Larry Spaid: Exploration and Travel
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Philadelphia artist Larry Spaid has spent over 12 years of his artistic life travelling the planet,living and teaching in different countries and experiencing different cultures. His expansive output of art includes painting, printing and various experiments with mixed media. He taught at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University for thirty-seven years. This included teaching in Rome, Italy and Tokyo, Japan, for seven years, and was awarded three major sabbaticals allowing him to return and travel extensively in South East Asia. He retired in 2010 as Professor Emeritus. He has...
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Adebunmi Gbadebo: Exploration of Heritage
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Gbadebo’s use of materials centers on her family history of enslavement in the American South, while her ceramics draw inspiration from traditional African pottery techniques, calling on her Nigerian ancestry. Fueled by research and a commitment to the archival record, Gbadebo’s multidisciplinary approach investigates the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.Grounded in historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora and soil hand-dug from the True Blue plantation grounds in South Carolina,...
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Odili Donald Odita - Songs Of Life
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Nigerian born but living in America since the age of one, Odili Donald Odita's work explores color on the grand scale and his hard-edge large paintings and mural installations have redefined abstract painting in the context of sociopolitical concerns. Most of Odita's work is inspired by the vibrant textiles of his home country, Nigeria, mixed with patterns from Western modernity. He has exhibited his work prolifically in important museums and galleries around the world including a recent large installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He has also been an important critic,...
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Phyllis Bramson. The Ornate and Theatrical
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A Chicago painter with an endless amount of surprises that unfold inside her landscapes of the Rococo and fantastical. Her work represents a continuation of the Chicago Imagists of the 60’s with an interest in combining eccentric figuration with abstraction. “Bramson incorporates the passionate complexity of eastern mythology, the sexual innuendos of soap operas, and sometimes the happy endings of cartoons” said critic Miranda McClintic She has shown her work prolifically in prestigious galleries and Museums internationally and her work is included in over 100 major collections including...
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Henry Bermudez - Reinvention and Creativity in an Ever Changing World.
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My guest today is Henry Burmudez. He became a major artist in his home country of Venezuela in the 70’s through the early 2000’s. He made a good living and prospered as a creative force in his home town of Caracas. Among his other accomplishments, he represented Venezuela at the 1986 Venice Biennale. In 1998 , with the election of Cesar Chavez, his world began to fall apart. With the collapse of the economy, his collector base evaporated and left the artist with no way of making a living and support his family. With the help of artist Frank Hyder, he was invited to show in Miami...
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Chip Thomas, aka “jetsonorama”: A CONSTELLATION OF MURALS
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Chip is a photographer, an international public street artist and activist who worked as a physician on the Navajo nation between Monument Valley and The Grand Canyon in Arizona for 36 years retiring in 2023. In 2012 he formed the Painted Desert Project – a community project which resulted in a constellation of murals across the Navajo Nation painted by reservation artists and artists from all over the world. As an artist, a doctor and community activist he has committed himself to the vital health of the Navajo nation and the planet earth in general. Thomas was a 2018 recipient...
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Trent Harris - Heroic Misfits and Secret Worlds
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The independent filmmaker based in , has created his own very distinct and unique style of filmmaking. In 2013, proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don’t Know — But Should." Harris' films have been featured at various festivals and museums worldwide, including renowned venues like , the , the British Film Institute in London, the , the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna Austria, Les Laboratories in Aubervilliers France, The in San Francisco, and the in Berkeley. Harris taught film and screenwriting classes at the and worked as a documentarian and television...
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Stuart Netsky - Walking Backwards into the Future
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“I appreciate the Rococo for its extravagance and theatricality, as it appeals to my love of kitsch.”- STUART NETSKY Netsky is a conceptual artist making paintings, mixed media sculptures, prints and other objects. An original voice and artist whose work jumps off the canvas and confronts us with the eclectic absurdity of our image inundated culture. A lover of the theatrical, mixed with his unique version of pop and Romantic master painting. His work is made in distinct series, creating a pictorial eclecticism that obscures our ability to make sense of...
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Donald Camp - Authenticity and Power Revealed
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Donald Camp is a renowned Philadelphia artist and photographer known for his large scale images that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face. Camp's unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. In 1990 Camp began his most acclaimed series, Dust Shaped Hearts. These large photographic monoprints are created with raw earth pigment and casein, and transmit haunting and intimate images of the human face. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim and Pew Grants. His work is included in many...
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Dan Rizzie: A World of Memory and Symbols
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Dan Rizzie is an artist of the heart, whose work is playful yet sophisticated and combines a rich variety of medium and textures. His images and subject matter conjure a world of memory and symbols. Born in , NY in 1951, he grew up in India, Egypt, Jordan and Jamaica. Rizzie lives in , New York. Dan is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist. He attended in Conway, Arkansas under the mentorship of Don Marr and Bill Hawes. At Hendrix he received his BFA in 1973. In 2005, Rizzie was awarded Hendrix College's Distinguished Alumnus...
info_outlineOn today’s episode I’ll be talking to Rosanne Cash; singer, songwriter and author.
She has reinvented herself and her art many times, on her way to finding her own very original voice.