We Eat Art

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We Eat Art is a podcast featuring the most in-depth one-on-one interviews with contemporary artists available on the internet. Hosts John Mejias and Zak Smith talk to a wide variety of fellow painters, sculptors, installation artists and other art-world figures about their lives, techniques, philosophies, and biographies. It's also funny.

  1. We Eat Reine Paradis

    10/03/2018

    We Eat Reine Paradis

    Reine Paradis produces quirkily utopian photographs of a world seemingly painted into being in bright bold strokes that belie the complexity, labor and danger involved in creating them. We talk about where these glossy images of a folded, flattened world come from--and how she almost dies in the process. Check out the trailer for her upcoming documentary "Queen of Paradis" out in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7pneZR1bk

    1h 3m
  2. We Eat Young Joon Kwak

    08/15/2018

    We Eat Young Joon Kwak

    we talked Young Joon Kwak about trauma, sculpture, William Burroughs the X Men, being a punk being trans, growing up in a conservative household, the healing power of literature, and being a massive slut...with color. (featuring music clips of Young Joon's band Xina Xurner)

    1h 6m
  3. We Eat Castanier Gallery

    08/08/2018

    We Eat Castanier Gallery

    For Patreon Subscribers: Five artists at once!! Zak hosts an artist panel discussion in Culver City at the Castanier Gallery where he had a group exhibition with Claire Collette, Adam Beris, Kenton Parker, and Patrick Martinez. The exhibition was curated by past podcast guest Andrew Schoultz. Lagunitas Pilsner was served, tongues were loosened, and there were great audience questions. The color yellow gets a very thorough consideration, as does the city of Los Angeles.

    2 min
  4. We Eat Jim Shaw

    07/30/2018

    We Eat Jim Shaw

    We talk to Jim Shaw about melting face masks, weirdness, thrift store paintings, Oism, meaning and secrecy, being in a two-artist household, assistants, Destroy All Monsters, second jobs for artists and more.

    1h 48m
  5. We Eat Amanda Schmitt

    07/12/2018

    We Eat Amanda Schmitt

    We talked with Amanda about the exact moment she decided she couldn't be an artist, whether or not she likes to enjoy life, erotic uses for spreadsheets, video art, Makunaima, how exactly you become an independent curator, and the difference between doing it right and doing it wrong.

    1h 15m
  6. We Eat Deborah Roberts

    06/27/2018

    We Eat Deborah Roberts

    We got to talk to rising star Deborah Roberts in maybe? her first long interview about process, the world through the eyes of little girls, Tanner and Normal Rockwell, getting called "African", being fierce, hungry collectors, Roland Barthes as the Beastie Boys of critical theory, how Skechers just needs to stop making shoes, Good Times and Rudolph, the boy in grade school she became an artist to impress

    1h 4m
  7. We Eat Zak Smith

    05/31/2018

    We Eat Zak Smith

    Zak Smith, our host, gets spoken with, to mark his show at Fredericks and Freiser gallery this month. Friend of the show Sean McCarthy joins John to interview Zak about brush hair, punk and fine art, porn and fine art, being a seasoned art school attendee, drawings that don’t make the cut, why painting is impressive, using your art to tell other people’s stories, the reality of desire, Suicide Girls, pizza, and why Los Angeles is Viennese modernism and New York is an open secret.

    1h 48m
  8. We Eat Beyond Baroque

    05/18/2018

    We Eat Beyond Baroque

    We are taping the show live tomorrow, May 19th, at Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach California! Audience members get a chance to stump us with pieces the hosts will have to analyze on the spot. Come by at 1pm, and bring ideas for art works from before 1950. It's FREE. This event was created by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), and is part of their Frame Rate series. https://nomadicdivision.org/exhibition/frame-rate/

    1 min
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We Eat Art is a podcast featuring the most in-depth one-on-one interviews with contemporary artists available on the internet. Hosts John Mejias and Zak Smith talk to a wide variety of fellow painters, sculptors, installation artists and other art-world figures about their lives, techniques, philosophies, and biographies. It's also funny.

Information

  • Creator
    mnemonic recordings
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2018
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
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    We Eat Art