Austyn Weiner: “Records and Explorations of the Human Experience.”

Frantic, wild, unapologetic. Canvases are permeated with intimacy; anxieties and loneliness. Bright, explosive, vivid; figuration is blended with abstraction. Deconstructed then reconstructed; paint becomes intensely personal. Canvases are rendered as autobiographical records, and explorations of, the human experience…

I talk to Weiner, having met at the opening of her solo show at Massimo De Carlo in London - ‘Blood On Blood’. We explore the influence of music, the importance of community, and Weiner’s personal healing process of actually creating this body of work.

Weiner works with oil on linen, using brushes and oil sticks to draw glyphs and characters. Heavily influenced by female postwar abstraction, as well as her own life and family history, Weiner’s work is permeated by her experience as a Jewish-American. Consequently, her autobiographical works are distinctive, personal, and of the present - imbued with both the historical and the contemporary.

A heartfelt thanks to Austyn Weiner and Massimo De Carlo Gallery for their time and dedication to this podcast episode.

Research: Lily Paisner
Director of Photography: Henry Wood
Music: Gadi Sassoon - Organico, courtesy of ASIP/Just Isn’t Music

Pam Evelyn: "Once Creating and Destructing."

Led by impulse, instinct, chance, and frustration. Evelyn scrapes back the paint and reiterates her gestures once again - a constant cycle of renewal over several months. The drips, streaks, smudges, layers, and heavy textures that dominate Evelyn’s canvases as non-representational forms have the capacity to appear as recognizable suggestions of figuration and landscape. Yet, her works refuse to hold fixed meanings.

I’m meeting Pam Evelyn at Pace Gallery, in London. Who are currently exhibiting A Handful of Dust, its debut exhibition of the artist’s work. A Handful of Dust exhibits a set of paintings made by Evelyn over several months between London and Cornwall. We are speaking about her process of painting over multiple months, constantly applying, layering, and scraping paint from the surface of the canvas at once creating and destructing. How important the size of the canvas is to her work and seeing her paintings as “living” objects. We discuss past, current, and future projects. How Evelyn has found navigating the contemporary art industry as a young woman and unlocking the full potential of abstract painting.

A heartfelt thanks to Pam Evelyn and Pace Gallery for their time and dedication to this podcast episode.

Research: Lily Paisner
Director of Photography: Henry Wood
Music: Gadi Sassoon - Organico, courtesy of ASIP/Just Isn’t Music