Sound and Vision

Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement since 2014, promoting the confluence of art and technology, and technological innovation as a medium to further the development of digital humanism. Krista gathers digital images of LED lights to digitally paint and manipulate them using multiple softwares to create her artwork, a technique that she has developed since 2012. Krista is interested in the disruptive interpersonal and social effects of digital technology, as a force of distraction and segregation of people based on similar interests and likes though algorithms on social media. She seeks to communicate a transcendent, meditative experience for the viewer in digital visual language, which she describes as digital consciousness. Krista was the chosen artist by Creative Director Olivier Lapidus of Lanvin for the fall-winter 2018 collection. Five of her artworks were selected as the inspiration of the color cards and digitally printed fabrics and leather goods for the collection. Krista has lived in Seoul, Tokyo, and Singapore. She has exhibited in New York, Paris, and worldwide art fairs. She earned her Masters of Arts Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts / Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014. She completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science at the University of Toronto. This episode of Sound & Vision is sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

Amir H. Fallah received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; San Diego Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego Art Institute; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS. He’s in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami; McEvoy Foundation For The Arts, San Francisco; Nerman Museum, Kansas City; SMART Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Davis Museum, Massachusetts; The Microsoft Collection, Washington; Plattsburg State Art Museum, NY; Cerritos College Public Art Collection, CA; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE. Public art commission awards include the Los Angeles Arts Comission; the Baik Art Mural Project, Los Angeles; Pow Wow Antelope Valley, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; the MOCA Mural Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; and the Cerritos College Public Commission, Lancaster, CA. In 2009, he was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, Amir received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, his painting Calling On The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. In 2020, he was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. He has a current show at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles that’s up through October.

Muzae Sesay is an artist born in Long Beach, California who is based out of Oakland, California. His artistic focus derives from a lifelong commitment to understanding our collective relationship to space, memory, community, and the perceived truths within them. From that foundation, his artistic practice has thematically revolved around the merging of these relationships to form paintings that provoke social reasoning and induce the viewer’s agency in the navigation and narration of imagery. Current work connects with the feelings that arise from testing the absoluteness of the strict and rigid aspects of physics and realism found in architecture, design, and our built environment. Utilizing skewed perspectives of space and shape collapsed into flat two-dimensional planes, he creates surreal geometric interiors, exteriors, landscapes, and structures—presenting a situation in which to be experienced and explored. Inspired by ideas of cultural reflection and developed by questioning the validity of remembrance, his work often depicts worlds created in response to a social introspection and a continual challenge of perceived reality. This process involves taking imagery from the physical world and reducing them to rudimental forms that then populate fragmented universes compiled by perspectival fallacies and tied together by harmonious color composition. The viewer is compelled to understand the space, question its dimensionality, dive inside and walk around. Muzae has had shows at Pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland, I.M.A. in San Francisco, Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, Pt. 2 Gallery in LA, SFMOMA, Fisk Gallery in Portland, V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Spaceship in New York amongst many others. His work has been covered in Juxtapoz, ArtMaze, Vice, Create! Magazine, and SF Weekly just to name a few. Sound and Vision is supported by the New York Studio School. The legendary New York Studio School Marathons are immersive courses that emphasize experiential learning and expand the boundaries of what drawing, painting, and sculpture can be. Fall 2020 Virtual Intersession Marathons take place November 5th – 9th.  Artists from anywhere in the world are invited to participate in a five-day Virtual Marathons. Each course is designed to expand upon essential themes and working methodologies in art-making. Apply online today at nyss.org and follow us on Instagram @ny_studioschool.”

Alicia Bognanno is a musician from  Rosemount, Minnesota who earned a degree from Middle Tennessee State University in audio recording before getting an internship at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. She is the founder of the band Bully whcih she plays guitar and sings for. She started recording demos of her own material before relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked as an engineer at Battle Tapes Recording and The Stone Fox venue. Bully has released the following albums: Feels Like (2015)Losing (2017) and the just release Sugaregg on SupPop records.

Gretchen Scherer was born in Indianapolis, IN and received a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and graduated with an MFA from Hunter College. She has attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Vermont Studio Center. She recently had a solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery and has previously had solo exhibitions at Silas Von Morrisse Gallery. She has been in select group exhibitions at Monya Rowe Gallery (New York), Booth Gallery (New York), Tillou Fine Art (Brooklyn), C. Grimaldis Projects (Baltimore), Anna Marra Contemporanea (Rome, Italy), Galerie Lake (Oldenburg, Germany), Equity Gallery (New York) and CRG Gallery (New York). She has been featured in New American Paintings, Elephant Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Modern Painters and The New York Times. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery.

Sam Prekop is a musician and an artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Sam is best known as the lead singer and guitarist for the legendary band the Sea and Cake as well as his solo efforts and his earlier Chicago band Shrimp Boat. He was born in London and grew up in Chicago and studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute. His paintings have been shown at the Clementine Gallery in New York, the MCA in Houston, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Modern Institute in Glasgow, and many others. In more recent times, Sam has focused on his photography which he uses for many of the Sean and Cake releases. He has toured the world playing music countless times over. His solo discography includes 1999: Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey) 2005: Who's Your New Professor (Thrill Jockey) 2010: Old Punch Card (Thrill Jockey) 2015: The Republic (Thrill Jockey) and his just released “Comma” (Thrill Jockey).

Gregory Crewdson is a photographer who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and the Yale University School of Art, where he is now director of graduate studies in photography. He lives and works in New York and Massachusetts. In a career spanning more than three decades, he has produced a succession of widely acclaimed bodies of work, from Natural Wonder (1992–97) to Cathedral of the Pines (2013–14). Beneath the Roses (2003–08), a series of pictures that took nearly ten years to complete—and which employed a crew of more than one hundred people—was the subject of the 2012 feature documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, by Ben Shapiro. The 2018–19 series An Eclipse of Moths is set amid down-at-heel postindustrial locations including an abandoned factory and a disused taxi depot. They serve as backdrops for Crewdson’s enigmatic dramas of decay and potential rebirth. A survey of Crewdson’s work of the previous twenty years toured European museums from 2005 to 2008. The exhibition In a Lonely Place traveled to galleries and museums across Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and New Zealand from 2011 to 2013, and a major monograph was published by Rizzoli in 2013. Crewdson’s awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Photography, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship. He is represented by Gagosian Gallery worldwide and by White Cube Gallery in London. S&V is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Brijean Murphy is an artist and musician based out of California. Her musical project Brijean is the collaboration of her and Doug Stuart. Brijean is an accomplished DJ, session and live player in Oakland’s diverse music scene and is one of indie’s most in-demand percussionists who plays with Poolside, Toro Y Moi, and U.S. Girls. Brijean spends time touring the world playing music and also makes paintings, murals an artwork for music gig posters, beer cans and other public art. Her latest release Moody recently came out on Ghostly records which signed her project recently. Sound & Vision is proudly sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Camilla Engstrom is an artist born in Orebro sweden who lives and works in Los Angeles. She has had shows at Over the Influence in Los Angeles and Hong Kong, Hilde Gallery , Cooler Gallery, Deli Gallery to just name a few. She has been covered in The Cut, Nylon, and the Huffington Post, amongst other publications. Sound and Vision is supported by the New York Studio School. The legendary New York Studio School Marathons are immersive courses that emphasize experiential learning and expand the boundaries of what drawing, painting, and sculpture can be. Fall Marathons take place September 8th – 18th.  Artists can choose to participate in-person or register for the Virtual Drawing Marathon with Dean Graham Nickson & Guests to join from anywhere in the world. Apply online today at nyss.org, or email info@nyss.org, or follow the School on Instagram @ny_studioschool.

Linda Nguyen Lopez is a first generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent from Visalia California.. Linda received a BFA from California State University of Chico and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, New Zealand, England and throughout the United States including the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; The Hole, New York; Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn; Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York and Museum of Art and Design, New York. She has been an artist in residence at The Clay Studio, Archie Bray Foundation, CRETA Rome, and Greenwich House Pottery. She currently lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She has an upcoming show at Maelle Galerie in Paris.Sound and Vision is supported by the New York Studio School. The legendary New York Studio School Marathons are immersive courses that emphasize experiential learning and expand the boundaries of what drawing, painting, and sculpture can be. Fall Marathons take place September 8th – 18th. Artists can choose to participate in-person or register for the Virtual Drawing Marathon with Dean Graham Nickson & Guests to join from anywhere in the world. Apply online today at nyss.org, or email info@nyss.org, or follow the School on Instagram @ny_studioschool.Sound & Vision is also sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.