Artist Praxis

Debora talks with Manuela Gonzalez, a Miami-based artist raised in Medellin, Colombia. She has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Through the exploration of multiple materials, techniques, and mediums, Gonzalez's studio practice has developed from closely examining the visual language of textiles as they relate to modern and contemporary abstraction.

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Debora talks with artist Rachel Burgess, a printmaker whose large-scale works on paper combine her interest in landscape with her background in narrative art. Her work exhibits nationally and internationally in galleries and museums.  Originally from Brookline, MA, she currently lives in New York City.

www.rachel-burgess.com 

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Debora talks with artist and art historian Josh T Franco, from West Texas. As an artist, Franco produces and exhibits at least one artwork annually. This practice ensures that his scholarship is constantly informed by the processes of making and showing work. 

Artwork details: 'María Lugones remains,' ink on paper (risography), 2021

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Debora talks with Fin Simonetti, a Canadian artist and musician who lives and works in NYC.  She often works in sculpture, including stone and stained glass.

Artwork details: Gusset 5, 2022, stained glass, 28" x 20" x 13"

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Debora talks with artist Jean Gray Mohs, who is a narrative, abstract artist, currently running an open studio at Artspace in  North Carolina.  Selected exhibits include the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Greenhill Gallery. Her work has been featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Southern Living, and Traditional Home and has been shown regionally as well as internationally.

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Debora talks with artist Zachary Fabri who is an interdisciplinary artist engaged in lens-based media, language systems, and public space, often complicating the boundaries of studio research, and social practice. This context specificity often yields work that includes design, drawing, photography, video, and installation. Fabri’s work has been exhibited at Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, The Walker Art Center, The Brooklyn Museum, The Barnes Foundation, and Performa.

https://www.zacharyfabri.com/

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Debora talks with Leeza Meksin who is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Born in the former Soviet Union she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1989. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. She has been featured in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, among other publications. In 2013 Meksin co-founded Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective in Brooklyn that she continues to co-direct.

https://www.meksin.com/

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Debora talks with artist Helen O'Leary, who, throughout her career, has been constructing a very personal and idiomatic formal language based on simple materials and unglamorous gestures. Her artistic practice emerges from constant reassignment, dismantlement, and frugal readjustment. Rooted in the outward simplicity and inner grenade of memory, her work reckons with damage and multigenerational loss, through nurturing, caring, and—ultimately—healing.

Writing the unwritable novel, 2020-22. Constructed wood, reclaimed pigments, linen, and silverpoint ground. 6' x 5' x 6' ( including crate/ plinth).

www.helenoleary.com

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Debora talks with Jorge Lucero, an artist from Chicago, currently living and working in Urbana, Illinois. In his work, Lucero examines the emergence of education as contemporary art practice. In this episode, Lucero discusses the making of "Alongside Teacher" (2022), an artwork created as a network of exchange with other artists, educators, and practitioners. Among many things, Lucero talks about the pliability of Zoom to record conversations and the relation between books and conceptual art.

Artwork details: Alongside Teacher (2022), 38 One-Hour Conversations with Artists, transcribed, copyedited, and published (work-in-progress).

You can find more information about Lucero at: www.jorgelucero.com and www.instagram.com/conceptualartandteaching/

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In this episode, Missouri-based artist and painter Matt Ballou discusses a recent drawing made of ink on paper. His Ensign For Miyoko Ito is an homage to the Japanese-American artist known for her watercolor and abstract oil paintings and prints. Matt Ballou treasures the modesty and human scale of her work and the intimacy of her hand and brush marks. Deeply connecting with her sense of color and shape, he reflects on the archetypal in their work. Being drawn to abstract, archetypal forms putting pressure on his inner sense of volume, space, and movement, he explains that he is looking for an interplay of tension and release–a visual dynamic of pressure and ease, focus and expansion. Matt’s drawing was built over several weeks with multiple sessions using both his hand and a drawing robot. In its final state, it presents itself as an event while also revealing its making process.

An Ensign For Miyoko Ito, 2018

Ink on paper

12 x 10 inches / 30,5 x 25,4 cm

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