Episode 523 / Claudia Doring Baez

Claudia Doring Baez is and artist born and raised in Mexico City who is based in New York City. She received her B.A. from Columbia University, New York, NY (1982) and her M.F.A. in Fine Art from the New York Studio School, New York, NY (2012). Claudia’s paintings are animated by a reverence for art history and literature and is steeped with references that range from German Expressionism to Marcel Proust to Cindy Sherman. 

Her exhibitions include shows in NYC, Mexico City, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, ZonaMaco Art Fair, Mexico City, Scope Basel Switzerland, Lehman College NY, La MaMa Galleria NY, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Galeria Emma Molina, and she’s featured in publications such as Art News Magazine.

She has a curretn solo show at Jane Lombard Gallery at 58 White Street in NYC and an upcoming show at Bookstein Projects on 39 E. 78th street opening April 23rd. 

She is also a co-host of the HOW DOES THE ART WORLD WORK? podcast.

Episode 523 / Chenlu Hou & Chiara No

Born in Shandong, China in 1989, Chenlu Hou is currently based in Providence, RI. She earned her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. Since then, she has completed residencies at Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Penland School of Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Archie Bray Foundation. Her works have been included in exhibitions at Kristen Lorello, New York; YIRI Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan; the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Texas; and the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT; among other venues. Hou is currently a resident artist at Harvard Ceramics and a Visiting Critic in Ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Chiara No was born in 1981 in Key West, FL, and currently lives and works in Johnson, VT. She studied Art and Theory at the Glasgow School of Art in 2002-03 and received a BA in Art History from Towson University in 2005 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. She has been on faculty at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an instructor at University of Pennsylvania. She has shown at Spring Break New York, NY; MoCA Westport, Westport, CT; Field Projects and Bible, New York, NY; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; EXILE, Vienna, Austria; Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL; and has participated Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair in both New York and Los Angeles. Her works on paper are included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Special Collection, the Walker Art Center’s Library and Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Library. 

Chenlu Hou and Chiara No: What the Hands Remember to Hear. A joint exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of two artists who use ceramic sculpture to explore storytelling and spirituality up through MAY 25, 2026. 

Episode 522 / Kayla Witt

Kayla Witt is an artist born in Calgary, Canada and based in LA. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON and her MFA from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. She has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON. She has participated in group shows at Arsenal Contemporary, New York; albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA; Ketabi Bourdet, Paris, FR; WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong; Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, ON; among others. Witt has completed a number of residencies including Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; and Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB. Her work has been featured in HypeArt, Booooooom, Harper’s Magazine, It’s Nice That, Surface Mag, among others. 

Episode 521 / Nat Meade

Nat Meade received his BFA from the University of Oregon and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Juxtapoz, The Boston Globe, and Hyperallergic. He attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 2009, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016, the Siena Art Institute in 2018, and the James Castle House Summer Residency in Boise, Idaho in Summer 2021. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Nat returns to the pod as he just hung a show called Franklin at Hesse Flatow for a talk about his new work, funny sad songs, cinema, teaching, making work for fellow painters, titles with multiple meanings and much more. 

Episode 520 / Elizabeth Hazan

Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School where she was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. 

She has twice been a resident of Yaddo, and received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. Her recent solo shows include Double Fantasy at Hesse Flatow, NY, Weather, at  Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Under the Sun, HESSE FLATOW, NY. 

Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Forbes, Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail and The Art Newspaper. She serves as the founder and director of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY.

Episode 519 / Cyrilla Mozenter

Cyrilla Mozenter is known for her gouache-painted, pencil-drawn works on paper and hand stitched industrial wool felt pieces that include the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived and pictogram-like shapes. Her solo exhibitions include Problems of Art and Present Participle, 57W57 Arts, NY; See Why and the failed utopian, Lesley Heller Gallery, NY; the failed utopian & Other Stories, FiveMyles, Brooklyn; warm snow, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, and the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; More saints seen, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Very well saint, The Drawing Center, NY. She has produced two collaborative books with photographer/writer Philip Perkis: ar, AC Books, San Diego, 2023, and the bilingual Octave, anmoc press, Seoul, 2020. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received two fellowships from the NY Foundation for the Arts and two project grants from The Fifth Floor Foundation. She has been in residence at Pianpicollo Selvatico, Dieu Donné Papermill, and Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura-Rioarte. Her work is in numerous public collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. She taught for many years in the MFA program at Pratt Institute.

Episode 518 / Charline Tyberghein

Charline Tyberghein makes surrealist paintings by way of symbols and trompe l’ceil. Inspired by the Belgian Surrealist tradition, but also folk art, internet imagery, and other cultural influences, focussing on a high-low dichotomy. She mainly works with oil on canvas, occasionally branching out to other materials like wood to work in a more sculptural fashion. Tyberghein has shown with galleries and institutions all over the world, like Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, M HKA Antwerp, and Beursschouwburg in Brussels and a recent collaboration with Hermès in Shanghai. Gallery shows include Domestic Blitz  (Gallery Vacancy, 2023), Many Drops Make A Puddle (Castor gallery, 2021), Clownette (The hole, 2025).

Episode 517 / Andy Woll

Andy Woll was born in Los Angeles, California and received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. His solo exhibitions include, The First Turn of the Screw at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2021); Strange Animal at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York City (2020); Passage at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2018); and Western Wear at Denny Gallery in New York City (2018). he’s shown in group exhibitions including Pipe Dream at Uffner Liu Gallery and Night Gallery in New York City (2016); Sticks and Stones at Night Gallery, (2016); Pairs at Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, (2016); and Dave Muller’s Three Day Weekend at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles, (2015).In 2007, Andy was the recipient of the Saul and Sally Fifer Bernstein/Friends of Joe Mugnaini Award for works on paper. 

Episode 516 / Hilary Harnischfeger

Hilary Harnischfeger (b. 1972, Melbourne, Australia) earned her MFA from Columbia University, New York (2003) and her BFA from the University of Houston, Houston, TX (2001). The artist has had work included in institutional exhibitions at the Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT (2023); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (2016); State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY (2016); the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2014); MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (2013); American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC (2013); the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2013); Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX (2010); Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (2005); Artists Space, New York, NY (2005); and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (2002); among others. Harnischfeger has had recent solo exhibitions at Clear Sky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021); Rachel Uffner Gallery, new York, NY (2021, 2015); Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2014); and Front Gallery, Houston, TX (2012). In 2007, Harnischfeger was the recipient of the Maria Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program Award. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; and the Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT. Harnischfeger lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

Episode 515 / Mika Obayashi 

 Mika Obayashi (b.1995) is a fiber and sculpture artist from Michigan. She earned her BA from Amherst College in 2019 and her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2025. She has exhibited her work in the US and Japan with recent solo shows at Carvalho in Brooklyn and 5U Space in Philadelphia. She has been generously supported by grants from the American Craft Council (2023), the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2023), and the St. Botolph Club Foundation (2020). Obayashi has been an artist-in-residence at Women’s Studio Workshop (2022) and Vermont Studio Center (2025). She is currently serving as the 2025-26 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn.