The Amy Beecher Show

Artist Rose Nestler stopped by my apartment before getting honored at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her self-described break down on the way to a job in Staten Island was the impetus for heading back to school after a decade of living and working as an artist in New York. We talk about how that turned out in this episode. Spoiler alert: turned out great.

Show Notes:

Rose Nestler

Sonya Blesofsky

Marriage

Joan Jonas

Spokane (WA)

Stephen Gaskin & Ina May Gaskin

The Farm commune (TN)

Mount Holyoke College

Joan Mitchell Foundation

Teaching Artists

Brooklyn College

Ortega Y Gasset

Fabric

Sculpture

MFA

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5 years later, we re-release Episode 7 with artist Reuben Lorch-Miller. Reuben! The great! We talk house plants, creative constraints, magic tricks, and marriage. All timely topics! Amy's house plants are thriving and she's getting hitched this week. Get ready for a blast from the past.

Tanya Goel records an episode with me on the last day of her exhibition of paintings and frescos at Nature Morte. Artist and gallery owner Peter Nagy mocks us in the background.

Since her first appearance on the show (episode 11), Virginia Lee Montgomery has been making videos out of hotel rooms. With insects. On a $200 budget. She is a Material Research Artist-in-Residence at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Dynamic and Controlled Materials and her solo show, The Pony Hotel, opened at Museum Folkwang in Essen on May 9th. Did I mention the insects? Lots of that on this episode.

We talk botox, life in Istanbul, and how a traumatic encounter surfing the dark web prompted her to turn away from figurative and digital work to abstract painting. ⁣

Singer-songwriter Cassandra Jenkins lives in the Upper West Side studio apartment her touring musician parents raised her in. We talk about how a Cat Stevens cover she recorded at home led to a studio album.

Everyone thinks Tracy Molis was a Goth teenager. Not true, but she'll take it. Her show at Kai Matsumiya closes January 13th.

Sophia Cleary is so many things: comedian, artist, drummer, doula, private investigator, gay. Yes, we cover them all.

www.sophiacleary.com

penistheband.com

https://twitter.com/_sophia_cleary?lang=en

Seung Min Lee grew up in Maspeth, Queens. Now she's in the Hamptons (occasionally), unsurprised. Topics include coddling, negging, and zombie modern dancing.

I almost went to UCLA for college. Lia Lowenthal makes me regret that I didn't. John Baldessari pours himself a weird nightcap. Listener, listen on.

Lia Lowenthal

http://www.lialowenthal.com

Documentation of Lia's Performances

https://vimeo.com/user31691511

LL LLC

https://lia-lowenthal.squarespace.com

Images:

1. Under Tylass, 2016

1. Creaned Gap, 2016

1. Installation view of GETHENS at Richard Telles, LA

Elnotie, Elavid II, and Seasugra Oz

1. Catoche Spur TB 3911.2 (detail), 2017, cedar, birch, stain, paint, tinted chrome, Elnotie (cast latón, tumbaga), 6 ½ x 8 x 4 ½ inches (16.51 x 20.32 x 11.43 cm), from Lia' show at Richard Telles, LA
2. and 6. Dilated Surpintel, Socrates Sculpture Park, 2016-2017