Rebecca Goyette is a magical artist—what I mean by that is there is an alchemy between her and her work. Her latest body of work displayed at her recent solo show, My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake at Freight + Volume gallery focuses on her dad, his passing and the process of selling her childhood home. Since you can't separate Rebecca's life and her work, there is so much discovery and recognition of her relationship with her dad, her family and her childhood. Rebecca was brought up in a small town in New England, where suffice to say, her nature was outside the norm growing up. This session is great because Rebecca puts into words what a lot of us feel in our surroundings as children in our own ways and demonstrates how our innate nature comes through for better or worse. Clearly at this point, it's a gift for her—though not a simple one to own.

More about the exhibition: My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake is an exhibition initially conceived in 2018 when artist Rebecca Goyette’s father passed away and she placed her childhood home on the market. Goyette immediately started to create a ceramic replica of the house, fashioned after a dollhouse that her father had crafted when she was five. For Goyette, who has an interest in magic, Childhood Home was designed to set off prosperous intentions. She ended up selling her father’s actual house to a man wearing a shirt that read: “My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake.” Goyette was dressed in red, carrying a lobster-shaped purse so she could safely carry the sizable check back home to NYC on the Greyhound bus. Goyette saw this comical exchange as a face-off between Lobster Queen and Snake Man.

See Rebecca's video she created for the exhibition HERE.

See the work from the show and read the full press release HERE.

Rebecca's website HERE.

Rachel Cleary is a fellow Radio Free Brooklyn host of the show, "Hear and Now with Rachel C.". Plus, she is the significant other of our co-founder, Robert Prichard. In our session, Rachel talks openly about her domestic abuse experience with her now ex-husband. Rachel generously is interested in sharing her story in the spirit of offering support to other domestic abuse victims and to help eliminate the shame that they might experience. Don't feel sorry for Rachel, though. It's well behind her now. Her life kicks ass and she's in a great relationship with Rob! http://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/hear-and-now-with-rachel-c/

Alexandra Torres won a therapy session with Dr. Lisa. We talked about what's important in her life that she's missing that's essential to her happiness—her art practice. Like me—most of us, she has obstacles of her own making. We identify them together and make a plan to move forward productively. We'll check in with her next month to see her progress! Alexandra was terrific at expressing herself and this session was very satisfying!

I knew Jonathan is host of a very popular RFB show, THE NEXT BEST THING which airs every Monday, 10-midnight. I thought I knew him pretty well from our station, but now I think I really understand him. There's a lot here—I also learned Jon has an amazing voice! Jon is a super talented guy - check out more about what Jon does HERE His range of talent and experience is massive!

Dr. Lisa compares and contrasts the industries of comedy and psychotherapy with a licenced therapist and comedian, Wilson Mc Dermut. Checkout his comedy and more HERE!

About Wilson (Dr. Wil):

Wilson McDermut has a PhD in psychology, and lives and works in New York City, where he performs regularly in clubs and anywhere else that will let him.

He is a regular at Broadway Comedy Club and The Comic Strip Live (Late Night) in New York City, and has performed across the country from Maine to Missouri. An active member of the Gotham Comedy Foundation (a non-profit organization affiliated with Gotham Comedy Club), Wilson runs a monthly comedy show for patients and their families at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

In addition to performing at most of the major clubs in New York City, he appeared on BBC America's Crash Course in Comedy with Richard Hammond. 

In collaboration with New Media Comedy, Wilson performs under the name Dr. Wil. New Media Comedy and Dr. Wil post comedy content on Instagram and Facebook. These short comedic videos touch on a variety of topics all related to psychology in one way or another. Follow @newmediacomedy and @dr._wil to for more comedy.

I really connected with Sharon Spell. Sharon is a comedian and podcast host of https://www.facebook.com/TheSharonSpellShow I had that rare feeling of a new best friend - brought down by the reality that we're all too busy to hang out anymore. Sharon spoke honestly and directly about drinking, divorce and how great things are now after all she's been through. Her guy she's with now is a keeper! #comedy #divorce #drinking #therapy http://sharonspell.com/

Eric Doeringer is a close friend of mine and an accomplished, prolific artist whose work has been widely reviewed, exhibited and collected worldwide. He and his wife, Cathay have been talking about leaving New York for a while, but the pandemic pushed them to take action. It was quite a ride but now that they've settled into a nice warm home in a sunny location... and a yard...well you know how it goes. Good things don't come easy tho. Check out Eric's work HERE: https://www.ericdoeringer.com/

Eric Doeringer Bio (excerpted from Wikipedia-read in full HERE.) : (born July 1, 1974] is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a B.A.[2] and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999.[3] Doeringer is on the faculty at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts.

Eric Doeringer's "Bootlegs" are small copies of work by eminent contemporary artists including Richard Prince and Lisa Yuskavage. Doeringer reproduces the artworks using "collage, digital photography, paint and varnish".[5] Doeringer can make between six and fifteen paintings each day and told The New York Times in a 2005 interview that his process is "like an assembly line".[6] On Saturdays beginning in 2001, he set up a vending table in Chelsea, Manhattan on West 24th Street. Small canvases reproducing contemporary paintings lined the table. Paintings by the original artists (sold within a short walking distance from Doeringer's stand) cost tens of thousands of dollars, while Doeringer's copies sold for less than $100. His total profit in a day of selling paintings has sometimes reached $1500.[ Time Out stated that Doeringer is "famous for bootlegging art on the streets of New York".[7]

Conceptual art recreations In 2008, Doeringer began making larger, more faithful recreations of works of Conceptual art by artists like Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Edward Ruscha, and On Kawara. New York magazine called a 2009 exhibition of Doeringer's Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings "perfectly executed" and "a genuine aesthetic experience, not just a knowing scold."

In 2012, The New York Times art critic Ken Johnson reviewed Doeringer's solo exhibition at the Mulherin + Pollard gallery titled "The Rematerialization of the Art Object". In the front room, Doeringer displayed "well-made simulations" of Damien Hirst's spot paintings and Richard Prince's Marlboro cowboy advertisements. In the back room, Doeringer presented imitations of three artists: Edward Ruscha (counterfeit books), Charles Ray photographs of himself wearing various clothes in imitation of Ray's All My Clothes), and Andy Warhol (a film mimicking Warhol's Empire by recording the Empire State Building). Johnson wrote that Doeringer's "distinction is his focus not on canonical works of Modernism but on famous Conceptualist pieces that are themselves art about art". In 2013, the Toronto Star's Murray Whyte reviewed Doeringer's Survey, "a series of his exacting knock-offs of the late 20th century's greatest art hits". In addition to containing imitations of works by Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition also contained imitations of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings and Lawrence Weiner's spray paintings. Art critic Murray Whyte wrote that Doeringer is "less heretic than prophet, putting the towering genius of a previous generation to its own test".

Jack and Casper are BEEZLORD, a young up and coming hip hop rap team. These guys met in high school and have spent more time together than they would normally because they are in New York due to Covid-related circumstances. They have some amazing rap music that has taken off fast! We play some on the show and you can see/listen to more in the links below. We get into some pretty real discussions involving the lyrics in their music and their own lives. These guys are just getting started and moving fast. Their track "Flexin" has 140,325 listens on Spotify!

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You may be familiar with Andrew Ohanesian's work and you may have met even Andrew, but he does his best in life to not let his physical self get in the way of his work, which has a unique, thought-provoking, hilarious, innovative and SOCIAL quality. It's as if he socializes through the work—and in saying that, Andrew, personally is someone who you would have a great time hanging out with and has a lot of friends.

Andrew's work is conceptual. He creates environments for people to experience, but in a way that they may not even realize they are experiencing art. Check out his work on Pierogi's site so you can see what I mean. Here's one example: House Party, where Andrew built Ohanesian built an insanely detailed replica of a suburban house in the middle of a Pieogi's Boiler room. It was up for about a month and people could hang out and party there. Here's a video of it. All of Andrew's work gets a ton of press-do your own research!

Besides getting a view into the mind of Ohansian's creative process, we got a chance to explore his relationship with his parents, his father mostly. If you listen to this episode you will understand how his opthamologist father was a standard bearer and inspiration for Andrew.

House Party video by James Kalm.

First off. Dr. Lisa announces the winner of the audience voter contest for the winner of the "Who's More Annoying?" competition. The winner is the lovely Alexandra T. and she joins us on air to accept her award which is an on-air Dr. Lisa Therapy Session which WILL BE BROADCAST MARCH 18, 2-3pm on Dr. Lisa Gives A Sh*t. If you want to know which couple, Jen Catron + Paul Outlaw OR Harkness + Marina Granger, was voted more annoying, well then listen to the episode right here!

Harkness Granger is hilarious plus doesn't present a lot of boundaries which makes for a fascinating conversation. We talked about comedy, but mostly his sexual development along with his first relationship in high school, where Dr. Lisa is relentless about getting the details.

Check out Harkness Granger HERE