By Amy Talluto
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Jennifer Coates, friend of the pod, is back to help me consider a new way forward (artwise) after the destabilizing event of the US election. She, herself, is finding comfort in the long history of rocks, geology and the cosmos, while I find myself turning to a book about how Matisse and his daughter, Marguerite, both reacted to the trauma of WWII in opposite yet valid ways. It's a bit of a potpourri, but we promise some great galvanizing art historical quotes and an inspiring double pep talk for the ages. Alternative title of ep: Rock Paper Scissors! Come hang out with us!
Media mentions: The Weekly Show w Jon Stewart (ep with Heather Cox Richardson), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on IG/Tiktok
Rock mentions: The Makapansgat pebble, Paleo "Venuses," Venus de Willendorf, baetyl stones, "The Living Stones" by Ithell Colquhoun, Paul Cezanne's drawings of Fontainbleu Quarry/MOMA show , John Elderfield and Terry Winters discuss Cezanne's Rock and Quarry Paintings for the Brooklyn Rail , "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" by Marcia Bjornerud, new minerals elalite and elkinstantonite discovered in 2022 in Somalia from a meteorite
Art mentions:
Cat Balco, Adie Russell, Elisabeth Condon, Pierre Bonnard, Edvard Munch & "White Night" 1900, Dada Movement, Hannah Hoch & “Cut with the Kitchen Knife," Man Ray, "Matisse the Master" by Hilary Spurling, "The Unknown Matisse" by Hilary Spurling, Henri Matisse ”Bathers by a River" 1917 and "The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence" 1947-51, "Verve Magazine" Issue No 8 Vol 2 (1940), "Les Fleurs de Mal" Baudelaire/Matisse poetry book, Marguerite Matisse, Max Beckmann
Jennifer's website and IG: https://www.jenniferlcoates.com/ @jennifercoates666
Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Listeners!
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Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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I'm back in the interview seat with Kristen Mills, an artist working in video, sculpture and installation. We discussed her latest show at Turley Gallery where she covered an entire room with cardboard and made it into a spaceship cockpit. Her video work features clones of herself, multiplied, and combines humor and old school editing techniques to create surreal worlds of play and exploration. The digital elements are then ensconced in laboriously-made, intricate cardboard constructions.
There's also Glue Tawk and a MacDowell Corner! Tune in!
Find Kristen's work online:
Web: https://millskristen.com/
IG: @k.millzzzzzzzzzzz
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program on IG: @swstudioprogram
(Open Studios in late April 2025)
Previous Exhibitions:
Turley Gallery: https://www.turley.gallery/kristen-mills-seats-for-everyone
Glenlily Grounds: https://www.glenlilygrounds.com/glenlily-grounds-2024
Ortega y Gasset: https://www.oygprojects.com/believability
Kristen's videos mentioned: Audience for an Audience, Waiting Room, I Can Reach In, Seats for Everyone, Space Race (featuring artwork by Melissa Dadourian), The Portal with the Cord, Tap Sap, Rock Collecting, Animal Sanctuary Project, Sister Spaceship Live at the Sinkhole w/ Angie Melchin
Comedians mentioned: Maria Bamford, Atsuko Okatsuka, Ali Wong, Paula Poundstone, Chris Fleming
Movies/TV Mentioned: Strangers with Candy, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Beetlejuice
Artist Residencies/Schools Mentioned: Skohegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center (VSC), MacDowell and Firth Studio, Amy's secret MacDowell vlog, Columbo's Dog: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_sKO_QcKc1eIVTRXyDHryw
Glue Tawk™: Kristen uses "Sure Bond" corded hot glue gun and sticks (rumor has it also comes in roll form like a too-long fingernail or ram's horn)
“An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.”
— André Malraux
Thank you, Kristen! Thank you, Listeners!
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Pep Talks website: peptalksforartists.com
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Amy's website: amytalluto.com
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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Dear Listeners, it's spooky season. In that spirit, I offer you this mini episode about taking a mini break from the career grind. Why not instead light a spell candle while getting clear on what we really want? Shelve the "should's" for a bit and get witchy with me.
The ending "Goodbye!" (with cacophonous lighting zaps) is Bette Midler from the movie, Hocus Pocus - Iconic Icon.
Thank you for listening.
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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Charles Burchfield (Chas to his friends) once noted how an oak leaf had fluttered down and stuck upright in the snow in his neighbors yard, like a flag, for the entire winter. It weathered many Buffalo "gales" and storms and thereafter Burchfield used it as a personal symbol of steadfastness. In fact its alternate title is "Steadfast Leaf." The painting he made of it is attached here "Constant Leaf, also known as Steadfast Leaf" 1960, watercolor and graphite on paper.
And, speaking of leaves, I indulge in a short meditation on how the forest floor leaf litter reminds me of the mutual beneficence of a group of artist friends. Hope you enjoy!
Today I'm taking us on a space, art and space-art journey. Because, I've been thinking about how when William Shatner recently went up to space in Bezos' rocket, he saw in real life what he had always pretended to see on TV: space and the final frontier. But to his shock and horror, he...sort of hated it: At least he hated the outer space view. He quaked in the face of all that vast emptiness and ended up with a new appreciation for our warm "Mother" Earth.
I.e. "Beam me down, Scotty."
And in this way, I think an artist could adopt a William Shatner in Space ideology: and try to appreciate the gifts we each have right now (time, space, adequate health, and freedom to create), versus caving into the dark matter horrors of compare & despair, and worry over not achieving the right career benchmarks.
Artists/Works mentioned: "The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise" by Giovanni di Paolo (1445), "Galaxy (Hydra)" Vija Celmins (1974), "The Moon Museum" Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers and Andy Warhol (Possibly sent on the Apollo 12 Moon Mission-1969), "The Wave" by Astronaut, Nicole Stott (2009)
William Shatner's book: "Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder"
Frank White's book: "The Overview Effect"
More about Astronaut, Nicole Stott's first-ever painting in space: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-070816b-astronaut-artist-nicole-stott.html
More about The Moon Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum
Thank you for listening!
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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We're back!
This is the second part of our deep dive on drawing. I asked my artist-guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty to bring along a fave drawing from art history to share and describe what "drew" them to it (please forgive the pun). It was so fun to see what they selected.
See images of all of the works on IG @peptalksforartists
The drawings discussed were:
1) "The Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli" ca 1640 by Claude Lorrain
2) Rocks near the caves above Château Noir (Rochers à Bibémus) 1895/00 by Paul Cézanne, Watercolor on paper 18¼ by 12 in.
3) "Moon and Clouds" 1945 by George Ault
4) Ledger Drawing ca. 1875-78 attributed to William Cohoe, Cheyenne, Central Plains, Inscribed "Cheyenne Soldiers"
Find my guests online here:
David Humprhrey: web and IG
Jennifer Coates: web and IG
Catherine Haggarty: web and IG
See more Ledger Drawings at DonaldEllisGallery.com:
https://www.donaldellisgallery.com/offerings/plains-indian-drawings
Artists also mentioned: Georges Seurat ("Monkey"), Alexander Cozens, Caspar David Friedrich, Julia Gleich (choreographer)
Books mentioned: "Lake Superior" by Lorine Niedecker, "Keeping Time: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings 1865-1900" (pub by Donald Ellis Gallery)
Catherine's show "Just Drawing" online at Geary Contemporary: https://geary.nyc/exhibition/just-drawing-catherine-haggarty/
You can watch the original IG Live video of my guests' panel talk at Geary here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qMilKRs-f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Thank you for listening!
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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Join me and my guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty as we discuss the topic of Drawing this week. This discussion was broken up into 2 parts, so keep an eye out for Part 2 coming soon.
In Part 1, we discuss the drawing state of mind, drawing as a form of safety, as a tie to our primitive origins, and as a way to express the multitudes of self. We also dissect painter, Amy Sillman's analogy that Draw-ers are beavers and Painters are birds.
Find my guests online here:
David Humprhrey: web and IG
Jennifer Coates: web and IG
Catherine Haggarty: web and IG
Catherine's show "Just Drawing" online at Geary Contemporary: https://geary.nyc/exhibition/just-drawing-catherine-haggarty/
Amy Sillman's lecture "Drawing in the Continuous Present" at the Menil Collection can be watched here on youtube: https://youtu.be/BLOgc466nRk?si=RfJ8B0lSD5Sz1OF6
You can watch the original IG Live video of my guests' panel talk at Geary here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qMilKRs-f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Artists mentioned: Amy Sillman, Sun You, Gary Stephan, The paleo artists of Peche Merle Cave in France, Thomas Nozkowski, Amanda Nedham, Miranda July (interview)
Thank you for listening!
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Pep Talks Website: https://www.peptalksforartists.com/
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Amy's website: https://www.amytalluto.com/
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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...or the future of our own cultural output? Dear Listener, please enjoy this space-y, star-filled Mini Pep about the infinite freedom that comes from making digital doodles.
My Threads App artists doodle harvest can be found here: https://www.threads.net/@talluts/post/CucE58OLSwU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Artists mentioned: Sharon Butler (see all of her digital drawings by searching the hashtag #sbgoodmorningdrawings on IG), Paul Dagostino, Joe Haley, John Avelluto, Keisha Prioleau Martin
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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This episode is based on an internet slang mantra which translates to "Delusion is the Solution." Find out why healthy artists rely heavily on healthy self-delusion to self-motivate. Like Comedian, Nina Oyama, says, one must create a "self deception turducken" to persevere in a creative pursuit.
I also threw in Lady Gaga, David Shrigley and even Salvador Dali who all had excellent quotes.
Signed,
Amy
Your Quote-&-Internet-Meme Magpie
Reading/Watch Links:
Dali's appearance on "What's Your Line:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A&t=304s
Grace Dow "The Artist and the Ego:" https://eruanna317.medium.com/the-artist-and-the-ego-e7ccdbc8e3c5
Nina Oyama "Confessions of a Delusional Artist:" https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/confessions-of-a-delusional-artist/
Alexa Rae Smith on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alexaraesmith/video/7279446633346010410?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7329325629496772127
Thank you!
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
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This is my hot take on the seven-year-old (it's new to me!) Eva Hesse doc and the scandalous revelations contained within. Also, I receive further evidence for why we still stan our queen, Sylvia Mangold, as she asks: Is the Home Depot the new Canal Street?
The #cerebral, #inspiring and #wondrous documentary, Eva Hesse (2016) directed by Marcie Begleiter, is available to rent/stream on Amazon.
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Pep Talks on IG: @peptalksforartists
Amy, your beloved host, on IG: @talluts
Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s
BuyMeACoffee Donations always appreciated!
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