Keep the Channel Open

Alexander Kohnke is a San Diego-based artist and graphic designer (originally from Germany) whose work incorporates a variety of different disciplines and genres, from printmaking to drawing to photography. Alex and I had a great conversation about his artistic process, especially about the value of randomness and how that interacts with intention. In the second segment we talked about politics.

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• Alexander Kohnke
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 14: Pastilla
• Alexander Kohnke - Untitled Dots 15 x 22
• Alexander Kohnke - A-A-Alpha-B ___Bet
• This American Life - Episode 596: Becoming a Badger
• Stranger Things
• Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
• The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
• 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial - San Diego Art Institute
• Airlock Gallery
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Alexander Kohnke is a San Diego-based artist and graphic designer (originally from Germany) whose work incorporates a variety of different disciplines and genres, from printmaking to drawing to photography. Alex and I had a great conversation about his artistic process, especially about the value of randomness and how that interacts with intention. In the second segment we talked about politics.

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• Alexander Kohnke
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 14: Pastilla
• Alexander Kohnke - Untitled Dots 15 x 22
• Alexander Kohnke - A-A-Alpha-B ___Bet
• This American Life - Episode 596: Becoming a Badger
• Stranger Things
• Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
• The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
• 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial - San Diego Art Institute
• Airlock Gallery
• Leave a review!

I knew that I was going to read Lindsay Hatton's debut novel, Monterey Bay, as soon as I saw the title—I grew up in that area, after all—and I was pleased to discover that between the covers of the book lay a story that is by turns funny, sexy, and profound, an alternate history of a place I know and love so well. I talked to Lindsay about her book, about our shared experiences growing up on the Monterey Peninsula, and a lot about John Steinbeck (both as a real-world literary figure and as a character in her book). In the second segment, we talked about how to navigate multiple modes of creative expression, parenting, and artistic legacy.

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• Lindsay Hatton
• Lindsay Hatton - Monterey Bay
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Connie Chiang - Shaping the Shoreline
• John Steinbeck - Working Days
• Lindsay Hatton - My Mother, Monterey, and the Haunted Beauty of Aquariums (LitHub)
• Monterey Herald - Suicides: High Rate Among Carmel Class Leaves Many Asking 'Why'
• Diane Arbus
• Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond
• Emma Rathbone - Losing It

I knew that I was going to read Lindsay Hatton's debut novel, Monterey Bay, as soon as I saw the title—I grew up in that area, after all—and I was pleased to discover that between the covers of the book lay a story that is by turns funny, sexy, and profound, an alternate history of a place I know and love so well. I talked to Lindsay about her book, about our shared experiences growing up on the Monterey Peninsula, and a lot about John Steinbeck (both as a real-world literary figure and as a character in her book). In the second segment, we talked about how to navigate multiple modes of creative expression, parenting, and artistic legacy.

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• Lindsay Hatton
• Lindsay Hatton - Monterey Bay
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Connie Chiang - Shaping the Shoreline
• John Steinbeck - Working Days
• Lindsay Hatton - My Mother, Monterey, and the Haunted Beauty of Aquariums (LitHub)
• Monterey Herald - Suicides: High Rate Among Carmel Class Leaves Many Asking 'Why'
• Diane Arbus
• Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond
• Emma Rathbone - Losing It

Chantel Paul is the Program Coordinator of the San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, a space which has rapidly become an important part of the vibrant art scene here in San Diego. In this wide-ranging conversation we talked about the Downtown Gallery, her role as a curator, the burgeoning San Diego arts community, and photography portfolio reviews from the reviewer's perspective. In the second segment we talked about slowing down, technology, and its effect on our quality of life.

(Recorded August 25, 2016)

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• Chantel Paul
• SDSU Downtown Gallery
• San Diego Art Institute
• With Abandon: Works by SDSU Alumni 2011-2016
• Museum of Photographic Arts
• Ship in the Woods
• Space 4 Art
• Helmuth Projects
• Public Art in the San Diego Central Library
• San Diego Airport Art Program
• Joseph Bellows Gallery
• Quint Gallery
• Morrison Hotel Gallery
• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - The Crown Ain't Worth Much
• Sandow Birk: Monuments and Depravities
• Sandow Birk: Monuments and Depravities - Opening Reception
• Sandow Birk: Monuments and Deprativites - Exhibition Tour and Lecture
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Chantel Paul is the Program Coordinator of the San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, a space which has rapidly become an important part of the vibrant art scene here in San Diego. In this wide-ranging conversation we talked about the Downtown Gallery, her role as a curator, the burgeoning San Diego arts community, and photography portfolio reviews from the reviewer's perspective. In the second segment we talked about slowing down, technology, and its effect on our quality of life.

(Recorded August 25, 2016)

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• Chantel Paul
• SDSU Downtown Gallery
• San Diego Art Institute
• With Abandon: Works by SDSU Alumni 2011-2016
• Museum of Photographic Arts
• Ship in the Woods
• Space 4 Art
• Helmuth Projects
• Public Art in the San Diego Central Library
• San Diego Airport Art Program
• Joseph Bellows Gallery
• Quint Gallery
• Morrison Hotel Gallery
• Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - The Crown Ain’t Worth Much
• Sandow Birk: Monuments and Depravities
• Sandow Birk: Monuments and Depravities - Opening Reception
• Sandow Birk: Monuments and Deprativites - Exhibition Tour and Lecture
• Leave a review!

David Emitt Adams recently won the 2016 Clarence John Laughlin award for his photography, and if you've ever seen it before, you know why. In his work, David uses the wet-plate collodion process to create images on objects from his students' used film canisters to discarded cans found in the desert to oil drum lids, and the interplay between the photographs and the objects on which they're exposed adds a whole new dimension. (No pun intended.) David and I had a great talk about his work, and then in the second segment we moved on to discuss the ideas of permanence and impermanence.

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• David Emitt Adams
• 2016 Clarence John Laughlin Award
• David Emitt Adams - 36 Exposures
• David Emitt Adams - Conversations With History
• Etherton Gallery
• photo-eye
• Roswell Museum and Art Center

David Emitt Adams recently won the 2016 Clarence John Laughlin award for his photography, and if you've ever seen it before, you know why. In his work, David uses the wet-plate collodion process to create images on objects from his students' used film canisters to discarded cans found in the desert to oil drum lids, and the interplay between the photographs and the objects on which they're exposed adds a whole new dimension. (No pun intended.) David and I had a great talk about his work, and then in the second segment we moved on to discuss the ideas of permanence and impermanence.

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• David Emitt Adams
• 2016 Clarence John Laughlin Award
• David Emitt Adams - 36 Exposures
• David Emitt Adams - Conversations With History
• Etherton Gallery
• photo-eye
• Roswell Museum and Art Center

Shaindel Beers is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, A Brief History of Time and The Children's War and Other Poems, and her poems have also been published in numerous journals and anthologies. I found both of her books deeply moving, from her depictions of growing up on a farm to poems inspired by child survivors of war, and I was pleased to get to talk to her about her books. For the second segment we talked about artists' collaborations.

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• Shaindel Beers
• Shaindel Beers - A Brief History of Time
• Shaindel Beers - The Children's War and Other Poems
• E. B. White - Once More to the Lake
• William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
• John Keats - Ode to a Grecian Urn
• Shaindel Beers & Jesse Ahmann - Self Portrait as Rosin Back Rider
• Shaindel Beers (Twitter)
• Shaindel Beers (Facebook)

Shaindel Beers is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, A Brief History of Time and The Children's War and Other Poems, and her poems have also been published in numerous journals and anthologies. I found both of her books deeply moving, from her depictions of growing up on a farm to poems inspired by child survivors of war, and I was pleased to get to talk to her about her books. For the second segment we talked about artists' collaborations.

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• Shaindel Beers
• Shaindel Beers - A Brief History of Time
• Shaindel Beers - The Children's War and Other Poems
• E. B. White - Once More to the Lake
• William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
• John Keats - Ode to a Grecian Urn
• Shaindel Beers & Jesse Ahmann - Self Portrait as Rosin Back Rider
• Shaindel Beers (Twitter)
• Shaindel Beers (Facebook)