Studio Break

Ry Mccullough joins the podcast to share a range of work that include collage, sculpture, and installation through a variety of materials and processes that include creative writing, language, and intuition to explore what he describes as the “know and unknown.”

This week Jill Christian joins the podcast to discuss her abstract paintings which utilize mark making and a mix of intuitive process, some of which include the use of a grid and radial balance compositions that begin from flicking paint on the canvas.

Adam Fulwiler joins the podcast to talk about his paintings which are created through a variety of processes that included distilled autobiographical memories, language, and even games of chance.  His mixed media works incorporate an array of materials that include acrylic paint, spray paint, and paint skins on surfaces ranging from paper to woven canvas’s.

Derek Meier joins the podcast and we delve deep into his studio practice that explores a wide range of materials including acrylic paint, fabric, and polaroid photos.

Meredith Matthews joins the podcast to discuss her work which has investigated a range of figurative, animal, and landscape elements in rich and vivid detail.

This week Christina Renfer Vogel visits the podcast to discuss her paintings which are largely made from observations while also incorporating elements of abstraction and pattern.

Loring Taoka joins the podcast to talk about his recent abstract works, which utilize a wide variety of processes that include hand painting, airbrush, stencils, and vinyl cutters on panel and plexiglass.

This week Kate Kaminski visits the podcast to discuss some of her sculptural work that explores narrative and mythology as well as her more recent works, which largely focus on ceramic production and sculpture.

This week Donovan Widmer joins the podcast once again to share his recent series of works that investigate and catalog a variety of skin conditions as a way to discuss the cultural stigmas that surround them.

Paul Loughney returns to the podcast to discuss his meticulous and beautiful collage work made from printed analog materials.

This week Berenice Chavez shares her work which explores themes of family, love, separation, and belonging through a series of photographs of her family.

Beth Humphrey joins the podcast to share her colorful and layered collage works that utilize spray painted paper, acrylic, watercolor crayons and other materials.

This week Leah Schretenthaler discusses her background and process of creating laser etched silver gelatin prints in her recent series entitled: The Invasive Series of the Built Environment. Her work explores the impact of manmade elements and alterations that diminish the sacred landscape of Hawaii where she’s from.

Ziba Rajabi joins the podcast to discuss her colorful paintings, drawings, and mixed media installations created through layers of acrylic ink, paint, fabric, and other materials.   Her work is based off of intimate experiences and slowly fading memories of her homeland of Tehran (Iran) and where she currently resides in Fayetteville (Arkansas).

This week Emily Somoskey joins the podcast to talk about her mixed media works combining paint and collage media to examine how we experience actual space and psychological space simultaneously.

Scott Aigner joins the podcast to discuss his current work which explores nostalgia and pop culture through a variety of interdisciplinary approaches from tedious process based works, performance, and installation.

This week Alice Stone Collins joins the podcast to talk about her work, which examines the ordinary and universal through her mixed media works that incorporate paint, paper, and collage.

Nick Satinover returns to the podcast to share his latest series of print and mixed media works which will be accompanied by a series of original recordings using a Tascam 4-Track recorder.

This week Mitchell Johnson joins the podcast to discuss his paintings that explore color and shape through non-representational abstraction as well as representational works influenced by travels to Cape Cod, Asia, and Europe.

Eric Ockrassa opened his studio to discuss his colorful hard edge abstractions created through digital editing and planning, a vinyl cutter, and plenty of painters tape.

This week Matthew T. McLaughlin joins the podcast from the Washington D.C. area to talk about his multimedia works which incorporate printmaking, drawing, and installation based works, which explore the environment, landscape, and boundaries.

Lisa Bergant Koi & Greg Edmondson join the podcast to discuss their studio practice and the direct or indirect influence of landscape in their work.  Lisa lives in Pittsburgh (PA) and her paintings explores how we interpret what we perceive through her colorful abstractions. 

Kari Woolsey joins us to discuss her ceramic works that explore domesticity and objects of the everyday in her vessel work, compositions, and installations.  Kari’s is one of Studio Break’s 2018 Student Competition winners, which was juried by Brian Frink of RACA Gallery.

Dyani White Hawk joins the podcast to discuss her paintings and mixed media works which explore her Native American heritage through use of Sicangu Lakota art forms and combining them with her love of modernist abstract painting.

This week Liz Tran returns to the podcast to share some new developments in her works which have largely focused on her mixed media paintings, installations, and collaborations.

Lisa Lofgren joins the podcast this week to discuss her work which explores a multitude of printmaking techniques to create layered prints as well as installations that based on her experiences of landscape.

This week Benjamin Scott Anderson discusses his plein air works that combine repeated experiences of painting from the same landscape in various conditions which are distilled into the same painting.

Jenn Gulgren joins Studio Break this week to talk about her observational paintings from her surroundings as well as her Ennui works which explore uncertainty through figures occupying abstracted spaces and domesticity.

This week Gabriel Rojas joins Studio Break to discuss his improvisational mixed media works comprised of organic and geometric shapes, textures, patterns, as well as pre-Columbian motifs.

David Reed Gracie joins Studio Break to discuss the process behind his paintings, which have explored still life, portraits, landscapes, and other subjects.

This week Erika B. Hess joins the podcast to discuss her paintings that explore the figure, landscape, and still life, which create narratives in her work from daily observations.

David Stanger joins Studio Break to discuss his studio practice which has largely focused on representational painting and drawing, most noticeably his series of portrait paintings.

This week Jam Lovell joins the podcast to discuss her sculpture and installation based works which explore a variety of processes, performance, and materials that include cast bronze, wood, human hair.

Tim Kowalczyk joins Studio Break once again to discuss his tromp l’oeil ceramic works which explore garbage and debris along with his tableware forms.

Shona Macdonald makes her long awaited return to the podcast to discuss her recent paintings and drawings that explore fragments from the New England Landscape.

This week Phillip J. Mellen returns to the podcast to discuss recent developments in his colorful abstract paintings and mixed media collage works.

This week Josie Del Castillo joins Studio Break to discuss her colorful paintings which focus on appreciation of Mexican American culture through a series of portraits and self-portraits.

This week Bill Conger makes his return to the podcast to to discuss his sculpture, installation, and collage based works.

Tannon Reckling joins the podcast to discuss his studio practice which is informed through experiencing art via the internet.  His work questions traditional modes of art/academia and is influenced by growing up as a queer youth in rural Nebraska.

Dominic Lippillo joins the podcast to discuss his photo based works which explore landscape, domesticity, and identity.

This week Jessica Bingham joins the podcast to discuss her work which explores themes of loss and childhood through her mixed media installations, sculptures, and paintings.

Lisa Bergant Koi joins the podcast from Pittsburgh (PA) to discuss her studio practice which focuses on paintings, which are informed by her drawings from the road.

Shelby Shadwell joins the podcast once again to discuss his recent series of hyper realistic drawings which combine his subjects with meme related text.

This week Dana Sikkila Murphy joins the podcast from Mankato (MN) where she works as an artist and arts administrator for the 410 Project.

Claire Stankus joins the podcast to discuss her paintings which often begin from observation/photography and explore the boundaries between representation and formal abstraction.