Artblog Radio

Roberta and Libby interview Celestine Wilson Hughes in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview curator Brian Wallace in this 16-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

[Ed note: This podcast originally ran on Artblog July 23, 2012. Rob Matthews is in a two person show with Shanna Waddell opening tonight, Jan 4, 2013, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.] The art world’s interest in drawings came just at the right moment for Rob Matthews, an artist whose drawings merge humor and faith in […]

Celebrating two independent gallerists On the 20th anniversaries of Gallery Joe and Pentimenti, two wonderful contemporary art venues in Philadelphia that we admire, we talk with the gallery’s owner/directors, Becky Kerlin (of Gallery Joe) and Christine Pfister (of Pentimenti). Both galleries are located in Old City, and both started in the recession of 1992/93. In […]

[Ed. note: This podcast ran in 2007 when Jayson Musson had not yet graduated from University of Pennsylvania and moved over to Brooklyn. But he had already begun the Hennessy Youngman series of videos, and he speaks about them in this interview with us. Jayson’s solo show, A True Fiend’s Weight, opens at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery […]

Roberta and Libby interview Tim Portlock in this 17-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Shelley Spector studied dance for many years — her mother was a dance teacher and taught dance classes out of the studio in the basement. So the idea of creating art that looks effortless — the way dancers make dancing look effortless — was built into Shelley’s way of working. Spector founded the influential Spector […]

Libby and Roberta interview artist Syd Carpenter about her art making, her origins as an artist and her gardening, which feeds into her art directly and indirectly.

Roberta and Libby interview Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Tim Portlock talks with Libby and Roberta about his high-tech works on paper, made from 3-D imaging software, but which reference 19th Century heroic landscape painting. He tells them he doesn't see his works as photographs, but as paintings. The interview is 17 minutes long.

Libby and Roberta interview Alex Baker in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Grant Cox in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview artist Rob Matthews in this 18-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Jenny Drumgoole’s subversive videos make us smile. The artist stars in her videos as a larger than life parody of a kind of super woman or super adolescent. She gives her character a task in some contest or other (Wing Bowl, Paula Deene Real Women of Philadelphia online recipe contest) and voila, she’s off and […]

Roberta and Libby interview Mike Macfeat in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview curator Elisabeth Agro in this 17-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview founding members of Headlong Dance Theater in this 16-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview artist Matt Giel in this 12-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview master printer Cindi Ettinger in this 17-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Daniel Heyman in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Frank Bramblett grew up in a small town in rural Alabama where he played in the Alabama mud as a child. He also had an imaginary friend, Graham, who talked to him constantly. Frank’s large abstract paintings spring from his love of materials and from his need to experiment like an alchemist. You can see […]

Roberta and Libby interview Gary Steuer in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Maiza Hixson in this 13-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

In this 2012 podcast Libby and Roberta speak with Erin Riley about her woven narratives based on bad behavior people (proudly?) post on the Internet. The podcast is 13 minutes and 24 seconds long.

In early December Tim Belknap set up a small, pretend space station inside Temple Gallery that was an almost-convincing replica of the real thing. He called the set piece Destiny Module, a reference to the US Space Station’s Science Lab. Destiny Module was part of Belknap’s project to beam himself as Astronaut Tim into a […]

Roberta and Libby interview Joshua Mosley in this 13-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Matt Kalasky spoke with us Oct 17 about his role as one of the founding editors of the new online arts journal, the The Nicola Midnight St. Claire (now temporarily called “The New, New Masses” – you can hear about that on their website). We also wanted to hear about his art, which takes the […]

Jennifer Levonian considers herself a feminist. Her animated videos -- beautiful, handmade, surreal -- portray quotidien material, often featuring women protagonists, who encounter weird experiences in the "normal" 21st Century urban environment. Libby and Roberta talked with Jennifer in 2011. Here is their podcast interview, 16 minutes long.

Libby and Roberta talk with Jacque Liu and Mike Ellyson about their collective, Grizzly Grizzly, in the 319 N. 11th St. hub, alive with 5 arts collectives, and lots of experimental art and curating.

Roberta and Libby interview painter Tim McFarlane in this 14-minute podcast for ArtBlog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Hannah Price about catcalling and her latest photo series in this 10-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Zoe Strauss in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Libby and Roberta speak with Andrew Jeffrey Wright, founding member of Space 1026! It's a great talk, 16 and a half minutes long.

Roberta and Libby interview Annette Monnier in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Ingrid Schaffner, ICA’s Senior Curator, has been with the Institute for ten years, and in that time she’s created many great exhibitions. Schaffner has a an easy smile, a ready laugh, and an interest in the absurd, from Dali and Dada to more contemporary artists like Richard Artschwager, for whom she worked as an archivist, pre-Philadelphia. […]

Performance artist Matt Savitsky moves to California for graduate school, leaving behind some sculptures and a lot of memories of good times (and other times).

Roberta and Libby interview Jordan Griska in this 14-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Joe Leroux and Stacey Lee Webber in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Amber Dorko Stopper in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Tyler Kline in this 15-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Amir Lyles in this 13-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Susan Myers in this 11-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Roberta and Libby interview Derek Frech, Joe Lacina and Daniel Wallace of Extra Extra gallery in this 13-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Claes Gabriel (Claes is pronounced "Clays") makes bright-colored totemic shapes from stretched canvas over wood armatures. The works show the artist's attention to detail in crafting and painting. The artist, who was born in Port au Prince, Haiti in 1977 is not making "black art" but rather painting his feelings, he says. He's the son of a famous Haitian artist, Jacques Gabriel, and yes, he was named after Claes Oldenburg. Claes came to the US in 1989 and studied at Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA 1999) and while right now he's in Philadelphia, his long-range plans involve living in Europe.

Roberta and Libby interview Artist Michael Konrad in this 10-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

This episode of Artblog Radio sponsored by Locks Gallery Jennie Thwing‘s whimsical stop-action animations have tickled our visual funnybone for years — at the same time that they’ve made us think about issues like the environment and our culture of waste. The artist and educator (she teaches at Rowan University in New Jersey) is also […]

Roberta and Libby interview Carl Marin in this 12-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.

Our series sponsor is Fleisher Art Memorial. Locks Gallery is our episode sponsor. Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz have amassed an extraordinary art collection of work by self-taught artists like James Castle, Martin Ramirez, William Edmondson and many more. The Bonovitzes — Jill is a respected ceramic artist and Sheldon Bonovitz is a lawyer and emeritus […]

Libby and Roberta talk with artist/printmaker/educator, Amze Emmons, about the 50-artist exhibition he organized at Space 1026, called Refugee Reading Room. We find his works, which show depopulated and downtrodden urban spaces drenched in pastel shades suitable for Valentine's Day "I love you" hearts to be more pertinent each day. The 12-minute podcast will fly by with all the amazing, smart things Amze says.

Roberta and Libby interview photographer Daniel Traub in this 14-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.