and the1995  Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France, in addition to many individual and group exhibitions in Europe and America. Cheryl was a faculty member in the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Art, New York from 1997-2013. She has been a seminar leader and guest critic at Yale University, was a faculty member at Skowhegan School of Drawing and Painting, Summer 2011 and a visiting artist/lecturer at numerous art programs in the United States. She lives in New York and in Istria. Sound & Vision is sponsored by www.goldenpaints.com and fulcrumcoffee.com You can visit Fulcrum and get the new tin I made artwork for on their site.

Chie Fueki (b. 1973) lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Other recent solo exhibitions include: Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005, 2008, 2013, 2021); Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (2006, 2011); Orlando Museum of Art, FL (2014); and Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY (2020). Her work was recently included in group exhibitions at Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Essex Flowers, New York, NY; The ReInstitue, Millerton, NY; Fredricks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY; Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA; Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; and Greater New York at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY. She has public artwork at PS 92Q, Queens NY, and HHS Lerner Children Pavilion, New York, NY. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, FL; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; the Hirshhorn Museum, D.C.; and the Pizzuti Collection at Columbus Museum of Art, OH. Chie has a show up now at DC Moore Gallery in NYC.

Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona where his parents had moved in 1967. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. He then spent some time in Chicago, where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1974, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Eric had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978. Eric’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modem Art in New York City, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, MusÈe Beaubourg in Paris, The Paine Weber Collection, and many others. Fischl has collaborated with other artists and authors, including E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Jamaica Kincaid, Jerry Saltz and Frederic Tuten. He is also the founder, President and lead curator for America: Now and Here. This multi-disciplinary exhibition of 150 of some of Americaís most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers is designed to spark a national conversation about American identity through the arts. The project launched on May 5th, 2011 in Kansas City before traveling to Detroit and Chicago.  Eric is a Fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Science. He lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY with his wife, the painter April Gornik.

Kurt Kauper was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1966, and raised in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He received his BFA from Boston University in 1988, and his MFA from UCLA in 1995. He has lived in New York City for the past 20 years. His figure paintings of historical and imagined people tend to leave expectations unfulfilled, and elude simple categorization. In contradistinction to his clear and precise articulations of form, Kauper's content is characterized by indeterminacy, unintentionality, ambiguity, fluidity, destabilization, strangeness, amorality, uselessness, and neutrality. He’s had solo shows at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, Deitch Projects in New York City, and Almine Rech Gallery, New York. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and Europe, including venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kunsthalle Vienna, and the Stedelijk Museum in Gent. He has received numerous awards, including grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hammer Museum, The Oakland Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He has taught at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yale University, Princeton University, and the New York Academy of Art. He is currently a Professor of Art at Queens College in New York City.

Luis Gispert (b 1972 Jersey City, New Jersey) is a Cuban- American artist that creates through a wide range of media, including photography, film, painting and sculpture. Born out of research into subject matter that intersect themes of the American popular imagination, social class anxiety,  art history and his Caribbean lineage, the work ask questions about conspicuous consumption by accessorizing its relationships to psychoanalysis, the cult of authenticity and the theater of personal narrative. His art strives to bring things in our world that are marginalized or under appreciated from the edges to the center, so they can be seen in their fullness. He attended Miami Dade College, and studied film and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University. He has exhibited a nd screened his work internationally in museums and galleries like such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art,Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Palazzo Brocherasio in Turin, the Royal Academy in London, the Haifa Museum in Israel, the Des Moines Art Center and the Guggenheim. His work is represented in over twenty one public collections including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, SFMOMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  Bronx Museum, The New Museum, The Harvard Fogg Art Museum, the Des Moines Art Center, The Perez Museum, and the Henry Art Gallery. He has been a visiting artist lecturer at Yale University, Columbia University, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. 300th Episode T-shirt link https://www.customink.com/fundraising/episode300 IG : @soundandvisionpodcast