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Beware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 021 Taha HeydariIranian, b. 1986
Lives and works in Baltimore, MD
Taha Heydari’s striking, large-scale canvases examine the power of images—and the role of the spectator—in politics, propaganda, and the shaping of culture and identity. Particularly of interest to Heydari are the ways in which the seductive power of media imagery is being used to shape perceptions and outcomes in the the United States and the Middle East.
Heydari begins each new painting by culling from his growing archive of source material, news and media artefacts gleaned from research in libraries and on the Intern...2021-07-2524 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 020 Ryan SyrellRyan Syrell is a painter whose work focuses on the interrelationship between haptics, perception, and the recollection of sensory information.
Ryan Syrell at the time of our interview was living in Baltimore, he has since relocated to New York. The New York based painter who also teaches and writes about art. He received his BFA from SUNY Purchase in Painting and Drawing, 2006, and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, 2017. Solo exhibitions include numerous shows at Page Bond Gallery (Richmond, VA), the Bromo Seltzer Tower (Baltimore), and Guest Spot at the ReInstitute (Baltimore). Group e...2021-07-1146 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 019 Lou RosLou Ros has long approached his artistic journey with a unique hunger for experimentation and fundamental self discovery. Each of his compositions begin with images of films, both his own and those taken from a variety of social media platforms that he appropriates, exploring, transforming into his narrative; stories of his own from borrowed parts, people and places.
The faces and their bodies are among his key subjects of predilection. Thus, the current series of portraits represent characters, personalities, taken or captured on the spot, in action, in poses, frozen in time. The faces and their bodies, oft...2021-06-2728 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 018 Lee Nowell-WilsonLee Nowell-Wilson (b. Easton, MD 1989) is an American figurative artist who builds autobiographical drawings that investigate the emotional and ambivalent undertones within birth, domestic labor and human relationship. Through using the female body and maternal subject, Nowell-Wilson illuminates a detail of life that is extremely personal, yet universal. She predominantly executes this in an ironic way by using mundane objects (blankets, dishes, pillows, toys) to express complex human tendencies and emotions. Those ordinary household items create forms that become a secondary subject in-and-of themselves and interact with Nowell-Wilson’s figures on an interpersonal level. A tight turtleneck becomes a cl...2021-06-1359 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 017 Caleb KortoraxCaleb Paul Kortokrax (b. 1987) is an American painter working in Baltimore, MD.
A 2014 Maryland Institute College of Art; LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA Grad and 2011 BSFA Valparaiso University majoring in Fine Art and Education.
In the artists words:
"My paintings are an exercise in unlearning and relearning how to see.
My current work is an investigation into human perception and context, and my studio practice is rooted in the interdisciplinary spirit. The recent work builds bridges between disparate painting traditions and time periods. In the process of making a painting, I r...2021-05-3055 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 016 Dominic ChambersDominic Chambers Born 1993, St. Louis, MO Lives and works in New Haven, CT Chambers received BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2016 and is a 2019 MFA graduate from the Yale University School of Art. Dominic's work is founded upon the relationship between reality and fantasy. At this illusory boundary, Dominic Chambers negotiates ideas of magical realism by presenting black figures as they delve into literature and contemplation within imagined landscapes. These subtle, leisurely moments not only celebrate each subject's visionary power but further negate pervasive and toxic clichés, instead focusing on black talent, creativity and mys...2021-05-1645 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 015 Katherine CurciKatherine is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Ontario. Her fine art education began in high school where she attended Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts for Visual Arts. She completed her BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in 2014 and received a Certificate of Advanced Visual Studies at OCAD's Self-Directed Studio Program in Florence, Italy. In 2017, she furthered her creative education at CMU where she studied Special Effects Makeup Art and Design for TV and Film.
Katherine's current body of work focuses on charcoal drawings, premiered in This Land., at the start of the pandemic. Working...2021-02-2837 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 014 Adam AmramAdam Amram (b. 1994 Haifa, Israel) earned a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. He has shown most recently with Mother Gallery (Beacon, New York), Harpy (Rutherford, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York), Melanie Flood Projects, Adams and Ollman Gallery (Portland, Oregon) and Resort (Baltimore). Amram attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art Summer Fellowship in 2015, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson Vermont, in 2018. Amram currently lives and works in the California Bay Area, and was recently named the 2020 YoungArts Daniel Arsham Fellow. His work has...2021-02-2153 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 013 Justin MortimerJustin Mortimer (b.1970) is a British artist whose paintings consistently invite us to question the relationship between subject matter and content, beauty and horror, and between figuration and abstraction. While the imagery is almost exclusively pitiless, the texturing of the paint, the play between light and shade and the passages that lead from photo-realist definition to near-abstract formlessness are so sensitively handled as to make the work at least partially redemptive as well as to indicate a key philosophical dimension: the oblique relationship between evidence and interpretation.(ocula.com) Justin Mortimer graduated from the Slade School of Art in 1992 a...2021-02-1428 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 012 Kyle BauerKyle J. Bauer’s mixed media sculptures lay bare devotion to seamless craftsmanship and the desire to create new meaning out of materials with humble origins. He takes cues from the silence, anticipation, and mounting tension that accompany the act of hunting, forcing the viewer to physically navigate around his sculptures. Bauer moved to Baltimore in 2011 after earning his MFA from Louisiana State University. 2011-2020, he has worked as the conservation technician of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art. As of February 2020 Kyle is now a Matting/Framing Specialist in the Department of Paper conservation at...2021-02-0755 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 011 Cindy ChengCindy Cheng is an artist working in Baltimore, MD. Rooted in the practice of drawing, she explores the relationship between drawings and objects through complex constructions and explorations into ceramics. Cindy likes thinking about how built structures and artifacts may act as an incubator for history, memory and reflections on the physical and abstract self. She enjoys puzzles. Most recently she has been exploring ideas surrounding conspiracy theories.
She has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and at the Anderson Ranch Artist Residency and in 2017 she was awarded the Sondheim Artscape Prize. She was a f...2021-01-3140 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 010 Rebecca NessRebecca Ness creates richly layered and colorful paintings that capture mundane moments of contemplation or nuanced movements frozen in time. Ness is known for her atypical viewpoints and bodies rarely shown in full, but rather figures fragmented or obscured by books, newspapers or clothing. Elements of everyday life fill each canvas in their entirety, creating a tapestry of experience, memory, imagination, pattern and body language. While many of her paintings are imagined scenes, Ness admits that her work is usually triggered by something in reality, especially as it relates to her gender or politics.
Rebecca Ness (b. 1992...2021-01-2445 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 009 Shawn HarrisOur Guest this week is Shawn Harris. Singer, Songwriter, Illustrator and adventurer, Shawn is most notably known for his band The Matches. His other musical endeavors include St. Ranger, Maniac and Fortress Social Club. He most recently has created and illustrated a children's book entitled “A Polar Bear in the Snow” with his long time friend Mac Barnett. We talk about music, art, living in an airstream, and the creative process!
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-jirsa/support2021-01-171h 06Beware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 008 Taj StansberryTaj Stansberry (born in Oakland, California, United States) is an American director and photographer, known for his music videos with artists such as Rihanna, J Lo, Usher, Ne-Yo, John Legend, Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Keyshia Cole, Swizz Beatz, Eve, Wale and Big Sean.His video for J Lo's "On the Floor" is the most watched female video of all time on YouTube with over 800,000,000 views. He is currently developing a few feature projects as well.
Now residing in Los Angeles, His unique style and ability to capture an artists' personality has made him one of the most sought...2020-12-1356 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 007 David HumphreyHumphrey received a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1977 and a MA from New York University in 1980. He has shown nationally and internationally and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize among other awards. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by Periscope Publishing in 2010. Mr. Humphrey is is represented by the Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York.
Though his paintings, works on paper, and sculptures defy categorization, David Humphrey emerged as an artist in the late 1970s along with Postmodernism, an approach that continues to inform his heterogeneous compositions, visual...2020-11-2941 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 006 Kate SableOriginally from rural Southwestern Virginia, Sable moved to Washington, DC in 2007 to attend American University, where she received an MFA in 2009. Sable also holds a BFA from Virginia Tech, with a concentration in Painting and a minor in Art History.
Kate's paintings of curvilinear and gridded abstract forms in oil and gouache are studies in color, line, and depth of field, in an ongoing investigation of her own studio process. The work directly engages personal metaphor and inquiry, navigating the tension between the unpredictable and the analytical, while remaining strongly grounded in the painting process.
...2020-11-2236 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 005 Bill SchmidtBill Schmidt was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1947. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (BFA, 1969) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine before moving to Baltimore in 1969. He received an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Hoffberger School of Painting in 1971. He has received numerous grants and awards including the Semmes G. Walsh Award (Baker Artist Awards, 2016) and the Bethesda Painting Award (2015). He has exhibited his paintings, drawings, and sculpture extensively in the Mid-Atlantic region. Recent shows include “Baker Artist Awards 2016” at the Baltimore Museum of Art, “Sq...2020-11-1642 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 004 Katie PumphreyThis weeks we interview Katie Pumphrey! ( @katiepumphreyart )
Katie Pumphrey is an American painter exploring the tension between calm and chaos. Crisp edges and quiet shapes are at a constant tug-o-war with playful movement and vibrating color. Her work dives into the familiar struggle we all face, again and again, to find control, ease the tension, and harness the commotion. We feel steady, level-headed, comfortable — and then something shifts, and we scramble to find our footing. We ping-pong between these moments time and time again. With turbulent brushstrokes and the suggestion of imagery, her work examines these experiences with a...2020-11-0843 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 003 Ken TisaThis week we have the pleasure of speaking with the infamous Ken Tisa! ( @ken_tisa ) Born in Philadelphia in 1945, he received his BFA from Pratt in 1968 and MFA from Yale in 1971.
Ken identifys himself as a painter but has multitude of media to his name with works that range from painting to sculpture to fibers to ceramics but all approached through a painters eye.
Tune in Sunday November 1st to listen to our conversation as we cover topics such as his current Quarantine project, collecting, art history, teaching, and finding truth in the act of...2020-11-0144 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 002 Jessi HardestyBeware the Artist Episode 002:
In this episode we talk with the pumpkin queen Jessi Hardesty and cover topics about her studio practice, Halloween, the occult, her curatorial practice and experiences as a professor
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-jirsa/support2020-10-2536 minBeware the ArtistBeware the Artist Episode 001 Akil GodseyWelcome to our first ever episode of "Beware the Artist". EPISODE 001: We have the great honor of having Akil Godsey as the first interviewee on our show. Akil is the frontman of Baltimore hardcore power house END IT (@enditbaltimore ) and runs a podcast @thehardtimesnews called Up The Blunx. "A podcast where two black punks from two different walks of life come together to voice their opinion on a wide variety of topics from bands to condiments to the police" Very stoked to have him on the show and I hope you're just as interested to see where our conversation...2020-10-1831 min
Coffee Bar PodcastCoffee Bar Podcast #5 - Jeremy JirsaFor this episode we have Baltimore area artist Jeremy Jirsa on the show. We discuss him getting trapped in Argentina during the pandemic and his life as an artist. A lot of interesting conversation about his motivations as well as a dive into his everyday life!
Check out Jeremy's Website: https://www.jeremyjirsa.com/
Check out Jeremy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyjirsa/
Check out Towson University Galleries: https://www.tugalleries.com/ (You can catch Jeremy's current exhibition virtually!)2020-08-111h 37