It's a Process

Jamie Chan makes loving paintings of baseball players, Post-it notes, and angels, among other things. We talk about making intimate images, her slow burn style, spirituality, identity, history, and how a day job can influence the creative process or become a stage for aesthetic experience.

http://jamiechan.nyc/

http://www.thislongcentury.com/jamie-chan

What Wind, curated by Eric Palgon:
https://www.ceyssonbenetiere.com/en/exhibitions/What-wind-2019-New-York-1108/

http://www.ericpalgon.com/

The Worlds of Bernice Bing:
https://www.aawaa.net/the-worlds-of-bernice-bing

Mary Carlson, Eden:
https://kerryschussgallery.com/pages/exhibitions_past_3.php?page=1

Gerard David:
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gera/hd_gera.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners

Eduardo Navarro is an Argentinian artist who works in a wide range of mediums including sculpture, performance, installation, and drawing. We spoke about his first UK solo exhibition (breathspace) currently on view at Gasworks in London, which includes a small humanoid sculpture called Self-Doll which became a surrogate for the artist. We also spoke about previous work including Timeless Alex in which he performs as a giant turtle, and Poema Volcanico, in which he visits and creates drawings while climbing to an active volcano.

http://www.navarroeduardo.com/

https://gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/eduardo-navarro-breathspace/

https://nararoesler.art/en/artists/76-eduardo-navarro/

https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/464/eduardo-navarro-1

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/arts/design/eduardo-navarro-edible-art-drawing-center.html

Eliza, Computer Therapist: http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/Eliza.htm

Werner Herzog - La Soufriere:
https://youtu.be/EVVAGmlgDxI

Joy Curtis is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. We talked about her solo show Skeleton Woman at Klaus Von Nichtsaggend gallery which is on view through January 9, 2020, the ideas around healing, surrender, and transformation that are woven into the work, and her turn towards softer and more vulnerable forms since her last solo show at Klaus.

https://klausgallery.com/exhibition/joy-curtis-2020-12-4/#joy-curtis-5542

http://www.joycurtisartist.com/

Books and related reading / viewing:

My Grandmother’s Hands:
https://www.amazon.com/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/1942094477

https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Spirit-African-Afro-American-Philosophy/dp/0394723694

Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf

bell hooks - Communion:
https://www.amazon.com/Communion-Female-Search-bell-hooks/dp/0060938293

About Butoh:
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/butoh-japanese-dance-darkness/

CHEER-TOH
https://vimeo.com/5087474

J.A. Feng is a Brooklyn based painter who recently presented a new body of work at NADA Miami with gallery 12.26 that imagines “worlds within worlds” and alternate models and origins of the universe. We also discuss her own origin story of becoming an artist, and the spiraling path of time and painting.

https://jafeng.art/home.html

https://www.gallery1226.com/ja-feng

https://www.newartdealers.org/programs/nada-miami-2020/presentations/13

George Carlin - Saving the Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain: https://youtu.be/qmR0vi0ifzE

Fantastically Wrong: The Scientist Who Thought That Birds Migrate to the Moon: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/fantastically-wrong-scientist-thought-birds-migrate-moon/

Anna Rosen is a painter working in fresco and on paper in her most recent work. She spoke about the process of creating her solo show Egg and Dart which is currently on view at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. We explore the cast of characters and elements that show up in her paintings, including aristocrats, vessels, eggs, ducks, spaghetti dinners, and time travel.

https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/anna-rosen2

https://www.hans-gallery.com/myprettyredheart

Earth Girls Are Easy Alien Makeover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCPbxmnGshI

Just Say Julie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwdXX1Ida7E

Juliana Paciulli is an artist in deep dialogue with the phenomenology of pop culture, the weird poetics of mass produced objects, and the discombobulated imagining of women’s bodies. We talk about her inspirations in the cinematography of sitcoms and advertisements, her love of Three’s Company, the surrealism of the 80s, moving off the screen, her recent uses of toilet paper, and the ethos of the Riot Grrrl movement.

http://julianapaciulli.com/

Paul Outerbridge toilet paper image: https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=106754

The Riot Grrrl Collection at NYU: https://guides.nyu.edu/riot-grrrl

Wayne’s World - Product Placement scene: https://youtu.be/8lgLYGBbDNs

The Doors - Thanksgiving scene: https://youtu.be/YQSP_R3Use8

Timothy Hull is an “archeologist of the soul” — an artist who gathers inspiration in the field of history, and draws connections between antiquity and the present in elegant paintings that are often covered in patterns, ancient texts, and fragments of figures and architecture. We cover a lot of bases in this episode from seeing his beautiful home in Upstate New York as an ongoing work of art in collaboration with his husband, to esoteric spiritual interests, to our shared love of emo music and inspirational quotes.

https://fridaynotes.com/

http://www.kristenlorello.com/timothy-hull-soloexhibition-2019

https://ashesonashes.com/lim-mage-n

https://ashesonashes.com/dark-mode-2014-2019

Intro to ho'oponopono: https://youtu.be/hG6lwOpzBS4

https://www.instagram.com/eleven_horseshoe_tarot/

Nicholas Sullivan is a very process driven sculptor and one of two Nicks who run A.D. gallery on NYC’s LES. We talk about his new studio, his cool artist mom, materials and their meaning, the power of work that is both personal and political, the tenderness of paper, Orwell’s 1984, and learning to trust one’s self in the creative process wherever it goes.

https://www.nicholas-sullivan.com/

http://adnyc.co/

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Richard Powers, The Overstory

The Fullness of Emptiness by Thich Naht Hahn

George Orwell’s 1984

Robert Gober, The Heart is Not a Metaphor

Alicia Gibson is a painter and drawer with “a collage mentality”. We chat about working and collecting materials from her current locale in South Carolina, poetic and cathartic uses of text, the transformative potential of art, pet portraits, and her upcoming solo show at Grifter gallery in NYC!

https://aliciagibson.net/

https://www.grifter.space/

https://www.loyalgallery.com/artists/alicia-gibson/

A brief introduction to the pod, and to me, your host, Jennifer Sullivan