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ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Isaac Mann

62 episodes

22 hours ago

Kyle Staver is a figurative painter who draws on mythological and folkloric traditions, reworking familiar stories with her distinctive use of color and shadow. Staver earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. She has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She has had solo exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Half G...

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Kyle Staver is a figurative painter who draws on mythological and folkloric traditions, reworking familiar stories with her distinctive use of color and shadow. Staver earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. She has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She has had solo exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Half G...

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Episodes (20/62)

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#59 with Erik Sommer

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. Today I'm speaking with Erik Sommer, a New York-based painter who is also the founder of Mott Projects, a contemporary art project space. Sommer's work explores chance, beauty, and the attempt to control time through unconventional mark-making techniques. His practice incorporates industrial materials like concrete and drywall, reflecting his interest in urban decay and found textures. After 15 years in an East Harlem studio, Erik relocated...

1 week ago

57 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#58 with Michael Stamm (Part 2)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. On this week’s episode Michael Stamm is back to continue with our conversation about his artistic practice and career insights. Michael Stamm is a Brooklyn-based painter with an MFA from NYU and an MA in English Literature from Columbia University. He also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2016. Stamm has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Deli Gallery, DC Moore and Thierry Goldberg in New York, and Shul-amit Nazari...

2 weeks ago

59 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#57 with Michael Stamm

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists! My guest today is the Brooklyn-based painter Michael Stamm. Stamm explores themes of strength and weakness, vice and virtue, and self-actualization versus obliteration in his work. Stamm received an MFA from New York University and MA in English Literature from Columbia University, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2016. Stamm has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Deli Gallery (NYC), DC Moore (NYC) and Thierry ...

4 weeks ago

1 hour 1 minute

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#56 with Dennis Kardon

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest today is Dennis Kardon. Dennis is a Brooklyn-based painter known for his influential work 49 Jewish Noses and his most recent solo shows at Lubov Gallery and Massimo De Carlo. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad, received major career grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and written for top art publications such as Artforum, Artnet and Hyperallergic to name a few. I sat down with Dennis at his studio in th...

3 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#55 Krista Louise Smith and Elliot Purse (Part 2)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. This week on ARTMATTERS, we get back to our conversation with Brooklyn-based artists Krista Louise Smith and Elliot Purse. Like last time, this conversation explores their differing personalities, creative processes and the dynamics at play in the lives of a working artist couple. Today we discuss balancing introversion and extroversion, setting boundaries, maintaining focus, the emotional role of color, the importance of decisiveness...

6 months ago

44 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Special Valentine's Day Edition: #54 with Krista Louise Smith and Elliot Purse

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. This week on ARTMATTERS, I'm sending some belated Valentine’s love to all my listeners! In the spirit of the season, I spent my February 14th hanging out at the shared studio of artists Elliot Purse and Krista Louise Smith. It was the perfect way to mark the holiday, exploring the unique dynamics of working side by side with your spouse in the studio. In this week’s conversation, we discuss studio schedules, collaboration, writing applicati...

6 months ago

48 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#53 with Julie Harrison (Part 2)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. Today we continue our conversation with Julie Harrison, a New York-based artist whose decades-long career has spanned drawing, photography, video, painting, and performance. In this episode we discuss framing and exhibiting works on paper, the overlap between drawing and collage, overcoming creative blocks, exploring new tools, building community and the importance of art history. We also talk laziness, playing tricks with materials, and no...

6 months ago

52 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#52 with Julie Harrison

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.This week, we’re joined by Julie Harrison, a New York-based artist whose decades-long career has spanned drawing, photography, video, painting, and performance.In this episode we discuss Julie’s transition from grayscale to color and back again, her interest in scientific imagery, archiving and selecting reference materials, drawing techniques, early artistic influences and her career path. We also discuss her transition to painting in the 1...

7 months ago

1 hour 17 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#51 with Eric Fischl (Part 2)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.On this week’s episode we are once again joined by the iconic painter Eric Fischl.Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American artist known for his profound influence on figurative art. Born in 1948 in New York City, Fischl’s work captures the uneasy undercurrents of American life. His journey through art education took him from Phoenix to California, where he earned his B.F.A., and later to Chicago and Nova Scotia for teaching and e...

7 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#50 with Eric Fischl

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.Happy New Year! I’m thrilled to kick off 2025 with a milestone celebration of our 50th episode. I am also extremely excited to say this special episode features a great conversation with the iconic artist Eric Fischl.Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American artist known for his profound influence on figurative art. Born in 1948 in New York City, Fischl’s work captures the uneasy undercurrents of American life. His journey through...

8 months ago

1 hour 25 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

BONUS: Episode 50 Preview, Big News and a Look Back

🎉 Special Bonus Episode! 🎉Welcome to episode 49.5 of ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists—a special teaser leading up to our milestone 50th episode!We’ve got an incredible guest lined up for Episode 50, someone whose impact on contemporary art is legendary. I can’t wait for you to hear our conversation. Stick around until the end for a sneak peek—you might recognize the voice!Episode Highlights:A sneak preview of Episode 50’s guest (any guesses?)Big news about new, limited-edition ARTMATTERS m...

8 months ago

9 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#49 with Jeff Way (Part 3)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists:Today we conclude our 3-part conversation with the artist Jeff Way. Jeff has lived and worked in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood since 1969. Featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial and a subsequent solo exhibition, Way’s work has been shown at institutions like the New Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the ICA Philadelphia. His innovative Chalk Line Paintings, begun in the late 1960s, explore the grid through layered lines o...

9 months ago

36 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#48 with Jeff Way (Part 2)

Today on the podcast we continue our conversation with Jeff Way, an artist who has lived and worked in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood since 1969. Featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial and a subsequent solo exhibition there, Way’s work has been shown at institutions like the New Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the ICA Philadelphia. His innovative Chalk Line Paintings, begun in the late 1960s, explore the grid through layered lines of raw pigment, a technique he revisits i...

9 months ago

37 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#47 with Jeff Way

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome back to another episode of ARTMATTERS!Today on the podcast we start our conversation with Jeff Way, an artist who has lived and worked in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood since 1969. Featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial and a subsequent solo exhibition there, Way’s work has been shown at institutions like the New Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the ICA Philadelphia. His innovative Chalk Line Paintings, begun in the late 1960s, explore the gr...

9 months ago

36 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#46 with Mark Joshua Epstein (Part 2)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. On today’s episode we talk with artist Mark Joshua Epstein, whose work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Arts, Epstein has held residencies at prestigious institutions like the British School at Rome. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times and Hyperallergic, and he is currently an artist-in-residence at the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in Brookl...

9 months ago

40 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#45 with Mark Joshua Epstein

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. On today’s episode I speak with artist Mark Joshua Epstein, whose work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Arts, Epstein has held residencies at prestigious institutions like the British School at Rome. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times and Hyperallergic, and he is currently an artist-in-residence at the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in Brookl...

10 months ago

49 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#44 with Helen Frederick (Part 2)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest back again today is Helen Frederick, an artist whose career has spanned decades of innovation in printmaking, paper-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Helen earned both her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and went on to found Pyramid Atlantic, a hub for contemporary printmaking, hand paper-making, and book arts. Her work is held in over 45 international collections and has been exhibited in p...

10 months ago

39 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#43 with Helen Frederick

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest today is Helen Frederick, an artist whose career has spanned decades of innovation in printmaking, paper-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Helen earned both her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and went on to found Pyramid Atlantic, a hub for contemporary printmaking, hand paper-making, and book arts. Her work is held in over 45 international collections and has been exhibited in prestigious ...

10 months ago

54 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#42 with Gerardo Camargo

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. On today’s episode we speak with visual artist, Gerardo Camargo.I joined Gerardo in his studio where we discussed his drawings and assemblages, and the choreography of home-construction. We also speak about limitation, scarcity, uncertainty and the ways Gerardo’s studio practice and perspectives shifted after he emigrated to the United States. Gerardo is a self-taught artist from Mexico City. He began working as a cartoonist at t...

11 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

#41 with Cianne Fragione (Part 2)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. On today’s episode we continue our wonderful conversation with the artist Cianne Fragione. Today, we discuss the use of non-traditional materials, hear stories from her early career and education, some early opportunities and career reflections from her time in the Bay area. We talk about recipes, patinas and dance, finding good alternatives to destructive moods, and how to trust that odd work when it comes quick and effortless.Ci...

11 months ago

48 minutes