Sound and Vision

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

Shawn Kuruneru (b. 1984, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) centralizes drawing in his practice. Exploring both the graphic and conceptual potentials of the medium, Shawn’s works engage with Western geometric abstraction, Eastern landscape painting, and the artist’s own interest in comic books. In referencing these genres, he is interested in the narrative potentials of the mark based on context. Shawn’s self published graphic novels are BURN MAN and Fool’s Wish. Shawn received his BFA from Concordia University, Montreal. His national and international exhibitions include: Cooper Cole, Toronto (2020); KOKI ARTS, Tokyo (2019); Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva (2017); Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal (2017); Skarstedt Gallery, New York (2016); Brand New Gallery, Milan (2015); Martos Gallery, New York (2014); and Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2014).

Richard Colman paints vivid, hard-edged figurative canvases that combine biomorphic shapes with graphic geometries. These pieces oscillate between abstract compositions and recognizable domestic scenes. They often embrace sexual imagery and themes of life, death, human interaction and isolation.  Women, animals, floating heads, and overlapping bodies are common motifs.  He vacillates freely between figuration and abstraction, at times focusing on pattern while other times on figure and narrative.  Also producing sculpture and installation works, Colman incorporates a variety of media, including paper, wood, porcelain, plaster, glue, nails, and tape—typically using vibrant colors.  Colman’s installations have taken the form of elaborate, psychedelic floor designs and theatrical stages constructed within the gallery.  Colman has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Berlin, Mexico City, London, and Paris. He currently lives and works in San Francisco and on a farm converted to a studio in rural Connecticut.

Alvin Ong is a graduate of the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK (2016) and the Royal College of Art, London, UK (2018). His paintings playfully combine diverse visual vocabularies alongside his own lived experience of hybridity and distance across a variety of spaces, physical and virtual. His works are collected by ILHAM Gallery, Ingram Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum (Print Collection), and X Museum. He lives and works in Singapore and London.

Leah Guadagnoli lives and works in Hillsdale, NY. She received her BFA in Painting and Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MFA in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Recent solo exhibitions include Hollis Taggart (New  York, NY), Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York, NY), Victori + Mo (Brooklyn, NY), Sadie Halie Projects (Minneapolis, MN), and 247365 (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Cooke Latham Gallery (London, England), Hesse Flatow (New York, NY), Allouche Benias Gallery (Athens, Greece), Hollis Taggart Contemporary (New York, NY), Freight and Volume (New York, NY), Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco, CA), Ortega y Gasset (Brooklyn, NY), and White Columns (New York, NY). She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), the Macedonia Institute (Chatham, NY), Wassaic (Wassaic, NY) and the Tilleard Projects Artist Residency (Lamu, Kenya). In 2017 she was awarded the Lighthouse Works Fellowship and in 2016 she received a full fellowship to attend Vermont Studio Center. She currently teaches Painting and Drawing at the University at Albany and has a two-person exhibition on view at One River School with Zuriel Waters in Woodbury, NY.

Alannah Farrell (b.1988, Kingston, NY) is a queer transmasculine painter who lives and works in the East Village, New York, NY. They grew up in a rural hamlet in upstate NY, raised by two outside-the-system creative parents. They began undergraduate studies at The Cooper Union, New York, NY, receiving their BFA in 2011. Their work was previously exhibited at Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo), The Painting Center, New York, NY (solo); Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; Harper’s, East Hampton, NY, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA. They have a forthcoming solo exhibition at Harper’s new location in Chelsea at 512 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, 2022. They are represented by Harper’s Gallery, New York, and Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles. Their work centers around a humanistic celebration of the individuals in their community, a predominantly queer creative community in NYC, by exposing the personal struggles, uncertainties, intimate moments, and triumphs they face.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn since 2000. She is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Pratt Institute. She is the Chair of the Artist Council of Powerhouse Arts, also in Brooklyn, which will bring art and craft fabrication facilities and education to the community in 2022. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts.Current exhibitions include Forum 85: Sara Greenberger Rafferty at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Views from Somewhere at DOCUMENT, Chicago. Studio Visit, Rafferty’s upcoming experimental monograph, will be published by Inventory Press in the Winter 2021-2022.

Emma Webster is an artist who received her BA in Art Practice at Stanford University in 2011 and an MFA in Painting at Yale University in 2018. The British-American artist has been an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch, Vermont Studio Center, and Ox-Bow. Emma received Yale's award to attend the Dumfries Royal Drawing School in Scotland and the Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting. Recent exhibitions include: Alexander Berggruen, New York; Carl Kostyál, London; Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles; Museum of Art & History, Lancaster; and Spinnerei (Pilotenkueche), Leipzig, Germany. She has been featured in publications including: The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Artforum International, New American Painting, and Artsy. Her recent book Lonescape: Green, Painting, and Mourning Reality is available now through Alexander Berggruen's website.

Rachelle Bussières (Quebec City, Canada) received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Addressing the impact of light on our psyche, environment and social structure, Rachelle Bussières’ work is at the intersection of photography and sculpture, moving through a collision of materials and documents through the lumen photographic process. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, USA), Penumbra Foundation (NYC, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, USA) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, USA). Awards include the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Research and Creation), an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and being a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. Some recent group shows include the World Trade Center (NYC), Rubber Factory (NYC), Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), Soil Gallery (Seattle, WA), the General French Consulate (San Francisco, CA), the Wing (San Francisco, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Galerie l’Inlassable (Paris, FR), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Present Company (Brooklyn, NY). She was an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, Banff Center, Sim, Vermont Studio Center and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work is present in various public, corporate and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Four Seasons Hotel, SFMOMA Library and Archives, Facebook (commission mural) in Sunnyvale, Instagram Inc. in San Francisco and Penumbra Foundation in New York City.