Artist Decoded by Yoshino

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AD NON-WEEKLY ROUND UP #4 with Yoshino and Justin Daashuur Hopkins

Topics Discussed:

• Films: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), The Meg (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Joy Luck Club (1993), Searching (2018)

• Race and identity issues

• SNL

• Asian American culture

• Leos Carax (Film Director)

• Hopkin's decision to become an artist

• "Rebel Without A Crew" (Book by Robert Rodriguez)

• The tech industry

• Happiness

• The importance of legacy

• Ego

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Kim Kei (b.1981, Corpus Christi, TX) is a Los Angeles based artist who uses sculpture, printmaking, painting, and photography to evoke sensations of vulnerability, invasiveness and tenderness towards the body. Kei attended the University of Arizona and went on to receive her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has had solo shows at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA) Brandstater Gallery (Riverside, CA), and Alter Space (San Francisco, CA). Kei has attended residencies at Instinc, Singapore, Mass MoCa, and the Irvine Fine Arts Center.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Roswell Residency in Roswell, NM
• How she deals with rejection
• The importance of residencies to artists. Residencies mentioned: Instinc Residency and STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute) in Singapore, and MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.
• Injury, illness, age and trauma's effects on dendritic forms
• Kei's intimate personal experiences that have defined her work, including studying cadavers, ballet, and childhood moments
• A look into Kei's mixed media process of creating her art
• How movement and sound are ways she communicates non-verbally
• Robert Sapolsky's behavioral specialist lectures
• Working on multiple projects at once to create a collective piece of art through different mediums
• German musician, Hauschka, and the prepared piano
• Influence of musician father on Kei's work and describing visual art through sound
• Kei's next solo show in March of 2020 at Local Language in Oakland, CA and the residency they offer to visiting artists

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Kim Kei (b.1981, Corpus Christi, TX) is a Los Angeles based artist who uses sculpture, printmaking, painting, and photography to evoke sensations of vulnerability, invasiveness and tenderness towards the body. Kei attended the University of Arizona and went on to receive her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has had solo shows at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA) Brandstater Gallery (Riverside, CA), and Alter Space (San Francisco, CA). Kei has attended residencies at Instinc, Singapore, Mass MoCa, and the Irvine Fine Arts Center.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Roswell Residency in Roswell, NM
• How she deals with rejection
• The importance of residencies to artists. Residencies mentioned: Instinc Residency and STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute) in Singapore, and MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.
• Injury, illness, age and trauma's effects on dendritic forms
• Kei's intimate personal experiences that have defined her work, including studying cadavers, ballet, and childhood moments
• A look into Kei's mixed media process of creating her art
• How movement and sound are ways she communicates non-verbally
• Robert Sapolsky's behavioral specialist lectures
• Working on multiple projects at once to create a collective piece of art through different mediums
• German musician, Hauschka, and the prepared piano
• Influence of musician father on Kei's work and describing visual art through sound
• Kei's next solo show in March of 2020 at Local Language in Oakland, CA and the residency they offer to visiting artists

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About Chi: Chi is the Co-Founder of Truffles Therapy

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Growing up as an Asian American
• Vipassana meditation
• Being of service to others
• Letting go of control
• Zen Koan
• Nature recognizes and supports humility
• Psilocybin mushrooms

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About Sergio: Sergio Barrale has been featured in vol. 41 of Hi-Fructose Magazine, Juxtapoz, American Art Collector, SuperSonic and WhiteHot Magazine. Each one of Sergio's massive drawings clocks 250 hours & grind down close to 500 pencils. In the past two years he has had 17 exhibitions across America including the Mesa Contemporary Museum of Art & Honolulu Museum School of Art.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Kindred spirits

• Psilocybin and the effects it has on the mind and body

• The mentality of "perhaps"

• Rerouting neural pathways of the brain through mantras and affirmations

• Cognitive reframing / restructuring

• Practicing forgiveness for yourself and for those who have wronged you

• Philosophy of electricity in terms of soul

• The book, "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz

• Exercise as a means of emotional coping

• Overpopulation and finding solutions for the future of humanity

• Artificial Intelligence

• Other resources mentioned: "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink, Joe Rogan podcast, "Leaving Neverland" documentary on Michael Jackson, author David Goggins, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse, Theodore Gericault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa"

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About Andrew: With a background in animation, live action and visual effects, Andrew Thomas Huang's work bridges the gap between video art and film, expanding beyond into alternative modes of storytelling. His film and video work has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; MoMA PS1; The Barbican Centre, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Having developed a strong reputation for his collaborative practice, Huang has worked extensively with Icelandic artist Bjork, among others including FKA Twigs, Thom Yorke and British director Joe Wright. Huang served as creative director for Bjork's VR exhibition Bjork Digital, creating multiple immersive experiences within the pioneering traveling installation. With his strength in world-building, Huang carries on his visual aesthetic as he continues his foray into narrative feature film. Huang is a Cinereach Fellow, a recent fellow in Film Independent's Directors Lab, and a recipient of the K Period Media Fellowship grant.

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About Mari: Mari L. McCarthy is the multi award-winning author of "Journaling Power: How To Create The Happy, Healthy Life You Want To Live."

The Founder/Self-Transformation Guide of CreateWriteNow.com, she shows health-conscious people how to use journaling to heal the issues in their tissues and transform their lives. She provides 20+ Self-Paced Journaling Courses on various life-challenging topics such as Heal Your Life, Love Your Body and Detox Your Relationships.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Julia Cameron's Book, "The Artist Way"

• Mari talks about her daily practice of journaling

• How to heal yourself and declutter your thoughts through journaling

• Taking responsibility for your actions and thoughts

• Her journaling website www.createwritenow.com

• Silencing the inner critic

• Power of positive thinking

• Allowing yourself to write through a stream of consciousness

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Tunde Adebimpe is a musician, actor, director, and visual artist best know for being the frontman of the band TV On The Radio.

Kim Dorland is a painter and artist based in Vancouver, Canada.

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John Wentz is a contemporary painter whose work is an exploration of process and technique. Working within the classical idiom of the human figure, his goal is to reduce and simplify the image to it's core fundamentals: composition, color, and mark making. Paint application and brush strokes are broad and simplified as a means to connect and convey these ideas to the viewer in a way that only painting can.

John was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His interest in art began at the age of 6 when he first discovered Batman and Spiderman comic books. After years of copying comics panel by panel he worked in the commercial arts as a muralist, billboard creator and freelance illustrator. After learning to paint by doing airbrushed billboards, he decided to pursue Fine Art and work in oils. Since then, he has had 3 solo exhibitions in San Francisco and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works have appeared in many publications and have won multiple awards.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Giving up
• Gerhard Richter
• Tech affecting art
• Barriers between museums and the public
• Would you make art if the world ended?
• Wentz moving to Paris
• Advice to artists and creatives
• Movies
• "Naive" painters

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