Sound and Vision

Aliza Nisenbaum was born in Mexico City, and is currently based in New York. She received her BFA and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Anton Kern gallery and is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. She has had recent shows at the Phillips Collection, Boston ICA, LA MOCA, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Whitney Biennial 2017; The Flag Art Foundation; The ICA at MECA; Biennial of the Americas, MCA, Denver; the Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; She has a forthcoming exhibition at Anton Kern gallery 2019; and at Tate Liverpool in 2021. Her work has been covered by Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Frieze, Vogue. ArtReview, The New Yorker and to name a few. Brian met up with Aliza at Anton Kern Gallery at the site of her solo show ‘Coreografias’ which is on view through November 2nd.

Morgan Blair (Re-release) on the occasion of her incredible show up now at Hole Gallery.

Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of Homewood. Her work is in private and public collections including Everson Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, David C. Driskell Center, Snite Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. German’s fine art work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Figge Art Museum, The Union for Contemporary Art, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Flint Institute of Arts, Mattress Factory, Everson Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Studio Museum, Ringling Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’sAll Things Considered and in The Huffington Post, O Magazine and Essence Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the 2017 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2018 United States Artist Grant and most recently the 2018 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Meghan Brady is a painter who lives and works in midcoast Maine. Using painting, printmaking, drawing, and ceramics, Brady explores the possibilities of an open process, including elements of the human form and abstraction. Brady shows with Mrs Gallery in NYC. She was featured by Mrs at NADA House on Govenors Island this past summer. She has been included in exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art and recently had a solo exhibition at the University of Maine Museum of Art. She has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Hewnoaks, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY. Brady is a graduate of Smith College and Boston University’s MFA program in Painting. Sound & Vision is sponsored by the fine folks at Golden Artist Colors.

Brian Willmont (b. Boston, MA) is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and graduated with High Distinction. Willmont has mounted solo exhibitions at VICTORI + MO (NY), Guerrero Gallery (CA), Driscoll Babcock (NY), Field Projects (NY), LaMontagne Gallery (MA) and others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Asya Geisberg (NY), Andrew Edlin (NY), Spring Break Art Show (NY), Allouche Gallery (NY, The Hole (NY), Mrs. Gallery (NY), Steinsland Berliner (NY), County Gallery (FL), Spring Break (NY), Frieze (UK), and many others. Willmont currently has an exhibition, Mirage Mirage, at VICTORI + MO on view in New York through October 26, 2019. Next year he will have a solo exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia. In addition to his art practice, Willmont runs Greenpoint Terminal Gallery in Brooklyn. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Christopher Staley is an artist and educator who works out of Pennsylvania where at Penn State he is a distinguished Professor of Art in ceramics in the School of Visual Arts. He received his BFA from Wittenberg University, studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and received his MFA from Alfred University. He served as the president of NCECA (the National Council of Education of the Ceramic Arts), he was the Chair at the Haystack Mountain School in Maine, he’s a member of the International Academy of Ceramics based in Geneva, he was an artist in residence at the Ceramic Art Museum in Fuping, China, he’s been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and has received an NEA grant twice. His work is included in collections such as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, The Palmer Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii and the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art to name just a handful. There’s many more. He’s had over twenty five solo shows and has been in countless group exhibitions. He currently has a solo show at the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery at 16 Jones Street in New York City entitled “Touching Time” up until September 27th. Sound & Vision is proudly sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden makes the best acrylic paints, mediums and gesso in the business. They also make QoR Watercolors and Williamsburg Oil Paints. Based in New Berlin in upstate New York, they are an employee owned company dedicated to making the best supplies for you to make your best work. Check out their products in just about any art store or at golden paints.com

Kahlil Robert Irving (b. 1992, San Diego, CA) is an artist currently living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University, St. Louis (MFA, 2017), and the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, Art History and Ceramics, 2015). In 2017, Callicoon Fine Arts mounted his first solo exhibition in New York titled Streets:Chains:Cocktails. September 8, Irving opened Black ICE at Callicoon Fine Arts, which will be Irving’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. His work has been exhibited at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; and the RISD Museum, Rhode Island, among others. Irving was selected to participate in the 2019 Great Rivers Biennial hosted by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where he will have a solo exhibition in May 2020. His work is in the collections of J.P Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2018, Irving’s first institutional solo exhibition, Street Matter – Decay & Forever / Golden Age took place at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, Connecticut, and was accompanied by a full-color catalogue with essays and an interview. Irving's work will be featured in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, upcoming at the Whitney Museum in New York City (November 20, 2019–January 2021). Brian spoke with Kahlil at Calicoon Fine Arts where he just opened his show. S&V is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, BarronArts and the New York Studio School.

Adrian Kay Wong was raised in the east San Francisco Bay area and now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. His work has been show at Zevitas Marcus Los Angeles, the A+D Museum in LA, the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, Joseph Gross Gallery in LA, Gotham West in NYC, Johanssen Gallery in Berlin, Sherle Wagner Art Gallery in Dallas and many others. His work has been covered in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist, Artmaze, Relish, It’s Nice That, On Art and Aesthetics and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Barronarts and the New York Studio School.

Marcus Fischer is a musician + interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work typically centers around memory, geography + the manipulation of physical audio recording mediums. Slowly unfolding melodies and warm tape saturated drones have become a trademark of his recordings + live performances alike. These sounds have found their way into multimedia installations, short films, and even into the award winning public radio program Radiolab. Fischer has released a number of recordings on the widely respected 12k label including his photographic + sonic collaborations with label founder Taylor Deupree. In 2017 Marcus Fischer was an artist in residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Rauschenberg Residency where he completed "Loss", his most recent solo album (released September, 2017) Two of his sound works are on view in the 2019 Whitney Biennial from May 17th-Sept 22nd and he recently performed in the Museum as part of the show.

Dana James is a painter and a native New Yorker now residing in Bushwick. She is the former founder and curator of Elgin Gallery in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, as well as the former Associate Director of Life on Mars Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Her own work has been extensivley exhibited after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2008, and can be found in private and public collections including the ISLIP Museum of Art and the Collection of Lion Tree Capital in New York. Her last solo show, Sometimes Seen Dreams at the Lodge Gallery was featured in the Art Critical Review Panel, and her recent two person show “The Thread,” at M.David & Co. Gallery in April, was chosen as Must See Exhibitions by New York Magazine. She has been featured in publications such as Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, ArtSpace and Hyperallergic.  Upcoming shows include Kicking Abstract & Taking Names at Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa, as well as a yet-to-be-titled group show curated by Paul Efstathiou with Hollis Taggart Gallery in Chelsea this fall. Dana stopped by for a talk about artist parents, finding balance, process, improvisation and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by BarronArts, Golden Paints and the New York Studio School.