Sound and Vision

Matt Bollinger received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.  His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and London. Recent museum exhibitions have been at the South Bend Museum of Art (2020), the Schneider Museum (2018) and Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole (2016). Residencies include the Seven Below Arts Initiative in Burlington, VT, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY.  In 2016 he received a NYFA grant in Painting.  He is represented by Zürcher Gallery and Mother’s Tankstation and lives and works in New York State. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Fulcrum Coffee and Golden Artist Colors.

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline earned an M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute and holds a B.F.A. in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was named a Danforth Scholar.   She has mounted solo exhibitions at Turn Gallery (New York), Marrow Gallery (San Francisco), The Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit) and 68 Projects (Berlin). Select group shows include Ceysson & Bénétière, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, CANADA Gallery, PACE University, and The Drawing Center. In 2015 she was awarded a grant and residency through the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2018 she was honored to be nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Most recently, she is thrilled to be working on a monograph with Radius Books, set to release in 2022. Guest lectures and teaching include Yale University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, SUNY Purchase, Lipscomb University, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, Wayne State University, and Chautauqua Institute.    As a freelance curator, she consults for various private collectors and corporations.   Select press includes, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Cultured Magazine, New American Paintings, Architectural Digest, The Harvard Advocate, Departures Magazine, & Travel + Leisure. She splits her time between Nashville and New York. Since Covid she has spent most of her time in her hometown of Nashville. I caught up with Kimia for a chat about parenthood, jewelrymaking, bluegrass, music city, materiality and much more. S&V is sponsored by Fulcrum Coffee Roasters. Fulcrum Coffee Roasters is a place of discovery, surprise, and delight, inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s beauty, people, and stories. They are a Seattle-based, full-service wholesale coffee roaster and retailer with over 25 years of experience. Their deeply personal relationships, collaborations, and services provided, transform how customers experience and enjoy coffee. Fulcrum’s three unique brands are unified in simple, earnest, and grounding principals.

Janet Werner is a painter born in Winnipeg, Manitoba who lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She received her MFA from Yale University in 1987. She’s had many solo shows including ones at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Parisian Laundry (Montreal), Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, CA), Galerie Julia Garnatz (Cologne), Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts (Montreal), Whatiftheworld Gallery (Cape Town) and Plug Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg). Group exhibitions include shows at MASS MoCA (North Adams), Musée d’art contemporain (Montreal), Kenderdine Art Gallery (Saskatoon). A solo survey exhibition entitled “Another Perfect Day” organized by the Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, toured to five locations in Canada from 2013-2015. Janet’s work is in the collections of the Musée du Québec, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Winnipeg Art Gallery and numerous private and corporate collections. She has current work at 12.26 gallery in Dallas and a solo show at Bradley Ertaskiran Gallery in Montreal.

Karla García is an artist born in 1977 in Juarez, Mexico and is a Professor of Art and ceramics assistant at the Dallas College - Mountain View Campus. She completed an MFA degree in Ceramics and a Museum Education Certificate from the University of North Texas in May of 2019. The same year, she was awarded the Top Prize at the Sixth Annual Artspace 111 Regional Exhibition. Karla was selected as a visiting artist at the Dallas Museum of Art where she created a four-month interactive installation titled Carrito de Memorias which was selected to be exhibited at a Latin American Fine Art Competition in New York. Karla attended an international artist residency in St. Raphael, France where she began the exploration of her work Home and Land Project which was exhibited at Nasher Sculpture Center for the Nasher Windows series in August of 2020. This episode is sponsored by The NYC Crit Club , Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School.

Angela Dufresne is a painter originally from Connecticut, raised in Kansas and now based in Brooklyn. Her work articulates non-paranoid, porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear, power and possession. Through painting, drawing and performative works, she wields heterotopic narratives that are both non hierarchical and perverse.   She had solo exhibits at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City “Making Scene ‘ in the fall of 2018 and has a solo at the Dorsky Musuem at SUNY New Paltz “Just my Type” in 2019. She’s exhibited at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Aldridge Museum in Connecticut, Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, the Rose Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, Mills College in Oakland, California, and the Minneapolis School of Art and Design. She is currently Associate Professor of painting at RISD. Awards and honors include National Academy of Arts and Design induction 2018, a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, residency at Yaddo, a Purchase Award at The National Academy of Arts and Letters, two fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, The Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship.

Ryan McGinness is an American artist, living and working in New York, New York. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he interned at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant. Known for his extensive vocabulary of original graphic drawings that use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary symbology, Ryan is credited with elevating the status of the icon to fine art through the creation of his paintings, sculptures, installations, and books. Concerned with the perceived value of forms, he assumes the power of this visual language in order to share personal expressions. The New York Times noted, “In the past decade, Ryan has become an art star, thanks to his Warholian mix of pop iconography and silk-screening.” Vogue declared, “Ryan McGinness is a leading pioneer of the new semiotics.” His work is in the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Cincinnati Art Museum, MUSAC in Spain, and the Taguchi Art Collection in Japan. ryanmcginness.com Instagram: @McGinnessWorks Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Paint and The NYSS. Sound and Vision is supported by the New York Studio School, where drawing, painting and sculpture are studied in depth, debated energetically, and created with passion. The School’s full-time programs: a two-year MFA and a three-year Certificate prioritize experimental learning and perception. Beginning in Fall 2021, the Studio School welcomes artists from around the world to join its inaugural Virtual Certificate Program. Combining the studio-centric emphasis of the School’s teaching methods with an individual, real-time approach to online learning, this full-time program is designed for serious artists, and dedicated aspiring artists, who seek to cultivate the studio skills and methods that will prepare them for a lifetime of art-making. The priority application deadline is April 30th, 2021 - apply online today at nyss.org

Ndidi Emefiele is a mixed media artist b orn in 1987. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Painting from Delta State University, Abraka. An award-winning artist, she won the COJA Art Award in 2003. She recieved her Masters in Fine Art at the prestigious Slade School of Art, University College, London, her work takes a critical look at how society constructs identity and how it defines and confines the roles of gender.  Ndidi’s work has been featured in international media outlets like Al Jazeera, and published in various magazines and online platforms including Visionary Artistry Magazine and IAM (Intense Art) Magazine. Emefiele is well exhibited nationally in Nigeria. Internationally, her work can be found in major and important collections. This episode is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and The New York Studio School.

Bo Bartlett is a painter based out of Columbus, Georgia. He studied with Ben Long in Florence, and received his degree in Fine Art form the Pennsytlvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has had numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS; “Love and Other Sacraments,” Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME; “Paintings of Home,” Ilges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; “A Survey of Paintings,” W.C. Bradley Co. Museum, Columbus, GA; “Paintings of Home,” PPOW Gallery, New York, NY; and “Bo Bartlett,” Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. Recent group exhibitions include “Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World,” Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA; “Brine,” SOMA NewArt Gallery, Cape May, NJ; “The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South,” Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; “American Masters,” Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE; “The Philadelphia Story,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; “The Outwin Boochever 2013 Portrait Competition Exhibition,” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; “Best of the Northwest: Selected Paintings from the Permanent Collection,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; “Perception of Self,” Forum Gallery, New York, NY; “Real: Realism in Diverse Media, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA; “Thriving in Seattle: A Retrospective,” GAGE Academy of Art, Seattle WA; “private (dis)play,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY; “Figure as Narrative,” Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; “Solemn & Sublime: Contemporary American Figure Painting,” Akus Gallery, Eastern CT State University, Willimantic, CT; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, “private(dis)play,” Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO; and “Five Artists of Accomplishment from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. His work may be found in the permanent collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; La Salle University Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Philadelphia Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA; McCornick Place Metropolis Pier and Exposition Authority, South Hall, Chicago, IL; United States Mint, Philadelphia, PA; Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA; Office of the Governor, Harrisburg, PA; Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Hunter Museum of American Art; Chattanooga, TN; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Bartlett is the recipient of the PEW Fellowship in the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Award; Museum Merit Award, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Charles Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Packard Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. This episode is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and the New York Studio School. You can follow the podcast @soundandvisionpodcast on IG and Brian at @alfredstudio

Jason Seife is an artist living and working in Miami, Florida. The inspiration for Seife’s work is based around the notion that we can reinvent the past using modern day materials and compositions, allowing the excellence of an old craft to be admired by a younger generation. Seife was inspired by both his own Middle Eastern heritage and the complex artistic practice of Persian rug weaving. The original designs are laden with hidden meaning and language; the weavers were able to link each rug's particular pattern, palette, and style with a specific and identifiable geographic area or community.Seife’s influences span the realms of art, architecture, performance and music. Seife grew up in Miami to immigrant parents who were supportive of his creative ambitions. After playing in bands throughout his adolescence Seife, a talented graphic designer, began creating album artwork for hip hop artists. He designed Big Sean’s lion logo, painted backdrops in Nicki Minaj’s music videos and created artwork for both Pharrell Williams and Mac Miller. Seife was not content solely actioning the creative vision of others, and so began to create his own work. With financial backing from his career in graphic design, Seife made the transition into creating contemporary artwork full-time in 2015. He has had successful solo shows both domestically and internationally and was recently featured in a special project with The Bronx and Brooklyn Museum and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Carlo Bilotti Museum in Rome, Italy.

Erika Ranee received her MFA/painting from UC/Berkeley. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting, an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum and was granted residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was an AIRspace resident at Abrons Arts Center/2009 and was awarded a studio grant from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation/2011. Her work has been exhibited widely in New York: at the Bronx Museum; in The Last Brucennial, BravinLee Programs, David & Schweitzer Contemporary and at the Southampton Arts Center. In the summer of 2018 her work was featured in concurrent groups shows at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA; at Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC, at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC and at Freight+Volume, NYC—as well as two concurrent solo exhibitions at Ground Floor Gallery, NY and BRIC/Project Room, NY. In early 2019 her work was featured in a solo show at Lesley Heller Gallery. Later in 2019 her work was on view in a group exhibition at Wild Palms in Dusseldorf, Germany, and in a solo show at Freight+Volume. Currently, her work can be viewed in a group exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC. There are two solo ventures and several group shows planned for New York and Connecticut in 2021. She works in New York.