Sound and Vision

Emily Ferretti is a Melbourne-based artist. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and an Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University in Melbourne. She completed a residency at the prestigious Greene Street Studio in New York (awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts), and has also undertaken studio residencies at Gertrude Contemporary, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and at the Cite des Arts Internationale in Paris (awarded by the Art Gallery of New South Wales). Her work is held in major collections including at Artbank, Monash University Museum of Art and in the Macquarie Group Collection, as well as in private collections in Australia and the UK. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors and Frederix Canvases.

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Maysha Mohamedii is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Her Recent exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene, NY, Fourteen30, Portland, The Lodge, LA, Lowell Ryan Projects, LA and she has an upcoming solo show at Halsey McKay Gallery in Long Island. Her work has been featured in ArtSlant, Afrtillery Magazine, Flaunt, Maake Magazine, Hyperallergic, the LA times, New American Paintings and many more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Frederix Canvas and Golden Paints.

Los Angeles based artist Hilary Pecis (b. 1979, Fullerton, CA) and earned a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Hilary currently has a solo show up at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York as well as forthcoming group shows Timothy Taylor, Jack Shainman's Kinderhook School curated by Helen Molesworth, and Halsey McKay in East Hampton. Recent solo exhibitions include The Crisp-Ellert Museum, St. Augustine, FL; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; and Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA. The artist's work has been covered in ArtForum, The New Yorker, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Financial Times, Juxtapoz, ArtNet News, and Contemporary Arts Review Los Angeles (CARLA).

Austyn Weiner is an artist born in Miami, Florida. Austyn studied photography at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design and Parsons School of Photography. She’s had solo shows including Prenup (The Journal Gallery, 2019), (MID-EXPLOSION) (Bill Brady Gallery, 2018) , Wilhart and Naud (The Lodge, 2016) and curated the group exhibition We The People (2016), to raise funds for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) at Werkärtz, Los Angeles.Before moving to Los Angeles, Austyn worked as a commercial photographer specializing in photojournalism for backstage fashion shows such as Michael Kors, Anna Sui, and Elie Tahari. In 2018 she was invited to participate in a field visit to the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazaar Bangladesh, and continues her work with UNICEF to Senegal, Africa. Austyn released her first capsule collection with French clothing brand Each X Other.Sponsored by Fredrix Canvas and Golden Artist Colors

Sarah Slappey is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2016 and BA from Wake Forest University in 2006. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Italy, London, Denmark, and Switzerland. In 2015, Sarah was awarded at Kossak Painting Grant and a Hunter MFA award for Outstanding Achievement. Her work has been covered in such publications as The New Yorker, Flash Art, Two Coats of Paint, ArtSpace, ArtMaze Magazine, Social Life, Long Island Pulse, and Hamptons Art Hub. She just had a solo show up, called Power Play at Sargent's Daughters Gallery in New York City. Sponsored by Frederix Canvas and Golden Artist Colors.

Lisa Corinne Davis is an abstract painter exploring themes of racial, social and psychological identity. Born in Baltimore, MD, currently living and working in Brooklyn and Upstate NY, Lisa received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and her MFA from Hunter College. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe, including one person shows at Gerald Peters and Spanierman Modern (New York & Miami), Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), and The Mayor Gallery (London). Her work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Lisa is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, and three New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships. In 2017, she was inducted as a National at the National Academy Museum & School. Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail and Art Critical. Lisa has previously taught painting at Yale University; she is currently Professor of Art, and Head of Painting, at Hunter College in New York. Her upcoming solo show at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery will be on view in Hudson, NY., in October. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Frederix Canvas and Golden Artist Colors.

Gideon Bok is a painter who lives and works in Maine. He earned his B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.F.A. from Yale University. He has taught at Hampshire College, Boston University, among others. In 2004 he received a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 2005, he was included in The American Academy of Art and Letters Invitational Exhibition where he received the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund Purchase Award. His work is derived from painting from observation, dealing with the furniture and detritus of the artist’s studio. Bok’s work has been written up in The New York Times, Time Out New York, ARTnews, Art New England, and The Boston Globe. He has had three solo shows at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. Gideon is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art in New York and Alpha Gallery in Boston. He manages an organic farm in Camden, ME and plays in the musical group/art collective Pelican Movement that recently toured with Pile. Sound & Vision is supported by Frederix Canvas and Golden Paints.

Seonna Hong was born and raised in Southern California. She graduated with a B.A. in Art from Cal State University Long Beach and continued to hone her craft teaching art to children for several years. Her paintings are quietly narrative and often autobiographical and no doubt influenced by her time teaching as well as her work in TV and Feature animation. In 2004, she received an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for her work on “My Life as a Teenage Robot.” In 2006, she was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Her illustrated book, 'Animus' is in it's third printing and according to Ken Johnson (The New York Times), "... the paintings are beautifully made and the imagery is mysteriously touching". Hong continues to show her work in shows and galleries around the world and is represented by Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco.Brian spoke with Seonna in Manhattan right after her show had just opened at Hashimoto Contemporary in NYC. The gallery, of course, is not open now but you can see her work on the gallery website and follow her on Instagram @seonnahong. This conversation was recorded before the covid outbreak hit full force in NYC. Future recordings of the podcast will happen over the internet and will continue in that format until our very important distancing to help prevent the spread is lifted. It’s essential that we all do our part and we hope these conversations provide some comfort for you all. Supporting creative artists is so essential in these times and the music you are hearing is from Lullatone’s new record with you can get via a pay as you wish download on their bandcamp page. S&V is sponsored by Frederix Canvas, the New York Studio School and Golden Paints.

Rebecca Morgan received a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Pratt Institute, NY. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Artslant, Juxtapoz Magazine, The Huffington Post, Paper Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Berlin's Lodown Magazine. She is the recipient of residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Residency, a Vermont Studio Center full fellowship, and the George Rickey Residency at Yaddo, among others. Rebecca has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, with recent exhibitions at BravinLee Projects New York, NY; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; Oakland University Art Gallery, Beacon, NY; Western Exhibitions, IL; Mana Contemporary, NJ; Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, NY; The Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; The Hole, NY; MRS Gallery, NY; Marinaro Gallery, NY; Hashimoto Contemporary, CA; Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY; Fisher Parrish Gallery, NY; Woskob Family Gallery at Penn State, PA; Knoll Galerie, Austria; Richard Heller Gallery, CA; Children’s Museum of Art, NY; and SPRING/BREAK art fair, NY. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Frederix Canvas, the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.