I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

Erika b Hess
I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

I Like Your Work supports artists! Each week artist Erika b Hess interviews artists, gallerists, and curators to cover topics that will help you in your art practice. From inspiring interviews from the lives of artists to business practices you will walk away ready to get in the studio.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Growing a Gallery with Gallerist Eric Fallen

    Eric Fallen grew up in Hamilton Ontario and moved to NYC in 1998 to study playwriting at Brooklyn College. After completing his MFA, he taught for several years at SUNY, CUNY and Pratt. In 2013, he opened Peninsula on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Launched as a project space for young conceptual artists, Peninsula has evolved into a more traditional gallery with a roster comprised of both emerging and established artists. In 2022, the gallery moved from Brooklyn to 13 Monroe Street on the Lower East Side. LINKS:  https://www.peninsulaartspace.com/   www.instagram.com/peninsulanyc   Artist Shout Out:    Jan Baracz @perceptorium Amy Butowicz @amybutowicz Jerry Blackman @jerry_blackman Kevin Darmanie @kevindarmanie Cheryl Donegan @cheryldonegan Graham Durward @graham_durward_studio Georgia Elrod @georgiaelrod Johnny G Mullen @johnnygmullen Mike Olin @mikedallasolin Scott Pfaffman @scottpfaffman     I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is collecting donations for artists effected by Hurricane Helene in the Asheville, North Carolina area please donate at her paypal: Sunlight Tax LLC   Apply for our Winter Exhibition: deadline is November 15 Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

    1h 11m
  2. SEP 20

    Alex Callender: Materiality Meets Content

    Alex Callender has had solo exhibitions and projects at the Center for the Arts Northeastern University, UMass Contemporary Museum of Art, NYU Gallatin Galleries, Rubber Factory (NY), and Michigan State University’s LookOut Gallery. She has held artist residencies with MacDowell Colony, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Drawing Center’s Open Session program, Art in Embassies Program, The Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Alice Yard in Trinidad, and DRAWinternational and The BAU Institute in France. Raised in NYC, Callender is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Smith College and lives and works in Western Massachusetts. Alex Callender uses methods of drawings, painting and installation to trace and remap historical materials as a means to explore with both criticality and care, how we might disentangle the interwoven relations of race, gender, and capitalism. Drawing largely from archival sources her work engages the mythic and residual forms of coloniality to think about ways that we orient ourselves to the past; using different visual modes of annotation, hybrid narratives, and speculative storytelling, Callender recontextualizes static (or seemingly fixed) renderings of history to consider their relationship to social forces like scale, time, and memory.   LINKS:  alexcallender.com   @alexiscallender       I Like Your Work Links: Thank you to our sponsor Sunlight Tax! Artist and tax pro Hannah Cole (of Sunlight Tax) is hosting a free class, Make Taxes Easier and Stash an Extra $130k in Your Savings. It’s one hour, and designed to help you understand why you keep getting stuck in a cycle of pain surrounding taxes, and the simple systems you need to get out of it. It’s on 9/25 at noon Eastern. It’s free, but you need to register: https://go.sunlighttax.com/free Use the code LIKE on any Sunlight Tax Class or Bootcamp to save $100   Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

    46 min
  3. SEP 6

    Matt Bollinger-The Armory & Fine Arts Work Center

    Matt Bollinger received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Dublin, London, and elsewhere. Recent museum exhibitions have been at the Akron Art Museum (2022), Westmoreland Museum of American Art (2022), South Bend Museum of Art (2020), the Schneider Museum (2018) and Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole (2016). Residencies include the Seven Below Arts Initiative in Burlington, VT, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY. In 2016 and 2021, he received NYFA fellowships in Painting. He is represented by mother’s tankstation and François Ghebaly Gallery. He lives and works in New York state.   LINKS:    mattbollinger.com @mattlbollinger   https://www.instagram.com/fineartsworkcenter     Artist Shout Out:      Lisa YuskavageChuck WebsterAgnes WaldenSimonette QuaminaJames StanleyAlexandria SmithAnne Clare Rogers Sam MesserEzra JohnsonHeidi HahnElizabeth FloodAngela DufresneAmy Brener Taylor BaldwinEllen AkimotoHerman Aguirre Arghavan Khosravi   I Like Your Work Links: Join the Works Membership ! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

    37 min
  4. APR 26

    Narratives on Family, Community and Materials: L.A. Artist Kim Garcia

    Kim Garcia is an artist working in sculpture, drawing, and painting. Through her 2nd-generation Filipino American lens, her practice explores social dynamics and residual trauma from interpersonal relationships, community structures, and memory. Kim comes from a background in creating collaborative community projects that often employ alternative spaces to explore studio art practices, site-specific collaboration, and museum and exhibition research. She is the founder of The Cold Read, an online critique group and artist collective that engages gestures of care and support through writing and is one of the co-founders of after hours gallery, an art gallery in Los Angeles that hosts two-person exhibitions. Kim is based in Los Angeles and received her BA from UC San Diego and her MFA from UC Irvine. "Through the fusion of reality and fiction, my work emerges from personal encounters, aiming to complicate narratives surrounding second-generation Filipino American histories. I delve into the intricacies of post-colonial identity, exploring themes of intimacy and influence stemming from social interactions. Sculptures form the vibrant outcome of the work, fictionalizing personal events to probe power dynamics, trauma, community structures, and memory. Utilizing materials like medical casting tape, my artworks simultaneously display trauma and symbolize healing. Gradient colors evoke movement, while layered hues express emotional complexity. The sculptures breathe life into color, activating motion and tension. I perceive my work as a form of storytelling, where the malleability of oral narratives inspires a nuanced approach to archiving personal histories. By combining sculpture, drawing, and painting, my hybrid material practice investigates enduring tensions accumulated over time, unearthing possibilities for constructing a future from a suppressed past." LINKS:  https://kimgarcia.info/   @kimwantscoffee         Artist Shout Out:      Yubo Dong at of studio photography for the amazing documentation of my work. https://www.instagram.com/ofphotostudio/     I Like Your Work Links: Check out our sponsor for this episode: The Sunlight Podcast: Hannah Cole, the artist/tax pro who sponsors I Like Your Work, has launched Business Deduction Deep Dive:  For artists and self-employed creatives. and is everything you need to know about self-employed tax deductions. It’s just $97 and one hour to save you thousands on your taxes, this year, next year, and forever. Get it at sunlighttax.com/deductions.    Chautauqua Visual Arts: https://art.chq.org/school/about-the-program/two-week-artist-residency/ 2-week residency     Apply for Summer Open Call: Deadline May 15 Join the Works Membership ! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

    48 min
  5. APR 12

    Working with Glass & Public Project Advice with Artist Laura Sallade

    Laura Sallade is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. Sallade earned a Certificate in Sculpture from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 and is completing a coordinated Bachelors of Fine Arts at The University of Pennsylvania. During her time at UPenn, the artist has also worked toward a Certificate in Positive Psychology and an Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing. While completing her degree, the artist has worked at the intersection of painting and glass, exhibiting in New York, Philadelphia, and beyond, creating large scale multi panel works. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Cairn University in 2023 and Massey Klein Gallery in 2022. Notable group exhibitions include the Susquehanna Art Museum, Future Art Fair, and The Woodmere Art Museum. Laura has completed public commissions for Atlantic Aviation Airport, Jefferson Hospital, and The Ritz Carlton, among many others. Recent awards and residencies include The SIM Residency in Iceland, The Pilchuck Glass School Scholarship, and The Nextfab Fellowship. Laura is currently preparing for a two person show at Works on Paper Gallery in Philadelphia. "Without light we can’t see matter—inversely, without matter we can’t see light. This interdependent relationship is the crux of my practice. I’m interested in colloquial references to light as a fleeting presence—a shadow appears, the sun sets, a beam of light enters the room. In reality, we know that light is the constant and we are the variable—it’s our physical world that is shifting, our planet that is rotating, our galaxy that is hurling through space. I observe these paradoxical understandings of the world and emphasize our skewed perception of light by capturing moments of flux. Using glass, silver, and mixed media, I investigate the link between light and matter. Integrating scientific and intuitive processes, I create evocative gestural works that walk the line between image and object. Rather than rendering light, I rely on its interaction with opaque and translucent shapes and textures to capture the ephemeral. Paying homage to the fickleness of memory, I indiscriminately excavate large portions of a composition through hand-cut elimination and rely on suggestive remains."   LINKS:  laurasallade.com   @laura.sallade   https://www.masseyklein.com/       Artist Shout Out:      https://www.alisonstigora.com/ https://www.leighsuggs.com/ https://www.kristadedricklai.com/ https://www.heathermcmordie.com/ https://www.cameronwilsonritcher.com/     I Like Your Work Links: Check out our sponsor for this episode: The Sunlight Podcast: Hannah Cole, the artist/tax pro who sponsors I Like Your Work, has launched Business Deduction Deep Dive:  For artists and self-employed creatives. and is everything you need to know about self-employed tax deductions. It’s just $97 and one hour to save you thousands on your taxes, this year, next year, and forever. Get it at sunlighttax.com/deductions.    Chautauqua Visual Arts: https://art.chq.org/school/about-the-program/two-week-artist-residency/ 2-week residency     Apply for Summer Open Call: Deadline May 15 Join the Works Membership ! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say “hi” on Instagram

    44 min
4.8
out of 5
213 Ratings

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I Like Your Work supports artists! Each week artist Erika b Hess interviews artists, gallerists, and curators to cover topics that will help you in your art practice. From inspiring interviews from the lives of artists to business practices you will walk away ready to get in the studio.

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