Sound and Vision

Ep. 433 / Daniel Savage is an artist and animator based in Los Angeles. His background in percussion and design has helped to develop a look that can best be described as visual rhythm. His work has been commissioned by clients such as Hermès, The New Yorker, and Adult Swim, and recognized by the ADC Young Guns, Webby Awards, and Society of Illustrators. In addition to his commercial work he has taught at SVA, NYU, and Harbour Space in Barcelona.

Episode 432 Emily Pettigrew was born in Maine in 1991. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York who lives and works in Delhi, New York. Pettigrew’s recent solo and group exhibitions include "The Inside Out" at the Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg in Derneburg, Germany (2024); "Pablo’s Cabinet" at Pablo’s Birthday in Verbier, Switzerland (2024); "A Room With a View" at Varden Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2023); "Springs Eternal" at The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, New York (2023); "Wheel of the Year" at Halsey McKay in East Hampton, New York (2023); "Time" at Pablo’s Birthday in New York, New York (2023); "Balm" at Wilder Gallery in London, United Kingdom (2022); "Inside Out" at Scroll NYC in New York, New York (2022); "The Beauty of Solitude" at Adah Rose Gallery in Kensington, Maryland (2022); "Too Pure for this World" at the Historic Hunting Tavern Museum in Andes, New York (2021); "Odd Hours" at Monya Rowe Gallery in New York, New York (2021); "Salut 6" at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon (2021); and "These Days" at Bo Lee Gallery in London, United Kingdom (2020).

Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 and moved to Nice, France when she was eleven years old. She remained in France to further her education and completed both of her undergraduate requirements and MFA at Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice (1989), during which she also studied abroad at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts in 1987. In 1991 she moved to Paris to complete a post-diploma at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques. Following early recognition in France, she was invited to the United States in 1996 for a residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has since then been based in New York.   Ghada’s work is in public collections around the world including The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Samsung Museum, Seoul; among others. She is regularly invited to prestigious group shows and biennials-such as the Whitney Biennial in 2000 and the Venice Biennales of 1999 (where she won the UNESCO Prize), 2005 and 2007. She was recognized with a mid-career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York in 2008 and a larger, more extensive one at the MUCEM and across other venues in Marseille, France in 2022. Amer studied at the Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice, France, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris. She lives and works in New York.

Jamie Luoto (b. 1987) lives and works in the San Francisco North Bay. Her work has been featured in publications such as Booooooom, Art Maze Mag, and New American Paintings; appeared on platforms such as Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic; and is in international private and public collections including the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas, USA). Selected recent exhibitions include: (Upcoming) Reflections and Refractions, Green Family Art Foundation, (2026); (Upcoming) The Armory Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York, USA (2024); (Upcoming) When Dusk Falls, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2024, duo); Mirror, Mirror, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2024); EXPO Chicago, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, USA (2024); The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (2023); Nude, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, USA (2023); True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, USA (2022); Stories from My Childhood, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, USA (2022); All About Women, Marin Society of Artists’ Gallery, San Rafael, USA (2021); Chasing Ghosts V, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, USA (2020); Art the Library Featuring Jamie L. Luoto, Napa County Library, Napa, USA (2019, solo); It’s Time: An Uncensored Look at the Time’s Up and #MeToo Movements, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, USA (2018); Pride and Prejudice: Gender Realities in the 21st Century, Arc Gallery, Chicago, USA (2018); Identity Spectrum, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA (2018).

Martine Johanna is an artist who lives and works in Zetten in the Netherlands. She has had exhibitions at Massey Klein Gallery in NYC, Massey Lyuben Gallery in NYC, Spoke Art in San Francisco, Bright Side in Amsterdam, Hashimoto Gallery in San Francisco and many more. Her work has been covered in Metal Magazine, Booooooom, Interlocutor, Justapoz, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Create Zine, Beautiful Bizarre to just name a few. She also records music under the name Ghostmother.

Influenced by her upbringing in Japan and her current home in New York City, Shino Takedaʼs ceramics embody her sensory experience of sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell. Most of her works are hand-built using the coil method, and incorporate several different types of clay, making each piece one of a kind. Takeda uses her own memories, reflections, and appreciation for her life as inspiration for her works, celebrating the perfect imperfections inherent in handmade objects, and the unexpected alchemy when she works with wood-fired kilns. Takeda is renowned in the design world and her work has recently crossed over into the art world: her 2019 debut solo exhibition Diary was presented at JDJ The Ice House, Garrison and included her ceramics , textiles, and a furniture collaboration. Presentations with JDJ at the art fair NADA Miami in 2019 led to an artist residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, and developed into her mixed media installation for the group exhibition Hard Cover at the museum in 2021.

Born in Oneonta, New York in 1984
Sam Friedman is an artist who lives and works in Pleasant Valley, New York. Sam has had solo exhibitions at The Mass in Tokyo, Gana Nineone in Seoul, Harper’s Chelsea in NYC, Library Street Collective in Detroit, WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong, Over The Influence in Hong Kong and many others. His work has been covered by Hype Beast, BOOOOOOM, Fed, Hype Art and more.

Jansson Stegner (b. 1972, Denver, CO, US; lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA, US) received his MFA from the University of Albany, New York. Stegner has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions with Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels; Bellwether Gallery, New York; Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, and most recently, Almine Rech Gallery, New York. He was the recipient of the 2010 Art Brussels: Collectors’ Choice Award and was the 2015 Deutsche Bank NYFA Fellow. Stegner is represented by Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles and Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels.

Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2013, and received a BFA in creative writing and poetry from Kenyon College. Recent solo exhibitions include Drawing Room at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Blue Setting, Charles Moffett, New York, NY; Look Out, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; and Miro’s Corner, MAKI Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. His work has also been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Almine Rech, Paris, France; Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA; California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York; Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY; MAKI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Egan lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Andrew Paul Woolbright is an artist, gallerist, and Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail, living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Andrew is an MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in painting and is the director of the Lower East Side Gallery Below Grand. He currently teaches at Pratt and School of Visual Arts in New York. He has shown his work at galleries such as Rachel Uffner, Yellow Peril, the University Of Illinois, InSitu, Hesse Flatow, DeBoer Gallery, The Hole, Zurcher Gallery and many more.