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Angelina Gualdoni is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. She was born in San Francisco and got her BFA from MICA and her MFA from the University Of Illinois at Chicago. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000.

She has had solo exhibitions at Asya Geisberg, Kavi Gupta, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the MCA in Chicago amongst others. She’s had group shows at Xolla Liebermand, Lama Dodd, Bowling Green, the Nerman Museum, the Queens Museum, Susan Inglett, the Orlando Museum of Art and many more.

She has received a NYFA Award grant, a Pollock-Krasner Grant and has been a resident at the ISCP and the MacDowell Colony along with other residencies.

She has been featured in the Boston Globe, Artcritical, the Huffington Post, Two Coats of Paint, the New York Times, Artnet and many more.

Angelina is also a co-founder of Regina Rex Gallery. Her work is in the collection of the MCA in Chicago, the Nerman Museum and the Saatchi Collection. She has taught for many years and is currently teaching at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.

Brian stopped by Angelina’s Bed Stuy studio and we talked about the Chicago music scene, adjusting to New York, co-founding Regina Rex and her diverse approach to painting.

Sean Paul was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his BFA from MICA and his MFA from Columbia Univeristy in New York. He lives and works in NY. His solo echibitions include Adversaries, Inc at David Lewis Gallery, Communication of the Present Noise at Thomas Duncan in Los Angeles, as well as shows at Campoli Press in Paris, Front Desk Apparatus in NYC,COMA in Berlin, Elizabeth Dee Gallery and Sutton Lane Gallery. He’s had group shows at TCNJ Gallery in New Jersey, Laurel Gitlen, New York, JTT Gallery, New York, Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, Massimo De Carlo in Milan, Le Confort Moderne/Contemporary Art Center in France, John ConnellyPresents in New York amongst many others. His work has been written about in the NY Times, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Flash Art, ARTslant, Artnet, Artforum, ArtInfo, and the Miami Herald to name just a few. He’s in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been teaching at the School of Visual Arts since 2009. Brian met up with Sean at David Lewis Gallery at his solo show to talk about his youth in Salt Lake City, his path from the west coast to the east coast, elections, doomsdays and a lot more.

Sean Paul was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his BFA from MICA and his MFA from Columbia Univeristy in New York. He lives and works in NY. His solo echibitions include Adversaries, Inc at David Lewis Gallery, Communication of the Present Noise at Thomas Duncan in Los Angeles, as well as shows at Campoli Press in Paris, Front Desk Apparatus in NYC,COMA in Berlin, Elizabeth Dee Gallery and Sutton Lane Gallery. He’s had group shows at TCNJ Gallery in New Jersey, Laurel Gitlen, New York, JTT Gallery, New York, Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, Massimo De Carlo in Milan, Le Confort Moderne/Contemporary Art Center in France, John ConnellyPresents in New York amongst many others. His work has been written about in the NY Times, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Flash Art, ARTslant, Artnet, Artforum, ArtInfo, and the Miami Herald to name just a few. He’s in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been teaching at the School of Visual Arts since 2009. Brian met up with Sean at David Lewis Gallery at his solo show to talk about his youth in Salt Lake City, his path from the west coast to the east coast, elections, doomsdays and a lot more.

Matt Mignanelli is an artist working out of Brooklyn and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. His paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally with solo exhibitions at Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles, LUCE Gallery in Torino, Italy, and Dubner Moderne, Lausanne. He’s had two-person exhibitions at The Hole, New York and Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City. He was included in Lineup: Explorations in Linear Abstraction at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, and Face to Face: Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection at Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno. He has exhibited with Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, Galerie Clemens Gunzer in Zurich, Dickinson Roundell, Contemporary Istanbul with Dubner Moderne, and EXPO Chicago with Richard Heller Gallery, amongst others. He was awarded an artist’s grant from the Vermont Studio Center as an artist in residence and has lectured at Parsons School of Design in New York. His work has been profiled and reviewed in Interview Magazine, SFAQ, Aujourd'hui, La Republicca, ARTINFO, Paper Magazine, and was featured in VICE’s video series Art Talk. Matt is represented by Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles and Dubner Moderne, Lausanne. Brian stopped by his Bushwick studio and they talked about scale and percussion, Coltrane and dad schedules and much more.

Matt Mignanelli is an artist working out of Brooklyn and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. His paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally with solo exhibitions at Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles, LUCE Gallery in Torino, Italy, and Dubner Moderne, Lausanne. He’s had two-person exhibitions at The Hole, New York and Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City. He was included in Lineup: Explorations in Linear Abstraction at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, and Face to Face: Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection at Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno. He has exhibited with Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, Galerie Clemens Gunzer in Zurich, Dickinson Roundell, Contemporary Istanbul with Dubner Moderne, and EXPO Chicago with Richard Heller Gallery, amongst others. He was awarded an artist’s grant from the Vermont Studio Center as an artist in residence and has lectured at Parsons School of Design in New York. His work has been profiled and reviewed in Interview Magazine, SFAQ, Aujourd'hui, La Republicca, ARTINFO, Paper Magazine, and was featured in VICE’s video series Art Talk. Matt is represented by Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles and Dubner Moderne, Lausanne. Brian stopped by his Bushwick studio and they talked about scale and percussion, Coltrane and dad schedules and much more.

Franklin Evans creates painting installations with his studio as his subject. He was born in Reno, Nevada and has degrees from Stanford University, the University of Iowa where he got an MFA in painting and Columbia University where he received an MBA. Since 2005, he has had twenty solo exhibition in the United States and Europe and numerous group exhibitions at venues, which include, among others: MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; amongst many others. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art in America, New York Magazine, Artforum, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, among other publications. Awards and grants include the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant a NYFA Fellowship in Painting, the PM Foundation, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and LMCC Workspace Program. Franklin’s work is included in the public collections of the Orlando Museum of Art, the Yale Univesity Art Gallery, the Museo del Barrio, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and many others. He is represented by Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York, FL Gallery in Milan, and Steven Zevitas Gallery. Brian stopped by Franklin’s Lower East Side studio and they talked about the speed of society, the realization of being an artist, Robert Smith hair and art as work and art as play.

Franklin Evans creates painting installations with his studio as his subject. He was born in Reno, Nevada and has degrees from Stanford University, the University of Iowa where he got an MFA in painting and Columbia University where he received an MBA. Since 2005, he has had twenty solo exhibition in the United States and Europe and numerous group exhibitions at venues, which include, among others: MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; amongst many others. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art in America, New York Magazine, Artforum, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, among other publications. Awards and grants include the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant a NYFA Fellowship in Painting, the PM Foundation, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and LMCC Workspace Program. Franklin’s work is included in the public collections of the Orlando Museum of Art, the Yale Univesity Art Gallery, the Museo del Barrio, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and many others. He is represented by Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York, FL Gallery in Milan, and Steven Zevitas Gallery. Brian stopped by Franklin’s Lower East Side studio and they talked about the speed of society, the realization of being an artist, Robert Smith hair and art as work and art as play.

Diana Al-Hadid is an artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She was born in Aleppo, Syria and immigrated to Ohio when she was five. In 2003, she received a BA in Art History and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State University in Ohio. In 2007, she received an MFA in sculpture fromVirginia Commonwealth University. She Also attended Skowhegan before setting up shop in her studio in East Williamsburg. Diana is represented in New York City by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Her work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, amongst many others. Al-Hadid has had solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, the NYUAD Gallery in Abu Dhabi, OHWOW Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Design, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Hammer Museum just to name a few. She’s received the The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and she’s a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and a a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture. Brian stopped by Diana’s studio in Brooklyn, where he used to have a studio in the same building for years to catch up and talk about art, music and life.

Diana Al-Hadid is an artist who creates sculptures, installations, and drawings using various media. She was born in Aleppo, Syria and immigrated to Ohio when she was five. In 2003, she received a BA in Art History and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State University in Ohio. In 2007, she received an MFA in sculpture fromVirginia Commonwealth University. She Also attended Skowhegan before setting up shop in her studio in East Williamsburg. Diana is represented in New York City by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Her work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, amongst many others. Al-Hadid has had solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, the NYUAD Gallery in Abu Dhabi, OHWOW Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Design, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Hammer Museum just to name a few. She’s received the The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and she’s a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and a a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture. Brian stopped by Diana’s studio in Brooklyn, where he used to have a studio in the same building for years to catch up and talk about art, music and life.

Tom Burckhardt is an artist based out of New York City. He received his BFA from SUNY Purchase and also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. His numerous solo exhibits include “City Slang” at Gregory Lind in San Francisco, “Full Stop” at the Knoxville Art Museum and the Hudson River Museum, “Pretty Little Liars” at Tibor De Nagy Gallery amongst many others. He’s been included in group shows at Steven Harvey, Brian Morris, Steven Zevitas, DC Moore, Caren Golden and also in museum shows at the Nation Academy, the McNay Art Museum, and the Islip Art Museum to name a few. His work has been covered in numbers publications and sites including The New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtForum and The Village Voice. He’s received a Joan Mitchell Foundaion Grant, a Guggenheim Grant, a Pollock Krasner Grant, a NYFA Grant among others. Brian met Tom at his studio of over 20 years in the East Village in Manhattan and they talked about his youth as the child of accomplished artists, Indonesian percussion, passing on grad school and his life as a working artist.