Studio Break

Kay Healy joins the podcast this week to discuss her recent works exploring the idea of home through a wide variety of media including screen printing, books, fiber, installation, and new media.

This week Travis Medford joins us to discuss his college work which combines formal exploration and abstraction through a wide variety of printed and sourced materials.

Nathan Meltz joins the podcast to discuss his animation and collage works which explore how technology effects our day to day life and global world through politics, agriculture, etc…

This week Grace Sheese joins the podcast to talk about her studio practice and her most recent series of ceramic works that are full of subtle detail.

This week Jason Karolak joins the podcast to talk about his studio practice and how his drawing process informs his recent small and large scale paintings.

This week Melissa Vandenberg joins the podcast to discuss her multi media based works which explore themes of landscape and identity.

This week Dadara joins the podcast to discuss his multimedia works, performances and much more. Some of his previous projects include Exchanghibition Bank and Like 4 Real which has been featured at Burning Man.

This week Jason Karolak, Thomas Vance, Michael Wille, and Arjan Zazueta join the podcast to discuss their experience as artist residents at Soaring Gardens in Pennsylvania.

This week Liz Miller joins the podcast from Mankato (MN) to talk about her recent mixed media installations. In the discussion Liz shed’s light on her process as well as the wide variety of materials she uses to create her work.

This week Kate Sweeney joins the podcast to talk about her studio practice that is informed by her background in science and career as a medical illustrator. Her recent work utilizes printmaking, painting, collage, and a variety of digital techniques  and often works on paper.

This week Brian Frink makes his way back to the podcast to discusses his trip to France in search of the Black Madonnas and how it impacted his studio work.

Jeff Robinson & Stephen Linksvayer join the podcast to discuss Jeff’s solo exhibition entitled “Stacks” at the former gallery in Bloomington (IL) called Heavy Brow.

Sage Dawson joins the podcast from St. Lous (MO) to talk about her multimedia works, and her new exhibition called: On Streets Like Ours, In Rooms, Up Collapsing Stairs.

This week Peter Shear returns to the podcast to discuss his Solo Exhibition entitled “Sausage” at the Peoria Art Guild.  The show features nearly 100 small paintings which explore shape, color, and surface coupled with diverse exploration.

Jason Ruhl joins the podcast to talk about some of his latest projects, including  his collage work that utilizes a variety of 2-D approaches. 

This week Morgan Price joins the podcast to talk about his recent work, which explore ideas of identity through a variety of printmaking techniques.

Liz Tran joins the podcast from Seattle (WA) to discuss her studio practice which explores a variety of mixed media including painting, ceramics, video, and installation.

John Reddington returns to the podcast to discuss his recent painting and drawing works, which piece together a variety of personal narratives, stories, observations, life experience… even the “Predator Machine.”

This week Schuyler Maehl joins the podcast to discuss his early work and his time living in Iceland. He’s a regular collaborator with performance groups MoMS and Gelitin while maintaining his studio practice that explores painting, drawing, sculpture, music, video, and installation.

Martin Brief joins the podcast to discuss his  drawing’s based off definitions, newspapers, art forum and a variety of sources to explore his interest in how we create meaning and communicate through language.

This week Cory Peeke joins the podcast to discuss his massive series of collage works, which reuse a variety of found and printed materials to explore themes of ideas of sexuality, identity and history.

This week Leslie Mutchler joins the podcast to talk about a wide variety of work including her flat work, sculpture, and installations which allow for viewer participation.

Shelby Shadwell joins us the podcast to talk about his recent exhibition at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati Ohio and some new approaches in the studio.

This week Kendra Paitz returns to the podcast to discuss the exhibition she’s curated for Illinois State University entitled: The House of the Seven Gables, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel from 1851.

This week Michelle Forsyth joins the podcast to discuss her cathartic and  intricate studio practice which includes a variety of 2-D and installation works.

This week Mitch Mitchell joins the podcast to talk about his print based works that explore ideas of landscape through print and installation.

Dawn Roe joins the podcast to talk about her photo and video based works that explore diverse approaches that include interior/exterior landscapes, portraiture, and documentaries.

This week Brian Frink joins the podcast from Mankato (MN) to talk about his diverse painting practice and RACA or Rural America Contemporary Art.

This week Cora Joyce Lim joins the podcast to talk about her work, which incorporates a variety of media including painting, sculpture, and installation; Cora was selected as one of our 2012 Studio Break Competition Winners.

This week Lazaro Juan joins the podcast to talk about his recent mixed media work which examines ideas of identity as it relates to colonialism.

This week Jessica Mongeon joins the podcast to discuss her work which combines representational and abstract approaches to her multi-media works.

This week Marine Tempels joins the podcast to talk about the evolution of her studio practice and the balance of representation and abstraction in her paintings.

This week Bill Conger & Colin Nesbit return to the podcast to talk about their collaborative exhibition at Helmuth Projects entitled The Strawberry Thief.

This week Megan Mitchell joins the podcast to talk about her ceramic work and the evolution of her studio practice, process, and materials.

John Phillip Abbott joins the podcast from Albuquerque (NM) to talk about his colorful text based paintings that rely on process.

This week Lauren Stern joins the podcast to talk about her painting and drawing practice and her interest in the figure.

This week Carol Salisbury joins the podcast to discuss her current small metal works as well as her drawings.

This week Tim Kowalczyk joins the podcast to talk about his ceramic work that includes production pieces as well as sculptural forms.

This week Bill Conger & Benjamin Gardner join Dave on the podcast for a special episode where they talk about the class Stanley Kubrick film “The Shining.”

Ann Toebbe joins the podcast to talk about her studio evolution from a sculptor turned mixed-media 2-D artist that utilizes painted paper collage to make her work.

This week Audrey Hasen Taylor joins the podcast from New York to talk about her 3-D sculpture and installation works, which explore a variety of processes and materials.

This week Matt Pulford joins the podcast to talk all about his mixed media works that incorporate painting and drawing as well as past works with print and installation approaches.

Brian Kapernakas joins the podcast to talk about his studio practice that uses a variety of media to create paintings, sculptures, and installations.

This week Bill Conger, Benjamin Gardner, Bob Jones, Adam Mysock, John Reddington, & Tim Roby join the podcast to share a bit about their work for the group show Tall Tales.

Chad Erpelding joins the podcast for an in depth discussion about his studio pratice and we discuss some of his recent experience as an artist in residence in Armenia.

This week Kendra Paitz joins the podcast to talk about a recent show she’s curated for Violet Poe Projects entitled Orison For The Forest.

This week Jonathan Brilliant joins the podcast to discuss his studio practice and the process of creating his installation based works.

This week Angelo Arnold joins the podcast to talk about the evolution of his studio practice and breaks down some of the thought behind his sculpture and installation works.

This week Brian Selke & Benjamin Gardner joins the podcast to talk about Ben’s upcoming exhibition at the outdoor Best Friends Gallery that Brian has in Arlington Heights (IL).

Judy Glantzman joins the podcast from NYC to take an in depth look into her studio practice discussing early work into the present.