Alisha Sofia Describes Hagop Hagopian

07/02/21 • 6 min

Alisha Sofia (b. 1987) attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, completing her degree at Art Center College of Design in 2009. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

The painting she describes in this episode is:

Hagop Hagopian (b. Alexandria, Egypt, 1923-2013, Yerevan, Armenia)
A Woman with a Mirror
1969

Alisha Sofia (b. 1987) attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, completing her degree at Art Center College of Design in 2009. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

The painting she describes in this episode is:

Hagop Hagopian (b. Alexandria, Egypt, 1923-2013, Yerevan, Armenia)
A Woman with a Mirror
1969

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Nick Nazmi Describes Grant Wood

Nick Nazmi (b. Chicago, 1991) creates an array of paintings and drawings in which apparitions, lost souls, and characters in a book are stuck in their nostalgia for a time and place that is no longer accessible. His work is influenced heavily by Persian folklore and the poetry of his father and grandfather from Iran. Nazmi lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The paintings he describes in this episode are:

Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)
Death on Ridge Road
1935
Oil on masonite
32 1⁄8” × 39 1/16” × 1 5/16”
Williams College Museum of Art
Gift of Cole Porter
Stone City, Iowa
oil on wood panel
301⁄4 x 40”
Joslyn Art Museum
Gift of the Art Institute of Omaha, 1930.35; Art © Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Akari Uragami Describes Cobird

Akari Uragami lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Using soft sculpture, she expresses the universality of humans as organisms, depicting their internal and external phenomena. Akari graduated from Musashino Art University as a textile major and ESMOD fashion school in 2012. Her work has been exhibited in Korea, London, and California.

The work she describes in this episode is by cobird:

「3 minute experience」
Cyanotype on paper & Lightjet print on photo paper
745mm x 490mm
2018

She also mentions a collaboration with Ninja Tune, accessible here:

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photo: Masayuki Saito