Sound and Vision

Doron Langberg is a painter born in Israel who lives and works in New York City. He attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He holds a BFA from Penn and an MFA from Yale. He’s had solo and two person shows at 1969 Gallery, Danese/Corey and an upcoming solo at Yossi Milo Gallery. He’s been in group shows at DC Moore, BGSQD, Alfred University, NTFA Gallery Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Montclair University and more, including work in the upcoming National Academy of Arts and Letters Exhibition. He’s been a resident of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and Yaddo. His work has been covered in ArtPulse, ArtCritical, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, New American Paintings and many others. He has taught at the Anderson Ranch, Montclair University, PAFA and the 92nd St Y. Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artists Colors. Golden is made in upstate NY by an employee owned company that is committed to making the best materials artists can use. They not only make acrylic paints, but Williamsburg Oils and QoR Watercolors along with a spectrum of artist mediums. Check out Golden’s full line of artist material along with some pretty great learning resources at goldenpaints.com

Suzanne Song is an artist born in Grand Rapids, MI who lives and works in New York. She received her B.F.A. from Clemson University in Clemson and an M.F.A. from Yale. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Baton in Seoul, Korea; Doosan Gallery, Michael Steinberg Gallery, and Caren Golden in New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at Debuck Gallery, Foley Gallery, Mixed Greens, The Drawing Center, Smack Mellon Gallery. Her work has recently been acquired by the RISD Museum.  She is a recipient of the Smack Mellon Fellowship and the NYFA fellowship. Currently, Song is a member of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts Studio Program.  Sound & Vision is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors. Golden is made in Upstate NY by an employee owned company. You can find their artist supplies in almost every art store and on goldenpaints.com.

Heather Day is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California. Heather received a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) on the Presidential Scholarship in Baltimore. Her work has been shown at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work can be found in the collections of Facebook, JCREW, The Ritz- Carlton, AirBNB, Snapchat, Dropbox, Warner Brothers, YouTube and The Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. Heather’s work has been covered in Juxtapoz, 7x7, Dwell, The Atlantic, CNet, Create, The Washington Post and more. Brian met up with Heather at the site of her show at Joshua Liner Gallery for a talk about her many travels growing up, synesthesia, music, process and more.

Kadar Brock is an artist born in New York and who currently lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the Cooper Unioin School in 2002. His work has been featured in shows at NY(G) in Brooklyn, Black Ball Projects in Brooklyn, PATRON in Chicago, Vigo Gallery in London, Praz Delavallade in Paris, Almine Rech in Brussels, The Hole in NYC, the Flag Foundation in NY, Galerist in Istanbul, Bleeker Street Arts Club in NYC, and Detroit MOCA amongst many others. HE’S ALSO GOT AN UPCOMING SOLO SHOW WITH PATRON IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE IN SEPTEMBER.

Matthew Kirk is an artist born in 1978 in Arizona, who was raised in Wisconsin and lives and works in Queens. His recent solo shows include How the Rest was Won in 2016 at Louis B. James Gallery in NYC, in 2012, Push Came to Shove also at Louis B. James in 2006 He also had a solo show this past October at Makasiini Contemporary in Finland called The Good Land. He’s had group exhibitions including 2010’s Hell No! at Convent of Saint Cecilia in Brooklyn, NY, in 2008 The Wall at Exit Art in NYC and in 2006 Strays at Art Chicago amongst many others. His work has been published in The New York Observer, Modern Painters, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He also was nominated for a 2019 Eiteljorg museum fellowship. His show opens there in November.

Heidi Hahn is a painter who grew up in Los Angeles and  lives and works in Brooklyn. Heidi received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2006, and her MFA from Yale University in 2014. She has been awarded residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. Solo exhibitions include The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart) at Jack Hanley Gallery, Bent Idle at Jack Hanley Gallery and Shadows from Other Places at Premier Regard, Paris. The artist has also participated in several group exhibitions, including Engender at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Part Deaux, at Jack Hanley Gallery, The Edge of Doom at H I L D E, Los Angeles, Human Condition at John Wolf, Los Angeles, American Optimism at Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Fathoms at Radical Abacus, Sante Fe, On Painting at Kent Fine Art, New York, Friend of the Devil at Jack Hanley Gallery, Immediate Female at Judith Charles Gallery, A Thing of Beauty at Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington and New Paintings By at Jack Hanley Gallery. She has two upcoming shows: WHY MUST WE, two person show with Vera Illatova opening at Monya Rowe Jan 10th BURN OUT IN SHREDDED HEAVEN, OPENING April 6th at Kohn gallery in LA

Highlights of artists speaking about music including Chris Martin. Tracy Thomason, Ellen Berkenblit, Diana Al-Hadid and Geoff McFetridge. From Zepplin to Drake to Miles Davis, an eclectic sampling of the music artists talk about on the podcast.

Eric White is an artist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan who lives and works between Los Angeles and New York City. He received his BFA from RISD in 1990. He’s had solo exhibitions at Track 16 Gallery, Colette in Paris, at Serge Sorokko in San Francisco, Martha Otero in LA, Johnathan Levine in NYC and more. He’s had countless group exhibitions in galleries and museums. He’s also made cover art for musicians from Frank Zappa to last year’s Tyler the Creator record. Brian met up with Eric at his current show at Grimm Gallery on the Bowery, which is up until January 13th, for a talk about music, painting on different coasts, working for others and working for yourself and much more. Sound & Vision is brought to you by Golden Artist Colors.  GOLDEN, is an employee owned American manufacturing company based in New Berlin, New York, they make a line of acrylic colors and mediums that are the top in class. You can find their paints and mediums in most art stores and online at goldenpaints.com

Amy Talluto is an artist who was born and raised in New Orleans and currently lives and works in Brooklyn & Hurley, NY. She earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995 and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2001. She is a 2018 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Painting and has recently had solo shows at Jeff Bailey Gallery (Hudson) and Black & White Gallery (Brooklyn). Previous shows include a two-person exhibition at PS 122 Gallery in New York, and several group shows, including exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA, Wave Hill Gardens in the Bronx; Field Projects and the Abrons Art Center in New York; and Kentler International Drawing Center in Brooklyn. She has been a resident artist at The Saltonstall Arts Colony in Ithaca, NY, the Provincetown Dune Shacks, Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, NY, and the Vermont Studio Center. Amy came down to Brian’s studio from Upstate New York for a talk about driverless cars, 90’s hip hop, finding lily pads and more.

Polly Apfelbaum is an artist living and working in NYC. In 2018, Polly had solo exhibitions at the Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, which travels to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, in 2019. She has exhibited widely since the 1980s, including one-person exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA at Bepart in Waregem, Belgium, the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA, the lumber room in Portland, OR and at the Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India. A major mid-career survey of her work opened in 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA, and traveled to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, both in 2004. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Pattern and Decoration, Ornament as Promise, Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany , An Irruption of the Rainbow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wall to Wall at MOCA Cleveland in Cleveland, OH, Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler at the Rose Art Museum, , Three Graces at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY,  Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today at the Museum of Art and Design in New York , AMERICANA: Formalizing Craft at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, amongst many, many others. 

Polly’s work is in numerous permanent collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Dallas Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Museum of Modern of Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1987, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1995, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 1998, a Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship in 1999, a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1999, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002, and the Rome Prize in 2012. Brian stopped by Polly’s loft in lower Manhattan where she’s lived and worked for the last 40 years for a talk about early influence, the Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia funk, craft, design, endless drive and so much more.