The First Stop

First Stop Art
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The First Stop

A podcast that explores the minds of artists in and around New Haven, a city with a rapidly growing community of contemporary artists.

  1. Paul Theriault: Electronic Empathy

    06/03/2019

    Paul Theriault: Electronic Empathy

    Paul is an electronic media artist working with computers, cameras, televisions, scanners and more. He seems to have empathy for the often slightly outdated technology he tinkers with, mapping emotional and cerebral processes onto them. He is also an abstract oil painter who paints on scanner beds rather than canvas. These paintings are always erased to make way for a new painting, but they live on as moments captured by the programmed eye of the scanner. Sometimes these digital images are printed out, and other times they are displayed on the backlit surface of a deconstructed flat screen television. In this episode Paul and I discuss his unusual process and the ideas behind his work. For more images of the artist’s work, visit https://paultheriault.net/

    45 min
  2. Gerald Sheffield: The Space between "Shock and Awe"

    02/04/2019

    Gerald Sheffield: The Space between "Shock and Awe"

    Gerald is an artist working in painting, assemblage and installation art. His most recent work delves into his time deployed in Iraq by the United States Army. Much of his work seeks to complicate society’s oversimplified understanding of soldiers and the occupied people of Iraq. Through his paintings he investigates and questions the way in which western art and media depict and have depicted people and places in the middle east. He also explores the United States’ chaotic diplomatic mismanagement of Iraq during the war. In this interview, we discuss Gerald’s experience enlisting in the United States Army, his deployment to Iraq, a new installation inspired by an unbelievable true story, political rhetoric, Orientalism, and finally his preference for a specific color. Be sure to see Gerald’s exhibition at New Release Gallery in New York’s Chinatown. It's entitled “Democratic Paradox," and it's on view until February 16th

    1h 8m
  3. Greyson Hong: "Your Only Limit Is You"

    01/22/2019

    Greyson Hong: "Your Only Limit Is You"

    Greyson is a multimedia installation and performance artist whose recent work investigates the limits of human experience. Greyson often uses her own body as a site of artistic experimentation. Much of her work humorously appropriates scientific charts, mathematical data and advertising slogans in order to communicate deeply personal and powerful experiences that often deal with gender identity, politics, and love. To view the works discussed in this podcast visit FirstStopArt.net.

    59 min
  4. Hong Hong: Atmosphere Absorbed

    12/03/2018

    Hong Hong: Atmosphere Absorbed

    Hong builds colorful and monumental compositions using paper pulp. These large-scale works record the shifting conditions of time and environment as they cure outside over many hours. Hong is fascinated both by things that change over time and objects like horizons that seem to stay the same even as we change. Her ephemeral paper works are constantly evolving as they absorb the conditions of the spaces they occupy, and as their lustrous colors gradually fade to grey. In this episode, we discuss the process and philosophy behind Hong’s captivating work.

    53 min
  5. Zachary Keeting: Assembled Expressions

    11/19/2018

    Zachary Keeting: Assembled Expressions

    Zach’s bold and vigorous paintings appear to harness the momentum of mid-century American expressionism, but they have an orderly logic to them: each explosive brushstroke seems to have been carefully placed. The compositions are wildly emotional, while at the same time, meticulously layered. Zach’s paintings can be enjoyed without any backstory, but they often allude to deeply personal memories. View the discussed work on http://firststopart.com/

    45 min
  6. Joe Smolinski: Impure Nature

    10/01/2018

    Joe Smolinski: Impure Nature

    Joe is a multimedia artist working in drawing, photography, video, digital 3D modelling, and animation. His practice engages with technology, environmental science, landscape painting, science fiction, and the eroding boarders between the natural and human-made world. He is currently in the midst of creating a new series of ominous and beautifully detailed graphite drawings depicting open water, which we’ll discuss towards the end of this podcast.

    1h 10m
  7. Nina Yuen: The Appropriated Self

    09/17/2018

    Nina Yuen: The Appropriated Self

    Nina is an artist and filmmaker whose work deals with gender, narcissism, migration, psychology, philosophy, and so much more. In her visually stunning films, she transforms fragments of appropriated writings and imagery into cogent and introspective narratives in which she plays the starring role. Her protagonists are often vulnerable outsiders in the midst of experiencing and processing trauma. See more of Nina’s work on her website linked here, or on her gallery’s website: janelombardgallery.com

    55 min
  8. Monique Atherton: Trauma and the Psychological Landscape

    09/04/2018

    Monique Atherton: Trauma and the Psychological Landscape

    Monique’s uncompromising photographs of people and places explore past and present traumas of dislocation and abandonment. Many of them communicate an alienated sense of intimacy. They become explorations of an internal psychological landscape, rather than just depictions of external life. In her recent work, Monique has experimented with digital manipulation, creating surreal and haunting images that express the disorienting experience of processing loss. View more of Monique's work at http://moniqueatherton.com

    1h 5m
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A podcast that explores the minds of artists in and around New Haven, a city with a rapidly growing community of contemporary artists.

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  • Creator
    First Stop Art
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2019
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    The First Stop

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