Sound and Vision

Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China) holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. She was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship at Columbia University in 2020, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019 and 2022. Yuan’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, NY; Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK; Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy; Haverkampf Leistenschneider Gallery, Berlin, Germany; among others. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, and The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA. Yuan currently lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. A Thousand Ships runs through 2/2 at Make Room Gallery LA.

Kirsten Deirup (b. 1980, Berkeley, CA) graduated from The Cooper Union in 2003. She has had solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; de boer gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Guild and Greyschul, New York, NY; and Rare, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY; Marc Wolf Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; and Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA. She has completed residencies at the Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy, the Farpath Foundation in Dijon, France, and Idlewild, CA. Her work is held in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York.

Alina Zamanova (b. 1993) is a figurative multimedia artist who lives and works in Ukraine, Kyiv. Her paintings and sculptures reflect the complexities of the human condition, exploring themes such as identity, mortality, search for meaning and purpose in a conflict-thorn world, that is often filled with trauma, suffering and tragedy but also perseverance, dignity and compassion. Influenced by her personal philosophical reflections, life experiences as an artist living in a country in a state of war, and by an existential psychology theories, Zamanova draws attention to important issues such as an impact of conflict on people and the planet and the resilience of the human spirit. With a deep research of trauma's insidious nature Zamanova delves into the intricacies of the human mind, exploring how the scars left behind by trauma shape our very being. Her artworks are a reminder of the long-lasting effects of war, and the way in which it can irrevocably alter our understanding of the world.

Francesca DiMattio is an artist born in NYC who lives and works between Manhattan and Upstate New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Wedgwood at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (UK), Sèvres at Nina Johnson, Miami (FL), Boucherouite at Salon 94 Bowery, New York (NY); Francesca DiMattio: Housewares at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (TX) and Vertical Arrangements at the Zabludowicz Collection, London (U.K.). Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton (NY); the Perez Art Museum, Miami (FL); the Frances Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (NY); the Saatchi Gallery, London (U.K.); the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (FL) and the Zabludowicz Collection. Francesca DiMattio’s work has been covered by the New York Times, Art Newspaper, T Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, W Magazine and World of Interiors, among others.

Martha Atienza (b. 1981, Manila, Philippines; lives and works in Bantayan Island, Philippines) has moved between the Netherlands and the Philippines throughout her life. Constantly oscillating between these two cultures has had a profound influence on Martha’s focus as an artist. Her practice explores installation and video as a way of documenting and questioning issues around environment, community and development. Her work is mostly constructed in video, of an almost sociological nature, that studies her direct environment. Since graduating with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts and Design in the Netherlands, Atienza has exhibited internationally at various art spaces, galleries, and video festivals. In 2017, Atienza won the Baloise Art Prize in Art Basel (Switzerland) for her work, Our Islands. In 2016, she was one of the five shortlisted artists for the Benesse Art Prize (Japan) in the Singapore Biennale. In 2015, Atienza was awarded the Thirteen Artists Awards by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Martha Atienza has also had residencies all over the world: in 2005, she was a part of Kuvataideakatemia's art program in Finland. In 2016 and 2012, she won the prestigious Ateneo Art Award with studio residency grants in Liverpool, Melbourne, New York and Singapore. In 2016, she was the recipient of the first Mercedes Zobel/Outset Residency at Gasworks in London. In 2018, Atienza was a part of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art's residency program in Singapore. Recent exhibitions include Equation of State, solo exhibition, Silverlens, Manila (2019) ; Honolulu Biennial: To Make Wrong / Right / Now, Honolulu, Hawaii (2019); 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane (2018); Taipei Biennale: Post-Nature – A Museum as an Ecosystem, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2018); Bienal de Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2018); Fair Isles, solo exhibition, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Center for Contemporary Art, Germany (2018); No Man's Land, MUDAM, Luxembourg (2018);2018 Asia Project: How Little You Know About Me, MMCA, Korea (2018).

Tschabalala Self is an artist born in Harlem who lives and works in Upstate New York. She received her undergraduate degree at Bard and her MFA from Yale. Recent solo exhibitions and perfiormances include Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Le Consortium in Dijon, Performa 2021 Biennial in NYC, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the ICA in Boston, the Hammer Museum in LA, Art Omi in Ghent, the Yuz Museum in Shanghai and many others. She has had several museum shows and has had residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Red Bull House of Art in Detroit, Liquitex work residency in London, the Fountainhead Residency in Miami and many others. Her work has been covered in Art in America, ArtForum, Artnet, Bomb, Cultured, Essence, Frieze, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, T Magazine, The Art Newspaper, The Guardian, Vouge, W and more. Her work can be found in countless institutions, with highlights that include The Art Institute of Chicago, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the California African American Museum, the Hirshhorn, LACMA, the New Museum, the MCA in LA, the Guggenheim, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Whitney Museum. Buy the Sound & Vision book "WHY I MAKE ART" here: https://atelier-editions.com/products/why-i-make-art Thanks to all for listening to the podcast and making it possible to hit 400 episodes!

Allison Miller was born in Evanston, Illinois and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a BFA in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery, NY and has had solo shows at The Pit, Los Angeles, The Finley, Los Angeles and ACME. Los Angeles. Group exhibitions of note include: The Holographic Principle, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA) presents Mülheim/Ruhr and the 1970’s, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; “six memos for the next…”,  NOW-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, Magazin 4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria and Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, Los Angeles. Miller’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, among others. Her work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, The Los Angeles Times, Flash Art, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic, among others.

A reissue pod from June 2016 with Matt on the occasion of his opening tonight at Anna Zorina. MATT PHILLIPS Hold Tight Horizon Eyes Anna Zorina Gallery | New York November 30, 2023 - January 13, 2024 MATT PHILLIPS received his BA in Art History from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and his MFA in Painting from Boston University. His work has featured in solo exhibitions at The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; NBB Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Fores Project, London, England; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin, Germany; One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ; Devening Projects, Chicago, Illinois. Group exhibitions include Orlando Museum of Art, Next Asia in Taiwan, The Pit in Los Angeles, CA; as well as two person show with Corydon Cowansage at Andrea Fiesta Fine Art in Rome, Italy. He has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Phillips is also a curator, critic, and has been a professor of art at FIT, Mt. Holyoke College, and Hampshire College.

Joelle Dietrick's paintings, drawings, and animations explore infrastructure, particularly housing, and its manipulation by automated, global economic systems. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Transitio_MX in Mexico City, TINA B Festival in Prague and Venice, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA San Diego, Long March Space Beijing, ARC Gallery Chicago, Soho20 New York, and MPG Contemporary Boston. She has attended residencies at MacDowell, Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Anderson Ranch, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, and the School of the Visual Arts and received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, University of California, Florida State University, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), and Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Joelle completed a BFA in Painting at Penn State and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. She was born in Pennsylvania and teaches at Davidson College outside of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Nat Meade is a Brooklyn-based painter and educator who uses his work to reflect on the complex feelings that surround the experience of moving through different phases of life. Nat received his BFA from the University of Oregon and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Juxtapoz, The Boston Globe, Artsy and Hyperallergic. He attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 2009, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016, the Siena Art Institute in 2018, and the James Castle House Summer Residency in Boise, Idaho in Summer 2021. Meade lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.