#15- Los Angeles painter Bryan de Roo
Art Talks Again
Episode 15 features an interview with painter Bryan de Roo in his Los Angeles studio. Please check out his work at . We discuss drawing both Mickey Mouse and the Kiss logo as a kid, school, art history, witchcraft, and generally geek out on painting stuff throughout.
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#14- Painter Andrew Hladky
Art Talks Again
This episode features a conversation I had last spring with the very unique painter Andrew Hladky. We discuss his UK roots, the paintings of Constable and Giacometti, the way advertising is changing human consciousness, and making space for strangeness. Please check out
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#13 - Todd Melicker, Poet
Art Talks Again
Todd Melicker is a San Francisco based poet. We discuss small town origins, abstraction in language, meditation envy, the painter Richard Diebenkorn, his day job working for the city of Petaluma, and more. He is currently working towards a new book of poems rooted in his perceptions of the relationships between biblical psalms and Shakespeare's sonnets. To learn more about Todd, please visit:
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#12 - Filmmaker Carlos Reygadas - Serving Factical Life
Art Talks Again
Cannes Film Festival award winner Carlos Reygadas may well have created a perfect new English word to describe his filmmaking: factical. He's perhaps Mexico's best-known filmmaker who has preferred to remain out of the mainstream, with five feature films to his name since 2002. He sat down with us for a deep discussion about what motivates him to create his art… but just don’t call him an “artist”.
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#11 - Tim Peck-composer, pianist
Art Talks Again
Episode #11 brings a conversation with Tim Peck, a composer and pianist from Connecticut. We discuss his jazz roots, diverse influences, Modern American Music, and writing stuff for teenagers as a day job. Check out Tim's music here:
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#10 - Aida Moradi Ahani, Tehran-based Writer
Art Talks Again
For Episode 10, we talk with Iranian novelist Aida Moradi Ahani about growing up in Tehran, switching from electrical engineering to writing, being a wild child, publishing books in Iran, and appreciating solitude. To read her blog, visit . Heads up, it's in Farsi.
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#9 - Shruti Swamy, Novelist
Art Talks Again
Gina and Peter visited writer Shruti Swamy in her San Francisco study to discuss growing up in the California woods, influences ranging from Gina Berriault to Proust, and her new novel centered within the life of a Kathak dancer in 1970's Bombay. Utter. Not Udder.
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#8 - Miriam Klein Stahl - M is for Miriam!!
Art Talks Again
This week we talk with Miriam Klein Stahl, rad woman illustrator of the Rad Women book series. We talk about her LA punk youth, starting an arts academy at Berkeley High, making paper cuts, and publishing books. NYT bestsellers, even.
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#7 - Lena Wolff, Visual Artist
Art Talks Again
Lena Wolff is a visual artist influenced by American folk arts as well as modern and contemporary movements of minimalism, geometric abstraction, op art and feminist practice. We met with her in her garden studio in Berkeley, California. Learn more about Lena and her work here: http://lenawolff.com
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#6 - Dean Smith, Visual Artist and Filmmaker
Art Talks Again
We join Dean Smith in his West Oakland studio for a conversation about painting, drawing, film, the perception of spirituality in art, working with Bruce Conner, and wasp nests. deansmith.us anglimgilbertgallery.com
info_outlineFrom abstracts to rendered "mermen", John Smiddy's paintings are infused with a contemplative quality, whether they're nightmarish or whimsical, or both at the same time. Gina and Peter discuss his fascinating journey through a disparate resumé of careers, fortuitous meetings, and how music lies behind everything. We spoke to John in his brightly lit, high-ceiling painting studio in West Oakland, California.
See John's work at his web site: www.johnsmiddy.com