Sound and Vision

Polly Apfelbaum is an artist living and working in NYC. In 2018, Polly had solo exhibitions at the Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, which travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, in 2019. She has exhibited widely since the 1980s, including one-person exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA at Bepart in Waregem, Belgium, the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA, the lumber room in Portland, OR and at the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India. A major mid-career survey of her work opened in 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, both in 2004. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Pattern and Decoration, Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany , An Irruption of the Rainbow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wall to Wall at MOCA Cleveland in Cleveland, OH, Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler at the Rose Art Museum, , Three Graces at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY,  Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today at the Museum of Art and Design in New York , AMERICANA: Formalizing Craft at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, amongst many, many others. 

Polly’s work is in numerous permanent collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern of Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1987, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 1998, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship in 1999, a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1999, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002, and the Rome Prize in 2012. Brian stopped by Polly’s loft in lower Manhattan where she’s lived and worked for the last 40 years for a talk about early influence, the Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia funk, craft, design, endless drive and so much more.

This week on Sound & Vision, a rerelease of an early chat with artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. Matsu is an old friend of Brian’s and he’s putting this rematered version of their conversation out in concert with his just finished mural for Wynwood Walls in Miami. He also just had a solo show in Luxembourg with Zidoun Bossuyt Gallery. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Joanne Greenbaum is an artist who lives and works in Tribeca and Long Island. She earned a BA from Bard College. Over the past twenty years, Joanne has exhibited widely at international venues including at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Kusthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; and MoMA PS1, New York, NY; among many others. In 2008, a career spanning survey of her work, with a corresponding catalogue, was mounted by Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland and travelled to the Museum Abteiberg in Monchengladbach, Germany. In 2018, The Tufts University Art Galleries at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA mounted Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today, a comprehensive solo exhibition that travelled to the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA. 
Joanne is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including The Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; Artist in Residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant. Her work is included in the collections of the Brandeis Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; CCA Andratx, Majorca, ES; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Haus Konstruktiv Museum, Zurich, CH; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and the Ross Art Collection at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. She just closed a show at Texas Gallery in Texas and has an upcoming solo shows next year at Richard Teles and Rachael Uffner Gallery. Brian visited Joanne at her Tribeca studio to talk about starting from scratch, putting in time, waiting for your moment and more. Sound & Vision is proudly sponsered by Golden Artist Colors.

Tom Sachs is an artist who was born in NYC, grew up in Connecticut and lives and works in New York City . Tom has had exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, The Noguchi Museum in Queens, The Brooklyn Museum, Sperone Westwater, Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, the Park Avenue Armory, Baldwin Gallery, Gagosian Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and many more. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Getty, LACMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, the Yale Univeristy Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright Knox and many more. He is also one fourth of the collective Satan Ceramics with Mary Frey, Pat McCarthy and JJ Peet. Brian stopped by Tom’s downtown Manhattan studio for a chat about music, craft, hand value, school uniforms, the importance of lighting and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Find out more about Golden at goldenpaints.com.

Danny Ferrell is an artist born in Flint, Michigan, raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania and who now lives and works in Pittsburgh. He received his BFA from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014 and his MFA from RISD in 2016. He taught for a year at RISD and since has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon University. He has had shows at Horton Gallery in Dallas, Galerie Pact in Paris, Mindy Solomaon in Miami, the Pittsburgh Center of the Arts, Bass and Reiner in San Francisco, the Westmoreland Museum, Jeff Baily and many more. His work has been covered in Artforum, i-D Vice, Hyperallergic, Paper Magazine, ArtNet, Artmaze and New American Paintings just to name a few. Brian caught up with Danny at Penn State, where he was a visiting artist, and where Brian teaches, for a talk about his small town start, young goth, magic Magritte, music, insomnia, paintings about love and more. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.

Hiroya Kurata is an artist born in Japan and living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Parsons in 2003. He’s had shows at Ivory & Black SoHo in London, Hollis Taggart, Joshua Liner and Eric Firestone in New York, Ross & Kramer in East Hampton, Part 2 and New Image Art in LA, Guerrero Gallery and FFDG in San Francisco, Gallery Target, Giant Robot and Motus Fort in Japan amongst others. His work has been covered in Juxtapoz, Graphic, Tokion, Le Journal, Vice, Hypebeast and more. Brian went to Hiroya’s studio in Red Hook for a talk about his path from Japan to the US to Japan to the US again, seminal punk, the beauty of baseball and more. Sound & Vision is sposored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden make acrylics, watercolors and oil paint through their Williamsburg Oil Paints. I have been using Golden paint and mediums in my studio for 20 years. I stand by thier paint and mediums and recommend their great supplies made in Upstate NY. you can find more about them at goldenpaints.com

Svenja Deininger is an artist who currently lives and works in Vienna and Milan. She was born in Vienna and was educated at the Kunsteakademie Dusseldorf and the Kunstakademie Munster. Svenja has had solo exhibitions at the Secession in Vienna, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. She has also had solo exhibitions internationally, including Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome and Galerie Martin Janda in Vienna among others. She’s participated in group exhibitions at Bob van Orsouw Gallery in Zurich, Josh Lilley Gallery in London, Patricia Law Contemporary in Gstaad, the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels and the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, to name a few. Brian met up with Svenja at her current show titled ‘Crescendo’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery and they spoke about her well travelled life, painting between cities, music, texture, composition and more. Here’s our conversation… Sound & Vision is proudly sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden acrylics, Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors are all made in upstate New York. Golden is committed to the highest quality paints and also committed to serving a role of stewardship in the community as an employee owned company. Find out more at goldenpaints.com.

This week on Sound & Vision, a re-release of a conversation with Devan Shimoyama on the occasion of his opening of Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, his first museum solo exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum. Spanning his young career, the exhibition includes painting, photography and sculpture, and a series of new works that will be on view for the first time. Devan received his BFA from Penn State University in 2011 and his MFA from Yale University in 2014. Shimoyama has exhibited throughout the United States, including at De Buck Gallery, Lesley Heller Gallery, and Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York in NY; Samuel Freeman Gallery and Zevitas Marcus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Alter Space, San Francisco, CA; Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO; and internationally at Frieze London and in Realities in Contemporary Video Art at the Fondation des Etats Unis, in Paris, France. His work has been featured in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, New American Paintings ,Vice, Creators Project,  and Saatchi Art’s ‘Best of 2014’. Devan is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. This was Devan and Brian talking at his solo booth with Stems Gallery at the Independant Art Fair in 2017

Based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Jonathan Chapline is a painter investigating digital aesthetics and exploring how technology impacts the way we mediate the world around us. He grew up in Waco, TX and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Painting. He currently has a solo exhibition, 'Material Memory' at The Hole gallery in New York. He has showed in group exhibitions at CANADA Gallery in New York, Beers Gallery in London, and Annarumma in Naples. He has also recently collaborated with the Belgium based Case Studyo on a edition of porcelain sculptures. Brian talked to Jon about, basement studios, video games, his current show at The Hole gallery and much more.