Magic Praxis

By Magic Praxis

What's Magic Praxis about?

Visual artists interview other visual artists about their work, lives and creative process. Hosted by Kate Hawes and Clarity Haynes. Sound and music by John Bender.

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Magic Praxis episodes:

02.25.2019
Episode 14: Liz Collins
Multimedia artist Liz Collins draws from the materials, processes and techniques of textile and fabric media. Her work varies in scale from the object-based to the immersive and architectural, and straddles the divides between the functional, the decorative, and the...
04.20.2018
Episode 13: Rachel Owens
Rachel Owens is a sculptor whose work is often socially engaged. She works with materials as varied as crushed glass, resin, and steel humvee truck bodies. Kate and Clarity visit her in her Brownsville, Brooklyn studio, where she discusses the...
03.09.2018
Episode 12: Chitra Ganesh talks with Maia Cruz Palileo
Chitra Ganesh is a multi-disciplinary artist working with myth, symbols and narrative. Guest host Maia Cruz Palileo, also a multi-disciplinary artist, was mentored by Ganesh in the Queer Art Mentorship program. During a visit to Ganesh's studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn,...
01.19.2018
Episode 11: David Shaw
David Shaw's intricate sculptures are composed through the juxtaposition of materials such as branches, dirt, steel, glass, holographic laminate, flocking, and found furniture. In our visit to his Brooklyn studio, he discusses his long involvement with the gallery Feature Inc.,...
11.10.2017
Episode 10: Susan Bee
Susan Bee's paintings and collages have been described as "pastoral psychedelia," and "a savage mix of Expressionism and Pop schadenfreude." Born and raised in New York City by artist parents, Bee is a longtime supporter of feminist art and women...
10.14.2017
Episode 9: Becca Lowry
Becca Lowry carves intricate wall-mounted sculptures out of wood, which she decorates with painting and weaving. She is interested in ideas of use, architecture, vulnerability and bravery, and has said she thinks of her creations as "shields." In our visit...
09.21.2017
Episode 8: Pinar Yolaçan
Pinar Yolaçan was born and raised in Turkey, went to fashion school in London, and studied sculpture and photography at Cooper Union in New York City. Her work examines gender, power, and colonialism through a process she likens to anthropology....
06.06.2017
Episode 7: Jenny Dubnau
Jenny Dubnau is a painter of portraits. Her uncanny, highly detailed oil paintings are made from the careful study of photographs she takes herself. Kate and Clarity visit the artist in her Long Island City studio, and discuss contemporary vs....
05.11.2017
Episode 6: Jim Butler
Jim Butler paints large-scale, detailed images of small glass maquettes he makes himself, which he calls "characters". Kate and Clarity visit him in his Queens studio, where he talks about being a young artist in the '70s, glass blowing, photography...
04.07.2017
Episode 5: Chloë Bass talks with Sharon Louden
Guest host Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, and advocate for artists. Her book "The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life" gathers essays from 40 visual artists, one of whom is Chloë Bass. Bass is a...
02.01.2017
Episode 4: Julian Kreimer
Julian Kreimer is a painter who alternates between plein air painting and abstraction. Kate and Clarity talk to him in his Brooklyn studio about the sociology of urban plein air painting, gentrification in New York City, and how being in...
01.10.2017
Episode 3: Nona Faustine
Photographer Nona Faustine asks us to examine what it means to be an American. In her Brooklyn studio, Faustine talks with Kate and Clarity about the importance of paying tribute to under-recognized histories, notably the histories of slavery and of...
11.17.2016
Episode 2: Brenda Goodman
Clarity and Kate visit the Catskills studio of painter Brenda Goodman, and discuss how she starts a painting, her early influences in 1960s Detroit, figuration vs. abstraction, and why she doesn't consider herself a feminist.
11.17.2016
Episode 1: Elizabeth Insogna
Clarity and Kate visit the Brooklyn studio of painter Elizabeth Insogna and discuss finding your tribe, spirituality in art, the Divine Feminine, symbols and dreams.

What's Magic Praxis about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Magic Praxis episodes:

Episode 14: Liz Collins

Episode 13: Rachel Owens

Episode 12: Chitra Ganesh talks with Maia Cruz Palileo

Episode 11: David Shaw

Episode 10: Susan Bee

Episode 9: Becca Lowry

Episode 8: Pinar Yolaçan

Episode 7: Jenny Dubnau

Episode 6: Jim Butler

Episode 5: Chloë Bass talks with Sharon Louden

Episode 4: Julian Kreimer

Episode 3: Nona Faustine

Episode 2: Brenda Goodman

Episode 1: Elizabeth Insogna