Episode 27: Martine Johanna (Netherlands) - "Opening the Bell Jar"

07/06/20 • 118 min

Martine’s works are vivid and autobiographical depicting both direct realism and non-objective abstract elements. In this episode, we discuss her beginnings in street art, living and working with ADD, the personal and impersonal elements of her work, delving into side projects such as her illustrated book due out in November and her explorations as a vocalist in creating music.

Subjects Discussed In This Episode:

Working in Acrylics
Pointillism
Starting out in the fashion industry
Living a life that's not your own
Beginnings as a street artist
The benefits of working with galleries
Seeing your work in hindsight
Painting autobiographically
Exploring outside projects
Becoming a vocalist
Her upcoming book release this November
Her upcoming solo exhibition at Massey Klein this September
An upcoming exhibition with Hashimoto Contemporary in Spring 2021

Website

Instagram

Massey Klein

Hashimoto Contemporary

KockxBos Gallery

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Subjects Discussed In This Episode:

Working in Acrylics
Pointillism
Starting out in the fashion industry
Living a life that's not your own
Beginnings as a street artist
The benefits of working with galleries
Seeing your work in hindsight
Painting autobiographically
Exploring outside projects
Becoming a vocalist
Her upcoming book release this November
Her upcoming solo exhibition at Massey Klein this September
An upcoming exhibition with Hashimoto Contemporary in Spring 2021

Website

Instagram

Massey Klein

Hashimoto Contemporary

KockxBos Gallery

Find us on all your favorite platforms including:

IG: @lofipod

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Episode 26: Steven Assael (United States) - "Questioning Existence" - Swap-Cast with Artist Decoded Podcast

Steven Assael was born in New York, New York in 1957. He attended Pratt Institute and presently teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Assael balances naturalism with a romanticism that permeates the figures and surroundings of his paintings and drawings. The focus of his work is the human figure, either individually or in a group, rendered in glowing relief by gentle beams of warm and cool light. Steven Assael’s classical talents are as rare as they are essential to the diverse art world of the 21st Century.

For online teaching/mentorship please contact Steven at [email protected]

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

Seeking out advantages within painting and connecting with people during quarantine
Separation bringing us together
The intimate process of working with models and how they directly or indirectly affect the painting
Allowing for change within his overall creative vision
Teaching painting over Zoom
What makes a good teacher
The search for finding the right questions to ask
Experience motivating change and providing a renewal of what you want
Creating situations of exploration for oneself
Extracting the right vocabulary while creating
The element of control and power that children express when drawing different objects
Understanding the dynamic of copying a subject while painting, and how that evolves into a deeper exploration of shapes, tone, atmospheres, and the figure itself.
Giving breadth to form
A great work of art being infectious
The nature of romanticism
Working from life being an “inquiry into your own humanness”
The idea of questioning and rebelling within a visual outlook
Human nature
The environment of New York throughout the last forty years, and how it has changed
The importance of theatre and the work of actors
Symmetry and asymmetry, and its importance within artform and observation
“Everything is everything” aproach to life
Learning what to see flowing into learning how to paint
Nature being sporadic, and how we must become “like water” in order to succeed in our strategies in life
A commercialized outlook within the art world
Art becoming entertainment
Faith and doubt
Questioning of spirituality and existenc

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Episode 28: Rodney Ewing w/ Guest Host Cindy Shih (United States) - "Stories That Don't Get Told"

"While debating demanding topics such as race, religion, or war, it is simple enough to become polarized, and see situations in either black or white, right or wrong. These tactics may satisfy individuals whose position depends on employing policies or implementing strategies that promote specific agendas for a specific constituency. As an artist, it is more important to create a platform that moves us past alliances, and begins a dialogue that informs, questions, and in some cases even satires our divisive issues. Without this type of introspection, we are in danger of having apathy rule our senses. We can easily succumb to a national mob mentality, and ignore individual accounts and memories. With my work I am creating an intersection where body and place, memory and fact, are merged to reexamine human interactions and cultural conditions to create a narrative that requires us to be present and profound."

Subjects Discussed In This Episode:

Real-time narratives and artmaking with immediacy

Art reflecting the times we live in

His recent mural “Correspondence” in SF

Working with 100 Days Action

Issues of identity

Compulsion to create art

Art being not what you do but what you are

The intersection of art and personal identity

Working with Collective Genus

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