In part 1 of my episode on Digital Art (#159), I explored digital art as a medium, and the ways artists employ digital platforms from production to presentation. This included installation, video art, virtual reality and sound and music environments.
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In part 2, I focus on two contemporary female artists working in Digital art; an emerging artist Ande Ja Johnson who employs the art tool Paint 3D app from Microsoft and the Digital collagist Eugenia Loli. This episode includes a conversation with the artist Ande Ja Johnson.
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Resources for this episode are at my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Eugenia Loli: IG handle: @eugnia_loli Ande Ja Johnson: IG handles: @ _dej_j
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Special thanks to NIne 90 Branding and Design for their generous support of this episode.
www.nine90branding.com
Image Credit: "Cotton," Ande Ja Johnson
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Ande Ja Johnson is a visual arts teacher at a small private elementary school, Trinity Day, in Hartford, Connecticut. Learn more and consider supporting an undeserved student at www.trinityday.org. Thank you!

Join me into a world of 18th century Icelandic sea women and female, Japanese Ama pearl divers through the vision of woodcut printmaker, storyteller and artist Julie Goldstein. The artist joins me in an engaging conversation of her work, practice and her reverence for the "anonymous" woman.
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"Sea Woman," solo exhibition is at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, opening June 28-August 13, 2022. Learn www.bridgettemayergallery.com
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Julie Goldstein website: www.juliegoldsteinstudio.com; IG: @swmwithme
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Check out "Our Reflections" virtual exhibit at The Hut Magazine featuring the painter Ariana Tavares. Learn more at https://thehutsmagazine.com/; IG: @thehuts.magazine
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Many thanks to my sponsor Nine 90 Branding :)

A two-part episode, join me in an exploration with Digital Art as a practice and medium. This episode dives into Digital Art through four categories or themes; installation, film, video and animation, Virtual Reality, Sound Environments. In part two, we will journey into artists who use digital art as a means of expression. David Hockney, emerging New England artist Ande Ja Johnson an the Digitial Collagist Eugenia Loli.

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Text: Paul, Christiane. "Digital Art." London: Thames and Hudson, 2008; writers Penny Rafferty, Molly Gottschalk, Oliver Grau, Dr Karen Leader, Sarah Urist Green of the Art Assignment; Brooklyn Museum, Tate Museum, Museum of Modern Art.
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Special thanks to this episode's sponsor: Nine 90 Branding (Follow @nine90brand on IG)
Image credit: Langlands and Bell, "Osama Bin Laden's Hideout in Afghanistan," 2002

Elizabeth Catlett was a black, female artist, sculptor and printmaker. She was best known for her depictions of the African-American experience which often focused on the female experience. Her granddaughters Ife and Nia Mora are extension of Catlett's deep and resonant legacy. In this episode we explore the ways Catlett's work, practice and social activism shape and inspired the lives of her granddaughters. We talk art, activism, motherhood, resilience, self and intergenerational healing and Catlett's passion for cooking Mexican and Black Soul food recipes for gatherings.
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Go to www.beyondthepaint.net to view art works discussed and links/bios of Ife Mora, somatic healer and Nia Mora, celebrated chef. IG profiles: @ife.mora @niamora1
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I produced two additional episodes celebrating Elizabeth Catlett: Episode #144 and #150, available wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is a best of episode with the celebrated, contemporary artist and female pioneer in the Crypto Art Market, Nanu Berks. (Berks and I are collaborating for a new episode (coming soon) to explore the progression of her artistic practice.)
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In our lively conversation recorded in 2021, Berks shares the ways her nomadic life informs her work, how the crypto art market eliminates the gallery system, and how an NFT (non-fungible token) is a mode to being visually (and spiritually) transported.
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Nanu Berks:
www.nanuberks.com
@IG: nanu_berks
@Twitter: nanuberks

In Part 2 of my celebration of Pamela Colman Smith, we dive into her collaboration with Arthur Waite for the Rider Waite Tarot deck. (The first tarot deck to be mass marketed in English.) Join me in a journey through her "direct, captivating imagery."
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Resources for this episode include:
Mary K. Greer (marykgreer.com)
Stephen Kaplan: "Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story"
Allison Meier

Beyond the Paint podcast celebrates the visionary artist Pamela Colman Smith in two parts. Part 1, today's episode, focuses and highlights aspects of Smith's artistic life and practice.
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Part 2-will take a deep dive into Smith's legacy as illustrator for the Rider-Waite tarot deck, a commission she described as "big job for very little cash."
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Resources for this episode include Yale Art Gallery and the seminal text "Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story" by Stephen R. Kaplan with contributions by scholars like Mary K. Greer.
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Image credit: Photo of Pamela Colman Smith: Mary K. Greer (blogsite)
Special thanks to K. Lee Marks @k.leemarks (IG) and the creators Grant Walker and Amy B. Scott of Seeds of Initiation Tarot deck @seeds_of_initiation_tarot (IG) for inspiring this journey into Smith's evocative and mystical visual imagery.
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Special shout out to the women who bring awareness and create arenas for contemporary women artists to flourish!
Liezel Strauss: Art Girls Rising: www.artgirlrising.com
Hall Rockefeller: Less than Half Salon: www.lessthanhalf.org
Kelly Groehler: Alice Riot: www.aliceriot.com

Ghislaine Fremaux or Ghi as she is known is a female artist from west Texas. Her evocative, large-scale figural works, intimately engaged, interrogate her canvases. In my conversation with Fremaux we explore the "nude body in a clothed society," the role of the camera placed against her belly in "uninstructed, spontaneous encounters," and more!
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Learn more about Fremaux's work, practice and collaborative with husband Lando Velez
Website: www.fremauxvaldez.com
IG: @ghislainefremaux
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Resources for this podcast episode include Museum of Modern Art and the writings of Stephen Little.
Image credit: "Parallel Play, Commixion, Emma and Me" 2019 (Ghislaine Fremaux website)

In celebration of Women's History Month, I invite you to experience the exhibition "Feminist Connect," at the Charles Art Project in Lubbock, Texas. (March 4-30, 2022).
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And yes, I dedicated two episodes to this exhibition, but also to the co-curators, Sally Brown (Episode #151) and in this episode multi-media artist Leslie C. Sotomayor. :)
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Link to the exhibition: https://www.les-femmes-folles-feminist-connect.com/2022-exhibit/
Follow Leslie C. Sotomayor: @art_by_lcs on IG; https://personal-psu.academia.edu/LeslieSotomayor

The contemporary artist Eileen Neff "works with photo-based images and installation, picturing the natural and constructed worlds. Her “straight-forward representations, constructed images and sheer abstractions reflect the breadth of pictorial approaches—these approaches make poetic sense of her experience in the world.” And the works are inviting! Neff's works shroud the viewer in its aesthetic beauty and mesmerizes us into a inquiry of Neff’s experiences in the visual world.
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Resources for this podcast episode include: Eileen Neff website and Bridgette Mayer Gallery
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Follow Eileen Neff on IG @eileenneff_studio and at her website, www.eileenneff.com. Installation exhibitions can be viewed at Bridgette Mayer Gallery @bmayergallery