Bonnie Collura is an artist born in Long Island who currently lives, works and teaches in central Pennsylvania.

Boonie makes sculptures from various materials that often approach the figure with an element of abstraction.

She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1994 and her MFA from Yale University in 1996. She is the recipient of a 1997 Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, a 2003 Rolex Protégé nomination, a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a 2010 United States Artists Fellowship nomination, and a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Bonnie’s sculptures, drawings, and outdoor works have been exhibited in domestic and international galleries and museums spanning the United States, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and India. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, Flash Art, BOMB magazine, Beautiful Decay, Tema Celeste, Sculpture Magazine, Time Out New York, Up & Coming: The Emerging Art Scene in New York, and several other print and on-line publications.

Bonnie is currently an Associate Professor at Penn State University, teaching in the Sculpture Department. Brian met up with Bonnie to talk about her early childhood, her days in school, her time working as an assistant for Robert Gober and her recent work.

Bonnie Collura is an artist born in Long Island who currently lives, works and teaches in central Pennsylvania.

Boonie makes sculptures from various materials that often approach the figure with an element of abstraction.

She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1994 and her MFA from Yale University in 1996. She is the recipient of a 1997 Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, a 2003 Rolex Protégé nomination, a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a 2010 United States Artists Fellowship nomination, and a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Bonnie’s sculptures, drawings, and outdoor works have been exhibited in domestic and international galleries and museums spanning the United States, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and India. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, Flash Art, BOMB magazine, Beautiful Decay, Tema Celeste, Sculpture Magazine, Time Out New York, Up & Coming: The Emerging Art Scene in New York, and several other print and on-line publications.

Bonnie is currently an Associate Professor at Penn State University, teaching in the Sculpture Department. Brian met up with Bonnie to talk about her early childhood, her days in school, her time working as an assistant for Robert Gober and her recent work.

Karel Funk was born in 1971. He received a BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1997 and an MFA from Columbia University in New York in 2003. He’s had Solo exhibitions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Rochester Art Center, MN, and the Contemoprary Museum of Art in Montreal. He has been included in group exhibitions at venues including the Montreal Museum of Fine Art; the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, in Helsinki; the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg; and the Fondation Antoie de Galbert, Paris. His work is held in major museum collections, including the Guggenheim and the Whitney in New York, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada.

Brian met up with Karel at 303 Gallery, where he recently had a solo show of paintings which was reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker and several other places. They spoke about art school, working in Canada, electronic music, painting to movies and more.

Karel Funk was born in 1971. He received a BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1997 and an MFA from Columbia University in New York in 2003. He’s had Solo exhibitions at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Rochester Art Center, MN, and the Contemoprary Museum of Art in Montreal. He has been included in group exhibitions at venues including the Montreal Museum of Fine Art; the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, in Helsinki; the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg; and the Fondation Antoie de Galbert, Paris. His work is held in major museum collections, including the Guggenheim and the Whitney in New York, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada.

Brian met up with Karel at 303 Gallery, where he recently had a solo show of paintings which was reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker and several other places. They spoke about art school, working in Canada, electronic music, painting to movies and more.

Born in Kolkata, India, Sangram Majumdar has an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His recent solo exhibition “Foreign and Domestic” opened at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, TX. Other recent solo exhibitions include the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in NY. In 2016-17, his work was part of a travelling exhibition at Drew University, NJ, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, TN and University of Vermont.

Recent selected group exhibition venues include Freight & Volume, NY; Geary Contemporary, NY; James Cohan Gallery, NY and Gallery Zürcher, NY. Awards include a Purchase Award from the 2010 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, a MacDowell Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program Grant, a MICA Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, and two Maryland State Art Council Individual Grants in Painting.

This past summer he was a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center and the Chautauqua School of Art. He has lectured on his work at Columbia University, CCA, Cranbrook School of Art, PAFA, the New York Studio School among others. Sangram lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is a Professor of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Brian met up with him in his Brooklyn studio to discuss his childhood, his family, making paintings, teaching, music and much more.

Born in Kolkata, India, Sangram Majumdar has an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His recent solo exhibition “Foreign and Domestic” opened at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, TX. Other recent solo exhibitions include the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in NY. In 2016-17, his work was part of a travelling exhibition at Drew University, NJ, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, TN and University of Vermont.

Recent selected group exhibition venues include Freight & Volume, NY; Geary Contemporary, NY; James Cohan Gallery, NY and Gallery Zürcher, NY. Awards include a Purchase Award from the 2010 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, a MacDowell Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program Grant, a MICA Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, and two Maryland State Art Council Individual Grants in Painting.

This past summer he was a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center and the Chautauqua School of Art. He has lectured on his work at Columbia University, CCA, Cranbrook School of Art, PAFA, the New York Studio School among others. Sangram lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is a Professor of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Brian met up with him in his Brooklyn studio to discuss his childhood, his family, making paintings, teaching, music and much more.

Blake Rayne is an artist who was born in Delaware and lives and works in Brooklyn. After receiving his BFA at Cal Arts in the early nineties, he spent a short amount of time in Berlin before getting settled in Brooklyn.

He’s had solo shows at Miguel Abreu Gallery, Campoli Press in Paris and London, 1301PE in LA, Sutton Lane in London, Greene Naftali in NY, to name a few from a long list. He’s also shown in group shows at Gavin Brown, the Whitney Museum, the Langen Foundation in Dusseldorf, the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, Matthew Marks in NYC and many more.

His work has been covered in Artforum, the NYTimes, Time Out NY, Frieze, Artpapers, Art in America and several other publications.

He’s taught at Columbia University and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, The Portland Museum of Art amongst others.

Brian met up at Blake’s Navy Yard studio in Brooklyn for a pretty heady talk about his work, process, history and a little skateboarding talk on top.

Blake Rayne is an artist who was born in Delaware and lives and works in Brooklyn. After receiving his BFA at Cal Arts in the early nineties, he spent a short amount of time in Berlin before getting settled in Brooklyn.

He’s had solo shows at Miguel Abreu Gallery, Campoli Press in Paris and London, 1301PE in LA, Sutton Lane in London, Greene Naftali in NY, to name a few from a long list. He’s also shown in group shows at Gavin Brown, the Whitney Museum, the Langen Foundation in Dusseldorf, the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, Matthew Marks in NYC and many more.

His work has been covered in Artforum, the NYTimes, Time Out NY, Frieze, Artpapers, Art in America and several other publications.

He’s taught at Columbia University and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, The Portland Museum of Art amongst others.

Brian met up at Blake’s Navy Yard studio in Brooklyn for a pretty heady talk about his work, process, history and a little skateboarding talk on top.

Catherine Haggarty is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, New York.

She received her M.F.A Rutgers University in 2011 and is currently the co-director of Ortega y Gasset an artist run space in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Catherine is the recipient of the ESKFF Emerging Artist Grant and Residency, the DNA Gallery Residency, a Vermont Studio Center Residency and most recently, The Look e Listen Residency in Marsielle France (2017).

Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic and Two Coats of Paint and exhibited at, LeftField Slo (CA), The Provincial (MI), Bridget Mayer Gallery (PA), Art on Paper Fair (Armory Week), Geoffrey Young Gallery (MA), Design Sublime (FLA) Proto Gallery (NJ) and Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC)

Her curatorial work and writing includes Curating Contemporary, The Curator, Ortega y Gasset Projects, White Box and Proto Gallery.

Teaching experience includes but is not limited to Rutgers University, Abrons Art Center, Studio in a School, Princeton Day School, Philadelphia Mural Arts and One River School of Art and Design.

Brian went to Catherine’s Gowanus studio to talk about her days growing up in NJ, her move to NYC, co-running an artist run gallery and what she is working on in her paintings.

Sound & Vision is recorded, organized, produced, edited and assembled by Brian Alfred. The introduction and accompanying music is provided by Michael Lovett. You can check out his music via his project NZCA Lines or catch him as a long time contributer to the band Metronomy. All other music is provided by a long time collaboraor of Brian’s, Shawn Seymour and his project entitled Lullatone.

Please take a moment to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and leave a review and a rating as well.

You can check out more studio visit images at SoundandVisionpodcast.com. You can find out more about my work at paintchanger.com. I currently have a show at Maho Kubota Gallery in Tokyo and have an upcoming solo show at my New York CIty representing gallery Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery. Thanks so much for listening and supporting this podcast which tries to share the lives of creative people through thier most casual voice.

Catherine Haggarty is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, New York.

She received her M.F.A Rutgers University in 2011 and is currently the co-director of Ortega y Gasset an artist run space in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Catherine is the recipient of the ESKFF Emerging Artist Grant and Residency, the DNA Gallery Residency, a Vermont Studio Center Residency and most recently, The Look e Listen Residency in Marsielle France (2017).

Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic and Two Coats of Paint and exhibited at, LeftField Slo (CA), The Provincial (MI), Bridget Mayer Gallery (PA), Art on Paper Fair (Armory Week), Geoffrey Young Gallery (MA), Design Sublime (FLA) Proto Gallery (NJ) and Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC)

Her curatorial work and writing includes Curating Contemporary, The Curator, Ortega y Gasset Projects, White Box and Proto Gallery.

Teaching experience includes but is not limited to Rutgers University, Abrons Art Center, Studio in a School, Princeton Day School, Philadelphia Mural Arts and One River School of Art and Design.

Brian went to Catherine’s Gowanus studio to talk about her days growing up in NJ, her move to NYC, co-running an artist run gallery and what she is working on in her paintings.

Sound & Vision is recorded, organized, produced, edited and assembled by Brian Alfred. The introduction and accompanying music is provided by Michael Lovett. You can check out his music via his project NZCA Lines or catch him as a long time contributer to the band Metronomy. All other music is provided by a long time collaboraor of Brian’s, Shawn Seymour and his project entitled Lullatone.

Please take a moment to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and leave a review and a rating as well.

You can check out more studio visit images at SoundandVisionpodcast.com. You can find out more about my work at paintchanger.com. I currently have a show at Maho Kubota Gallery in Tokyo and have an upcoming solo show at my New York CIty representing gallery Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery. Thanks so much for listening and supporting this podcast which tries to share the lives of creative people through thier most casual voice.