Sound and Vision

Carl Ostendarp is an abstract painter based in upstate New York. He has had over 33 solo national and international museum and gallery exhibitions and more than 170 group exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include his just completed show at Elizabeth Dee Gallery in Harlem; Everything Falls Faster than an Anvil at Pace Gallery, London; and Pop Abstractions at Garth Greenan Gallery and Fredericks & Freiser, New York City. Carl has a long history of not only showing his work but curating excellent exhibitions. He  taught at NYU, Tyler, Rutgers, SVA, and The Cooper Union prior to his 14 years at the helm of the Graduate Studies Program at Cornell University. Ostendarp received his B.F.A. from Boston University and his M.F.A. from Yale University. Brian met up with Carl at Elizabeth Dee Gallery on the last day of his show to talk about his past days in NYC, his curated shows, the role of humor in painting and a bit of soul jazz.

Yui Kugimiya is an artist born in Tokyo and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, her MFA from Yale University and attended Skowhegan in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at Taymour Grahne in New York, Gallery Enrique Guererro in Mexico City, Marlborough Broome Street and Kunsthall Stavenger in Norway. She has also had recent group exhibitions at Kansas, Bermuda Galley, White Columns, David Castillo, Gasser & Grunert, and the Journal Gallery just to name a few. Her work is in the collection of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Brian met up with Yui at her current show at Taymour Grahne gallery in Tribeca and they spoke about her youth in Tokyo, her transition to the Northeast, her dabbling as a punk drummer and the moves she makes in her animations and paintings.

Yui Kugimiya is an artist born in Tokyo and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, her MFA from Yale University and attended Skowhegan in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at Taymour Grahne in New York, Gallery Enrique Guererro in Mexico City, Marlborough Broome Street and Kunsthall Stavenger in Norway. She has also had recent group exhibitions at Kansas, Bermuda Galley, White Columns, David Castillo, Gasser & Grunert, and the Journal Gallery just to name a few. Her work is in the collection of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Brian met up with Yui at her current show at Taymour Grahne gallery in Tribeca and they spoke about her youth in Tokyo, her transition to the Northeast, her dabbling as a punk drummer and the moves she makes in her animations and paintings.

Timothy Hull is an artist who was born 1979 in New York, NY. He received an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York, and a BA from New York University. Recent solo exhibitions include: “For Ammonis Who Died at 29 in 610” at ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles, Painting in the Imperfect Tense, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York in 2016 and Pastiche Cicero at Fitzroy Gallery in New York in 2014. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, The Hole, the Tate Modern, the Morris Museum of Art, and the Nomas Foundation. His work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Interview Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Brian visited Timothy’s studio in Greenpoint and we talked about the imp ortance of seeing work in person to the current role of criticism to the lure of the Hudson Valley and much more.

Timothy Hull is an artist who was born 1979 in New York, NY. He received an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York, and a BA from New York University. Recent solo exhibitions include: “For Ammonis Who Died at 29 in 610” at ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles, Painting in the Imperfect Tense, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York in 2016 and Pastiche Cicero at Fitzroy Gallery in New York in 2014. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, The Hole, the Tate Modern, the Morris Museum of Art, and the Nomas Foundation. His work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Interview Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Brian visited Timothy’s studio in Greenpoint and we talked about the imp ortance of seeing work in person to the current role of criticism to the lure of the Hudson Valley and much more.

James Siena is an artist who was born in California in 1957. He spent most of his formative years in Washington D.C. and got his BFA from Cornell University. His intricate, rule-based abstractions are made of intensely concentrated, vibrant, freehand geometric patterns. He works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing, and painting. His work is in numerous public and private collections across the U.S., including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has lectured at numerous institutions throughoiut the US including the MFA Fine Arts department at the School of Visual Arts. He completed a residency at Yaddo where he is now on the board. Brian spoke with James at Pace Gallery.

James Siena is an artist who was born in California in 1957. He spent most of his formative years in Washington D.C. and got his BFA from Cornell University. His intricate, rule-based abstractions are made of intensely concentrated, vibrant, freehand geometric patterns. He works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing, and painting. His work is in numerous public and private collections across the U.S., including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has lectured at numerous institutions throughoiut the US including the MFA Fine Arts department at the School of Visual Arts. He completed a residency at Yaddo where he is now on the board. Brian spoke with James at Pace Gallery.

Maggie Ogden is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. She got a BA from Bard, her post bac from Brandeis and her MFA from Boston University. She also attended Skowhegan in 2011. She’s show at freight and Volume, LTD Gallery and recently at Embajada in Puerto Rico. She’s shown in group shows at Storefront Ten Eyek, David Shelton Gallery, Lesley Heller, Spring Break and Eddy’s room. Her work has been covered in Cultured Magazine, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, Artinfo, the LA Times to name a few. Brian spoke with Maggie in her Bed Stuy studio.

Maggie Ogden is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. She got a BA from Bard, her post bac from Brandeis and her MFA from Boston University. She also attended Skowhegan in 2011. She’s show at freight and Volume, LTD Gallery and recently at Embajada in Puerto Rico. She’s shown in group shows at Storefront Ten Eyek, David Shelton Gallery, Lesley Heller, Spring Break and Eddy’s room. Her work has been covered in Cultured Magazine, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, Artinfo, the LA Times to name a few. Brian spoke with Maggie in her Bed Stuy studio.

Yevgeniya Baras is a painter and a cofounder of Regina Rex Gallery in Bushwick. She received a BS in fine arts and psychology and MS in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and is now represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Art in America. Brian spoke with Yevgeniya at her studio in Bushwick about her life and work.