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Shirley Kaneda is an artist living and working in New York City. Shirley was born to Korean born parents in Tokyo and moved to New York City to attend Parsons where she received her BFA in 1976.

Shirley has had over 25 solo shows at venues such as Jack Shainman, Feigen Contemporary, Galerie Shuster, Mark Moore, Danese Gallery, Galerie Richard and more.

She has been in group exhibitions too numerous to mention in venues such as White Columns, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Chelsea Art Museum, Acme, Rhona Hoffman and many, many more. Her paintings have been covered in Art in America, the New Yorker, Art on Paper, the New York Times, Time Out, Art News amongst many others.

On top of her long legacy of making and showing her art, Shirley is also a highly regarded art professor who has taught at Claremont, Parsons and most recently at Pratt where she taught from 2003 until just this year when she retired.

She also has pusblished interviews in Bomb magazine with artists Fiona Rae, Fabian Marcaccio, Johnathan Lasker and others.

Brian stopped by Shirley’s amazing SoHo loft studio and they spoke of her days growing up in Tokyo, moving to the US, being in SoHo in the early unpolished days, music choices in the studio, playing guitar and much more.

KEVIN APPEL was born, lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1990 and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995.

Kevin has had numerous solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, which include Miles McEnery Gallery in NYC, Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, ACME., Los Angeles, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, among others.

His group exhibitions include “Endless House: Intersections of Art and Architecture,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; “XL: Large-Scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection,” The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar, Poughkeepsie, NY; “Black/White,” LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA; “Los Angeles Nomadic Division ‘Painting in Place,’” Farmers and Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, CA; “Painting Two,” Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; “Kevin Appel, Canon Hudson, Betsy Lin Seder,” Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “LANY,” Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY; “Beta Space: Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; “L.A. NOW,” Galerie Fiat, Paris, France; “California Modern,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA; and “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, among others.

Appel’s work may be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; The New York Public Library, New York, NY; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; the Misumi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; the Logan Collection, Vail, CO; and the Saatchi Collection, London, England.

Kevin was in town for his installation of works at the ADAA ART SHOW up through March 3rd with Miles McEnery Gallery and he stopped by Brian’s apartment in Brooklyn and they chatted about painting, jazz, architecture and more.

Polina Barskaya is an artist who was born in1984 in the Ukraine who lives and works in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. She studied at the Pratt Institute and Hunter College. Polina has exhibited nationally. Her work has recently been included in shows at Honey Ramka, Monya Rowe Gallery, Adam Baumgold Gallery and John Davis Gallery in Hudson. Brian visited Polina at her Brighton Beach home studio and they talked about her youth always on the move, family, scale in painting, her love/hate relationship to New York and much more.

Michael Stamm was raised in Evanston, Illinois. He received his BA from Wesleyan University and an MA in English Literature from Columbia University before earning an MFA from New York University. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2016. Michael was awarded the John Imber Painting Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. His first solo exhibition, Just Like This Please, was presented at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York in 2016. His work has also been included in several group exhibitions, including shows at Underdonk, Brooklyn; ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles; and Galerie Tobias Naehring in Leipzig. Residencies include the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles and Yaddo.Michael’s most recent solo exhibition, Mediation Inc, was presented at DC Moore in January 2018.

Brian met up with Michael in his Brooklyn studio to talk about literature, film, music and much more.

Loie Hollowell was born in 1983 in Woodland, California. She earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Originating in autobiography, her paintings explore themes of sexuality, often through abstractions of the human body with an emphasis on female forms. Using strong colors, varied textures, surface build-up and geometric symmetry, her works evoke bodily landscapes that allude to specific body parts in the form of symbols such as Mandorlas and Ogees. Hollowell has had solo exhibitions with Pace gallery in Palo Alto, CA, and is about to open a solo exhibition in March at Pace Hong Kong. She has also had solo exhibitions at Feuer/Mesler gallery in Manhattan and at 106 Green gallery in Brooklyn. She's been in group exhibitions at Anton Kern in NYC, White Cube and Massimo De Carlo in London, Kohn gallery and The Landing in LA, and at Ballroom Marfa in Texas. Brian met up with Loie in her Brooklyn studio and they had an engaging talk about growing up the child of a painter and teacher, the meaning and symbolism of her paintings, the environment, drawing versus painting, all the while joined by her two active cats who tried their best to join in the podcast.

Amy Lincoln is a New York-based artist who makes carefully observed and imaginatively colored paintings of plants and the natural world. She has exhibited her work in New York at galleries such as Morgan Lehman and Regina Rex; at Pulse Miami Beach, and at Monya Rowe Gallery in Saint Augustine, FL where she had a solo exhibition in 2016.  Lincoln received her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis.  She has participated in the Lower Manhattan Swing Space residency, the Inside Out Art Museum artist residency in Beijing as well as the Wave Hill Winter Workspace in NYC.  Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, The New Criterion, Two Coats of Paint and The Brooklyn Rail. Brian met up with Amy at her studio in Glendale, Queens and they talked about critiques, kids, insomnia, swing dancing and a lot more.

Katie Bell is an artist born in Rockford, Illinois living and working in New York City. She recieved her BA from Knox College in Illinois and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

She has had solo shows at venues such as Okay Mountain Gallery in Austin, Texas, Backspace in Peoria, Illinois, Lipscomb University in Nashville, Mixed Greens in New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Penn State, Drew Univeristy, Locust Projects in Miami among others.

Her group shows include Circuit 12 in Dallas, LVL3 in Chicago, Launch F18 in NYC, the Soho House in New York, Spring Break Art Show, Transmitter, Brooklyn, Rockford University, the Royal College of Art and many others.

Katie has received a NYFA Fellowship a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space and she has taught as a visiting critic at North Texas, RISD, Denison Univeristy, Knox College, and many other schools.

Her work has been covered in Art F City, Two Coats of Paint, Paper Magazine, Art News, Artinfo, Vulture, Maake Magazine and many other publications.

Brian stopped by Katie’s East Village studio and they spoke about her days growing up as a twin, endless renovations, art school, getting your foot in the door and dancing to bachata.

Hiba Schahbaz is a Brooklyn-based artist who trained in miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan and received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York City. In addition to exhibiting her work internationally in galleries and fairs including the Vienna Art Fair and Spring Break Art Show in NYC, Hiba has curated exhibitions of miniature paintings in Pakistan and India. She was an artist-in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and The Wassaic Project and has taught miniature painting as part of the Alfred Z. Solomon Residency at the Tang Museum. She is a artist instructor at the Art Students League of New York and is represented by Thierry Goldberg Gallery in NY.

She has an upcoming exhibition, “ Reclaimed Baggage” at the  Northern Illinois University Art Museum as well as several group exhibtions.

Brian stopped by Hiba’s studio in Bushwick and they spoke about her days making paintings in Pakistan, her time as a student at Pratt, music in the studio, finding quiet headspace and much more.

Nathan Ritterpusch was born in 1976 in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Since graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999, his work has been shown extensively in galleries throughout the US and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions include: Sue Ravitz 57West57 Arts, New York, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, (Dusseldorf, Germany); University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE); and RARE Gallery (New York). He has held residencies at Dada Post in Berlin, Germany (2011), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2010) and Futura Projekts in Prague in the Czech Republic (2008). Nathan currently divides his time between New York and Connecticut 

Nathan’s solo show, Old Enough to be My Mother, is up now at Castor Gallery on Manhattan’s lower east side. Brian met up with Nathan there and they spoke about growing up in Pennsylvania, distortion in music and painting, narrative and representation and much more.

Mathew Cerletty was born in 1980 and grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Mat studied at Boston University graduating with a BFA in 2002.

He has had solo exhibtions at galleries such as Rivington Arms, Team Gallery, Blum & Poe, Office Baroque and others.

He’s been in groups shows at venues such as Standard, Oslo, Metro Pictures, the Whitney Museum of Art. Bureau, New York, Marlborough Chelsea, Anton Kern, Lisa Cooley, Gavin Brown and many more.

He’s also curated shows at Algus Greenspon and Gavin Brown/Passerby.

Brian met up with Mat in his Williamsburg studio, not far from his apartment, and they spoke about painting skills, the early days of showing work, art world learning lessons, the strong odor of Abercrombie & Fitch and a lot more.