Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Host Matthew Chase-Daniel visits with Sayre Gomez in his Los Angeles studio to talk about iconic and less-than-iconic Los Angeles, airbrushing, the real and the imagined, how maybe paintings are now more true than photographs, the recent elections in L.A. and across the country, viewing the world as a child, Gomez’s show at SITE SANTA FE, the graffiti on Oceanside Plaza towers, and donuts.

Erica Lord (Athabaskan, Iñupiat, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, English) talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about ethnicity and culture, living in new places with new norms, using her body as a reference point for making art about the world, objects and performance, Nanook of the North, bead weaving, diabetes, how we look to others, and how to follow our instincts to make heartfelt art in a challenging and changing world.

A rare repeat guest on the show, David Horvitz (artist, friend, and the face of mood disorder) walks the 7th Avenue Garden in Los Angeles with host Matthew Chase-Daniel to talk about his works in Reclaiming the Future at the Vladem Contemporary Museum in Santa Fe as well as his Wikipedia-insertion artworks, the earth and the stars, Sayre Gomez, Mission Burritos, volunteer plants in empty lots and compost piles, Sister Corita Kent, Bouillabaisse, seashells, rebar and rubble, and the beach.

Santa Fe Mayor Michael Garcia invites host Matthew Chase-Daniel into his office in City Hall where they chat about his goals as Mayor, our arts economy, local cultural values, tourism, the possible future of the Warehouse 21 building, the Midtown Campus, Growth, Water, affordable housing, the hunger among visitors to participate in authentic experiences that don’t exist elsewhere, and and how it is important to work together across Northern New Mexico with our diversity of towns, cities, and tribal communities.

Imamura chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her artwork, which draws upon techniques and ideas learned at the Institute of American Indian Arts where she was a student, studying bead work with Terri Greeves over 20 years ago. Raised in Japan, Imamura was drawn to the land and culture of New Mexico from a young age and worked to make the journey here. Now back in Japan, her artwork is rich with tradition and stories from her Japanese culture, along with histories of nuclear contamination, the bomb, manga, and popular world cultural references.

Lehuauakea (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) discusses her work in Reclaiming the Future at The NMMA-Vladem Museum, cultural heritage, Hawai’i, and kapa.

Curator Machiko Harada talk with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about Reclaiming the Future, the big exhibition she has put together at The New Mexico Museum of Art-Vladem Contemporary. The ten Japanese and Japanese-American artists explore themes related to the detention camps (including four in New Mexico) where thousands of members of Japanese communities in the U.S. were incarcerated during WWII.

Venancio Aragon and Chiara Giovando join host Matthew Chase-Daniel at ICA Santa Fe to talk about Woven Futures, Unbound Patterns: Contemporary Diné Weaving, an exhibition happening there, created by Aragon.They discus the wide variety of forms in Diné (Navajo) weaving, the resurgence of old forms that have existed but been less seen by market-driven collectors and promoters in the past 150 years. Aragon dedicates himself to creating contemporary work, engaging deep traditions, teaching, and educating us about the histories and cultures of this art form.

Sbarge talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new body of work, Antelope Island, the Great Salt Lake, Cyanotypes, hybrid creatures, adaptation and resilience, arts residencies, and cyanotypes.

Lambright talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her paintings, and her lifelong passion for making art, from her childhood in Russia to her life in the deserts of New Mexico. They talk about materials, making and preparing panels and paints and how that grounds us in our practice, about light and life, and how painting helps us speak things we may not be able to say.