Past Episodes: While we are on a break from the recording new episodes, please enjoy listening to some of our favorite episodes in our archive.
Season Three Guests:
Zoë Charlton
artist
In this episode, Charlton expands upon the concept of women as the source of life, particularly her grandmother’s role in cultivating her own sense of independence and creativity. In Meant for the Homebred, we see a woman’s strong thighs rooted at the base of the work: out of these legs grow trees and flowers, leading to an upside-down house exploding back into a verdant cornucopia. The upended house is a replica of her grandmother’s home in Tallahassee, a family touchstone that has since been torn down to build a subdivision. In these often mystical collages, Charlton creates monuments to her grandmother and her ancestral home, a legacy that has fallen victim to the violent erasure of non-white suburban America. (Iris Project)
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Buzz Spector
artist
The Open Call Podcast has the pleasure of sharing with you part of our conversation with Buzz Spector. When we spoke, Buzz had recently moved from St Louis to his new home in the Hudson Valley, His studio was in the final phase of construction. Buzz is an internationally recognized conceptual artist who is perhaps best known for his work with books, but his vast body of work also includes drawings, photographs, collages, and more. He says of his practice, all of the techniques he uses “are techniques of intimacy in action, but our position to recognize them is retrospective - it comes after the fact. So the play of memory he talks about is one) of projecting your own experience and secondarily, of assessing the limited terms that our language gives us to describe what we witness.”
Jodi Hays
artist
Jodi Hays is a painter from Arkansas who exhibits her work across the United States. Her work has been shown at many museums, including the Boston Center for the Arts and Wiregrass Museum. Her residencies include The Cooper Union School of Art and Vermont Studio Center. Her paintings can be found in many public and corporate collections including the J Crew Group (New York), National Parks of America, and the Tennessee State Museum, among others. She currently lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lisa Corinne Davis
artist
Lisa Corinne Davis is a Brooklyn-based painter best known for paintings and works on paper that resemble multilayered maps with encoded narratives. Her “inventive geography” prompts a wide range of interpretations, its open-endedness a stance she actively cultivates. The resultant mix of eclectic form and content is surprising as well as stimulating. Davis, who is African American, says her practice explores the complex relationship between “race, culture and history” and, with it, ideas about classification and contingency, the rational and irrational, chaos and order.
Elisa Insua
artist
Originally from Buenos Aires, Elisa Insua is a self-taught artist, creating assemblages and sculptures with discarded materials. Her works engage with concepts related to economics, overconsumption, and human insatiability.
Conrad Bakker
artist
Conrad Bakker makes carved and painted sculptures of everyday objects and places them in consumer contexts or gallery exhibitions to reveal and critically comment upon the political economies and relational networks between persons and things. Bakker has exhibited his work internationally, including Tate Modern (London), Galerie Analix Forever (Geneva), and the Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture (Stockholm).
Maria Lux
artist
Maria Lux’s work investigates animals as important subjects in their own right, as well as the implications animals and the knowledge we gain through them have on human conceptions of gender and family, race, class, colonization and globalization, power and equity, and ecology and interdependency.
Liz Cohen
artist
examining immigration, nonconformity, and resistance. We can't wait to share our discussion with you!She is best known for her project BODYWORK, in which she transformed an aging East German Trabant into an American El Camino lowrider, and herself into a car customizer and bikini model.
Season Two Guests:
Michelle Forsyth
artist
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Barbara Schreiber
artist
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Elizabeth Alexander
artist
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Ethan Murrow
artist
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Lauren Frances Adams
artist
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Joelle Dietrick
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Veronica Jackson
artist
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Season One Guests:
Chalet Comellas-Baker
artist
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Cristina Molina
artist
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Secret Identity Projects
artist collaborative
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Jess Tolbert &
Kerianne Quick
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