Sound and Vision

Eric Yahnker is an artist based out of California. After studying journalism at USC, Eric Yahnker went on to the CalArts where he received his BFA in animation. He then worked on animation for TV, including Seinfeld, South Park, and MADtv, before switching to a career in the contemporary art world. Since 2008, Yahnker has had solo exhibitions at The Hole in New York, Ambach & Rice and Zevitas Marcus in Los Angeles, Paradise Row in London, and Jeanroch Dard in Paris. Recent group exhibitions include Brand New Gallery in Milan, M+B in Los Angeles, the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, TX and Galerie Ampersand in Cologne. His first museum solo exhibition The Long Goodbye took place at CAM Raleigh in North Carolina in 2017. His work has been covered in Juxtapoz, The New York Times, the LA Times, i-D, It’s Nice That, Hyperallergic, W and many more outlets.

Annie Lapin is an artist born in Washington, D.C. who received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and her BA from Yale University in 2001. Annie lives and works in Los Angeles. Her recent solo exhibitions include Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles,  Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; Josh Lilley, London;  Annarumma Gallery, Naples; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara.   Annie’s work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London. https://www.artbook.com/9781733622097.html Preorder the podcast book! Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work From the Sound & Vision Podcast by Brian Alfred Introduction and interviews by Brian Alfred. Foreword by Hrishikesh Hirway.

Tim Kinsella released albums & toured internationally at a steady clip for 25 years, his most well-known bands being Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz & Owls. He is the author of four books & the subject of the 2017 Vice / Noisey feature documentary Your War (I'm One of You). More recently, he played a lead role in the award-winning feature film Firstness (2021). Collaborating with his wife Jenny Pulse since 2018, the duo released two albums & toured as Good Fuck, making a practice of writing & recording in remote locations far from their Chicago home. The first releases to come out under their own names are the forthcoming Gimme Altamont EP & the album Giddy Skelter.

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.