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About Jennifer: Jennifer Pochinski is an American figurative painter. Her work is characterized by gestural marks and bold color. Relationships, the male-female power dynamic, and humanity are key themes in her work. She was raised in Hawaii and received her BFA from the University of Hawaii in Painting in 1991. Much of her young adulthood was spent traveling and living on the mainland USA and Europe. Since late 2010, she has been living and working in California. Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Pochinski's journey, including moving to Hawaii at a young age, experiencing her senior year abroad in Germany, living in Greece, and ultimately finding her way to Sacramento, CA
• Her decision in college to change her major to art at the University of Hawaii, and later a brief stint studying interior architecture at an art and design school in Greec
• Finding an escape and freedom from people pleasing in her artistic practice
• Pochinski's methods of exploration and experimentation in her art, such as layering, linoleum printing, and collage
• The act of letting her paintings "sit" and taking time to construct and deconstruct her work
• Pochinski's passion for art, art books, and learning about other artists' lives. Names mentioned: Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Edward Hopper, Henri Matisse, Markus Lupertz, Georg Baselitz, Cherry Pickles, Christopher Brown, R.B. Kitaj, Eric Fischl, Richard Diebenkorn, Paula Rego, Philip Guston, Jack Oden, Willem de Kooning, Lucian Freud

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About Kit: Kit Dale was born on January 24, 1986, in Melbourne, Australia, growing up in the area's eastern suburbs. During his formative years Dale practiced a number of athletic activities, from karate to inline hockey, as well as Australian football (Aussie rules), a sport he competed in extensively prior to jiu-jitsu. Australian rules football is widely recognized as one of the most physical sports in the world, generally played by large individuals. Although a very athletic competitor himself, Kit lacked the physicality of some of the other players, a handicap Dale sought to overcome by learning a few grappling tricks, starting his jiu-jitsu training in 2008 with Robert Parmakovski – a man who would, years later, become Kit's own student. BJJ came natural to Dale, who soon started allocating more of his time to grappling and less to Aussie rules football. While climbing the ranks of jiu-jitsu Dale trained with Bernie Jenkins (up to blue belt) and Peter De Been (up to brown belt), while also doing plenty of training and experimentation on his own or with friends/students. Once the highly decorated grappler, Yuri Simões moved to Australia, Kit started training with the Brazilian. The two established a strong relationship as friends and training partners, and it was Yuri who promoted Dale to black belt on June, 2013. At the time of the ceremony, Dale had just under 5 years of training, this being one of the fastest rises to the rank recorded by then. Dale would later move to California, USA, one of jiu-jitsu's epicenters in order to improve his grappling skills while also attempting further his acting career. Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• His early interests that led him to BJJ
• His rapid success in the world of BJ
• Challenging the status quo in BJJ. Live training as opposed to drilling.
• Kit's method of "Specific Training"
• Improvement through active problem-solving
• His personal keys to a rewarding and happy life
• His recent interest in a career as an actor
• His relationship to problem-solving and the Socratic Method
• How he applies his methodology of BJJ mastery to the rest of his life.

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About Cory: Cory Allen is an author, podcast host, meditation teacher, composer, and audio engineer. On his podcast The Astral Hustle, he finds ways for us to live with more wonder and less suffering by speaking with leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, music, and philosophy. The Astral Hustle has been downloaded millions of times and was featured by the New York Times. Cory has taught thousands of people how to meditate with clear and concise methods in his online meditation course Release Into Now. He is also a distinguished music producer who has released more than a dozen albums and engineered hundreds of records for other artists. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Allen's reflection on his childhood and his relationship with his family
• How Allen strives to learn from the people he surrounds himself with
• Thoughts on how humans react to one another and the complexities of life
• A discussion on Allen's book, "Now is the Way: An Unconventional Approach to Modern Mindfulness", including the writing process, the method of presenting both simple and complex ideas in a resource for all levels of mindfulness practice, and the experience of it in audio form
• His journey as a teen studying western and eastern philosophy, meditation, psychedelics, and neuroscience
• His feelings on abandoning structure, authority, and systems
• The importance of eating well, and maintaining good health in the mindfulness journey
• Creating balance between his writing practice and his home life

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About Adam: Recurring themes in the work of Adam Lee are the act of pilgrimage, shelter and an itinerant, nomadic sense of home. Transmitted through a community of hermits, shawl-shod women and regalia-laden gentlefolk traversing deserts, forests and valleys or reposing in tabernacles or dreamed abodes, Lee's practice ties together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence. Through his works on linen and paper, Lee builds worlds where allegory and atmosphere coalesce to suggest a highly personal outlook informed by collective folklore and legend. These interior histories find their physical manifestation in Lee's varied but self-contained technique, which is characterised by mercurial landscapes and a contemporary tenebrism. His oils on linen are a resonant amalgam of sanded back layers of pigment, highly saturated sfumato and a sensitively deployed portraiture, with his watercolour ink works evincing a command of shaping ethereal blooms into impressions of externalised thoughts, sensations and calls to a higher being.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Processing his experience from the 2017 residency at Glasshouse (in the South of France) and the exhibition "Monolith" that followed.
• Balancing intuition in creativity with years of academic research.
• Unbiased honesty in the work of children.
• The positive and negatives aspects of the inundation of information as a contemporary artist.
• How his thought process and work is changing
• Taking a more specific and personal approach to work.
• Using art to process and understand life's difficult experiences.
• The unavoidable implications of the influence of commerce on art.

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About Alex: Alex Kanevsky was born in Russia in 1963. He studied mathematics at Vilnius University in Lithuania before coming to the United States. After his arrival to Philadelphia in 1983 he worked as Russian translator, illustrator at the Psychiatric Nursing Magazine and drew pictures for the telephone book advertisements. After attending PAFA (1989-93) and winning a Pew Fellowship (1997) he devoted himself to painting full time. Alex Kanevsky lives and works in New Hampshire. He has exhibited his work in the United States, Canada, Italy, UK, France and Ireland. His work is represented by Hollis Taggart in New York and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco.

Show Notes:

• 0:00:00​ - Introduction
• 0:03:46​ - Dividing Time Between Philadelphia and Rural New Hampshire
• 0:05:27​ - Approach to Clarity Within His Work and Country Life
• 0:13:49​ - Spending Time in Natural Environment vs "Curated" City Life
• 0:20:20​ - Motive to Move Into The Countryside
• 0:26:20​ - The Idea of Dying and Aging as an Artist
• 0:29:45​ - Art Living on After Death and Trying to Give Up Perfection
• 0:32:10​ - Open To Both Positive and Negative Influences
• 0:35:39​ - Patrick Graham's Life-Altering Experience in Comparison to Kanevsky
• 0:43:42​ - The Thrown Away Nature of Social Media and Hobbies
• 0:47:58​ - Downtime and Mental Fortitude
• 0:51:39​ - His Show Persephone and The Idea of Duality and Imperfection of Humanity
• 0:56:49​ - His History of Painting and Uninterested in Technical Painting
• 1:07:34​ - Story of Gerhard Richter and Cecily Brown as Painting as Product
• 1:14:22​ - Advice to Artists
• 1:20:07​ - Jonathan Glazer's film Under The Skin & Charlie Kaufman's film Synecdoche, New York
• 1:25:51​ - Wrap Up

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About Joe: Joe Goddard is a British musician, songwriter, and DJ. He is best known as a member in the English synth-pop band Hot Chip, which he co-founded with Alexis Taylor. In 2007, he co-founded record label Greco-Roman, which has produced albums by artists such as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Disclosure. Goddard is also a member of electronica group The 2 Bears, and produced two solo albums, Harvest Festival (2009) and Electric Lines (2017).

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About Alexis: Alexis Marshall is the singer of the band Daughters.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• The making of Daughters' "Less Sex" music video
• How their newest album, "You Won't Get What You Want", came together
• Catharsis and visceral connections to performing on stage for Alexis
• Alexis's writing process
• Approaching life with gratitude and appreciation

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About David Kassan: Raw, poignant and profoundly honest, David Jon Kassan's work aesthetically captures humanity in its true form. As an artist, Kassan acts as an empathetic intermediary between the subject he portrays and the viewer. More than simply replicating his subjects Kassan seeks to understand them. He seeks to capture the essence of those he paints, imbuing them with their own voice. They communicate with the viewer interpersonally and we see them through our own eyes. Our gaze transcends the picture plane and permeates deep into the subject's psyche. We are moved by Kassan's depictions, captivated by powerfully expressive hands, pensive faces, and flesh that appears warm to touch. Kassan's portraits pulsate with the lives of his sitters – the weighty streams-of-consciousness of past experiences, feeling and introspection.This is what reality means to Kassan – preserving the realness of nuanced emotion and expression emanatingfrom the people he paints. Kassan's technical mastery of oil paint combined with adept draftsmanship enables him to fluently represent what he sees. This is evident in the stunning flesh tones Kassan achieves. Transparent layers of oil paint are built up, forming an intricate lattice of veins, blood and skin. Through this light enters and is reflected back, infusing the subject with veridical luminosity. We can also sense movement and life beneath the undulating creases and folds of clothing. It is the artist's intent to control the medium of oil paint so that it is not part of the viewer to subject equation. Kassan facilitates an interface between subject and viewer with which he is conscious not to interfere. The technical aspect of his work is thus a means to an end; an end rooted in the viewer's experience.We find inherent contradictions in Kassan's work as it oscillates between representation and transformation, reality and abstraction.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Kassan's journey creating paintings based on his interactions with Holocaust survivors, and his recent emotionally transcendent experience exhibiting these works at the Fisher Museum of Art at USC.
• How his early paintings of his family allowed him to develop a closer relationship with them.
• Wanting his students and followers to understand more of why he paints other than how he paints.
• The power of overcoming great trauma, and how it inspires Kassan artistically.
• Grappling with the issue of how people dehumanize one another.
• The balance between the emotional, and technical process of painting.
• Making artwork that doesn't necessarily follow trends, or the desires of a gallery.
• Working with the Shoah Foundation, and how they help genocide survivors.

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About Antrese: Antrese Wood is an artist and the host of the Savvy Painter Podcast. The Savvy Painter features interviews with top artists who talk about their mindset, process, and gives tips and techniques to aspiring painters. Antrese paints and teaches online workshops from her home in Argentina.

A painter herself, Antrese left her job art directing video games at the Walt Disney Company to focus exclusively on her art. She lived in Argentina for six years where she created a Kickstarter campaign for her painting project, A Portrait of Argentina. She and her husband spent two years driving from the jungles to the glaciers as she painted her way across the country. Check out her paintings at antrese.com.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• The journey that lead to Wood's pursuit in podcasting
• Graduating from the Art Center College of Design and soon after landing a position working for Disney, where she would work on and off at for twelve years
• Leading a "monastic" lifestyle and managing her painting practice between work before deciding to travel as much as possible and live freely
• Adventures in Wood's life including an exchange program in Honduras as a teen, a 90 day NOLS backpacking and kayaking expedition in Chile, and other trips around the world
• The importance of taking chances and how they can drastically alter your life
• How global communication makes it easier for Wood to live in a different country and still connect to family, friends, and other artists
• Living in Argentina and its financial benefits contrasted to living in Los Angeles
• Acknowledging her tendency towards people pleasing and having the confidence to follow her own desires and life path

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About Hollis: Hollis Heichemer was born in Binghamton, New York and now currently lives and works in New Hampshire. Heichemer's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hollis Taggart Galleries and J. Cacciola Gallery in New York, and Gross McCleaf Gallery and Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia . Hollis has participated in a wide range of group exhibitions, including most recently at Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco. She received her BS from Ohio University and her MA at Seton Hall University.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How Heichemer creates experience, connectivity, and insight in her abstract works
• Spending time outside, and how her experiences in nature inspire her work in the studio
• How physical activity is a big part of Heichemer's life
• Reflecting on taking art classes as a child and choosing not to pursue art school
• Her marriage to fellow artist, Alex Kanevsky, and living in the country
• How art serves as a means to express all of her being and past experiences
• Finding other joys in life through reading and cooking
• How Heichemer maintains a sort of separation between herself and technology

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