Brynley is a photographer based in London. His increasing rise to notoriety is due to him capturing the lives of young emerging artists in their studios throughout the United Kingdom. This is our second episode with Brynley. Tune in and enjoy. Check out Brynley’s work @brynley.odu.davies on Instagram and preorder his book at TrollyBooks.com

Berto is an artist from Los Angeles, California, based in Germany and is represented by Carrie- Scott ( season 2 ). This is Berto’s second episode with HYPE A. You may wish to tune in to our previous conversation (2023). This live session was made by possible thanks to Ghost Gallery, Los Angeles.

Berto makes collages and uses words and imagery that juxtapose against each other, opposite an urban and natural landscape.

Berto lived in Japan, has worked for the American Airforce, was a fashion designer and graphic designer for Adidas and is now living in Germany working full time as an artist. Follow Berto on Instagram @_berto_herrera_ contact @carriescottcurates and @officialxghost for his available works.

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Mobina Nouri is a cross-disciplinary artist whose practice reflects her personal history as a female

immigrant who left Iran to live in the UK and later in the US. Working across a variety of media, the artist

mines her country’s tradition of storytelling, often turning to Persia’s hand-drawn calligraphy techniques,

philosophies and mysticism to contemplate and reconsider the complexities which she bears witness to in the contemporary moment.

Explorations of the body, the self, gender, and unity are central to her practice which she approaches through a reimagining of linguistic and social schemas. Through the construction of densely detailed

visual narratives Nouri dismantles traditional value systems and foregrounds tensions in gender relations.

Her art is often produced in collaboration with internationally celebrated poets and photographers.

Nouri received her BA in Stage Design and MA in Product Design from Tehran Art University, Iran and

her PhD in Creativity Science from City University London, UK.

Mobina Nouri lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Follow Mobina on Instagram @mobinanouri.studio & mobinanouri.com

Tm Gratkowski received a BS and a BFA from UW. After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna Austria, Tm moved to Los Angeles CA and received an MA from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc).

Although Tm’s education and early works are rooted in painting, drawing, his professional practice as an artist is based on using paper as his primary material to create collages, installations, and sculpture. Tm Gratkowski’s artwork is a form of visual data gathering. He aligns the act of looking with that of reading by using paper, images, and text to create a critical visual narrative about the culture

of information we live in today. Going beyond historical definitions, concepts, and contemporary art practices Tm pushes the boundaries beyond traditional collage as he beguiles everyday information by playing with image-as-text and text-as-image. His artwork is densely layered to construct a surface rich in patterns, images, text.

Tm Gratkowski’s work has been in over 100 magazine publications and has been the featured cover story. Tm has been in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions Nationally and Internationally and his work can be found exhibited in most major art fairs throughout the US and Europe. His work is also prominently featured in numerous public, private and institutional collections. Tm currently lives and works in Los Angeles California and is preparing new work for a forthcoming solo museum exhibition. Follow TM’s work on Instagram: @tmgratkowskiart , @tmgratkowskidraws

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Angie Arsenault is an artist and researcher whose practice harnesses acts of deep noticing and a sensual engagement with the natural world. From the deindustrializing island of Unama'ki (Cape Breton), Angie’s work engages with concepts of value, ruination, memory, botanical life, detritus, survival and storytelling through interventions in the field and installation predominantly. She holds both a BFA (2004) and MFA (2017) from NSCAD University.

We are co branding with 18th Street Arts Center, a non profit art residency in Los Angeles. Thank you 18th Street for the oppitunity. We aim to continue deep conversations, fostering connections globally and in through new live sessions. Hearth is Where The Home Is.

Callum Eaton is an artist from Bath based in London, England. (BA, Goldsmiths, 2019) He has exhibited at Carl Kostyál gallery, has worked under the steady mentorship wing of Oli Epp (PLOP Residency). His studio is based with Cell Studios, London and is currently on an art residency in Berlin during this recording.

"Street-side telephone boxes made all but obsolete by mobile phones and now regularly removed by councils and city planners, remain as reliquaries to unrelenting digital advancement. Coca-Cola vending machines replete with Warholian repetition expose Eaton’s labour-intensive like-for-like replication of on-demand appeasement, while elevators from the artist’s own studio space in the City of London retain eerie echoes of their former life ferrying bankers and business people. Employing that trompe-l’œil trickery popularised by French genre-painter Louis-Léopold Boilly – whose portrayal of overlaid sheets of paper was selected for the Paris Salon of 1800 – Eaton doggedly documents his everyday environment, each painting becoming a new piece of his Sims-esque city-building expansion pack.

And just as the artist is present in Jan van Eyck’s famed Arnolfini Portrait easter-egg or the secret self-portraits that Baroque-period painter Clara Peeters snuck into her still-lives, Eaton himself appears as both an apparition reflected in the door of a launderette’s Washeteria and the example images one might obtain from a Photo-Me self-service photo-booth. The artist as subject – as object perhaps – blurring the lines between the real world he inhabits, and the flattened substrata simulation that exists on the surface of each canvas.”

Special mention and thanks: Brynley Odu Davies, Oli Epp, Carl Kostyál & Cell Studios.

Alex Coma (b. Granby, QC, 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and seeker. Following the traces of humanistic and symbolistic artists such as Joseph Beuys and Carl Jung, his work is a testimony of his inner life and Findings. He draws from the symbolic history of an elite and secretive class, borrowing on cryptograms, esoteric concepts and rituals found in the written legacy of ancient texts. Coma applies the logic and vernacular of the semiotician, following tenuous but poetic connections between his inner self and larger concepts that are said to exist on the spiritual plane.

Whether or not a particular connection can be proven is secondary to the kernel of truth that lies in the impulse to seek it. At the heart of his practice is a longing, or a prayer, for an essential truth that may never be told. Follow Alex on Instagram: @alexcoma.world & www.alexcoma.world for more.

Karla Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist, educator who engages in painting, social practice, and performance. Using narrative to question identity and explore memory. Her socially engaged practice generates exciting collaborations and provokes important dialogue among diverse communities. In her painting introspection, splashes of color became figures and objects that transformed into scenes of domesticity and city life drawn from her upbringing in Mexico and Los Angeles. Personal memories, folklore, familiar iconography of her Mexican heritage, and American pop culture are intertwined in surreal compositions that consider family, loss, and the complexities of the Latinx experience in the United States.

Karla Diaz lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is represented by Luis De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. Follow Karla on Instagram @karla76 and luisdejesus.com gallery for more. Special mention: 18th St Arts Center & Irene Georgia Tsatsos (curator).

Joe Rudko is a Seattle-based artist who works primarily with photographs. He combines found snapshots and anonymous images to create new forms that encourage viewers to reconsider their relationship with everyday images. His work has been exhibited in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Houston, Memphis, and Mexico City, and featured in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Juxtapoz Magazine, New American Paintings, and Artillery Magazine. His work is in the collections of The Getty Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and most recently the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. Special credit: Von Lintel Gallery & Brian Sanchez. Follow Joe’s work on Instagram: @joerudko & his website: joerudko.com

Eric Carlos Bertrand (b. 1969) is a Mexican-Canadian painter, writer, translator, gallerist and curator. As an artist, he has presented solo exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, Spain and Finland. He has received numerous production and travel grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Quebec, and was awarded a scholarship from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs to complete his Master's degree. Eric is the owner and director of Galerie Cache. This is his second episode on HYPE A. Find out more about his projects and the art world. Follow @galeriecache and @ericcarlosbertrand on Instagram and www.cachestudio.org