Sol Hill, photographer and painter and artist! Sol Hill is on the show today. Since he left Brooks Institute of Photography he’s been exploring the limits of digital noise and energy in his large canvases, creating intriguing work that keeps meaning just a little bit out of reach. I first saw his work at MichaelKate... The post Episode #095: Sol Hill appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Jodie Hollander, poet! Jodie Hollander is on the show today. She’s an American poet whose career really started in the UK, and she’s currently staying in Santa Barbara through the good graces of the Morris Squire Foundation. You might remember hearing about them from a few episodes back when I interviewed Kathy Kissik. She had... The post Episode #094: Jodie Hollander appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Painter of the L.A. Watershed, Devon Tsuno! Last Friday, Devon Tsuno’s show “Los Angeles River: Urban Reclamation” opened at Santa Barbara City College’s Atkinson Gallery, and it will be up until December 2. Devon is an up and coming Los Angeles- based artist and this one-man show explores the vitality of the Los Angeles River... The post Episode #093: Devon Tsuno appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Magical realist painter Frank Kirk! Painter Frank Kirk is on the show today! For years, since his early retirement, he’s been painting these beautiful, mysterious canvases, a cross between David Lynch and Edward Hopper, and he was just doing them for himself. But Frank Goss of Sullivan Goss gave him a show a year or... The post Episode #092: Frank Kirk appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Thaniel Ion Lee, artist! Today on the show we have artist Thaniel Ion Lee, who hails from Louisville, Kentucky, and who was recently in Santa Barbara for the opening of his show at SBCAST, called New Cosmic Horrors, that shows through the end of September. These are mind-blowing grotesqueries in black and white, filled with body... The post Episode #091: Thaniel Ion Lee appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Photorealist painter Benjamin Anderson! Today on the show we have painter Benjamin Anderson, whose photo-realist paintings of swimming pools–and objects like cars and planes found underwater in said pools–are unlike any others you’ve seen. He comes from an artistic family, his father Ron and his brother Sean are both painters, his mother Susan is an... The post Episode #090: Benjamin Anderson appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Photographer and artist! Today on the show we have Kathy Kissik, photographer and artist, who has a show opening at SBCAST on September 1. Her current work comes out of her residency at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, where she explored the mandala-like structures of the machines that are trying discover the... The post Episode #089: Kathy Kissik appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

International visual and performance artists! Today on the show we have Assume Vivid Astro Focus, a two man art team consisting of Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, who currently have a show at MCA called Avalanches Volcanoes Asteroids Floods, a wall-to-wall retrospective of their work, that runs until the end of 2016. I was very... The post Episode #088: Assume Vivid Astro Focus appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Painter, former skater, fashion designer! Today on the show we have artist Gino Perez. Some of you might know Gino from back in the day when he was a pro skater, but at some point he retired to fully focus on painting and his art. He’s been showing all over Los Angeles, but this last... The post Episode #087: Gino Perez appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

2016’s Official Old Spanish Days Poster Artist! Today on the show we have plein air painter Jeremy Harper. Jeremy is a part of the Oak Group, Santa Barbara’s well known plein air arts group that was founded in 1985 by Ray Strong and Arturo Tello. And he’s going to be all over Santa Barbara this... The post Episode #086: Jeremy Harper appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.