Sound and Vision

Episode 438 / Sarah Boyts Yoder is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, exhibitions, and corporate and private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Sarah has been the recipient of a professional fellowship in painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and has been a fellow multiple times at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and 100W Corsicana in Corsicana, TX.

Episode 437 / Yoora Lee (b.1990) was born in South Korea and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her M.F.A in Painting and Drawing from school of the Art institute of Chicago in 2020. Her paintings are filled with analogous color relationships and wavering horizontal marks that imagine an impressionism derived from video tape distortion. Lee’s brush strokes blur the picture like an analog TV glitch, undulating the image as though from an obsolete technology. The unreal color provokes a sense of fantasy, reminding people of brief moments when life felt like a movie or drama. Lee’s images evoke a nostalgia of the recent past, as grainy VHS grade images meet the retro mood. The power of nostalgia, both romantic and empty, manipulates the viewers’ minds and emotions through imperfect memories. Her work has been exhibited internationally including Los Angeles, New York and Italy. 

Episode 436 / Yowshien Kuo is an artist who was born and works out of St. Louis, MO. He earned an MFA ND BFA from Fontbonne University. He has had solo shows at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, CAM Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Praise Shadows in Boston, The Bermuda Project in Ferguson, MO and others. He’s been included in group shows at the Bates Museum of Art in Maine, COL Gallery in San Francisco, the Dallas Museum of Art, Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong, LVL3 in Chicago, the Tuscon Museum of Art and many others.

Episode 435 / Jacqueline Surdell was born and raised in Chicago, IL. She reimagines the woven canvas as a space of undulation and growth. As the expanded histories of painting materialize in her work as content, simultaneously, swollen tendrils and textures of bound rope deny illusions of the classically painted picture plane. The works actively work to bridge the division between painting and sculpture. In this way, her work calls into association other binary categorizations such as rigid and collapsed, construction techniques coded as masculine or feminine, and ontological spaces between body and sculpture.  She has an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Occidental College in LA. She’s shown in venues such as Gallery Common in Tokyo, Devening Prijects in Chicago, Library Street Collective in Detroit, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, the South Bend Museum of Art and many more.  Her work has been covered in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Art Review, New City, DesignMilk and more. 

Episode 434 / Dabin Ahn (b. 1988, Seoul, Korea) received a BFA (2017) and an MFA (2020) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ahn’s recent solo exhibitions include Silent Whisper, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Staged, Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); 1st Dibs, Artruss, Chicago, IL (2023); ONE-OFF, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Liminal Fictions, Selenas Mountain, Ridgewood, NY (2021); and Apocrypha, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL (2020). Selected group exhibitions include Night Market, Christie’s, NY (2024); Picnic at Hanging Rock: Chapter II, Sargent’s Daughters, LA (2024); I Go To Seek A Great Perhaps, Make Room, LA (2024); 36 Paintings, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY (2024); Serenity of Less, RHAA, Chicago, IL (2023); Focal Point, Long Story Short, New York, NY (2023); BIG OBJECTS, Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, NY (2023); Storage Wars, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Composition and Layout, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL (2022); Best Practices, Edgewood College Gallery, Madison, WI (2022); The Ground Floor Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2020); and The Green Gallery Works, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2020). Ahn’s work has appeared in Chicago Magazine, Korea Times, and Chicago Gallery News. Ahn lives and works in Chicago, IL. https://dabinahn.com https://www.instagram.com/dabinahn/

Ep. 433 / Daniel Savage is an artist and animator based in Los Angeles. His background in percussion and design has helped to develop a look that can best be described as visual rhythm. His work has been commissioned by clients such as Hermès, The New Yorker, and Adult Swim, and recognized by the ADC Young Guns, Webby Awards, and Society of Illustrators. In addition to his commercial work he has taught at SVA, NYU, and Harbour Space in Barcelona.

Episode 432 Emily Pettigrew was born in Maine in 1991. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York who lives and works in Delhi, New York. Pettigrew’s recent solo and group exhibitions include "The Inside Out" at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg in Derneburg, Germany (2024); "Pablo’s Cabinet" at Pablo’s Birthday in Verbier, Switzerland (2024); "A Room With a View" at Varden Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2023); "Springs Eternal" at The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, New York (2023); "Wheel of the Year" at Halsey McKay in East Hampton, New York (2023); "Time" at Pablo’s Birthday in New York, New York (2023); "Balm" at Wilder Gallery in London, United Kingdom (2022); "Inside Out" at Scroll NYC in New York, New York (2022); "The Beauty of Solitude" at Adah Rose Gallery in Kensington, Maryland (2022); "Too Pure for this World" at the Historic Hunting Tavern Museum in Andes, New York (2021); "Odd Hours" at Monya Rowe Gallery in New York, New York (2021); "Salut 6" at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon (2021); and "These Days" at Bo Lee Gallery in London, United Kingdom (2020).

Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 and moved to Nice, France when she was eleven years old. She remained in France to further her education and completed both of her undergraduate requirements and MFA at Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice (1989), during which she also studied abroad at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts in 1987. In 1991 she moved to Paris to complete a post-diploma at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques. Following early recognition in France, she was invited to the United States in 1996 for a residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has since then been based in New York.   Ghada’s work is in public collections around the world including The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Samsung Museum, Seoul; among others. She is regularly invited to prestigious group shows and biennials-such as the Whitney Biennial in 2000 and the Venice Biennales of 1999 (where she won the UNESCO Prize), 2005 and 2007. She was recognized with a mid-career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York in 2008 and a larger, more extensive one at the MUCEM and across other venues in Marseille, France in 2022. Amer studied at the Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice, France, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris. She lives and works in New York.

Jamie Luoto (b. 1987) lives and works in the San Francisco North Bay. Her work has been featured in publications such as Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and New American Paintings; appeared on platforms such as Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic; and is in international private and public collections including the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas, USA). Selected recent exhibitions include: (Upcoming) Reflections and Refractions, Green Family Art Foundation, (2026); (Upcoming) The Armory Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York, USA (2024); (Upcoming) When Dusk Falls, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2024, duo); Mirror, Mirror, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2024); EXPO Chicago, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, USA (2024); The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (2023); Nude, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, USA (2023); True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, USA (2022); Stories from My Childhood, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, USA (2022); All About Women, Marin Society of Artists’ Gallery, San Rafael, USA (2021); Chasing Ghosts V, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, USA (2020); Art the Library Featuring Jamie L. Luoto, Napa County Library, Napa, USA (2019, solo); It’s Time: An Uncensored Look at the Time’s Up and #MeToo Movements, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, USA (2018); Pride and Prejudice: Gender Realities in the 21st Century, Arc Gallery, Chicago, USA (2018); Identity Spectrum, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA (2018).

Martine Johanna is an artist who lives and works in Zetten in the Netherlands. She has had exhibitions at Massey Klein Gallery in NYC, Massey Lyuben Gallery in NYC, Spoke Art in San Francisco, Bright Side in Amsterdam, Hashimoto Gallery in San Francisco and many more. Her work has been covered in Metal Magazine, Booooooom, Interlocutor, Justapoz, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Create Zine, Beautiful Bizarre to just name a few. She also records music under the name Ghostmother.