Vanessa Conte makes paintings, drawings, and stories that involve erotic images of fleshy women’s bodies being being punished and pounded. We had a very deep and sexy conversation about kink, Italo Calvino, obliteration fantasies, submission and domination, origins in erotic writing, playing with and denying narrative, fantasy vs reality, making art that people jerk off to, vulnerability, being artistically driven my need and desire, translating physicality and feeling into images, and being inspired by film.

Vanessa Conte - Never Enough
https://www.randomman.net/publications/never-enough

Vanessa Conte - Heavy Penalties
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/53713/

Vanessa Conte - Cures for Pouting Girls
http://ginervagambino.com/vanessa-conte-cures

http://moussemagazine.it/vanessa-conte-moritz-scheper-2019/

http://ginervagambino.com/vanessa-conte-up-to-your-neck

http://commonwealthandcouncil.com/exhibitions/to-the-torrid-sea-i-fall

https://artviewer.org/vanessa-conte-at-hester/

The Night Porter - Lilana Cavani
https://youtu.be/0zJbxDk3Iow

Jared Buckhiester is an artist who makes works in sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. We talk about psychoanalysis, pocketknives, early work in fashion photography and NYC in the 90s, putting a little disco into everything, wrestling magazines and jail reports, broken narratives, editing and collage, creating games for one’s self to generate work, and the importance of relaxing in the studio.

http://www.jaredbuckhiester.com/

http://officemagazine.net/exploring-between

Refusing to Shake:
https://klausgallery.com/exhibition/jared-buckhiester-2019-05-10/#jared-buckhiester-4779

Jared Buckhiester - Love Me Tender:
https://davidgetsy.com/jared-buckhiester-love-me-tender

Hard As Opal, Dani Leventhal & Jared Buckhiester
https://vimeo.com/133307381

The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Lion-Review-Books-Classics/dp/159017352X

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00513HCEI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

The Night Porter
https://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter

Larry Clark
https://www.simonleegallery.com/artists/larry-clark/

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline is a painter and sculptor who splits her time between Nashville and New York. She also curates the private collection at Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. We talk about the challenge of not trying too hard, how pregnancy and motherhood has changed the work, the genius of Ali Wong, the metaphoric potential of her new materials, resisting the pressure to make work solely about identity politics, the difficulties of working during the pandemic, the practice of play in using salvaged wood, meditation as a creative tool, and art as a spiritual practice and way of healing.

https://www.kimiakline.com/

https://www.turngallerynyc.com/artists/kimia-ferdowsi-kline

https://www.instagram.com/alkeemi/

https://www.departures.com/lifestyle/art-culture/kimia-ferdowsi-kline-paintings

Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
https://www.netflix.com/title/80101493

Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife
https://www.netflix.com/title/80186940

The Artist’s Way
https://juliacameronlive.com/books-by-julia/the-artists-way-a-spiritual-path-to-higher-creativity/

The 4Fs: A Trauma Typology
http://pete-walker.com/fourFs_TraumaTypologyComplexPTSD.htm

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3661

Always on Sunday (Louise Bourgeois’ salon)
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/always-on-sunday.html

Tau Lewis
http://www.taulewis.com/

Simone Leigh
https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/28363-simone-leigh

Alma Allen
https://www.blumandpoe.com/artists/alma_allen

Chris Ofili
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/chris-ofili-2543

SENSATION: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/683

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art
https://www.amazon.com/Agnes-Martin-Her-Life-Art/dp/0500093903

https://www.bahai.org/

Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton
https://www.alaindebotton.com/art/

Acacia Marable is a painter and drawer with a background in photo, performance and video. We spoke about their daily drawing and meditation practice, Animal Crossing, working without a plan, the allure of cowboys, making work that is both political and personal, Robert Colescott vs Peter Saul, caterpillar as spirit animal, the pleasures of slowing down, and copying other artists as a way of learning.

https://gertrudeinthewoods.com/acacia_marable.html

Allam D’Arcangelo
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79572?artist_id=1349&page=1&sov_referrer=artist

Marsden Hartley: The Earth is All I Know of Wonder
https://www.artbook.com/9788793659230.html

Bridgerton
https://www.netflix.com/title/80232398

Robert Colescott
https://www.blumandpoe.com/artists/robert_colescott

Charles White
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3930

Peter Saul
https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/peter-saul-crime-and-punishment

Mexican Muralists
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/vida-americana

Ricardo Gonzalez paints moody characters, objects, and scenes that draw influence in film noir and German expressionism, among other things. We talk about his early years, inspirations in music and movies, painting over the parts you like best, the psychodrama of dealing with yourself in the studio, the uses of text and the lessons of graphic design, plus shared anecdotes and inspirations from Guston, Picasso, De Chirico, Twombly, Schnabel, Milton and March Avery and Susan Rothenberg.

https://www.instagram.com/ricardo_gonzalez_v/

https://joyslow.tumblr.com/

https://www.asyageisberggallery.com/artists/ricardo-gonzalez

The Courage to Create
https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Create-Rollo-May/dp/0393311066

My Life with Picasso
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Picasso-Review-Books-Classics/dp/168137319X

https://www.julianschnabel.com/

https://www.speronewestwater.com/exhibitions/susan-rothenberg_11/installations

The Mystery of Picasso
https://youtu.be/wa-mQcZfslc

Dream House
https://www.melafoundation.org/LY_MZ_JHC_DHNov2018.html

Nick Irzyk is a NYC based painter with a background in printmaking (and one of the impresarios behind A.D. gallery in the LES). We talk about his recent paintings which draw from the visual vernacular of the office and the factory via diagrammatic imagery. We also get into the tyranny of Modernism, the fleeting fatalism of Utopia, the beauty of UK rave flyers, and the relationship of painting to drawing and time.

https://www.nickirzyk.com/

http://noplacegallery.com/index.php/main/exhibition/neu

http://www.106green.com/nick-irzyk

http://adnyc.co/

Rave Flyers
http://www.ravepreservationproject.com/

The Great Covid Class War
https://www.thebellows.org/the-great-covid-class-war/

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant by David Graeber
https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/19427-gunther-forg

definition of the word “based”
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based

Jamie Chan makes loving paintings of baseball players, Post-it notes, and angels, among other things. We talk about making intimate images, her slow burn style, spirituality, identity, history, and how a day job can influence the creative process or become a stage for aesthetic experience.

http://jamiechan.nyc/

http://www.thislongcentury.com/jamie-chan

What Wind, curated by Eric Palgon:
https://www.ceyssonbenetiere.com/en/exhibitions/What-wind-2019-New-York-1108/

http://www.ericpalgon.com/

The Worlds of Bernice Bing:
https://www.aawaa.net/the-worlds-of-bernice-bing

Mary Carlson, Eden:
https://kerryschussgallery.com/pages/exhibitions_past_3.php?page=1

Gerard David:
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gera/hd_gera.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners

Eduardo Navarro is an Argentinian artist who works in a wide range of mediums including sculpture, performance, installation, and drawing. We spoke about his first UK solo exhibition (breathspace) currently on view at Gasworks in London, which includes a small humanoid sculpture called Self-Doll which became a surrogate for the artist. We also spoke about previous work including Timeless Alex in which he performs as a giant turtle, and Poema Volcanico, in which he visits and creates drawings while climbing to an active volcano.

http://www.navarroeduardo.com/

https://gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/eduardo-navarro-breathspace/

https://nararoesler.art/en/artists/76-eduardo-navarro/

https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/464/eduardo-navarro-1

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/arts/design/eduardo-navarro-edible-art-drawing-center.html

Eliza, Computer Therapist: http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/Eliza.htm

Werner Herzog - La Soufriere:
https://youtu.be/EVVAGmlgDxI

Joy Curtis is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. We talked about her solo show Skeleton Woman at Klaus Von Nichtsaggend gallery which is on view through January 9, 2020, the ideas around healing, surrender, and transformation that are woven into the work, and her turn towards softer and more vulnerable forms since her last solo show at Klaus.

https://klausgallery.com/exhibition/joy-curtis-2020-12-4/#joy-curtis-5542

http://www.joycurtisartist.com/

Books and related reading / viewing:

My Grandmother’s Hands:
https://www.amazon.com/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/1942094477

https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Spirit-African-Afro-American-Philosophy/dp/0394723694

Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf

bell hooks - Communion:
https://www.amazon.com/Communion-Female-Search-bell-hooks/dp/0060938293

About Butoh:
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/butoh-japanese-dance-darkness/

CHEER-TOH
https://vimeo.com/5087474

J.A. Feng is a Brooklyn based painter who recently presented a new body of work at NADA Miami with gallery 12.26 that imagines “worlds within worlds” and alternate models and origins of the universe. We also discuss her own origin story of becoming an artist, and the spiraling path of time and painting.

https://jafeng.art/home.html

https://www.gallery1226.com/ja-feng

https://www.newartdealers.org/programs/nada-miami-2020/presentations/13

George Carlin - Saving the Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain: https://youtu.be/qmR0vi0ifzE

Fantastically Wrong: The Scientist Who Thought That Birds Migrate to the Moon: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/fantastically-wrong-scientist-thought-birds-migrate-moon/