Artmatcher

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Billy Morrison speaks with Michael Goodman about his life as a musician and artist.

About Billy Morrison

Billy Morrison is one of the few rockers who can truly say he made it all the way to the top from the very bottom. 20 years ago, Billy was homeless and close to death. Today he is on the road with Billy Idol in support of the new Idol album (on which he co-wrote a number of tracks with Idol and Stevens) “Kings and Queens of the Underground,” and able to share his ultimate success story of overcoming addiction and becoming one of the world’s top rhythm guitar players. From playing guitar in the Los Angeles-based celebrity supergroups Camp Freddy and Royal Machines to joining rock band The Cult on their 2001 reunion to writing and recording with his own bands Stimulator, Doheny, Circus Diablo, releasing his own solo material, and playing guitar for Billy Idol since 2009, Billy makes music at all levels. With Royal Machines, Billy has shared the stage with some of the top names in music, including Ozzy Osbourne, Steven Tyler, Slash, Robbie Williams, Lou Reed, Ronnie Wood, Jerry Cantrell, and Dave Navarro. His solo albums “God Shaped Hole” and  “Stimulator” are available on iTunes and Amazon worldwide.

Billy Morrison's Art

In recent years, to further push the ‘multimedia’ tag he wears so well, Morrison picked up paint and canvas and proceeded to paint prolifically. He has now not only amassed a body of work worthy of his forthcoming show, but has also found a customer base that appreciates his darker introspective imagery. When asked about his new creative outlet and the subject matter, Billy simply replied..”I just paint what lives inside my head. Sometimes that’s skulls, hand grenades and naked chicks. Other times its a statement on something I see in the world that I want to comment on or draw attention to..”

Recommended Links

• Billy Morrison's website
• Billy Morrison on Instagram
• Billy Morrison on Twitter
• Billy Morrison on Facebook

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Anna Dianova speaks with Michael Goodman about the responsibility artists have to the world and her process.

About Anna Dianova

Having graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Kyiv, Anna works in conceptual and figurative fine art styles. She belongs to the artists of the metamodernism era, reinterpreting history and creating a new futurological mythology. Discovering emotionally charged topics fixed upon personal motifs and experimentation.

Recommended Links

• Anna Dianova's website
• Ann Dianova on Instagram
• Anna Dianova on Facebook

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Susan Park speaks with Michael Goodman about her work at Google, her interest in the arts, and Frieze in Beverly Hills.  

Recommended Links

• Susan Park on TikTok
• Susan Park on Instagram

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast,  Eric Gibbons (ArtEdGuru) speaks with Michael Goodman about his work, arts education, and how he has leveraged TikTok to support the arts community. His support has even been directed at Artmatcher, in his very kind review video.

About Eric Gibbons

Eric Gibbons is an artist who lives and works in Raleigh NC. Gibbons is certified in Art Education, Elementary Education is Nationally Board Certified in Art Education, and has taught in Japan and Egypt.
His classroom lessons have been featured by Davis Publications. His best-known series being the "If Picasso” series which is trademarked.

Recognized and awarded by Art Educators of New Jersey (AENJ) in 2015 for excellence in art education.

His art education blog, ArtEdGuru, is a resource for art teachers around the globe and visited by an average of 15000 teachers weekly.

Recommended Links

• ArtEdGuru website
• Eric on TikTok
• Eric on Amazon

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Jenia Ogneva speaks with Michael Goodman about her interesting journey into the art world. Jenia provides a synopsis of her story and a preview of the creative processes behind her art. The duo debates if a viewer could sense the difference between an authentic piece of art and a replica based solely on emotion. Jenia makes a case for why art doesn’t necessarily need context or a story. They discuss how too much formal knowledge could potentially hinder your creative expression, and much more.

Recommended Links

• Jenia Ogneva's website
• Jenia Ogneva on Instagram 

Key Moments

• 00:30 Getting to know Jenia
• 12:30 Feeling emotion through art 
• 19:05 Do artworks need to make sense? 
• 25:55 The classics versus popular movements 
• 33:55 How too much knowledge could debilitate your potential  

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Jay Mollica speaks with Michael Goodman about his unique position at the intersection of art and technology. They dive into technology’s role in making the art world more accessible, and how tech-forward curation is revolutionizing the industry. Jay goes into more detail regarding how museums can begin to embrace digitization.

About Jay Mollica

Jay Mollica is the director of digital engagement at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Before joining PAMM in 2020, he worked as the creative technologist at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where he lead experiments in art and technology and modernized the museum’s digital platforms. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Today Show, and Fast Company. In 2018 he won the Webby Award for best app from a cultural institution for his project Send Me SFMOMA. Jay regularly writes about his work in museums, technology, design, and architecture. He holds a master’s degree in Interactive Media Art from NYU and is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Miami’s Institute for Data Science and Computing.

Recommended Links

• Jay Mollica's website
• Jay Mollica on LinkedIn
• Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

Key Moments

• 00::36 Getting to know Jay 
• 7:40 How technology can shape accessibility in the art world 
• 13:15 Tech-forward curation 
• 20:45 Should we be creating digital spaces for art? 
• 25:50 More on tech and accessibility 
• 29:30 How Jay found himself at the intersection of the digital world and the art world 
• 34:15 How museums can successfully embrace the digital

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Michael Goodman speaks with Michael Shaw whose work primarily aims to highlight issues of income inequality. He explains the complex process of creating art through cyanotypes, along with how public infrastructure reflects America’s wealth gap. A provocative conversation ensues about how art galleries contribute to gentrification. The duo discusses the modern art market’s various sectors, and they question if NFTs are merely a cash grab.

About Michael Shaw

Michael Shaw is a visual artist whose work focuses on income inequality and the wealth divide. He works primarily with cyanotypes, which provide a limited structure to work within and against, mirroring the limitations of affordable living. His method requires a dense web of masking tape in varying widths, rips, and thicknesses – a painstaking, brick-by-brick process that honors the culturally humble structures of the neighborhoods he seeks to protect. In art historical terms, Shaw depicts modern representations of the ‘home of the serf’ who exists in the murky class system of the U.S.

About The Conversation Art Podcast

Michael is also the creator and host of The Conversation Art Podcast, which explores the contemporary art world through conversations with a range of participants from the center to the fringes and back again. Through frank and incisive exchanges, the show sheds light on what goes on behind the scenes, whether in a studio, a gallery, or in the backroom. Artists, industry professionals, and students alike gain an insider’s view of these often opaque machinations at work.

Recommended Links

• Michael Shaw's website
• The Conversation Art Podcast
• Michael Shaw on Instagram
• Michael Shaw on Facebook
• Michael Shaw on LinkedIn

Key Moments

• 00:30 Getting to know Michael 
• 05:05 Understanding cyanotypes and Michael’s creative process 
• 30:20 Income inequality and public infrastructure 
• 49:55 Art in context 
• 53:55 The art world’s recent influx of incomers

On this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Michael Goodman speaks with María Gaztambide, the inaugural director and chief curator of Public Art of the University of Houston system. Maria shares her views on the importance of Latinx representation in the art community, along with how her heritage influences her work. She touches on how she’s integrating technology into the realm of public art, and how she aims to make that art more accessible to the average person.

About María Gaztambide

María C. Gaztambide, Ph.D., is the inaugural director and chief curator of Public Art of the University of Houston System. Her work over the years has focused on the intersection of art, technology, and the public realm. 

Prior to joining UH, Dr. Gaztambide served as associate director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for over a decade. There her work straddled administration, research, publications, and long-term exhibition projects such as Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975 (2018), Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America (2015); and Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection (2013). Previously, she was a curator and taught at Tulane University; worked for the Smithsonian Institution (Archives of American Art) in Washington, New York, and Puerto Rico; as well as for the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico during its gestational phase.  

Dr. Gaztambide has been at the forefront of deploying digital imaging and online technologies in the visual arts since the onset of related breakthroughs, spearheading landmark projects for the MFAH and Tulane. She also publishes regularly on modern and contemporary art and recent books projects include El Techo de la Ballena: Retro-Modernity in Venezuela (University of Florida Press) and On Site: 50 Years of Public Art at the University of Houston System (Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers), both from 2019. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. Gaztambide holds M.A. degrees in Art History and Arts Administration as well as an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Latin American Studies (Art History) from Tulane University. 

Recommended Links

• Public Art of the University of Houston System
• María Gaztambide's Bio
• María Gaztambide on LinkedIn

Key Moments

• 00:30 Getting to know Maria and her work 
• 11:50 Latinx representation in the art world 
• 18:10 Technology and public art 
• 22:45 Making art accessible to the general public 
• 32:05 Informalism in Venezuela

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Michael Goodman speaks with Gabe Gault over some wine. Gabe shares details about the mural he’s working on, along with plenty of interesting tales recalling his experiences in the art world. They discuss new fads in the industry, and which are worth participating in. They get into the over-saturated nature of the current art market, and, importantly, just how cool Gabe’s dad is.

About Gabe Gault

Gabe Gault’s work challenges the assumptions. Employing classical painting techniques while using modern mediums, Gault bucks conformity, not allowing himself or his work to be easily defined. Channeling Renaissance portraiture and still-lifes, Gault explores his identity as a Black American, re-appropriating, breaking down, and repurposing Colonial influences in order to celebrate Culture. The symbiosis of classic imagery representing abundance and wealth and the modern fascination with innovation and forward movement is at the core of Gault’s vision as an artist. Nothing is only one thing, and Gault’s work sets out to challenge our notions of labels and reductive definitions.

Recommended Links

• Gabe Gault's website
• Gabe Gault on Instagram
• Gabe Gault on TikTok
• Gabe Gault on Facebook
• Gabe Fault on Twitter

Key Moments

• 00:30 Getting to know Gabe 
• 13:30 Sneak peek into what Gabe’s working on 
• 30:02 Art in the digital age 
• 37:30 Can everyone be an artist? 
• 45:20 Gabe’s cool dad

In this episode of the Artmatcher podcast, Michael Goodman speaks with Antoine J. Girard (AJ) about his work in curating meaningful art. The duo delves into the difficult questions concerning accessibility and equity for artists, especially artists of color.  They discuss all the behind-the-scenes efforts that go into curating art and supporting both their artists and their collectors. AJ shares insights into his personal curation style, along with the value of understanding art.

About Antoine J. Girard

Antoine J. Girard is an arts professional and a cultural strategist passionate about the arts and social change. His interests include black visual culture and inclusive engagement strategies, which he addresses via his community relations at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles.

His efforts have helped gain him recognition from The American Alliance of Museums, and the Western Arts Foundation, where he was recognized as an Emerging Leader of Color.     

Recommended Links

• Antoine J. Girard on Instagram

Key Moments

00:40 Getting to know AJ 
4:30 The truth behind curation and equal opportunity in the art world 
16:12 Supporting both artists and collectors 
29:25 AJ’s approach to curation 
45:20 The value of understanding art