Sound and Vision

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.

Joe Fyfe is a painter and art crit ic based in New York City. He received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1976. He has published his writing on art for the past twenty years in publications such as Art in America, ArtForum and Hyperallergic. Recent solo shows include Nathalie Karg Gallery, Ceysson & Benetiere in Luxembourg, Lovass in Munich, Galerie Christian Lethert in Koln, White Columns in New York amongst many others. He’s had group shows at 56 Henry, Halsey McKay, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pablo’s Birthday, Galerie Zurcher, the Everson Museum and many more. Awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gwendolyn Knight Award, a Fulbright, the Pollock Krasner Award, a Guggenheim, a McDowell fellowship, a Yaddo Fellowship, a Gottlieb Award and many others. He’s a tenured professor at Pratt and he’s given countless talks and panel discussions and has contributed greatly to the world of art through his work and his writing. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Barronarts. Barronarts is a Brooklyn-based designer and builder of the best stretcher frames, art panels and floater frames in New York and the US. 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 New York Studio School offers a range of programs including the MFA, the Certificate Program, the Marathon Program, Evening & Weekend Classes, and a distinguished Lecture Series that is free and open to the public. The School’s internationally recognized Marathons are two-week intensive courses designed to build momentum and expand one’s creative boundaries! The School welcomes participants for the Fall 2019 Marathons in Drawing and Sculpture which begin September 3rd. Apply online today at nyss.org

Emily Mullin was born in Santa Monica CA, and studied painting and sculpture at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA and at Goldmiths College in London. She has had solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, Lucien Terras, Tennis Elbow at Journal Gallery and Sunday Takeout in New York. She has been included in group exhibitions at Mrs. Gallery, Kate Werble Gallery and Casey Kaplan Gallery. Her work has been written about in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail and The New Yorker. She lives and works in Brooklyn and is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in New York. Emily stopped by for a talk about horses, piano, ikebana, dancing and a lot of other great things including her artwork. Sound & Vision is sponsored by the New York Studio School, Golden Paints and Barronarts stretchers & panels.

From an earlier conversation Brian had with painter Ridley Howard who has an upcoming show at Marinaro Gallery

Ann Shostrom received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Syracuse University. She is an Associate Professor at Penn State University, who lives and works in PA and New York, where she is co-founder and director of First Street Green Art Park in the East Village. She is represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery and exhibits internationally. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Art News, and other publications. Her public art projects include a mural in Crete, sculpture from decommissioned weapons in Albania, and Mir2, a collaborative space station that won Dance Theater Workshop’s Bessie award for Performance, Installation, and New Media. Awards include a Mid Atlantic Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a New York State Foundation for the Arts Grant, and a Partnership for Parks Grants. Ann and Brian sat down at her show at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, and had a talk about travels, painting and sculpture, making lemons into lemonade and much more. Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is an employee owned company based in upstate New York committed to making the highest quality artist materials. From their acrylic paints, Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors, Golden makes materials so you can make amazing work. You can find them in your local art store or online at golden paints.com. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Barronarts. Barronarts is a Brooklyn-based designer and builder of the best stretcher frames, art panels and floater frames in New York and the US.  They have many styles and options from standard strainers to mechanical expansion stretchers to fully custom shapes determined by each client.  They also stretch the finest canvases and linens to your exact specifications, and can even crate & ship your order...or your finished paintings...anywhere in the U.S. and worldwide. Barronarts has almost 30 years experience building custom structures for artists like Elizabeth Murray, Sean Scully, Kehinde Wiley, Joan Snyder, Katherine Bernhardt and thousands of others. From custom to standard, big projects and small they remain the most reasonably-priced custom shop around...and take great pride in offering the finest work at affordable prices for the entire artist community.  Your artwork should be on the finest structures available…’built by Barronarts’. Find out more at barronarts .com

Erin Lawlor is a painter who grew up outside of London, England. She moved to France after high school and studied Art History and received her Bachelors of Art History from Paris-Sorbonne University. After spending several years there she moved back to London and is making her work there. She has a current solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York and recent solo shows include, Espacio Valverde in Madrid; Fox/Jensen Gallery in Sydney; Fifi Projects in San Pedro; “Erin Lawlor, onomatopoeia,” at the Mark Rothko Center, the La Brea Studio Residency in Los Angeles; Rod Barton in Brussels; just to name a recent few. Recent group exhibitions include “Wet Wet Wet” at Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery, in Auckland, New Zealand; Space K in Seoul, South Korea; Galerie Pauline Pavec in Paris; Rod Barton in London, “Bête Noire/Candyman,” at The Neutra Museum in Los Angeles and many, many more. While in town for her opening at Miles McEnery Gallery, Erin stopped by for a chat about beating Brexit, process in painting, writing vs. painting, seeing David Bowie live and a family connection to him and much more. Sound and Vision is supported by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is an employee owned company based in upstate New York committed to making the highest quality artist materials. From their acrylic paints, Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors, Golden makes materials so you can make amazing work. You can find them in your local art store or online at golden paints.com.