Sound and Vision

Brian Alfred
Sound and Vision

Brian Alfred sits down with artists and musicians in galleries and their studios to discuss their process and inspiration in their creative life.

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    Bob Linder

    Episode 450 / Bob Linder Bob Linder received his MFA from Stanford University, his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.  Bob is currently the Program Director for gallery Michael Benevento, Los Angeles. Consistent among exhibiting artists is a willingness to take risks, a total commitment to unique practices, and the precise and thoughtful execution of ideas. He is also a co-founder of the art-damaged, post punk, noise project, Total Shutdown.  Bob previously served as Head Curator at The David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street, where he curated challenging, relevant, and forward-thinking exhibitions and public programs. Prior to joining 500 Capp Street, Linder co-owned and directed CAPITAL, a contemporary art gallery located in the Mission District of San Francisco, where he programed more than thirty exhibitions with a focus on emerging and mid-career artists.  Sound and Vision is supported by the New York Studio School. For 60 years students have come to study drawing, painting, and sculpture in the historic building on 8th Street in New York City. The school’s full-time programs: a two-year MFA and a three-year in-person or virtual Certificate program, prioritizes learning through creating with a dedicated faculty of active artists. The programs cultivate studio skills, materials knowledge, and self-development methods. Whether you are an aspiring artist or an experienced artist, the rigor, community, and intense art practice taught at the New York Studio School will prepare you for a lifetime of artmaking. The priority application deadline for programs starting fall 2025 is January 15, 2025 - apply today at nyss.org.

    1 h 12 min
  2. 17 OCT.

    Henry Ward

    Episode 445 / Henry Ward is an artist, writer, and educator living in London. He works primarily as a painter, but also makes drawings and small sculptures. He is interested in exploring the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation.  He was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2018, 2019 and 2022, and longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021. He was included in the inaugural “The Football Art Prize” in 2022. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions. The first substantial publication about his work, “Shed Paintings – Henry Ward”, was published in February 2021 by Hato Press and features 101 works on paper and an essay by Ben Street.  He is the Director for Freelands Foundation and launched the Freelands Painting Prize in 2020. Previously he was Head of Education at Southbank Centre and worked in a variety of roles at Welling School, a Specialist Visual Arts College, where he led on the school’s specialism. In 2002 he established the alTURNERtive Prize, an annual award celebrating outstanding student practice. In 2011 he founded the biannual arts and education periodical, æ. He is a visiting lecturer at UK art schools including Bath Spa University, University of Brighton, Manchester School of Art, Plymouth College of Art and Wolverhampton School of Art, and a mentor on the Turps Art School Correspondence and off-site courses. He has written and lectured widely on the arts and education, with a particular focus on teaching as an artistic practice. He was an advisor for Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin from 2018-21 and curated a two day event, “Assembly”, investigating approaches to public engagement in 2018 and a follow up, “Assembly II” in 2021.  In 2023 he undertook a residency at the Albers Foundation in Connecticut.

    1 h 13 min
  3. 10 OCT.

    Larry Madrigal

    Episode 444 / Larry Madrigal is a Mexican-American painter based in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Los Angeles, where his parents stayed after migrating from Mexico, Madrigal spent many of his early summers in Colima where his extended family lives. In 1998, during his elementary years, his family left California and moved to Phoenix where they remain to this day. Madrigal studied at Arizona state University and received his BFA in 2017. During this time, he developed a skill for traditional figurative and portrait painting through his close relationship with emeritus professor, Jerry Schutte, and his wife Anne Schutte. Jerry’s strong knowledge of figurative and landscape painting combined with Anne’s masterful sense of abstraction and gesture were significant influences. After graduation Madrigal continued in portraiture for several years culminating in his first museum group exhibition “Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art” at the Tucson Museum of Art in 2016. In 2017, Madrigal returned to ASU for his MFA. Besides this new venture, he and his wife decided to start a family, and his daughter was born two weeks before the start of the program. Madrigal’s initial artistic ambitions were thwarted by the new and urgent demands of parenthood. He inevitably found himself paying close attention to daily rhythms with more profound questions. Finally after two years of resisting, he eventually surrendered to this calling and moved towards a focus on the quotidian. The commonplace became his arena for painting, a strong move away from the current focus on identity politics prevalent in academia at that time.This newly found obsession with the mundane led Madrigal on a quest to rehabilitate the genre in it’s purest form. His work would now be marked by “a suspension and celebration of the precariousness by which our most mundane daily rituals are balanced on a precipice just above total anarchy.” — Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Global Director Nicodim Gallery. During his MFA Madrigal was a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Artist Grant and a finalist in the AXA XL Art Prize. Six months after graduation in 2020, Madrigal had his first solo exhibition, “Scattered Daydream” at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles. Since then, he has had solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Bucharest, and Madrid (Forthcoming), along with group shows in Paris, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. Madrigal’s paintings have continued to focus on the relatable nature of the human experience from his earnest and contemplative perspective, adopting a sincere attitude towards figuration, with a touch of darkness and humor. He currently lives in Phoenix Arizona with his wife and two kids, and works out of his downtown studio.

    1 h 23 min
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Brian Alfred sits down with artists and musicians in galleries and their studios to discuss their process and inspiration in their creative life.

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