Episode 28: Maysha Mohamedi
L.A. based artist Maysha Mohamedi’s abstract paintings are flurries of colors, lines, and shapes imbued with energy, sensation, and meaningf...
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Episode 29: Patrick Martinez
L.A. based artist Patrick Martinez’s artistic practice takes many forms. An observer of the city, his work illustrates the ever-changing urb...
Episode 27: Naotaka Hiro
L.A. based artist Naotaka Hiro talks about the exploration of the “unknown body” in his multi-media practice. The Osaka-born artist, who wor...
Episode 24: Amanda Ross-Ho and Erik Frydenborg
L.A. based artists Amanda Ross-Ho and Erik Frydenborg talk about shifting focus and priorities after a year of the pandemic. As teachers, th...
Episode 22: Simphiwe Ndzube
In this episode, host Lindsay Preston Zappas talks to L.A. based artist Simphiwe Ndzube. Ndzube talks about his childhood growing up in Sout...
Episode 21: Aria Dean, Harmony Holiday, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Adapting performance work for Covid-19 safety — How performance operates without an audience present — How writing, sampling, and sound play...
Episode 19: Nikita Gale
Abstraction as Resistance — Reclaiming Identity Through Strategies of Refusal — The Labor of Performance — Relating Audience and Performer —...
Episode 18: Sarah Williams
Learning within Institutions — Building Spaces for Community — Redefining Centers, Structures, and Bureaucracies — Connectivity within Digit...
Episode 17: Remembering John Baldessari
Remembering John Baldessari: artist, friend, teacher, and mentor — Leslie Jones, Meg Cranston, Fay Ray, Amanda McGough, and Norm Laich refle...
Episode 16: Todd Gray
Growing up in L.A. — Rock Photography and Photographing Michael Jackson — Feeling Split Between Commercial Work and Art — The Colonized Mind...
Episode 15: Lari Pittman
How identity has shaped Pittman’s work—Being a Painter in the Pictures Generation—Working Politically While Not Being Defined as a “Politica...
Episode 14: Jamillah James
Interview with curator Jamillah James — The unconventional start to her art career — The responsibility of museums to be accessible & accoun...
Episode 13: Trulee Hall
Trulee Hall on her recent solo show — Americana and female sexuality — Working across multiple mediums — The importance of timing in an arti...
Episode 12: Dianna Molzan, Catherine Wagley
Dianna Molzan discusses her recent show, “Fizzz,”and generating joy amidst political chaos — Vanessa Place’s Rape Jokes — Understanding how...
Episode 11: Kelly Akashi, Christina Catherine Martinez
Julian Rosefeldt’s “Manifesto,” in relation to the subjectivity of the body, Hollywood, and politics — Kelly Akashi discusses her art practi...
Episode 10: Travis Diehl on Davis Lynch, Jim Walters on Art Taxes
David Lynch’s paintings and the contrast between still-images versus moving — Tips and tricks for how to file your taxes as an artist Writer...
Episode 9: Bettina Korek, Hamza Walker, Sam Parker, Catherine Wagley
How figurative art relates to Christianity and politics — Celeste Dupuy-Spencer depicts white America — Sneak peek of the art fair Frieze Lo...
Episode 8: Made in L.A. 2018 curators and writers
Looking back on “Made in L.A.”— What does it mean for an artist to be political? — How are artists responding to our time?—How do young arti...
Episode 7: Amanda Ross-Ho, Norm Laich, Matt Stromberg
Whose work is it anyway? — Norm Laich’s world as a brush for hire — The art of the collaboration — Is there a viable way to share your work...
Episode 6: Micol Hebron, Angella d’Avignon
Florals and feminism — the historical, political, and gendered uses of floral imagery — Call-out culture and Instagram feminism — Has female...