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Brian Alfred
Brian Alfred sits down with artists and musicians in galleries and their studios to discuss their process and inspiration in their creative life.
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Nov 9, 2023 • 1h 16min
Martyn Cross
Martyn Cross (b. 1975, Yate, UK) holds a BA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University. He lives and works in Bristol, UK.
Martyn has exhibited work at many galleries, nationally and internationally, including Hales London, UK; Marianne Boesky, New York, NY, USA; Ratio 3, Los Angeles, CA, USA; OSHSH Projects, London, UK; Modern Art, London, UK; Oceans Apart, Manchester, UK; Bath Spa University, UK; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; LIMBO, Margate, UK; Stroud Museum, UK; Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK, among others. Cross' work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA and NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, UK. Cross is shortlisted for the John Moore Painting Prize 2023.

Nov 2, 2023 • 1h 27min
Corri-Lynn Tetz
Corri-Lynn Tetz was born in Calgary, Alberta and lives and works in Montreal. She studied at Red Deer College, Emily Carr and graduated from the MFA program at Concordia University. Tetz has received project support from the Conseil des Art et des Lettres du Quebec, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and in 2016, was awarded the Brucebo Residency Fellowship. Her work was featured in the Magenta Foundations Carte Blanche: A Survey of Canadian Painting and in 2012, she was as a finalist in the RBC Painting Competition. Corri’s paintings have been exhibited across Canada, Sweden and the United States. Most recently, her work was featured in a large-scale, solo exhibition at Contemporary Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta.

Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 9min
Tammy Nguyen
Tammy Nguyen was born and raised in San Francisco, and received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 2007, and an M.F.A. from Yale in 2013. Her recent solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2023); Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2022); François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Tropical Futures Institute, SEA Focus, Singapore (2022); Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2021) among others. Tammy has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Still Present!, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2022); Past/Present/Future: Expanding Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Perspectives in Thomas J. Watson Library, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2022); Greater New York 2021, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2021); Nha, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2021); Face of the Future, The Rubin Museum, New York, NY (2018); Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2015); and DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, China (2014). Her artist books are in many notable public collections, including Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; Clark Art Institute Library, Williamstown, MA; Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Mayer Library, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art Library, Philadelphia, PA; Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Wesleyan University Library, Middletown, CT; and the Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York, NY.

Oct 19, 2023 • 1h 5min
Jeremy Sorese
Jeremy Sorese is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010, he was accepted to La Maison des Auteurs, a residency program in Angoulême, France, where he worked from 2012 through 2013. His first book Curveball, published with Nobrow in 2015, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. A sequel, The Short While, was published with Archaia in November 2021. He’s been teaching art for 11 years with stints at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and most recently at The New School and SVA. His solo show of paintings entitled Pleasure Principle, opened Friday October 13th and continues through Thursday November 10th at AuxierKline Gallery in Manhattan.

Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 13min
Inka Essenhigh
A reissue of a classic episode with Inka from 2016.

Oct 5, 2023 • 1h 4min
Erin Armstrong
Erin Armstrong is a contemporary figurative artist working and living in Toronto, CA. Her work has been exhibited extensively across North America and Europe, with recent shows at Hashimoto Gallery LA, BEERS London, and Duran Mashaal in Montreal. Her next solo exhibition will open Oct 31st in Milan, Italy at Alessandro Albanese Gallery, closing out the year with a group show in Seoul, South Korea at Every Moooonday Gallery this December.

Sep 28, 2023 • 48min
Tracy Thomason
On the occasion of The Pollinator, Tracy Thomason’s fourth exhibition with Marinaro gallery, inhabiting both of their gallery spaces, we are reissuing this conversation with Tracy from over six years ago.
Tracy Thomason is an artist born in Maryland who received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Exhibitions include a solo shows at Marinaro in 2022, 2020, 2017 and the current one. NADA Projects with Cuevas Tilleard Projects, NY, NY and a two-person exhibition with Peter Halley at Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY. Select group exhibitions include Analog Diary, Beacon, NY; Over the Influence, Los Angeles; 56 Henry, Asya Geisberg, James Fuentes, and Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York, NY, 106 Green in Brooklyn, NY, and Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE. Tracy lives and works in Brooklyn and you can see her current show at Marinaro until October 21st.

Sep 21, 2023 • 1h 55min
Samuel Dunson
Sam Dunson is an artist born in Dayton, Ohio who is a professor in art at Tennessee State Univeristy. He recieved his BS in studio art there before getting his MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has received several awards including 100 under 100: The New Superstars of Southern Art Selected By Peers of Oxford American Magazine, the Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient (Graduate Painting)
from the Savannah College of Art and Design, the Artlink International Young Artist Auction at Sotheby’s, NY, the Presidential Fellowship Recipient from the Savannah College of Art and Design just to name a few. He has had exhibits too numerous to list with extensive solo and group shows and his work has been covered by the Nashville Arts Magazine, The Oxford American Magazine, New American paintings and many more.
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Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 24min
Hiejin Yoo
Hiejin Yoo is a German born, Korean artist currently living and working in Los Angeles Her work has been shown at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Half Gallery, Frederic Snitzer, Blum & Poe, Almine Rech, Konig Gallery, Loyal Gallery, Stems Gallery, The Pit, Spurs Gallery in Beijing and many others.
Her work has been covered in Galerie Magazine, Juxtapoz, Hypebeast, Whitewall, ArtForum, It’s Nice That, Elle Indonasia, New American Paintings, the LA Times and many more.

Sep 7, 2023 • 1h 24min
Shuling Guo
SHULING GUO is an artist born in Guangdong Province, China who graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a BFA in 2010. She immigrated to the United States in 2019, and now lives in Philadelphia and aboard the Sailing Vessel Selkie. In 2012, she had her first solo exhibition Secret Fragrance in Beyond Art Space in Beijing. Since then, her work has been widely exhibited in Beijing, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and among other places. Her works have been included in the permanent collections of Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (Beijing) and Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (Guangzhou). In 2020 she held a solo exhibition in New York at Fou Gallery: 5—6 pm. Followed by a second solo exhibition at Fou Gallery in 2022 - Sotto Voce. In Autumn 2022 her work was featured in Platform, in partnership with David Zwirner gallery.