In this episode of Turning Points, Patricia Killeen welcomed Jeff Rian, writer, musician, and associate editor of Purple fashion magazine – to play a few new songs from his most recent albums ‘Sketches’ and ‘Such is Life’– Jeff has lived in Paris for almost three decades; he talks about how his music, art and writing all found harmony in the City of Light.

Jeff has written numerous essays and exhibition catalogues on art and was a long-time contributor to Art in America, Flash Art, Frieze, and Artforum magazines. He is the author of Buckshot Lexicon, Purple Years, and monographs on contemporary artists (among them, Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Lewis Baltz, Richard Prince, Philip Lorca di Corcia, to name a few). 

As a guitarist/composer, his albums include Everglade, with Jean-Jacques Palix; Battle Songs and Méteo, with Bob Coke; four albums on major labels with French singer Alexandra Roos; and, in 2024, Such Is Life, a selection of

songs, released by Coriolis Sounds, and Sketches, a selection of guitar tracks with one song, curated by photographer Giasco Bertoli for his magazine Roses Tatouées. 

SHOW NOTES: 

Songs played in episode:

Oh God – Such is Life(2024) 

These Are the Times – Such is Life(2024) 

Sleep – Sketches (2024)