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Welcome to Kunst Speak with Brask. In this podcast, we explore the world of art through the eyes of passionate art enthusiasts based in Los Angeles and New York. Together with artcollector, publisher, and curator Jens-Peter Brask, we uncover inspiring perspectives,captivating stories, and memorable anecdotes from the art world. Our mission is to sparkcuriosity and encourage more people to connect with and appreciate art in all its forms. Join us as we embark on this creative journey together.
In this episode, we visit artist Hunter Potter in his studio in Brooklyn, New York, to talk about his work, his artistic journey, and a major turning point in his life.
Hunter studied studio art at the University of Vermont, graduating in 2013. After moving to New York City in 2015, he spent several years finding his way through the art world, working as a sign painter, studio assistant, and art handler while gradually developing hisown artistic practice. Eventually, he made the transition to working full-time on his own art, allowing him to focus entirely on developing his distinctive visual language.
Hunter’s paintings are immediately recognisable for their bold colour palettes, whimsicalgeometric figures, and playful compositions. His paintings often feature characters livingon the fringes of society. Cowboys, criminals, fighters, drifters, and runaways populate hisvisual world, bringing with them a sense of adventure, vulnerability, and quiet defiance. These figures are outsiders in one way or another, people who exist beyond the boundaries of conventional society. In this respect, Potter’s work shares something with the characters found in the novels of John Steinbeck, whose stories often explore the lives of ordinary people struggling to find their place in the world.
During our conversation, we also discuss a major change that lies just around the corner. After spending years in New York City, Hunter is preparing to leave Brooklyn and moveback to Upstate New York, returning to the region where he was born. It is a significantshift, both personally and professionally, and one that raises plenty of questions aboutwhat comes next.
What does it mean to leave a city like New York, with its constant movement, creativeenergy, and seemingly endless opportunities, and return to a place that is much moreclosely connected to your roots? How might a different environment influence the way you work, the subjects you paint, and the life you build around your art? And what happens when the routines and surroundings that have shaped your daily existence suddenly change?
We talk about Hunter’s hopes and expectations for this next chapter, the possibilities that come with stepping away from the familiar, and the potential impact the move could haveon his artistic practice. We explore the relationship between place and creativity, the importance of finding the right environment in which to work, and the challenge ofembracing change without knowing exactly where it will lead.
We discuss all this and much more in this episode, recorded in Hunter Potter’s Brooklyn studio, just before he embarks on what could become one of the most defining transitionsof his life and career.
You can find Kunst Speak with Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen topodcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
@curatedbyjenspeterbrask
@hunterbypotter
In this episode, we visit artist Hunter Potter in his studio in Brooklyn, New York, to talk about his work, his artistic journey, and a major turning point in his life.
Hunter studied studio art at the University of Vermont, graduating in 2013. After moving to New York City in 2015, he spent several years finding his way through the art world, working as a sign painter, studio assistant, and art handler while gradually developing hisown artistic practice. Eventually, he made the transition to working full-time on his own art, allowing him to focus entirely on developing his distinctive visual language.
Hunter’s paintings are immediately recognisable for their bold colour palettes, whimsicalgeometric figures, and playful compositions. His paintings often feature characters livingon the fringes of society. Cowboys, criminals, fighters, drifters, and runaways populate hisvisual world, bringing with them a sense of adventure, vulnerability, and quiet defiance. These figures are outsiders in one way or another, people who exist beyond the boundaries of conventional society. In this respect, Potter’s work shares something with the characters found in the novels of John Steinbeck, whose stories often explore the lives of ordinary people struggling to find their place in the world.
During our conversation, we also discuss a major change that lies just around the corner. After spending years in New York City, Hunter is preparing to leave Brooklyn and moveback to Upstate New York, returning to the region where he was born. It is a significantshift, both personally and professionally, and one that raises plenty of questions aboutwhat comes next.
What does it mean to leave a city like New York, with its constant movement, creativeenergy, and seemingly endless opportunities, and return to a place that is much moreclosely connected to your roots? How might a different environment influence the way you work, the subjects you paint, and the life you build around your art? And what happens when the routines and surroundings that have shaped your daily existence suddenly change?
We talk about Hunter’s hopes and expectations for this next chapter, the possibilities that come with stepping away from the familiar, and the potential impact the move could haveon his artistic practice. We explore the relationship between place and creativity, the importance of finding the right environment in which to work, and the challenge ofembracing change without knowing exactly where it will lead.
We discuss all this and much more in this episode, recorded in Hunter Potter’s Brooklyn studio, just before he embarks on what could become one of the most defining transitionsof his life and career.
You can find Kunst Speak with Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen topodcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
@curatedbyjenspeterbrask
@hunterbypotter
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