Sound and Vision

Tom Anholt is a UK born artist who lives and works out of Berlin. He attended the Chelsea College of Art & Design where he acheived First Class Honors.

He had his first solo exhibition in 2013 at Galerie Mikael Andersen in Berlin and since then has had solo’s each year at galleries such as Eigen & Art, Project B in Milan, 1969 in New York City and Josh Lilley in London.

He’s had numerous group shows and is in the Hort collection. the Saatchi in London, and several other prestigous collections.

Brian met up with Tom on the occasion of his solo showing with Josh Lilley at Freize Art Fair and they spoke about his early days as an exceptional soccer player, the move to Berlin, music, the art and pain of tipping and much more. They recorded on the outside grounds surrounded by festive art fair goers in a beautful sunny, breezy day. You’ll hear that in the recording, but the atmosphere was great.

Brian spoke with Scottish painter Caroline Walker on the heels of her solo show at Grimm Gallery in NYC.

Matthew F Fisher was born in 1976 in Boston, MA and received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (1998), followed by his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2000). He has been the recipient of residencies and awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2016), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York (2015, 2007) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2010), among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Into the Blue, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA (2018) and Group shows include Pro Forma: Context and Meaning in Abstraction, curated by Dr Vittorio Colaizzi, Work Release, Norfolk, VA (2017). 

Matthew stopped in while in from LA for his two person show at Shrine Gallery on the Lower East Side with Casey Cook and he spoke about coming up with titles for work, sports radio, NY vs LA and much more.

John Bowman works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, and sculpture.

He is now a Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University. In addition to his love of teaching art, he is a founder of “First Street Green,” a collaborative community group in the East Village of New York City. Bowman recently participated in “Service to Public Areas,” a collaborative public art project in Shkodra, Albania.

Beginning in the 1980s, he exhibited at various venues in New York City including the Holly Solomon Gallery, the Lang O’Hara Gallery, and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. He has shown internationally and is represented in many private and museum collections. He previously taught at the New York Academy of Art and has lectured widely.

Brian spoke to John at his current solo show at Winston Wachter Gallery in Chelsea.

MARSHA COTTRELL (b. 1964) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cottrell was educated at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MFA) and Tyler School of Art (BFA). Cottrell is a recipient of the 2013 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Biennial Award; the 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship Grant in Drawing; the 2004 Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Educational Grant; the 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Drawing; the 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship; the 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Digital Arts; and the 1999 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program. Cottrell has had solo exhibitions at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (2016); Eleven Rivington (2015), New York, NY; g-module, Paris, France (2003); Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY (2003); Gaga, New York, NY (2000), among others. Group exhibitions include Gray Matters, organized by Michael Goodson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Worlding: Lucas Blalock, Marsha Cottrell, Ben Hagari, Ajay Kurian, and Hayal Pozanti, organized by Mia Curran, University of Western Michigan, 2017; One Third White, Kunst im Tunnel (KIT), Dusseldorf, Germany, 2013; and Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2012. Selected public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Brian met up with Marsha at her solo show to talk about quiet and light and more.

Barnaby Furnas was born and raised in Philadelphia and lives and works in NYC. Barnaby earned his BFA at the School of Visual Arts and his MFA at Columbia Univeristy.

Barnaby has had solo shows at Marianne Boesky Gallery staring in 2002. He’s also had solos at The Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Victoria Miro in London, the MCA in Denver, Anthony Meier in San Francisco amongst many others.

He’s had tons of group shows too numerous to list but highlights would be the MCA Tuscon, the Frist in Nashville, the Albright Knox, The Warhol Museum, etc.

His work has been covered in all the art publications and he’s in the collections of the Albright Knox, the MCA in Chicago, the MCA in LA, SFMOMA, the Whitney and more.

Brian met up with Barnaby at his solo show which just finished up at Boesky titled “Frontier Ballads” and they talked about his early graffiti days in Philly, how he found his physical approach to painting, flirting with jail time and much more.

Brian spoke with legend Chris Martin for Episode 100 !!! of the podcast. Chris talks about early days in NYC, Basquiat, William Burroughs and laundry.

Tessa Perutz is an artist currently based in New York City yet about to move to Europe. She was born in 1988 and in addition to making art she also curates Massif Central a collection of silk scarves by contemporary artists.

She received her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and also studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She has shown at Pablo’s Birthday, Serving the People, Joshua Liner, Atlanta Contemporary, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dayspace in Philadelphia, Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco and others.

She’s had residencies in Berlin, San Francisco and Iceland and her work has been covered in Artforum, uxtapoz, Milk Magazine, Modern Painters, ArtInfo and many others.

From February 15th to March 15, 2018, Pablo's Birthday Gallery in NYC exhibited Karma Solaire, a solo show by Tessa that was created in remembrance of her close friend, the artist and poet, Paul Saeio. Brian met Tessa on the last day of her show at the gallery and they spoke about her growing up dj’ing, skateboarding, writing, a run in with Nan Golden, experimenting in work and much more.

Chris Bogia was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1977. He received his BFA at New York University and MFA from Yale University, and currently lives and works in Queens, NY. Bogia is the Director and co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first LGBTQ artist residency in the world, located in Cherry Grove, on Fire Island, NY, as well as an instructor of sculpture at New York University. Bogia is the recipient of a 2018 Queens Council for the Arts grant, the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Artist Community Engagement Grant, the 2015 Tiffany Foundation Grant, and is a current artist-in-resident at the Queens Museum Studio Program 2016-2018. Recent exhibitions include shows at the Queens Museum, CF Hill Gallery, Stockholm, Kate Werble Gallery, Ortega y’ Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, and a solo presentation at Spring Break Art Show. Upcoming shows include a two person exhibition with Jesse Harrod at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia this coming May, and Cast of Characters, curated by Liz Collins at The Bureau of General Services: Queer Division NYC this summer.  

Brian spoke with Chris on the heels of his show at the Spring Break Art Show and they spoke about his early days sneaking off to Philly and New York City, older siblings, the allure of fabric, his starting a residency, becoming an artist and much more.

Geoff McFetridge is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles California. Born in Canada, Geoff studied at the Alberta College of Art and got his MFA from CalArts.

For two years, McFetridge was art director for the acclaimed underground Beastie Boys magazine Grand Royal. Since then he has started the design studio Champion Graphics, which has produced projects for numerous clients ranging from Nike, Pepsi, Stussy, Burton Snowboards, Girl Skateboards, and Patagonia. Geoff has made videos for Plaid, Simian, Erlend Oye fronted band The Whitest Boy Alive, and film title sequences for The Virgin Suicides and Adaptation. In 2013, McFetridge designed all interface graphics for the feature film Her, directed by Spike Jonze.

Geoff has all along maintained a non-stop drawing practice and makes paintings as well. He’s had solo shows at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Joshua Liner Gallery in New York, Cooper Cole in Toronto, New Image Art in LA amongst many others.

Brian met up with Geoff at the site of his solo show, The Beringians, at Half Gallery and they talked about his formative days in Canada, skateboarding, computers, punk rock, working across disciplines, electronic music and much more.