108 episodes

The goal of the podcast is to facilitate connections with and to learn from the successes, struggles, life experience, and wisdom of the people featured, most of whom live and create in Austin, Texas. The honest conversational flow of these weekly long form interviews lends itself to some really great insights and information that is available to anyone who wants to listen. Join us to explore the origins, stories, lessons, lives and work of those in our community who are at the forefront of creative expression. The podcast is hosted by photographer, art enthusiast and collector, Scott David Gordon.

Austin Art Talk Scott David Gordon

    • Arts
    • 4.8 • 43 Ratings

The goal of the podcast is to facilitate connections with and to learn from the successes, struggles, life experience, and wisdom of the people featured, most of whom live and create in Austin, Texas. The honest conversational flow of these weekly long form interviews lends itself to some really great insights and information that is available to anyone who wants to listen. Join us to explore the origins, stories, lessons, lives and work of those in our community who are at the forefront of creative expression. The podcast is hosted by photographer, art enthusiast and collector, Scott David Gordon.

    San Marcos Studio Tour by MotherShip Studios

    San Marcos Studio Tour by MotherShip Studios

    A quick interview with Jacqueline Overby & Courtney Peterson of MotherShip Studios, who are spearheading the inaugural San Marcos Studio Tour! We talk about the inspiration for the tour, the many mentors and examples that made it possible, the importance of group artist studio settings, what to expect, all the details, and more.


    Text courtesy of SMST website.


    MotherShip Studios presents the inaugural San Marcos Studio Tour- anticipated to be the first of many years to come! This free, self-guided tour will feature over fifty artists all across San Marcos, Martindale, and surrounding areas. Artists will be showcasing their studio spaces and artwork during this weekend-long occasion, launching with a kick-off event held at MotherShip Studios, Friday, March 31st. As well, a group exhibition of all participants will be hosted at the MotherShip warehouse gallery featuring one artwork from each artist.


    The San Marcos Studio Tour will highlight San Marcos area artists and their studios, while fostering connection and engagement in the arts and local communities. Allowing the public an insider’s look into the artistic process creates an exchange between fellow artists, community members, and art collectors. We will showcase the messy workspaces, the paint-splattered floors, the at-home and garage studios, the cluttered art supplies, the inspirational walls of reference photos, and the clay-ridden wheels. We will provide an opportunity for artists to show the raw spaces from which they create. These environments, though sometimes unpolished, are where the magic happens and creativity flourishes.


    Mothership Studios will provide a tour map with numbers for each artist and signs to display during the tour weekend. A catalog of the tour participants will be available for purchase at MotherShip Studios. In addition to the map of all tour stops, this catalog will provide details on each artist, including images of work, and short statements about the artists. The kick-off event will feature our group exhibition, a live printing demo, music by local musicians, a raffle give away, and complimentary drinks sponsored by local breweries such as Middleton Brewing, Still Austin Whiskey, Austin Beer Works, and Thirsty Planet.


    Please join us for an inspiring and interactive weekend of San Marcos arts and events!


    When:


    Friday, March 31st at 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM


    Kick-off Event at MotherShip Studios/20027 San Marcos Hwy 80, San Marcos, TX, 78666


    Saturday, April 1st 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM


    Tour Open/Town of San Marcos and Martindale


    Sunday, April 2nd at 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM


    Tour Open/Towns of San Marcos and Martindale


    Courtney and Jacqueline hard at work!

    This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.


    Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian
    Links:
    MotherShip StudiosAlicia Philley, mid-career abstract painter and installation artist based in Austin, TXAustin Studio TourThe Museum of Human AchievementJacqueline Overby - Soft SculptureBask in local artistry with the inaugural San Marcos Studio Tour in April - CultureMap San Antonio

    • 20 min
    B Shawn Cox

    B Shawn Cox

    “The more I know about me and the more I explore who I am and why I am, trying to be objective about that, I think that transfers into the work”


    B Shawn Cox is a Texas artist who is best known for his iconographic figurative western cowboy paintings on fabric, realized in vivid colors and patterned layers. He also uses similar images in his digital lenticular work where your shifting perspective creates movement in each piece, with the use of juxtaposing portraits. Then there are also his meticulously constructed dimensional collages which transform 2D into 3D.


    Shawn has figured out how to combine these disparate bodies of work into cohesive looking and feeling exhibitions. This approach keeps things exciting for the viewer as you never know what you might see. The work is playful, adventurous, and exciting at first glance but can be delved into deeper for a full gamut and range of thoughts and ideas. Currently Shawn is exploring western societal and standardized mythologies, reflected and processed from a personal standpoint. He is looking at where he came from and where he is now, and the influences of the kinds of iconography that society celebrates in conscious and unconscious ways.


    Growing up in West Texas with a desire to be creative, but with limited means, taught him to see more possibilities of use in everything around him and a somewhat contrarian approach to the rules of around what is possible. Even though his family was in ranching, he chose to leave and focus on academia, studying and practicing both architecture and law. And consistently through the decades in his spare time he took art classes and the commitment and momentum grew until he got the attention of galleries and collectors alike.


    Shawn is really fun to talk with and is one of the nicest people I know. An inspiring thing about his art practice is what seems like an unwavering dedication to evolving the work and fearlessly trying new things. That keeps things fresh and fun.



    This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.


    The podcast is sponsored by Ivester Contemporary and East Side Picture Framing


    Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian
    Links:
    B Shawn Cox WebsiteThe Commerce Gallery - B Shawn CoxDavis Gallery | B Shawn CoxEVOKE Contemporary - B Shawn CoxFORT WORKS ART - B Shawn CoxICOSA - MembersROBERT MOORE - Idaho Landscape ArtistFelicia Forte ArtworkAustin Art School | Atelier DojoMonahans - Google MapsGlassell School of Art | The Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonWestward, Faux: B Shawn Cox at the Dougherty Art Center | GlasstireCaroline Frost, Author at Glasstire

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Anne Mourier - Mother-Nature

    Anne Mourier - Mother-Nature

    "We are fed with this idea that we have to be so much. And of course it’s not true because each of us has a specific talent or specific things we are good at. I finally feel at this place of my life that I’m enough. I’m tying to do my best with the little corner of what I know how to do. So my goal is to keep passing this message and hoping that it’s going to effect the life or the way of thinking of certain people."


    Anne Mourier is a conceptual artist who was born in France and is now splitting her time between the east coast and Italy. We met many years ago in NYC and during my travels I made a point to visit her and sit down for an interview. Some of the themes she explores in her artworks are the feminine archetype, motherhood, quiet simplicity and beauty, home and the chores of domestic life, and maybe most importantly the environment and respect for life and nature. I’m so impressed with her wisdom, groundedness, her dedication to research and a commitment and openness to using any medium which might best communicate what she is trying to say with her work.


    She also has a series of separate performances called Taking Care were she prepared meals for people, washed and item of clothing, and washed their feet. Of the work she states “I strongly believe that “Taking Care” is important and may possibly be the only way to mend our broken society:  Taking Care of our planet, Taking Care of things instead of replacing them, Taking Care of each other…”


    As she says so well on her website her goal is “A harmonious future, free of its dualistic and antagonistic visions; a holistic future that would acknowledge the fluidity of the masculine and the feminine principle living in harmony within each of us, in nature, in art, in everything we touch, smell, and see.”


    Taking Care: The Feet - Photo by Maria Baranova



    This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.


    The podcast is sponsored by Ivester Contemporary and East Side Picture Framing


    Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian


    Support this podcast.
    Links:
    Anne MourierAnne Mourier (@annemourier) • Instagram

    • 1 hr 22 min
    Adrian Armstrong - Stronger Together

    Adrian Armstrong - Stronger Together

    "I think it’s so important that we accept each other for our differences, and just come together like brothers and sisters. We’re stronger as a unit. We’re stronger together. Again, community is so important."


    Adrian Armstrong is a multitalented and multidisciplinary artist who creates powerful figurative portraits primarily by combining painting, collage, and circular strokes of a ballpoint pen, as well as working with printmaking and creating music. One of his goals to combine all of the mediums he works with into one cohesive experience.


    And as he states on his website “He aims to portray what it means to be an African American living in modern America” We had a wide-ranging conversation about his life, starting with growing up in Nebraska and the importance of his family, to moving to Austin and creating a new community here to participate in and help to support and grow.


    I’m inspired by Adrian’s work ethic and dedication to creating great work, pushing himself to be better, while also helping to support others as much as he can.





    This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.


    Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian


    Support this podcast.
    Links:
    Adrian ArmstrongIn Vivid Pastels, Adrian Armstrong Explores the Complexity of BlacknessArt Galleries at Black Studies - UT

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Sara Jane Parsons - Truly Beautiful

    Sara Jane Parsons - Truly Beautiful

    “I feel like by becoming an artist it’s helped me to become who I am. And it’s helped me to accept my body. Not that I didn’t love my body, but going to figure drawing and drawing every type of persons body was such a powerful thing for me. To realize that every body really truly is beautiful.”


    Painter Sara Jane Parsons specialty is realistic portraits of people, landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies, all rendered beautifully in graphite or watercolor, although she did recently start learning how to work with oil paints. The incredible thing is that she creates all of her work while holding the paintbrushes and pencils in her mouth.


    At the age of twenty, a spinal cord injury left her paralyzed from the neck down, but that did not stop her from getting a law degree, working jobs combining legal and social work to help hundreds of people, traveling broadly, and pursuing anything that interests her and cultivating a life that is joyful and creative.


    She is a proud member of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists, a great organization that helps artists with disabilities support themselves through creating artworks that are placed on products sold far and wide. Sara Jane is such a sweet, driven, and passionate artist, and it was a joy to talk and spend some time with her and be inspired by her story, her resilience, and her dedication to being an artist.




    "Helen", Watercolor, 13.5" x 18" By the courtesy of the
    Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide

    This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.


    The podcast is sponsored by Ivester Contemporary and East Side Picture Framing


    Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian


    Support this podcast.
    Links:
    Sara Jane ParsonsMouth & Foot Painting Artists – MFPA USABWCA, Boundary Waters, Canoe, Quetico

    • 1 hr 1 min
    The Life and Legacy of Sam Coronado

    The Life and Legacy of Sam Coronado

    As an artist, educator, cultural activist, mentor, and all-around great human being, Sam Coronado, created opportunities for and changed the lives of many people before passing unexpectedly in 2013. One of his bigger accomplishments was The Serie Project, a non-profit serigraph printmaking residency that lasted for over 20 years and worked with hundreds of artists from around the US and the world, at all stages of their careers.


    I worked with Sam for many years, have always thought very highly of him, and decided I should do a special episode celebrating and talking about his life and work. I'm grateful to his wife Jill Ramirez and the master printers Pepe Coronado and Jonathan Rebolloso for speaking with me about Sam, sharing their stories about him, how he changed their lives, and the legacy he has left behind.




    Sam at his retrospective at Mexic-Arte Museum in 2011.



    Sam doing a demonstration for students at Coronado Studio.



    Sam working with artist Lacey Richter on her Serie Project print.



    This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.


    Intro music generously provided by Stan Killian


    Support this podcast.
    Links:
    Painter/Printmaker/Cultural Leader Sam Coronado Dies at 67 | GlasstireThe Serie Project | A non-profit organization promoting fine art serigraphyPepe Coronado Studio and print Projects | PrintmakingREBOPRINTS - Jonathan RebollosoMexic-Arte Museum - The Official Mexican & Mexican American Museum of TexasEmma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center | AustinTexas.gov¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now | Smithsonian American Art MuseumSam Coronado: A Retrospective - YouTubeSam Coronado Interview by GSD&M - YouTube

    • 1 hr 25 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
43 Ratings

43 Ratings

happy fortune ,

Super Podcast!

Such interesting and inspiring interviews! Thank you so much!!!

BenKilloy ,

Love it

Met Scott at a conference and loved his mission and this podcast is going to be the string that creates the conversations that brings us back together as a society.

Lisa Rawlnson ,

Such a great approach to talking to artists

Scott has a wonderfully informal and conversational interview style that bypasses the over-intellectualized and impersonal approach so many other art podcasts take. There is plenty of substantive discussion, but it feel like you are in the room having a casual conversation with the artists he interviews, participating in a moment in time rather than observing it from the outside. The podcast offers insights into a spectrum of Austin-based artists, their practice, perspectives, personalities, and the different ways people go about doing life as an artist. It perfectly reflects the burgeoning Austin art scene and its grassroots, artist-driven energy. Give it a listen.

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