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Today's  guest, Marina Ross is a Russian Jewish artist, and her paintings draw upon her experience of acculturation, The American Dream, and the trauma inherent within it as well as traditional feminine beauty, as a form of social capital, assimilation, and protection. These notions of power and control of the feminine body and the performance of femininity saturate Ross’s work. 

A few months back, I was in Chicago, and had the opportunity to swing by ArtRuss Gallery, where Ross’s latest solo show, Emerald City, was opening the following day. Ross walked me through her exhibition after which, we sat down and recorded this conversation. 

Ross and I discussed painting on paper, curating Emerald City, control and agency, working in bursts, accountability partners, community, cofounding the NYC Creative Salon, and her most recent work with the Chicago Crit Club.

Ross also speaks openly about the loss of her son Rafi, and about painting’s role in coping with trauma. 

About:

Marina Ross is an artist, instructor, and curator based in Chicago, IL. She earned her MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 2018 and her BFA in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Her work has been exhibited in New York at Sugarlift, Friday Studio Gallery, Art Helix, and Highline Stages and throughout Chicago at Goldfinch Gallery, Heaven Gallery, The Franklin, Sulk, and Baby Blue Gallery, among others. She received The Stanley Award for International Graduate Research from The University of Iowa and attended the Saint Petersburg Artist Residency in Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017). Her work is in numerous public and private collections. She runs a critique group for professional artists in Chicago and teaches art at Loyola University Chicago and Roosevelt University.

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host: Isaac Mann
www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann
 
guest: Marina Ross
www.marina-ross.com/
insta: @marinaross_studio

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. 

Today’s guest is Thai Mainhard. Thai is an abstract painter that live and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thai draws inspiration from human experiences and tension found in daily life and her own memories of it. 

In this week’s episode I sit down with Thai to discuss how she starts a painting, the magic of good teachers, the function of mood, formula and what she calls ‘the source’ in her daily studio practice. 

We also discuss collage, scale, leaving the rectangle and how to leave the studio with a little bit of excitement to start tomorrow.


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 host: Isaac Mann
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insta: @thaimainhard

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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. 

Today is the final installment of my conversation with the artist TL Solien. In this last section, TL talks about building his dream studio, selling his dream studio, the best years of his career, dwindling interest, staying afloat, vulnerability, taking things personally, contemplating failure, building paintings in moments of fracture, learning art history late, finding satisfaction, healthy fuel, 30 minutes of joy, scale, notes from an opera, Tex Avery cartoons, how he starts a painting now, being stumped, and problem solving.

I'd like to add that I've been receiving a lot of love for the previous parts of this  conversation, and if this means you would like more long-form conversations like this one, please let me know at [email protected] 

Finally please consider supporting this podcast by donating to ARTMATTERS Patreon. I just set it up and by donating you will help ensure the availability and continuation of these quality conversations.  

About:

T.L Solien, born in Fargo North Dakota in 1949, received a BA degree in Art from Moorhead State University, Moorhead MN in 1973, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977.

TL Solien has been  invited to  participate in numerous exhibitions  of National and International magnitude including, the 1983 Whitney Biennial, the 39th  Biennial of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; Avant-Grade in the 80”s, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The American Artist as Printmaker,   Brooklyn Museum NY; Images and Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Contemporary Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Solien was the subject, recently, of a 25 year retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, entitled “ T.L. Solien: Myths and Monsters", as well as a touring exhibition porganized by the Plains Museum of Fargo North Dakota, entitled "Toward the Setting Sun", comprised of 65 work, and supported by a 200 page catalog published and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.

TL Solien has had approximately 40 solo exhibitions over the last 25 years.

TL Solien is represented in numerous corporate and public collections including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;  High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The Tate Modern, London;  The Smithsonian Museum ,Washington D.C.;  The Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles;  The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.;  The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI. and  Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI.   TL Solien is currently represented by Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, and his most recent solo exhibition was at OTI in Los Angeles, CA. 

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host: Isaac Mann
www.isaacmann.com
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guest: TL Solien
https://www.solientl.com/
insta: @tlsolien

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. 

And we're back with Part 2 of my three-part conversation with Wisconsin-based artist, TL Solien. Today we conclude the exploration of his early (or phase 1) art practice, including a fun description of the origins of his pictographic works. We talk about his early career experiences in visiting and exhibiting in New York City and living for a time in Paris. We discuss family, and home-life, agreements, and finances, the difficulties following the art market crash, and TL's  experience entering the culture of academia. Then we come back around to the concept or self-respect, the second phase of TL's studio practice, collage, Moby Dick, building paintings towards vibration , space, implied linearity and more. 

As I mentioned last week, I am extremely proud of this interview, and very thankful to my guest for his patience and his willingness to share so much of life with me and the ARTMATTERS listeners. 

About:

T.L Solien, born in Fargo North Dakota in 1949, received a BA degree in Art from Moorhead State University, Moorhead MN in 1973, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977.

TL Solien has been  invited to  participate in numerous exhibitions  of National and International magnitude including, the 1983 Whitney Biennial, the 39th  Biennial of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; Avant-Grade in the 80”s, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The American Artist as Printmaker,   Brooklyn Museum NY; Images and Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Contemporary Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Solien was the subject, recently, of a 25 year retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, entitled “ T.L. Solien: Myths and Monsters", as well as a touring exhibition porganized by the Plains Museum of Fargo North Dakota, entitled "Toward the Setting Sun", comprised of 65 work, and supported by a 200 page catalog published and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.

TL Solien has had approximately 40 solo exhibitions over the last 25 years.

TL Solien is represented in numerous corporate and public collections including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;  High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The Tate Modern, London;  The Smithsonian Museum ,Washington D.C.;  The Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles;  The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.;  The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI. and  Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI.   TL Solien is currently represented by Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, and his most recent solo exhibition was at OTI in Los Angeles, CA. 

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host: Isaac Mann
www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann
 
guest: TL Solien
https://www.solientl.com/
insta: @tlsolien

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The podcast for artists. 

I’m particularly excited about today’s episode with the artist TL Solien. Prepare yourself for an epic conversation, recorded over two separate studio visits, and subsequently over four hours of material. In light of this, I’ve edited this conversation down into three episodes, which will come out weekly until complete, unlike the usual bi-weekly format of the show. 

● In episode 1, we get into TL’s painting process and his background and education.
● In episode 2, we talk about his family, his explosive early career success, and the challenges that followed the art market crash, when he was forced to seek out adjunct teaching opportunities wherever he could, move frequently, and often on his own.
● And in episode 3 where i pepper him with whatever i else i forgot, including his current painting ideology and focus. Also collaging and Moby Dick. 

I am extremely proud of this interview, and very thankful to my guest for his patience and his willingness to share so much of life with me and the ARTMATTERS listeners. 

About:

T.L Solien, born in Fargo North Dakota in 1949, received a BA degree in Art from Moorhead State University, Moorhead MN in 1973, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977.

TL Solien has been  invited to  participate in numerous exhibitions  of National and International magnitude including, the 1983 Whitney Biennial, the 39th  Biennial of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; Avant-Grade in the 80”s, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The American Artist as Printmaker,   Brooklyn Museum NY; Images and Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Contemporary Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Solien was the subject, recently, of a 25 year retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, entitled “ T.L. Solien: Myths and Monsters", as well as a touring exhibition porganized by the Plains Museum of Fargo North Dakota, entitled "Toward the Setting Sun", comprised of 65 work, and supported by a 200 page catalog published and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.

 TL Solien has had approximately 40 solo exhibitions over the last 25 years.

TL Solien is represented in numerous corporate and public collections including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;  High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The Tate Modern, London;  The Smithsonian Museum ,Washington D.C.;  The Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles;  The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.;  The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI. and  Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI.   TL Solien is currently represented by Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, and his most recent solo exhibition was at OTI in Los Angeles, CA. 

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guest: TL Solien
https://www.solientl.com/
insta: @tlsolien

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Happy New Years! On today’s episode i sit down with two terrific detroit-based artists. James Oscar Lee is a painter and textile artist, and Marcus Marcus, a multi-hyphenate, who develops music, performance art, and practical design. These two have been friends for years, and are frequent collaborators, one of the many reasons i asked them both to sit down and speak with me today. In this conversation we  discuss the shifting productivity of their artistic careers, the quiet after finishing up a project, how they stay confident while exploring new platforms or media, working for others, working together, old guy tools, and a brief look into their daily studio practice. 

About Marcus Marcus:
A dreamer learning to execute in the fields of Performance, Music and Practical Design. Born in Detroit, Raised in Southfield.

About James Oscar Lee:
James Oscar Lee is a Detroit-based painter and leather goods designer. His colorful abstract style on large-scale paintings layers figurative gestures and disrupted landscapes that tell multiple stories upon closer inspection. Each stroke of a brush or drag of a palette knife is meticulously but emotionally placed, like that of a note by a composer. Deeply inspired by music, the avant-garde sounds of both local and well-known musicians in part guide his every action as he paints.
 

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Host: Isaac Mann
 www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann

Guest 1: Marcus Marcus
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5thcH28PybtL9eWDG6DIbM?si=kOGHZRXBTR28DOmO8hKwug
insta: @hellclam

Guest 2: James Oscar Lee
https://www.jamesoscarlee.com/
insta: @understands_absolutely_not

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists
On today’s episode we have the dramatic conclusion of my conversation with the artist James English Leary. Last time, James and I spoke at length about the state of art education. Today we discuss his new watercolors, collecting art, different kinds of change, deskilling, space and depiction, 19th century French painting and how unconditional support for an artists work - like love - is for babies.  We also talk Renoir, Matisse, Hockney, Schnabel, Guston, Jack Witten, Ron Gorchov and Howard Hodgkin.

This will be the last episode of ARTMATTERS in 2023 so I want to say a big thank you to all of my listeners! I hope you all have a great holiday and a happy new year:)

See you back in 2024 for the next episode of ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.


About James English Leary:
James English Leary is a painter and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. His work has been exhibited in Greater New York at MoMA PS1, the Whitney Biennial, and the Sundance Film Festival. He co-founded the artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation which was the subject of a 2013 retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. Leary co-founded the tuition-free art school BHQFU where he was a director and teacher. He has lectured on the sociology and economies of the institutions of art history and taught drawing and painting at The Cooper Union School of Art.

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 Host: Isaac Mann
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insta: @isaac.mann

Guest: James English Leary
https://www.kandlhofer.com/artists/86-james-english-leary 
insta: @jamesenglishleary

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists
On today’s episode, I speak with the artist Jennifer Coates. In her recent paintings, ancient deities appear like ghosts in the abstracted landscape of rural Pennsylvania. Figures merge with their surroundings as weeds and trees become a site of both Pagan ritual and painterly event. The works hang together like tapestries with a variety of marks slowly accumulating in layers and zones to create a flickering but cohesive whole.  Coates is in conversation with art history, engaging Modernist landscapes, Baroque painting, and ancient Roman frescoes. Light effects are amplified and color is intensified, suffusing the paintings with the glow of synthetic chemistry. While oil paint references earth and flesh, Coates’s use of acrylic paint speaks to the history of plastics and dyes. Fluorescent paints, colors of safety and warning, are used to heighten the dense, hallucinatory scenes.

About Jennifer Coates
Jennifer Coates is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA. She is the 2021 recipient of the John Koch Art Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2021 NYFA Award in painting, a 2019 Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency (2018-2019) (tel:(2018-2019)). Recent solo shows include Para Pastoral at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Lesser Gods of Lakewood PA at High Noon Gallery, NYC; and Pagan Forest, West Chester University. Recent group shows include Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC, Post Pop Landscapes at Acquavella Galleries in NYC and Palm Beach, FL, curated by Todd Bradway. Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, the Huffington Post, Smithsonian Journeys, and Art News, among other publications.

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About the Podcast

Host: Isaac Mann
 www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann

Guest: Jennifer Coates
www.jenniferlcoates.com
insta: @jennifercoates666

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Today on the podcast, James English Leary and i discuss in depth our perspectives on the current state of art education, how that system has evolved over time, and what changes we hope to see from it in the future. James also shares his experience co-founding the Bruce High Quality Foundation. This is the first part of a two-part conversation with James English Leary. No such thing as too much of a good time. To be continued . . .

About James English Leary:

James English Leary is a painter and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. His work has been exhibited in Greater New York at MoMA PS1, the Whitney Biennial, and the Sundance Film Festival. He co-founded the artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation which was the subject of a 2013 retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. Leary co-founded the tuition-free art school BHQFU where he was a director and teacher. He has lectured on the sociology and economies of the institutions of art history and taught drawing and painting at The Cooper Union School of Art.

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About the Podcast:
   
 Host: Isaac Mann
 www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann

Guest: James English Leary
https://www.kandlhofer.com/artists/86-james-english-leary 
insta: @jamesenglishleary

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists
Today on the podcast I speak with Jaqueline Cedar. Brooklyn-based artist, and founder of the Good Naked Gallery. On this episode we discuss permanence and impermanence, romance and practicality, drawing out ideas versus immediacy, productivity, the 'more is more' practice and editing after the fact, the function of inspiration, 'nope' days, pleasure in the practice, how a painting develops, photography, painting from imagination,  grad school, teaching, multitasking, balance and 'checking-out',  goals, expectations and success, and the origins of the Good Naked Gallery.

 About:
Jaqueline Cedar was born in Los Angeles, CA and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009 she received an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Recent exhibitions include Long Story Short, New York (2023), Shelter Gallery, New York (2022), Shin Haus, New York (2022), Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe (2022), Ladies' Room, Los Angeles (2021), 11 Newel, Brooklyn (2021), Peripheral Space, Los Angeles (2021), Hesse Flatow, New York (2020), Drawer NYC (2020), Field Projects, New York (2020), Underdonk, Brooklyn (2018), and David Risley Gallery Velvet Ropes, Copenhagen (2018). Press includes Artnet, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Two Coats of Paint, New American Paintings, Gorky's Granddaughter, Painters' Table, and The Boston Globe. 

Cedar's paintings and drawings address uncanny scenarios where characters engage themselves and one another with sincerity and purpose. Moments of desire, self-reflection, and lack of control motivate postures filled with bravado and vulnerability. In October 2019 Cedar launched the curatorial exhibition program Good Naked Gallery. Projects hover around the intimate and awkward with a focus on work that engages tactility, humor, movement, and play.

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 host: Isaac Mann
 www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann

guest: Jaqueline Cedar
www.jaquelinecedar.com/
insta: @jaquelinecedar