Sound and Vision

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.

Cauleen Smith is an interdisciplinary artist born in Riverside, California in 1967 and grew up in Sacramento. She earned a BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco Sate University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater Film and Television. Her work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, Cauleen roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, third world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. Her films, objects, and installations have been featured in exhibitions at the Studio Museum of Harlem, Houston Contemporary Art Museum; Yerba Buena Center for Art, the New Museum, New York, D21 Leipzig and Decad, Berlin. She has had solo shows for her films and installations at The Kitchen, MCA Chicago, Threewalls, Chicago and at the Whitney Museum. She shows her drawings and 2D work with Corbett vs. Dempsey.  Smith is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Film /Video, Chicago 3Arts Grant, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Chicago Expo Artadia Award, and Rauschenberg Residency. Cauleen currently teaches at Cal Arts.  Her current solo show atthe Whitney Museum called Mutualities, the artist’s first solo show in New York, presents two of Smith’s films, Sojourner and Pilgrim—each in a newly created installation environment—along with a new group of drawings collectively titled Firespitters. S&V is sponsored by USA-primed Fredrix Canvas.  Supporting artist for 150 years.  Primed in Atlanta, Georgia. with the widest variety of primed and unprimed cottons and linens on the market. You can find Fredrix in your local art store or at fredrixprintcanvas.com, Golden Paints and the New York Studio School.

DOVE BRADSHAW, born in New York in 1949, pioneered the use of Indeterminacy in 1969 by enlisting the unpredictable effects of time, weather, erosion, and indoor and outdoor atmospheric conditions on natural, chemical, and manufactured materials. She has created chemical paintings that change with the atmosphere, indoor erosion sculptures of salt and outdoor stone sculptures that weather. She has worked with crystals that receive radio transmissions from local, short wave, and weather stations, along with reception of radio tele-scope signals from Jupiter. In 1975 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant; 1985 the Pollock-Krasner award; 2003 a Furthermore Grant; in 2006 The National Science Foundation for Artists Grant. Her work has been shown regularly in the US, Europe, South America, Japan and South Korea, appearing in the 6th Gwangju Biennale. She is represented in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Gallery of Washington, The Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Marble Palace, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg.

Artists reflect on music. Polly Apfelbaum, Brian Belott, Matthew F Fisher and Angela Heisch. Everything from Miles Davis, Captain Beefheart, Lambchop and even some jazz flute. S&V is sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

EPISODE 200!!!! Rosemarie Fiore is a visual artist from the Bronx, NY.  She combines painting and performance to produce artwork out of the actions of mechanisms.  Her work investigates the space that exists between chaos and control. Her "Smoke Painting Tools" harness and mix color smoke released from fireworks, these tools paint on paper using the painting technique “Fumage”.  She creates large abstract works on paper for exhibitions, commissions and performances around the world.  Her work has been exhibited by MOCA Jacksonville, Weatherspoon Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park.  Fiore is a fellow of MacDowell, Yaddo, Art OMI, Skowhegan and Sculpture Space residencies.  She has been awarded grants through the Milton Avery Foundation, NYSCA, NYFA, and The Walentas-Sharpe Foundation. She has been reviewed by the LA Times, NY Times, NY Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Village Voice and NY Arts Magazine. Her work is included in the public collections of Texas A & M University, UBS, Fidelity, Weatherspoon Museum, NC, and Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas. She is on the MacDowell Colony’s Board, teaches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, LA.  She will be performing at PSU on April 23rd sponsored by Campus Arts and HUB Gallery. 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 degree and a three-year Certificate Program focus on experiential learning and sustained studio courses. Both programs invite students to focus on Painting or Sculpture, with Drawing as an integral foundation for all creative production. Each semester begins with a two-week drawing or sculpture Marathon to generate momentum and expand one’s range of strategies for future studio work. Since its inception, the New York Studio School has emphasized rigorous learning through direct experience. Learn about scholarship opportunities, schedule a tour, and ask questions by emailing info@nyss.org. The School welcomes applications for Fall 2020 full-time study through nyss.org. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is a company based in upstate New York and is committed to making the best artist materials for artists to make work with. You can get it in just about every art store and online at goldenpaints.com

During her show at High Noon Gallery Jennifer talks to Brian about Violin, painting and more. Jennifer Coates is a painter living and working in New York City and Poyntelle, PA. She received her BFA from University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and her MFA from Hunter College. She is a recent recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio (2018-2019) and was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy (Fall 2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Correspondences and All U Can Eat (Freight & Volume Gallery) and Carb Load (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). Her work has been written about in the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, Smithsonian Journeys and Art News, among other publications. S&V is sponsored by the New York Studio School and Golden Artist Colors.

Taylor Anton White is an artist born in 1978. His work has been shown in Future Ruins, a group exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. He has also shown at Deli Grocery in Brooklyn, New York, and has had solo exhibitions with galleries including Galerie Kremers in Berlin, Germany; LC Gallery in Brussels, Belgium; Marquee Projects in Bellport, New York; TWFINEART, in Brisbane, Australia; and a solo show at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri. His current show just opened at Monica King Contemporary in Tribeca called Free_Hotdog. pdf. He has had residencies with Cycamore Artist Residency in Brooklyn, New York and Espositivo 7B in Madrid, Spain. His work has been covered in daily collector, Abstract Mag, New American Paintings, ArtQA Magazine and more. He received his B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg and he currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. Taylor stopped by while in town opening up his show at Monica King. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is a company based in upstate New York and is committed to making the best artist materials for artists to make work with. You can get it in just about every art store and online at goldenpaints.com If you would like to support this podcast visit patreon.com/soundandvisionpodcast. Sound & Vision is made possible by listeners like you.

Kenichi Hoshine was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1977 and grew up in New Jersey. He studied in New York, where he attended the School of Visual Arts.Kenichi has had shows at Part 2 Gallery in Los Angeles, Galleri Kant in Copenhagen, Unit London in the UK, Morton Fine Art in DC amongst many others. He also just opened a solo show entitled The Magician and the Thief at Hollis Taggart Gallery in Chelsea. which ia up through Feburary 15th. He has been featured in ArtMaze, New American Pantings, the LA Times, and Juxtapoz to name a few. He has been a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute and he stopped by for a chat at Brian’s studio just after the opening of his current solo show at Hollis Taggart. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is a company based in upstate New York and is committed to making the best artist materials for artists to make work with. You can get it in just about every art store and online at goldenpaints.com If you would like to support this podcast visit patreon.com/soundandvisionpodcast . when you make a donation to the podcast, you can have your name mentioned on a future podcast and even get a hand drawn thank you. Sound & Vision is made possible by listeners like you.