Multimedia artist Liz Collins draws from the materials, processes and techniques of textile and fabric media. Her work varies in scale from the object-based to the immersive and architectural, and straddles the divides between the functional, t

Episode 13: Rachel Owens

Apr 20th, 2018 36m 50s

Rachel Owens is a sculptor whose work is often socially engaged. She works with materials as varied as crushed glass, resin, and steel humvee truck bodies. Kate and Clarity visit her in her Brownsville, Brooklyn studio, where she discusses the

Episode 12: Chitra Ganesh talks with Maia Cruz Palileo

Mar 9th, 2018 30m 31s

Chitra Ganesh is a multi-disciplinary artist working with myth, symbols and narrative. Guest host Maia Cruz Palileo, also a multi-disciplinary artist, was mentored by Ganesh in the Queer Art Mentorship program. During a visit to Ganesh's studio

Episode 11: David Shaw

Jan 19th, 2018 33m 33s

David Shaw's intricate sculptures are composed through the juxtaposition of materials such as branches, dirt, steel, glass, holographic laminate, flocking, and found furniture. In our visit to his Brooklyn studio, he discusses his long involvem

Episode 10: Susan Bee

Nov 10th, 2017 47m 28s

Susan Bee's paintings and collages have been described as "pastoral psychedelia," and "a savage mix of Expressionism and Pop schadenfreude." Born and raised in New York City by artist parents, Bee is a longtime supporter of feminist art and wom

Episode 9: Becca Lowry

Oct 14th, 2017 26m 18s

Becca Lowry carves intricate wall-mounted sculptures out of wood, which she decorates with painting and weaving. She is interested in ideas of use, architecture, vulnerability and bravery, and has said she thinks of her creations as "shields."

Episode 8: Pinar Yolaçan

Sep 21st, 2017 31m 16s

Pinar Yolaçan was born and raised in Turkey, went to fashion school in London, and studied sculpture and photography at Cooper Union in New York City. Her work examines gender, power, and colonialism through a process she likens to anthropology

Episode 7: Jenny Dubnau

Jun 6th, 2017 34m 24s

Jenny Dubnau is a painter of portraits. Her uncanny, highly detailed oil paintings are made from the careful study of photographs she takes herself. Kate and Clarity visit the artist in her Long Island City studio, and discuss contemporary vs.

Episode 6: Jim Butler

May 11th, 2017 32m 51s

Jim Butler paints large-scale, detailed images of small glass maquettes he makes himself, which he calls "characters". Kate and Clarity visit him in his Queens studio, where he talks about being a young artist in the '70s, glass blowing, photog

Episode 5: Chloë Bass talks with Sharon Louden

Apr 7th, 2017 36m 44s

Guest host Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, and advocate for artists. Her book The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life gathers essays from 40 visual artists, one of whom is Chloë Bass. Bass is a conceptual art

Episode 4: Julian Kreimer

Feb 1st, 2017 34m 47s

Julian Kreimer is a painter who alternates between plein air painting and abstraction. Kate and Clarity talk to him in his Brooklyn studio about the sociology of urban plein air painting, gentrification in New York City, and how being in therap

Episode 3: Nona Faustine

Jan 10th, 2017 38m 25s

Photographer Nona Faustine asks us to examine what it means to be an American. In her Brooklyn studio, Faustine talks with Kate and Clarity about the importance of paying tribute to under-recognized histories, notably the histories of slavery a

Episode 2: Brenda Goodman

Nov 17th, 2016 37m 27s

Clarity and Kate visit the Catskills studio of painter Brenda Goodman, and discuss how she starts a painting, her early influences in 1960s Detroit, figuration vs. abstraction, and why she doesn't consider herself a feminist.For more on this e

Episode 1: Elizabeth Insogna

Nov 17th, 2016 32m 55s

Clarity and Kate visit the Brooklyn studio of painter Elizabeth Insogna and discuss finding your tribe, spirituality in art, the Divine Feminine, symbols and dreams.For more on this episode, and to see images of Insogna's work, visit our websi

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