ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest today is painter Greg Burak. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Greg received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting from Indiana University. His most recent solo exhibition was at March Gallery in New York, with previous solo exhibitions at Fortnight Institute. His work has appeared in group exhibitions at Turn Gallery, Venus Over Manhattan, and 303 Gallery. He lives and works in Queens, New York. Now get ready for some real painting talk! I sat down with Greg Burak in his Queens studio to talk about how a painting gets built (and rebuilt) and what it means to keep changing the rules on yourself. We talk about moving between acrylic and oil, his shift away from flatness and toward forcing space into a painting, and how a problem with a figure's feet sent him down a rabbit hole of perspective and volume. We get into rhyming shapes, the weight of placing a hand, and the perfect pitch of Corot. We also discuss the tension between observation and invention that has run through his entire practice. We talk about how Greg sets new parameters for each body of work in response to the last, the difference between single and multi-figure compositions, and artists like Cézanne, Tintoretto, and the Quattrocento. Finally, we get into finishing, knowing when to stop, procrastination, and what a good day in the studio actually looks like. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Greg Burak www.gregburak.com insta: @greg.burak Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists My guest today is painter and artist book maker Beldan Sezen, a Turkish-European artist based in New York and Amsterdam. Her paintings, held in private collections internationally, are built through a process of layered, gestural abstraction — response and revision until the composition resolves. Her painting practice sits alongside a long-running practice in artist books, which are held in the permanent collections of the Getty Research Institute, the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Stanford University, MIT, and the Herzog August Bibliothek, among others. I sat down with Beldan Sezen in her Gowanus studio to talk about her move from graphic novels and comics to artist books and painting, and the question that drives that shift: what is the form the work wants to be told in? We discuss the immense freedom of the artist book, her philosophy of intuition and experimentation and how it's never what she wants, but always what the work wants. We get into the difference between creating something new and reproducing, the rhythm of book days and painting days, and her relationship with painting itself. Finally, Beldan shares her love of fellow artists like Nancy Spero, Anselm Kiefer, Charles Schulz, and more. And we close on the importance of always asking for help and Beldan's complicated feelings about titling new work.Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Beldan Sezen www.beldansezen.com insta: @beldan_sezen Contact Cypher ( Comics commissions for human rights and social justice storytelling) Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to a very special episode of ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. This BONUS mini episode celebrates Episode #80 of the Pod - and features a very special guest. The youngest one in ARTMATTERS history, in fact. Before we begin, I want to take a moment to say thank you. To everyone who's listened, shared the show, supported on Patreon, and to all the artists and friends who kept telling me to keep going over these past four years. Because projects like this are funny. They don't come with obvious signs that they're working. There's no paycheck. And because it takes so much time, out of my own studio practice and out of the time artists generously give me, there have definitely been moments where I've had to ask myself not whether I believe in it, but whether the value is worth what it costs everyone involved. And whenever I've hit those moments, there have always been people who reminded me that these conversations matter. Thank you. Since we're hitting 80 this week I'll also mention that incorporating video into this project has definitely added to the overhead and time the show requires. So in the spirit of an NPR pledge drive, if you've been here a while and you're in a position to support, becoming a patron or making a one-time donation would mean a lot. I want to keep this show listener supported and ad-free as long as I can so if you'd like to help, that's the best way to do it. My guest today is Leo Ambrosio. Leo is eleven years old, going into the sixth grade, and he recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. It began with a program called the Basquiat Project. The Basquiat Project is an arts education program developed by the Brooklyn Nets in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. It ran in fifty Brooklyn middle and high schools, asking students to make work about bullying, anxiety, and how you move through it. Out of everyone who submitted, about a hundred pieces made it into the show at the Brooklyn Museum. Leo was one of them. For today’s episode, Leo and his mom joined me in my Bushwick studio. Leo got his hands dirty and helped me prepare some new paintings, then we sat down with the mics and had this conversation. We talk about Leo’s mixed media painting that was selected for the Basquiat Project, about finishing a painting and second guessing yourself, about Frida Kahlo and the Knicks trophy and drawing hands and art camp. Enjoy the episode! The Basquiat Project Patreon Isaac Mann Leo Ambrosio

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists My guest today is artist and writer Matthew Weinstein. Over the course of his career, Matthew has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally. His solo museum exhibitions include the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. In addition to painting, his practice has also included writing, animation, film, and interactive media. His work has been featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, and The New Yorker, and is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Denver Art Museum, and numerous other public and private collections. I sat down with Matthew in his Greenpoint studio, where he told me why he believes every painting has a beauty mandate and why he distrusts art whose primary goal is to mean something, saying that meaning can feel like litter in a painting. We discuss beauty versus prettiness, humor, queerness, and the way doubt and impatience are ever-present in his studio practice. Matthew also reflects on obsession, arguing that for some artists it isn't a choice, and that it is neither good nor bad, but simply the thing that fuels the work. We discuss the creative crisis that led him to explore animation and why painting and writing remain the bedrock of everything he does. Matthew also discusses his airbrush collaboration paintings, the influence the artist Hiroshege has had on his current work and why it has taken Matthew years to figure out how to paint a straight line. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Matthew Weinstein www.matthewweinstein.com insta: @matthewaweinstein Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Erin M. Riley is a Brooklyn-based artist whose large-scale woven tapestries explore intimacy, memory, trauma, and identity through meticulously constructed images assembled from personal photographs, found imagery, and internet culture. She received her BFA from MassArt and her MFA from Tyler School of Art, is represented by P·P·O·W in New York, and has exhibited at institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, Museion in Italy, and the 16th Lyon Biennale. Her work is held in numerous public collections, and she is the recipient of both a United States Artists Fellowship and an American Academy of Arts & Letters Art Purchase Prize. I sat down with Erin M. Riley in her Brooklyn live-work studio to talk about why she intentionally lives where she works and how weaving dictates every aspect of her daily life, physical health, exercise, fasting, posture, breathing, and endurance. We explore the importance of slowness, what it feels like to spend four months making a work you can't truly see until the very end, and the dramatic reveal after removing a finished tapestry from the loom. We talk about designing and improving weaving tools, the importance of keeping a personal archive, her fascinating system of hand-dyeing, mixing, and preparing yarn before she weaves a single stitch, and the changing place of textiles in contemporary art, and whether the old art-versus-craft debate is finally vanishing. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Erin M. Riley www.erinmriley.com insta: @erinmriley Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's guest is David Humphrey, a New York-based painter whose work has been shown nationally and internationally, and who has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in the art world, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. He teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University, is represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in New York, and is the author of Blind Handshake, an anthology of David’s art writing. On today's episode I ask David about how he knows when a painting is finished, his works on paper, and what late-career de Kooning taught him about the surface of a painting. We get into what David calls the "ecology" of his studio, the sociability of paintings, decision-making in the studio, and the question of shallow vs implied space in his newer work. We also talk about his recent show at Kate Werbel Gallery which features works on paper, wall painting and installation. Finally, David reflects on navigating privilege and provocation during his career, including a memorable and charged moment at a Hunter College lecture that I was actually in the audience for. We finish up by talking about the stakes of painting and the absurdity, weakness, and humor inherent in the medium. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: David Humphrey www.davidhumphreynyc.com insta: @aikenhump Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Our guest today is Margaret Curtis, a feminist painter born in Bermuda whose vivid, densely layered canvases explore power dynamics at both the personal and societal level. Margaret is an inaugural recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, and her work first gained national recognition in Marcia Tucker's landmark Bad Girls exhibition at the New Museum in New York in 1994. Since then she has shown at the Brooklyn Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Wexner Center, with recent solo shows at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and Post Times Gallery in New York City. Her work has been reviewed in the Times, Artforum, Art in America, and Harper's, and is held in permanent collections throughout the United States. I sat down with Margaret in the last days of her exhibition entitled ‘S at Post Times in Lower Manhattan. I set up the mics and the cameras and Margaret spoke to me about endurance, dumb mark-making, her beloved Quinacridone gold and how she describes a day in her studio as 30,000 nonverbal decisions, and feeling practically broken by the end of it. We talk Cricut, Frisket, Speedy Carve and Dibond as well as the cake decorating tools that she snatched up in a deliberate act of rebellion against her painting instructors - and originally kicked off this predilection for alternative mark-making, Margaret explains why she believes style is a market pressure, not something worth pursuing, and that each painting demands its own visual language. She also talks Jack Whitten, gives some great final advice, and tells me why painting has always been "her friendliest enemy.” Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Margaret Curtis www.margaretcurtisart.com insta: @margarcur Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's guest is Catherine Haggarty, a Brooklyn-based painter, educator and founder whose work has been featured in Artforum, the New York Times, Hyperallergic, and BOMB magazine, among others. Catherine has exhibited widely across New York, LA, and Miami and has been a visiting artist at institutions including Cornell, RISD, Pratt and Rutgers, where she also earned her MFA. She co-founded NYC Crit Club in 2017 and also created the Canopy Program, a one-year mentorship platform now serving artists all around the world. On today's episode I joined Catherine in her Crown Heights studio for an expansive conversation. We discussed the emotional weight of years of unsold work in storage to what it really means to slow down and become more deliberate as an artist. Catherine speaks to me about motherhood, sustaining a practice over decades, the difference between style and voice and what led her to co-found NYC Crit Club and build the Canopy Program into the global platform it is today. We also talk about drawing, watercolor and other painting practices, as well as the importance of saving money and taking care of your body. Enjoy the conversation! Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Catherine Haggarty www.catherinehaggarty.com insta: @catherinehaggarty insta: @thecanopyprogram insta: @nyccritclub Canopy Program Application - NOW OPEN Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this week’s episode I’m joined by Brittany Fanning. Brittany Fanning graduated from the University of north Virginia, and moved to South Korea in 2015. She spent seven years painting the neighborhoods around her, drawn particularly to the contrast between new Brutalist structures and traditional hanoks. After relocating to Los Angeles in 2022 her work shifted toward the city’s architecture, flora, and fauna. Fanning began exhibiting in Korea in 2018 and has since shown at Steve Turner and The Lodge in Los Angeles, Galerie BHAK in Seoul, as well as Mindy Solomon in Miami and Artemin in Taipei. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Portray Mag, and Type 7. She is currently based in New York.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ I joined Brittany Fanning in her studio, surrounded by rolled and unrolled canvases and at least one painting she's threatening to destroy. We get into her process: the impatience that launches a painting before the plan exists, and the small linen studies she uses to dig herself out of the compositional holes that impatience creates. We also talk about her push away from photo reference, her complicated relationship with the figure, and her black-and-white paintings. And then we get into the art world stuff: galleries that don't pay, galleries that disappear, and why Brittany has made a bit of a tradition of calling people out on Instagram right around the holidays. It's a hell of a conversation, articulate, transparent, and resilient. Without spoiling it, I'll just say: good luck to any gallery that tries to mess with her. Listener note: Brittany's candor about her experiences with Pictorum and OTI inspired me to share my own, with Primary Projects in Miami. It felt like the right time. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Brittany Fanning www.brittanyfanning.com insta: @brittanyfanning Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this week’s episode I’m joined by David Ambrose. David Ambrose was born in 1960 and lives and works in Bound Brook, New Jersey. He received his BA in Fine Arts from Muhlenberg College and his MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. He has exhibited widely over the past four decades, including solo exhibitions at the New Jersey State Museum, where he was the subject of a mid-career retrospective, as well as Gold/Scopophilia in Montclair and Tibor de Nagy in New York. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Pierogi and Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, among many others, and is held in public collections including the Library of Congress. Ambrose is the recipient of multiple fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, most recently in 2022 to 2023. He has also taught at institutions including Parsons, Pratt, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. I sat down with David in his New Jersey studio last month and we discussed the surface of a painting, building paintings, building objects, planning for abstraction, materials and pigments, damage and repair, crosshatching, carving, and the use of non-traditional tools. David Ambrose also explains why there’s no rush, how linear thinking has served him through the years, allowing for change, quality and beauty, daily practices, handling rejection, building community and his new works on paper. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: David Ambrose www.davidambrosestudio.com insta: @david_m_ambrose_art Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this week’s episode I’m joined by Will Hutnick. Will is a painter based in Sharon, Connecticut. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BA from Providence College. Hutnick is a 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Painting. His solo exhibitions include High Noon in New York, the McDonough Museum of Art, Geary Contemporary, and Pamela Salisbury Gallery. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic. He's held residencies at Yaddo, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, and Vermont Studio Center. Will currently serves as Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit that uses art and education to foster social change. Will and I sat down last month at High Noon in Tribeca, where his solo exhibition “Time’s a Goon” was on display. Will and I discussed planning a painting, starting a painting, new content, landscapes, working on 15-year-old canvases, his printmaker background, the challenges of editing and finishing and his love of works on paper. We also discuss chance, noise, and the lack of control, decoration, orchestration and the arbitrary, Will’s work as Director at the Wassaic Artist Residency and the simple efficacy of the Thank You Note. Before we begin, a reminder that ARTMATTERS is entirely listener-supported. If you want to support the show and help make more conversations like this possible, consider joining the ARTMATTERS Patreon. Supporters get video versions of every episode, as well as more behind-the-scenes content. Find the link in the description or go to patreon.com/artmatterspodcast Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Will Hutnick www.willhutnick.com insta: @willhutnick Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this week’s episode I’m joined by Bruce Tapola. Bruce Tapola was born and raised in Ohio and received his BFA from the University of Utah, and his MFA from Montana State University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has received several awards, including the McKnight Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (1995, 2001, 2017). His work has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, New American Painting, Art Papers, and New Art Examiner, and is in numerous public and private collections. He taught painting and drawing at St. Cloud State University in MN from 2000 to 2022, and in addition to his studio practice, Bruce is a member of the artist collectives Paintallica, Free Art School, and Artpolice (RIP). Bruce lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota. I sit down with Bruce back in December in Saint Paul, in his backyard studio with a wood-burning stove. It was a cold day, but the studio was cozy and Bruce, I discovered, as you will shortly, is a talker so we covered a lot of ground. Bruce discusses rejecting cleverness, when something smells like art, humor in art, sameness in imagination, screaming colors, sneaking up on a painting, magic, ceramics, the price of art, emptying-out content, outsider art, having a family of artists and painting the perfect cloud. Before we begin, a reminder that ARTMATTERS is entirely listener-supported. If you want to support the show and help make more conversations like this possible, consider joining the ARTMATTERS Patreon. Supporters get video versions of every episode as well as more behind-the-scenes content. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Bruce Tapola insta: @btapola

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this week’s episode I’m joined by Hiba Schahbaz. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Hiba Schahbaz trained in traditional Indo-Persian miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore. Her practice spans oil, wood, paper, black tea, and water-based pigments. Schahbaz received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute and has exhibited internationally since 2002. Recent exhibitions include the FLAG Art Foundation, Almine Rech Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, and Jeffrey Deitch, as well as a public art commission for Rockefeller Center produced with Art Production Fund. Her current retrospective, Hiba Schahbaz: The Garden , on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, brings together roughly fifteen years of work tracing her evolution from the disciplined traditions of miniature painting to expansive, immersive works. I sat down with Hiba in her Bushwick loft studio and asked her about the “aha” moment - when a new idea begins to take shape. We also talk about cut-outs and shifting scale, the difference between one-off paintings and a sustained flow state, learning from mistakes, and why she never lets a painting leave the studio before the idea feels fully resolved. We talk materials and process, how Hiba starts a painting, and how she approaches large commissions, museum projects, and multi-panel works differently. Hiba discusses maintaining a daily studio practice and how it shifts with seasonal rhythms, the difficulty and necessity of waiting for ideas to develop, and the importance of physical health in the studio and taking responsibility for one’s body over time. Finally, we talk about avoiding creative burnout through continuous learning, and why Schahbaz believes in committing fully to the path of an artist without a Plan B. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Hiba Schahbaz www.hibaschahbaz.com insta: @hiba_schahbaz Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this week's episode I'm joined by New York artist David Hornung. David Hornung is a painter and mixed media artist whose work has been exhibited in the US and UK. Over the course of a long career he has served on the faculties of The Rhode Island School of Design, Indiana University, Skidmore College, Pratt Institute, and Adelphi University. He is the author of Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers (Laurence King Pub Ltd.), a color textbook. Translated into six languages it is used in art schools around the world. His work is shown at Cynthia Winings Gallery, Elena Zang Gallery, Pulp Gallery, and J.J. Murphy Gallery in NYC. We recorded this episode early one morning at the JJ Murphy Gallery during his solo exhibition "Continuum." On today's episode, David and I explore the nuanced terrain of painting practice and philosophy. We discuss the importance of a painting's surface, how he starts a painting and how one reads a painting. David shares his perspective on scale, arguing that painting is an intimate experience rather than spectacle. We trace his six-decade evolution from observational work through post-painterly abstraction, his collage techniques, and his four recent years of pure abstraction. The conversation touches on Henri Matisse, Ad Reinhardt, Fra Angelico, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Paul Klee. David also talks his love of shapes, collage, a raw edge, painting slower than he is thinking, factual versus fictional painting, and finally, emphasizes the importance of recognizing one's own temperament and painting both honestly and sincerely from that space; which, he argues, is where great paintings come from. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: David Hornung www.davidhornung.com insta: @davidhornungart workshops: https://www.artfuelstudio.com/scotland-september-2026-hornung madelineartschool.com/collections/workshops/products/exploring-improvisation-in-abstract-painting?_pos=7&_fid=5184b59de&_ss=c Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On this week’s episode I’m joined by New York artist Fran Shalom. Fran has exhibited widely throughout the United States, including a solo show at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey. She has been the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Artist Grant, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and an Art Omi Residency. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Rose Art Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Fran and I recorded this episode after hours at her solo exhibition at the Kathryn Markel Gallery in Chelsea, surrounded by her recent paintings. In this conversation Fran discusses beginner's mind and call-and-response painting, how she builds trust in improvisation despite recurring doubts, and the many paintings buried beneath each finished surface. She tells me about getting rid of precious moments, loving the fiddly finishing bits, navigating flatness and why not everything in a painting needs to function, Finally we discuss Fran’s early-career transition from photography to self-taught painting, balancing her three practices (art, family, Zen), and why generosity matters more than networking. Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Fran Shalom www.franshalom.com insta: @fshalom64 Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest today is Sarah D’Ambrosio. Sarah is a Brooklyn-based artist who earned her BFA from Brooklyn College and her MFA at University of New Hampshire. She also studied at the Mount Gretna School of Art in Pennsylvania. Most recently Sarah has exhibited at the New York Studio School Projects at DUMBO and NADA Miami and her first solo exhibition was at MARCH Gallery in 2025. Swimmingly convenient as it turned out, Sarah is my neighbor. So after convincing her to join me for this episode, I packed up my microphones and took a brisk 10 minute walk to her live work space in Greenpoint. It’s nice to be back in New York! This conversation was a blast. Sarah discusses her love of Yellow Medium, and how color historically comes later in her work - Sarah is a drawer first. She talks about scale, observational painting, painting as a physical act, sincerity, why formula’s are boring, drawing from Titian, the search for quality and the importance of criticism. We also discuss why painting needs life not just more painting, color value and the “harmony of mud,” analysis paralysis, failing on higher and higher levels, when a painting stops buzzing, also Lucian Freud and Donald Duck. And that’s just to get started. Enjoy my conversation with Sarah D’Ambrosio Support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Sarah D’Ambrosio www.sarahdambrosio.com insta: @sarah_dambrosio_ Thank you as always to ARRN, the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.

Brooklyn-based artist Jeff Wallace joins host Isaac Mann to discuss his unique paper pulping technique, creative process, and journey into art-making after 25 years in another industry. Wallace had a solo exhibition at Jane Lombard Gallery in May 2026 and has shown with other New York City venues including Cristin Tierney Gallery and Rick Wester Fine Art. He has participated in residencies at the American Academy in Rome, VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and curates Main Window, a Brooklyn art presentation space. In this episode, Isaac and Jeff explore: Jeff's paper pulping technique and use of found objects as source material The balance between control and spontaneity in the creative process Unlearning techniques in search of a more childlike approach His daily drawing practice and strategies for overcoming creative blocks The concept of "literary archeology" in his work Starting new projects and navigating an average day in the studio Making the leap into professional art-making later in life Recorded in Jeff's Red Hook studio. Support the Show: ARTMATTERS is listener-supported. Leave a five-star review to help keep the conversation going, or become a Patreon supporter at https://www.patreon.com/c/artmatterspodcast Merch: ARTMATTERS tote bags and coffee mugs available at isaacmann.com/merch Connect: Host: Isaac Mann | www.isaacmann.com | @isaac.mann Guest: Jeff Wallace | www.jeffwallacenyc.com | @jeffwallace_nyc Questions? Email: artmatterspodcast@gmail.com Music by ARRN, Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist. Rate, review, subscribe, and share on Instagram!

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest returning today is Jameson Green. Jameson is a New York-based painter whose work is in collections at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. He's exhibited with Derek Eller Gallery and Almine Rech in New York, Paris, London, and Brussels. On last week's episode, Jameson and I discussed the three elements of great painting, drawing, sampling from art books and other paintings, rhythm, abstraction, narrative, and a lot of other fascinating topics, so you'll definitely want to check that one out first. On today's show, we get right back into it. I asked Jameson about his figure-ground relationships and the horizon line, and he told me about theater, German Expressionism, and flattening space. Jameson talks about color choices, different kinds of lines, studio flow, painting big and drawing with your body, his studio routine, and how he's built a practice around avoiding the worst of himself. He also discusses "healthy vs. brutal Jameson," how an organized practice is good for relationships, and how to keep the darkness of your studio from creeping out into the rest of your life. SUPPORT THE SHOW ARTMATTERS is listener-supported. If you want more conversations like this, take 30 seconds right now to leave a five-star review—it's the single most effective way to keep the show going. You can also support this podcast by becoming a Patreon supporter: https://www.patreon.com/c/artmatterspodcast If you're enjoying the podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, and share on Instagram! Questions? Email: artmatterspodcast@gmail.com LINKS Host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com | @isaac.mann Guest: Jameson Green www.derekeller.com | @r.jameson Music: ARRN (Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist)

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest today is Jameson Green. Jameson is an artist living and working in Hudson, NY. He holds an MFA from Hunter College. Green has exhibited extensively with Derek Eller Gallery and Almine Rech, including solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, London, Brussels, and Santa Monica. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, Museo Picasso Málaga, and ICA Miami. You can also find Green's work in the public collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the High Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Pérez Art Museum in Miami. A couple weeks ago, Jameson braved a wild rainstorm to visit my Greenpoint studio—a rare reversal for this show. What followed was one of the most fluid and wide-ranging conversations I've had on ARTMATTERS, so I've split it into two episodes. On today's show Jameson and I discuss the three elements of great painting, draftsmen vs. pure painters, drawing, sampling from art books and other paintings, rhythm, abstraction, narrative, and why great paintings are littered with hypocrisy. We also discuss Frances Bacon, John Singer Sargent, Guston, Picasso, Matisse, and Jenna Gribbon. Enjoy this conversation with Jameson Green. Special shoutout to my fluffy silent producer who finally made a sound mid-episode. Extra points if you hear her over the rain:) ARTMATTERS is listener-supported. If you want more conversations like this, take 30 seconds right now to leave a five-star review. It's the single most effective way to keep the show going. Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/artmatterspodcast Host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com Instagram: @isaac.mann Guest: Jameson Green www.derekeller.com Instagram: @r.jameson Music by ARRN, Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist.

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest today, Clova Rae-Smith , is a British jewellery designer based in New York City. Clova graduated from Central Saint Martins and was recognized as one of DAZED ’s “UAL Graduates to Watch.” She specializes in grillz that blend fine art, fashion, and identity, and has quickly become one of the most sought-after jewelers in the industry. Clova’s work has been featured in VOGUE and ROLLING STONE , and her clients include Beyoncé (who gifted Clova’s grillz to her Renaissance Tour performers), Jorja Smith , and Bladee , along with collaborations with Pinterest and Fenty x Puma . On today’s episode, I speak with Clova about social media addiction, burnout and breakdowns, and setting boundaries. We discuss the viral giveaway that helped launch her business during COVID, her experience with mentorships and her time at Central Saint Martins, and her move to New York City. Clova also shares some great advice and talks about exploring her new interests in drawing and pottery. You can now support this podcast by clicking HERE and becoming a Patreon Supporter! If you’re enjoying the podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, and share on Instagram! If you have any questions you’d like answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com. host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Clova Rae-Smith www.clovaraesmith.com insta: @clovajewellery Thank you as always to ARRN , the Detroit-based artist and instrumentalist, for the music.