Sound and Vision

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.

Alix Lambert is an artist, filmmaker, writer and a lot of other things based in Brooklyn, New York. Her feature length documentary The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and aired on Nightline. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as 7 segments for the PBS series LIFE 360. She has directed and produced two other feature length documentaries; Bayou Blue (made in collaboration with David McMahon) and Mentor. She is currently directing the feature length documentary, Goodbye, Fat Larry. She has directed numerous shorts and music videos including You As You Were for the band Shearwater on Sub Pop Records and the animated short, Tiffany.

Alix has written for a number of magazines including Stop Smiling, ArtForum, The LA Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine, to name a few. She wrote Episode 6, season 3 of Deadwood: “A Rich Find” and was a staff writer and associate producer on John From Cinicinnati. She was also a writer on the video game Syndicate.

Alix has exhibited her work in The Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Georges Pompidou Center, and the Kwangju Biennnale, to name a few. She is the author of four books: Mastering The Melon, The Silencing, Russian Prison Tattoos, and Crime. For theater, she has written and directed Crime, USA, which has been staged at Joe’s Pub in NYC, and the Cairns Festival in Australia and Crime, USA, Hartford, which was staged at Real Art Ways. Alix co-founded and is co-artistic director of The Brooklyn International Theater Company (with Nelson George and Danny Simmons). She has conceived of and directed two original series for MOCAtv; Crime: The Animated Series and Ambiance Man. She recently produced a segments for This American Life, and Theory of Everything.

She received grants from the NEA, NYFA and The Roberts Foundation. Alix has received residencies and fellowships from: The MacDowell Colony, Headlands, The Studios of Key West, The McColl Center, The MIT Media Lab in Cambridge and was The Booth Tarkington Writer in Residence at Butler University for the 2014-15 school year. She is currently developing her original animated series Prison Zoo. She is also working on an upcoming graphic novel to be released on Hat & Beard Press based on her experiences in courtrooms and her sketches.

Brian visited Alix at her Brooklyn home where she is working on her graphic novel and they spoke about crime, technology, the environment, indirock and a lot more.

Alix Lambert is an artist, filmmaker, writer and a lot of other things based in Brooklyn, New York. Her feature length documentary The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and aired on Nightline. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as 7 segments for the PBS series LIFE 360. She has directed and produced two other feature length documentaries; Bayou Blue (made in collaboration with David McMahon) and Mentor. She is currently directing the feature length documentary, Goodbye, Fat Larry. She has directed numerous shorts and music videos including You As You Were for the band Shearwater on Sub Pop Records and the animated short, Tiffany.

Alix has written for a number of magazines including Stop Smiling, ArtForum, The LA Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine, to name a few. She wrote Episode 6, season 3 of Deadwood: “A Rich Find” and was a staff writer and associate producer on John From Cinicinnati. She was also a writer on the video game Syndicate.

Alix has exhibited her work in The Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Georges Pompidou Center, and the Kwangju Biennnale, to name a few. She is the author of four books: Mastering The Melon, The Silencing, Russian Prison Tattoos, and Crime. For theater, she has written and directed Crime, USA, which has been staged at Joe’s Pub in NYC, and the Cairns Festival in Australia and Crime, USA, Hartford, which was staged at Real Art Ways. Alix co-founded and is co-artistic director of The Brooklyn International Theater Company (with Nelson George and Danny Simmons). She has conceived of and directed two original series for MOCAtv; Crime: The Animated Series and Ambiance Man. She recently produced a segments for This American Life, and Theory of Everything.

She received grants from the NEA, NYFA and The Roberts Foundation. Alix has received residencies and fellowships from: The MacDowell Colony, Headlands, The Studios of Key West, The McColl Center, The MIT Media Lab in Cambridge and was The Booth Tarkington Writer in Residence at Butler University for the 2014-15 school year. She is currently developing her original animated series Prison Zoo. She is also working on an upcoming graphic novel to be released on Hat & Beard Press based on her experiences in courtrooms and her sketches.

Brian visited Alix at her Brooklyn home where she is working on her graphic novel and they spoke about crime, technology, the environment, indirock and a lot more.

Richard Phillips was born in 1962 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received his B.F.A. in 1984 from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and his M.F.A. in 1986 from Yale University. His recent solo museum exhibitions include Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland , Kunstverein Hamburg in Germany, “Paintings and Drawings,” at Le Consortium in Dijon, “Lindsay Lohan,” at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane and “Negation of the Universe,” at the Dallas Contemporary in Texas .

His work in public collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Tate Modern in London and the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands.

His films ‘Lindsay Lohan’ and ‘Sasha Grey’ premiered at the 54th Venice Bienale in 2011 and at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane in 2012. First Point premiered at Art Unlimited at Art Basel, Switzerland in June 2012.

Brian met up with Richard at his Red Hook studio in Brooklyn and they spoke about his early days in the Village making sculptural paintings, surfing and racing, the impact of music, Blinky and Motherwell and lots more.

Richard Phillips was born in 1962 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received his B.F.A. in 1984 from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and his M.F.A. in 1986 from Yale University. His recent solo museum exhibitions include Kunsthalle Zürich in Switzerland , Kunstverein Hamburg in Germany, “Paintings and Drawings,” at Le Consortium in Dijon, “Lindsay Lohan,” at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane and “Negation of the Universe,” at the Dallas Contemporary in Texas .

His work in public collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Tate Modern in London and the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands.

His films ‘Lindsay Lohan’ and ‘Sasha Grey’ premiered at the 54th Venice Bienale in 2011 and at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane in 2012. First Point premiered at Art Unlimited at Art Basel, Switzerland in June 2012.

Brian met up with Richard at his Red Hook studio in Brooklyn and they spoke about his early days in the Village making sculptural paintings, surfing and racing, the impact of music, Blinky and Motherwell and lots more.

Louis Fratino was born in 1993 in Maryland and currently lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He recently had solo shows at Monya Rowe Gallery in Florida, Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City and Platform Gallery in Baltimore, MD. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at HILDE Gallery in Los Angeles, Harpy Gallery in New Jersey, and Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York, NY. He also is currently in a four person show at D.C. Moore Gallery. He completed a Fulbright research Fellowship in Painting in Berlin, and has also concluded the Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music in Norfolk, CT. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at Maryland Institute of Art, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Current Space, and SessionSpace, among others. His work was recently covered by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.

Brian met up with Louis at his studio in Long Island City where they discussed his time growing up in Maryland, working small and scale shifts in painting, hia time working at the Guggenheim, striving for non-thinking time and much more.

Louis Fratino was born in 1993 in Maryland and currently lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He recently had solo shows at Monya Rowe Gallery in Florida, Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City and Platform Gallery in Baltimore, MD. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at HILDE Gallery in Los Angeles, Harpy Gallery in New Jersey, and Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York, NY. He also is currently in a four person show at D.C. Moore Gallery. He completed a Fulbright research Fellowship in Painting in Berlin, and has also concluded the Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music in Norfolk, CT. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at Maryland Institute of Art, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Current Space, and SessionSpace, among others. His work was recently covered by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.

Brian met up with Louis at his studio in Long Island City where they discussed his time growing up in Maryland, working small and scale shifts in painting, hia time working at the Guggenheim, striving for non-thinking time and much more.

Tracy Thomason was born in Gaithersburg, MD in 1984. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Tracy received her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006, and her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008.

Her solo shows include Cuevas Tilleard Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and her current show at Marinaro Gallery. She’s had group exhibtiions at Impreial College London, Devening Projects in Chicago, 106 Green in Brooklyn, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, TSA LA, Jeff Bailey Gallery, James Fuentes and many others.

Her work has been covered in the New Yorker, Artinfo, The Brooklyn Rail, New American Paintings and several others.

She attended the Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency with Dana Schutz in Florida and she recieved a Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship. She has taught at the Interlochen School for the Arts, Cooper Union, MICA, Drew University and the University of Tennessee.

Brian met up with Tracy in her Brooklyn studio on the occasion of her solo show at Marinaro in the Lower East Side and they discussed her school days and destined path, her working as a personal chef, the materiality in her painting and even Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Tracy Thomason was born in Gaithersburg, MD in 1984. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Tracy received her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006, and her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008.

Her solo shows include Cuevas Tilleard Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and her current show at Marinaro Gallery. She’s had group exhibtiions at Impreial College London, Devening Projects in Chicago, 106 Green in Brooklyn, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, TSA LA, Jeff Bailey Gallery, James Fuentes and many others.

Her work has been covered in the New Yorker, Artinfo, The Brooklyn Rail, New American Paintings and several others.

She attended the Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency with Dana Schutz in Florida and she recieved a Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship. She has taught at the Interlochen School for the Arts, Cooper Union, MICA, Drew University and the University of Tennessee.

Brian met up with Tracy in her Brooklyn studio on the occasion of her solo show at Marinaro in the Lower East Side and they discussed her school days and destined path, her working as a personal chef, the materiality in her painting and even Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Lisa Sigal is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in Philadelphia and received her BFA from Tyler School of Art. She then attended Skowhegan and went on to get her MFA in apinting from Yale University.

She has has solo shows at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, LAX Art in LA, Samson Projects in Boston, the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, White Columns in NYC and many more.

She’s been in group shows too numerous to name, but a few include the New Museum, P.S.1, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artists Space, Painting Center, Art i n General and many more.

Her work has been covered in Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Time Out, The New York Times and many others. She has won the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NYFA Grant, amongst others.

Lisa is also the co-founder and co-curator, with Nova Benway, of Open Sessions, a program for artists run by The Drawing Center.

Brian met up with Lisa at her Gowanus studio and they spoke about public art, old Soho days, gentrification, music and her current show at Miller Contemporary.