Sound and Vision

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.

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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.

John Clement is an artist based in Brooklyn and works out of Long Island City in Queens. After receiving a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, Clement studied briefly at New York’s School of Visual Arts before moving on to work with Marc di Suvero and John Henry in the 1990s. In addition to numerous gallery exhibitions, Clement has also completed many public commissions and installations across the United States and abroad.

His large scale sculptures deal with line, movement, form and color. Brian caught up with him at his Long Island City studio to discuss his unconventional entry into a life in sculpture, the logistics of his work, his influences and much more.

John Clement is an artist based in Brooklyn and works out of Long Island City in Queens. After receiving a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, Clement studied briefly at New York’s School of Visual Arts before moving on to work with Marc di Suvero and John Henry in the 1990s. In addition to numerous gallery exhibitions, Clement has also completed many public commissions and installations across the United States and abroad.

His large scale sculptures deal with line, movement, form and color. Brian caught up with him at his Long Island City studio to discuss his unconventional entry into a life in sculpture, the logistics of his work, his influences and much more.

Nathan Carter lives and works on sculptures, drawings, photographs, jewelry, costumes, music, hats, capes, painted shades, dinners and dancing in his Brooklyn New York based studio.

He recently created, wrote, directed and composed music for his first short film called The DRAMASTICS Are Loud. Using hand made paper and wire figures set in dioramas Carter tell the story of the band as they write and record songs and go on crazy adventures touring the world in a precarious flying machine and playing their music at live rock concerts before breaking up in Paris France.

Immediately following the screenings of the film a real life band of musicians known as the DRAMASTICS REVUE has been performing the music from the film live. The film debuted at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver in 2016 and will be show again at the Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York City on June 23rd in an exhibition called The DRAMASTICS and the Fascinators.

Other collaborative projects include performing live music and dance with the artists Matthew Ronay and Tony Cox in LOBOTOMAXXX and with the painter Patricia Treib creating skirts and dresses under the name Volly Voila. Nathan Carter is represented by Casey Kaplan in New York City and by Esther Schipper in Berlin.

Nathan Carter lives and works on sculptures, drawings, photographs, jewelry, costumes, music, hats, capes, painted shades, dinners and dancing in his Brooklyn New York based studio.

He recently created, wrote, directed and composed music for his first short film called The DRAMASTICS Are Loud. Using hand made paper and wire figures set in dioramas Carter tell the story of the band as they write and record songs and go on crazy adventures touring the world in a precarious flying machine and playing their music at live rock concerts before breaking up in Paris France.

Immediately following the screenings of the film a real life band of musicians known as the DRAMASTICS REVUE has been performing the music from the film live. The film debuted at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver in 2016 and will be show again at the Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York City on June 23rd in an exhibition called The DRAMASTICS and the Fascinators.

Other collaborative projects include performing live music and dance with the artists Matthew Ronay and Tony Cox in LOBOTOMAXXX and with the painter Patricia Treib creating skirts and dresses under the name Volly Voila. Nathan Carter is represented by Casey Kaplan in New York City and by Esther Schipper in Berlin.

Midori Harima is an artist born and raised in Japan who is currently based in Queens, NY. She is actively exhibiting locally and internationally, including Honey Space, Deitch Studios, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, The Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, and Kala Art Institute.  Harima earned her BA in printmaking at Joshibi University of Art in Japan and is represented by Maho Kubota Gallery in Tokyo.

The work she is best know for, is her black-and-white paper sculptures made from photocopied images. Her recent work uses trash as a material and relates to the act of consumption while exploring a photographic and literary approach to sculpture. 

Her one-year project "Democracy Demonstrates" was recently included in the three person show; “Lyrics, Gestures and Games" at the Kala Art institute in Berkeley California which ends July 12, 2017.

Brian met up with Midori at her studio while preparing for her solo show “Year Without a Summer” at Maho Kubota Gallery in Tokyo that opens on June 30th and runs through August 5th.