We Are Art People is an independent conversation series with artists and people — exploring possibilities for making and being in the world as a creative person.
Bringing together diverse narratives and complex perspectives, our commitment is to facilitate a space of autonomy and resiliency for the artists’ voice. A goal is these conversations will bolster community and provide an open-resource for other creative people, navigating their journey and in relationship with the world.
Located in Brooklyn, New York — our conversation series is facilitated by New York-based artist, Emily Nam.
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We Are Art People is an independent conversation series with artists and people — exploring possibilities for making and being in the world as a creative person.
Bringing together diverse narratives and complex perspectives, our commitment is to facilitate a space of autonomy and resiliency for the artists’ voice. A goal is these conversations will bolster community and provide an open-resource for other creative people, navigating their journey and in relationship with the world.
Located in Brooklyn, New York — our conversation series is facilitated by New York-based artist, Emily Nam.
Say hello 👋 @weareartpeople
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Todd Bienvenu is a painter, living in Brooklyn, New York. His paintings are a reflection of his biographical universe — they are thick, direct and humorous. Resourcing images from his daily life and occurrences, his paintings feature tattooed rockers, beach bums, urban crashes and mosh pits. It is life in motion.
We discuss the journey of making comic books during his adolescence, to navigating a life as a painter in New York, contending with the materiality of paint and paper in the studio or making a tiny pizza delivery man, reminiscent of his early days riding around Brooklyn. Todd is represented by Almine Rech and Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, in Geneva. He has exhibited work internationally, in Hong Kong, London, New York, Brussels and Switzerland. In 2018, he was recognized and received an award from the American Academy of Art & Letters, for excellence in painting, conferred by Peter Saul.
Links:
https://www.alminerech.com/artists/358-todd-bienvenu
https://sebastienbertrand.com/artist/todd-bienvenu
https://www.artsy.net/artist/todd-bienvenu
Show notes:
Little Rock, Arkansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock,_Arkansas
Romare Bearden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romare_Bearden
Aaron Michael Skolnick https://www.marchgallery.org/exhibitions/the-entertainer/
Hannah Rowan https://www.hannah-rowan.com/
Bill jensen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Jensen
*Poetry*
Wave of Blood [2025] p.66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Reines
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn https://pioneerworks.org/
You might have to feel it to believe me
To believe how wretched I was but also
How determined. Poetry isn't a profession
A person simply goes into. You have
To be fucked up to do this and especially
To stay. It does not attract the best
Or the brightest. We are some of the most
Sanctimonious low-attention-span narcissists
Around. But it gave me my life
Which I had a longing to see naked
And it held me up to living
In a very naked way
And showed me breathing
And gave me space
To find my way ...
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