Brandon Graving is a female experimental printmaker. Her large-scale monoprints have a sculptural quality; "their embossed surfaces and different viscosities of inks have a presence unlike other prints.” The viewer can decipher the layers and see the history of the decisions that make up the work. It is an immersive looking experience into Graving's creative expression.
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Resources for this episode: www.beyondthepaint.net
Links to Graving's work and printmaking studio
www.brandongraving.com and @gravitypress on IG
Facebook: Brandongraving
Image Credit: "Dance on a Blue Stage" monoprint

In this episode we will explore through the creative hands of three American women painters, Agnes Martin, Almas Woodsey-Thomas and Helen Frakenthaler what is recognizable in nature (trees, flowers, water) through Abstraction; “representations pared down to the minimum."
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Resources and images discussed are on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Follow me on IG @beyondthepaintpodcast in my continued celebration of female visual artists.

As we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the United States, Beyond the Paint with Bernadine presents best of episode with writer, historian John Launius. I will be back next week with artist and printmaker Brandon Graving.
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Learn more about John's Book, "The Life and Times of Missouri's Charles Parsons: Between Art and War" -- www.parsonsbook.com
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Follow John:
https://twitter.com/johnlaun1
IG: @john_launius
Youtube: @Charles Parsons: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Sow5RvI3TVaW_c1G3GfgQ

Art historian Hall Rockefeller leads your gaze and awareness to the "unsung heroines" in the visual arts world. Through her Less than Half Salon and upcoming course on Art Collecting, she is building an engaging community of artists, collectors, gallerists, and art lovers.
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Art Collecting class: https://lessthanhalf.org/collecting-masterclass
Less than Half Salon: https://lessthanhalf.org/salon
Hall's IG Handles: @all.the.lady.artists and @fairart2030

Photographer Justyna Neyrng "spent much of her childhood playing with her father's cameras and darkroom while roaming the forests of Chelmsford on the Czech border." The poetics of her childhood influenced Neyrng's prolific emotive portraits. She composes images, documenting "something she feels rather than something she can see."
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Resources are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Experience Neyrng's evocative portraits: www.justynaneyrng.com & IG: @justynaneryng
Image Credit: Justyna Neyrng---Special shout out to painter Peter Bustin-we explore his portrait of Neyrng; the textures of her lithe body through layers of paint. :)

Bridgette Mayer is an art adviser, gallerist, supporting artists and creatives through her ArtMBA Mindset program. In my conversation with Mayer, we talk mindset, the impact art advisers and gallerists have in the contemporary story of art and her role fostering artists with collectors.
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Learn more about Mayer's ArtMBA Mindset for artists and creators:
https://www.bridgettemayer.com/
Follow Bridgette Mayer on IG: @bridgette_artmba
Artists and Collectors, please visit: http://www.bridgettemayerartadvisors.com/
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Image credit: Bridgette Mayer

Bonus Episode--Beyond the Paint hosts a conversation with the collaborative partners behind Seeds of Initiation tarot deck: siblings Amy Scott-Young and Grant Walker.
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This bonus episode is a companion to Episode 133: Amy Scott-Young: Tarot Deck and the Contemporary Female Figure.
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Seeds of Initiation Links:
Website: seedsofinitiation.com
IG handles: @amyb.tarotillustrator; @seeds_of_initiation_tarot; @grant.walker.76

Melanie Carr is a contemporary sculptor and female gallery owner.
In part one of the show, an invitation to explore her geometric sculptural works "concerned and consumed with touch, geometry, interactivity and human experience." (bio)
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In my conversation (part 2) with Carr, we journey through her gallery space, Melanie Carr Gallery (Essex, Connectiut) and her dedication to artists, their practice and work. Plus she offers insight into collecting Contemporary art. :)
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Resources are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Links to Melanie Carr include:
> Melanie Carr Gallery: www.melaniecarrgallery.com
> IG handles @melcarrstudio @melaniecarrgallery
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Image Credit: "Still I Breathe," 2020: Melanie Carr Studio

Amy Smith-Young is an illustrator. In collaboration with her brother Grant, Amy is re-envisioning tarot deck imagery. Her contemporary, female figures engage Divine Feminine principles and connects the tarot reader with figures relevant to our times .
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Resources for this episode are listed on my website: beyondthepaint.net
Links to Amy Scott-Young's works and her collaboration with her brother Grant for Seeds of Initiation tarot deck include:
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Website: Seedsofinitiation.com
IG Handles: @amyb.tarotillustrator-@[email protected]
On their website are two insightful videos that offer the background and inspiration of their creative project, Seeds of Initiation. :)

Journey with me the "complicated and imperfect women," of figural and still life painter Anna Weyant.
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Resources for this episode are listed on my website: www.beyondthepaint.org
Follow and explore Weyant's works on IG @annaweyant and www.annaweyant.com
Image Credit: Anna Weyant website
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Shout out to artist Amy Chaiklin and her series, "Cultured Pearl Portraits," featured in Create magazine: https://createmagazine.com/read/amy-chaiklin or on IG @createmagazine & @amychaiklin
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Join artist Leslie C. Sotomayor in a virtual panel discussion of empowered Latina/x Women: "Cafe con Leche" for Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month. Register: https://texastech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpd-2opzotGNawJps6qa01DiQm0Lv0W5VH