Tarik Talk

As you may have guessed it, Raissa Mendes is Tarik's sister. Originally from Brazil, she has lived and traveled around the world and today calls Shenzhen, China her home, with her french husband, two cats and a house full of plants. Raissa is a marketing professional, entrepreneur, RTY200 yoga teacher. In this episode, Raissa and Tarik talk about their bond as siblings, upbringings in Brazil, moving to America in the early 2000s, and what it is like to live in China.

Jonathan Levine Projects is committed to new and cutting edge art. Our roots go back to 1995 when LeVine's life-long participation in punk and underground music grew into a curatorial experiment with the visual culture that surrounded him. In 2005, he opened Jonathan LeVine Gallery in the Chelsea district of New York City and had great success nurturing the careers of many celebrated artists.In 2017, the gallery relocated to Jersey City with a newfound focus on community and collaboration. The newly named Jonathan LeVine Projects aims to create engaging programs and interesting partnerships beyond the traditional gallery space. With an eye towards honoring and connecting with the history and context of Post War art, Jonathan LeVine Projects explores the terrain of the high/low and everything in between.

Michael Casalinho, a Jersey City restaurateur, chef and entrepreneur sits down to discuss his passion for food, cooking, travel, his entrepreneurship journey and much more!

Born in Minneapolis, MN, painter Thomas John Carlson holds a BFA from the Ringling College of Art and Design and earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art where he also stayed on as a fellow. Living in the NYC area for the last 12 years, he founded the Jersey City Art School in 2009. He shows his works around Jersey City, Eden Rock Gallery in St Barthelemy, and group shows around Manhattan. His work ranges from mid-sized oils that deal with surrealistic subject matters with impressionistic use of color and opacity, and smaller works from his travels. Residencies include travels to St. Barths, Italy, Istanbul as well as sites in the Rocky mountains and Vermont.

Kyle Hamilton Fine Art was founded in 2016. Catering to wide range of clientele, providing a comprehensive range of services for individual collectors and corporate collections. Offering clients tailored services to maximize personal, cultural, and financial returns.

Heidi Jahr Kirkeby is a Norwegian visual artist. She is educated at Vika School of Art and Nydalen School of Art in Oslo. She mainly works with nature abstractions with acrylics on canvas.Her artistic goal is to create interacting atmospheres by expressing her personal interpretations of nature. She aims to highlight the meditative value of nature in today’s hectic society. In a deeper sense the atmospheres in her paintings can be interpreted as her personal moods.During her artist residency at eskff she will explore the art of Helen Frankenthaler and use the inspiration in her own nature abstractions.

June Sira was educated at the Oslo National Academy Of The Art where she studied painting, printmaking and sculpture from 1985 to1992. She has a Master of Fine Art in painting from Chelsea School Of Art, 1999/2000. After graduation she was selected for the UBS Art Award and received the national winner prize from a jury including Sir Nicholas Serota. Her work has been purchased by museums and institutions and she exhibits regularly. In June Sira's paintings we meet people of ambiguous age in portraits or tableaus that are fabulistic, symbolic or fragments of a story. She paints with tempera or pigments and rabbit skin glue directly on canvas. A classic technique where she expresses a contemporary sensibility.

Jay Golding is a Caribbean-American Autochthon mixed-media artist of Maroon descent. Golding’s practice explores themes related to migration, ancient mythology, and his personal life, often engaging the relationship between his Caribbean upbringing and African/tribal influence. The subjects in his work range from depictions of masked figures and fictional characters to friends and relatives, typically accompanied by the use of a vibrant palette and emerging textures caused by paint mediums, recycled materials such as tissue paper, and other found elements. Jay received his BFA in Studio Art from Kean University and has exhibited his work in various exhibitions in the greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area, including Akwaaba Gallery, The Monmouth Museum, and The Noyes Museum of Stockton University. Jay has also assisted and created public art in the form of murals in the United States, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Teena Soni is a New Jersey based artist working within the traditional Indian-Miniature painting in a contemporary art setting. Her training belongs to the artistic region of Udaipur, Rajasthan where she apprenticed with both her grandfather, Badri Lal Chitrakar, the renowned Indian-Miniature painter and National Award /Shilp Guru Award recipient, and her father, artist Shri Sharad Soni. The rigorous training infused her natural abilities with the rich ancestral content of traditional artistry. Teena considers the historic art of Pichwai paintings as a base premise for taking heritage forward with added subtle contemporary component. Her mediums include cotton fabric or handmade paper, and prepared hand-made colors from plant extracts with natural stones that are traditional Indian methods. These natural dyes give a vibrancy to the paintings through time and keep them alive for hundreds of years. Soni’s work has been exhibited at Kanoria Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India, Visual Art Center, Summit NJ, Pelham Art center, NY and in New Delhi. Her work has been featured in HYPERALLERGIC, Dainik Bhaskar and Rajasthan Patrika.