Kwamé Azure Gomez

Episode 512 / Jasper Hagenaar Jasper Hagenaar is a painter who lives and works in the Netherlands. Evoking the ambience of vintage lifestyle magazines or art book photography there is so much ambience captured in Jasper’s carefully framed imagery. Often times portraying still life compositions built from other existing artworks, his paintings feel both contemporary and classic, all while appearing faded and aged and therefore precious. Jasper was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 2004 and 2005. He was a recipient of both the jury and public award of the Royal Dutch painting prize in 2012. His works are part of significant Dutch museum collections as the Centraal Museum Utrecht, Dordrechts museum and the Teylers museum. His paintings have recently been shown internationally in group exhibitions at Hive, Centre for contemporary arts, Beijng and Rhodes Contemporary art gallery, London. His works can be found in numerous corporate and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad. He lives and works in Hedikhuizen, the Netherlands and is represented by Althuis Hofland Fine Arts in Amsterdam.

Episode 511 / Kwamé Azure GomezKwame Azure Gomez is an artist born in Akron, Ohio who lives and works in New Haven, CT. Kwame has exhibited throughout the US and Europe in venues such as James Cohan Gallery, New Image Art Gallery, SoLA Contemporary, Stony Island Arts Bank, Anthony Gallery, Dada Gallery and others. Kwame recently completed the NXTHVN artist residency in New Haven and received her BFA from the University of Akron and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2022 Kwame received the Emerging Artist Grant from New American Paintings. Kwame will be in a group show opening on the 15th called Between Matter & Illumination at Marianne Boesky where she will have her first NYC solo show coming up as well. 

Episode 510 / Nadia WaheedNadia is on with an epic conversation where she talks passionately about painting, being an artist, impending motherhood as so much more. This episode contains an impressive amount of STRONG LANGUAGE so be aware of that. A fun and vibrant chat about art and life. Nadia Waheed (b. 1992, Saudi Arabia) lives and works in Austin, TX. She graduated with a BFA in Painting & Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Exhibitions include The Endless Forever at Luis De Jesus in Los Angeles, Noemata at Amex Yavuz in London, Where the Real Lies at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Nicodim in Los Angeles, The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, at Nicodim in Bucharest, VAMPIRE::MOTHER curated by Jasmine Wahi at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, Heavy Bend at Gallery 1957 in London, Alexander Berggruen in  New York, Am I Human Yet at Arsenal Contemporary New Yorkamongst many others. 

Episode 509 / Terra KeckTerra Keck is a Brooklyn based artist and performer. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2018, and her BFA in Drawing from Ball State University in 2013. She moved to Brooklyn in the summer of 2018 and works in East Williamsburg. Terra’s work featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts as well as in permanent institutional collections in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Hawaii, and California. She’s had solo shows at Field Projects, Sweet Lorraine, the Honolul Museum of Art amongst other venues and group shows at Maia COntemporary, Here to Sunday, Immaterial Porjects and many others. Terra is a founding member of the international artist collective GRRIC Contemporary, an experimental art space, happening, omnipotence. In 2017 she co-curated the show “Afterschool Special” at the Honolulu Museum of Art and several shows through the GRRIC Contemporary Art Gallery in Honolulu. Terra also co-hosts the comedy podcast “Witch, Yes!” which seeks the humor and humanity of the occult, folklore, and witchcraft in its relationship to history, identity and contemporary politics. 

Ep. 508 / Our annual Year In Review with Brian BoucherSenior Market Reporter, ARTnewsBrian Boucher is an art writer based in New York. His byline has appeared in the New York Times, New York, Garage, Frieze, Sotheby’s Magazine, and CNN. Boucher was formerly senior writer for Artnet News and website editor at Art in America.We sat down for our annual recap on shows, film and music that struck a chord with him this past year. 

Episode 507 / James Walsh James Walsh is an artist who received his BFA from Rutgers in 1976 and his MFA from Syracuse in 1980. He’s had solo shows at Berry Campbell, Galeria Joan Prats, Baker Sponder, the Mendel Art Gallery, Long Fine art, the Edmonton Art Gallery amongst others and group exhibitions at KinoSaito, Helm Contemporary, Flowers Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, Gallery 2 and many others. He’s in the collection of the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Everson Museum of Art, the Mendel Art Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art. Jim currently has a show called Relief in Sight at the Sam and Adele Golden Gallery in New Berlin, New York which is run by the wonderful people at Golden Artist Colors and it’s up through Feb 20th. 

Episode 506 / Ragnar Kjartansson Ragnar Kjartansson is an artist who lives and works in Reykjavik. He engages multiple artistic mediums in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging are key tools in Kjartansson’s efforts to convey sincere emotion and offer genuine experiences to audiences. Kjartansson’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions and performances at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barbican Centre, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Reykjavik Art Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and New Museum. 

Episode 505 / Sarah Ann WeberSarah Ann Weber (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Sarah has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, 12.26, Club Pro, The Franklin, and SOCO Gallery. Her group exhibitions include Stems, MAUVE, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Locust Projects, and Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Sarah’s work was recently included in a group museum exhibition, Outside: In at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL. In 2023 Weber participated in the Miami-based Fountainhead Artists-in-Residence program. She lives and works in Chicago. She currently has a solo show up at Anat Ebgi in LA.

Episode 504 / Elmer Guevara Elmer Guevara is an artist born and raised in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cal State University Long Beach and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College in New York City. Elmer’s work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at M&B Gallery, F2T Gallery, Residency Art Gallery, Lyles and King, and Barbati Gallery among others.His work has been covered in publications such as the LA Times and Contemporary Art Review and he is in the collections of Cal State University and the Crocker Art Museum. 

Episode 503 / Ruby Sky StilerRuby Sky Stiler is an artist born in Maine and based in Brooklyn. She has been the subject multiple solo presentations, including New Patterns, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2022); Group Relief, Fairfield University Art Museum, CT (2020); Fresco, Saint-Gaudens Memorial Park, Cornish, NH (2019); Ghost Versions, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2015); and Inherited and Borrowed Types, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR (2010), among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Friends & Lovers, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2023); No Forms, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY (2022); Classic Beauty: 21st-Century Artists on Ancient [Greek] Form, Providence College Galleries, RI (2018); The Times, FLAG Art Foundation, NY (2017); We Are What We Hide, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME (2013); and the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2010), among others. Her work is in the collections of Fairfield University Art Museum, CT; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI.