Episode 32  : Today I talk with Margaret Bullock, Curator of Collections and Special Exhibitions at the Tacoma Art Museum the Tacoma Art Museum about the Edvard Munch & the Sea exhibition, which goes until July 17th. Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Angst, 1896. Color lithograph, 16½ ×15ǩinches. Epstein FamilyCollection, EFC 061.0. Photo by Philip Charles. ©2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York […]

Episode 33: Today I talk to Michelle Maigret. of The C24 Gallery in New York City. We talk about Carole Fuerman’s hyperrealist Hero & Leander’ exhibition.  Carole Feuerman, Leda and the Swan, 2015, lacquer on resin 42 x 90 x 80 in (106.68 x 228.6 x 203.2 cm) http://www.c24gallery.com/exhibitions-detail/carole Carole Feuerman, DurgaMA, 2015, oil on bronze, 101 x 91 x 90 […]

Episode 31  : Today I chat with Michelle Gewurtz, curator at the Ottawa Art Gallery about  A Window on Paraskeva Clark exhibition. A Window on Paraskeva Clark, curated by Michelle Gewurtz. Installation view, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2016. Photo: David Barbour Paraskeva Clark, Milford Bay Church, 1956, watercolour and graphite on paper, FAC1580. Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, The Ottawa Art […]

Episode 32: This is another “on-site” chat. Local artist, Mary Margaret Myers invites us to her home/studio to look at her beautiful paintings and  talk about her long career as an artist.   North of the River, 18 x 24, Acrylic Painting Intersection, 22 x 20, Acrylic Painting Grandfathers House, 24 x 18, Acrylic Painting Festival, 24 x 18, Acrylic Painting Clearing In The Woods,24 […]

Episode 30: Today I talk to Elizabeth Carney the assistant curator at the Akron Art Museum about the Pulp exhibition which goes through July 31st. In popular culture, the word “pulp” is almost always followed by “fiction.” Director Quentin Tarantino’s landmark 1994 film by that name capitalized on the lurid plots that defined a genre of cheap […]

Episode 29  : Today I talk with Molly Merson about the Beautiful Liars exhibition that she curated at the Proto Gallery in New Jersey. Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary   Memory is a battleground between imagination and facts. As historians of our own lives we […]

Episode 28 : Today I talk with Claire Carino of the Au Gallery  in Boston. We talked all about the Elements exhibition which is going on until June 18th. Artists Joerg Dressler and Christie Scheele both engage with and challenge the tradition of landscape painting in Gold Gallery’s exhibition Elements. Dressler’s pieces reflect on what he calls the […]

Episode 23: Today I chatted with Kurt Mueller of the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. We talked about the Chris Martin, Saturn Returns exhibit that is going on until May 21st. Chris Martin:  Amy, 2015 acrylic and chalk on canvas 134 3/4 x 118 x 2 1/2 inches (342.3 x 299.7 x 6.4 cm)   Chris […]

Episode 27: On this episode, I talk to Fariba Farshad, of Candlestar in the UK. We talk all about the Burnt Generation exhibition, which she created. It was displayed at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. This group exhibition seeks to convey the variety of ways in which decades of political unrest and social upheaval have impacted […]

Episode 26: In honor of my 26th episode, I did an on-site chat at the Jerald Melberg Gallery. I got to check out the Robert Kushner exhibit and chat with Jerald about the business side of running a gallery. We’ve decided that this will be the first of many “Gallery Chats.” Robert Kushner BLACK-EYED SUSANS   2014 […]