We Eat Art

Al Jaffee has quite literally been making cartoons longer than any artist in history. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he works at Mad Magazine.

Drew Heitzler is a conceptual artist and occasional curator who works in a variety of media. We talk about how you represent a train of thought, what's harder: making art or curating it?, working at CBGBs, being a dirtbag, the town of Goose Creek, Thomas Pynchon, Los Angeles as an art subject, philosophy, art fairs, owning a bar, and octopuses.

Valerie Hegarty's sculptures show nature reclaiming art and history and often get mistaken for actual decay. One piece is attacked by a woodpecker, another harpooned, another one has an idea she totally stole from her dad. We talk about experiment, craft, and being a consummate wiseass.

An outtake from this weeks episode with Nicholas Di Genova. Nick and Zak discuss the aesthetics of Role Playing (video)Game art and the subject matter of podcasts.

Nicholas DiGenova (aka Medium) is a painter, sculptor and street artist who makes art about mutant monsters. We talk about all that, plus ecology, scale, his urban and rural phases, the worst dentist in history, and more.

Ganzeer paints, draws, designs, makes street art and comics and was chased out of Egypt for being a dissident. We talk about where his ideas come from, how he puts them together and what it was like to be in the middle of Cairo as the revolution was happening.

A new years message from the podcast that loves the taste of art.

Jane Dickson makes psychologically loaded paintings about light, darkness, the city and the people who live there. We talk about all that, of course, plus Jane gives us some great details about the New York art scene in the 80s, where everyone from Kiki Smith to Basquiat seemed to all know each other and hang out.

John Pylypchuk makes paintings and sculptures of pathetic little creatures in the grip of massive forces they'll never understand. We talk about John's collective, the Royal Art Lodge, being a rock dude, running your own gallery and more.

Trenton Doyle Hancock's delirious paintings, prints, drawings, performances, toys, books and sculptures depict a complex mythological world that comments on the one we live in. We talk about a childhood of horror movies and Christianity, the process of painting, Philip Guston, German Expressionism, rhythm and poetry, the nature of storytelling in pictures, Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown and having your paintings made into a ballet.