Artist Interview: Becky Yazdan

Words of the day: layer. linen. weird. excavation. Alice. Neel.

This episode’s guest is Becky Yazdan, a painter who splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and Maplewood, NJ.
In our interview conversation we talk show prep for her solo exhibition titled Aftermath at The Front gallery NYC,
with an opening reception Thursday December 8th 2022 from 6 to 8 pm. And that is at 131 Chrystie Street New York, NY.

We also talk a bit about the early days in Becky’s journey in art and the traditional methods of preparing her linen used for painting which provides a perfect surface for producing truly amazing layering techniques. And stay for a rich glimpse into the content in the work as well.

Also in the episode is a multi-part question submitted by previous Ahtcast guest Sarah Boyts Yoder…(thanks Sarah!).

Listen below for more...

 

Circling the Drain, 60x60 inches, mixed media on canvas, 2020

 

 

 

 

Fissure, 48x48 inches, mixed media on canvas, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Comparing Notes, 60x60 inches, mixed media on canvas, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Facade, 12x12 inches, mixed media on linen on panel, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Systematic Self Destruction, 60x60 inches, mixed media on canvas, 2022

 

 

 

 

 Becky Yazdan with her work

 

 

 

 

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Becky Yazdan Interview

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The artist's website: Becky Yazdan

 instagram: @beckyyazdan

@yazdan_paper

 

 

 Aftermath

a solo show featuring Becky Yazdan opens December 8th 2022 with a reception from 6 to 8 pm

at The Front gallery

131 Chrystie Street

New York, NY 

Aftermath runs through January 15th, 2023

Mentioned in the interview:

Alice Neel

Forrest Bess

Sarah Boyts Yoder - thanks for your interview question!

And thanks for listening!

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Artist Interview: Brooke Mullins Doherty Revisited

Words of the day: scale. organic. layer. complexity. intuition.

Welcome Brooke Mullins Doherty back to the podcast! 

Brooke and I first spoke in the early days of ahtcast back in 2011 and I thought it would be a good thing to catch up and talk about Brooke’s current show and the work in it, along with details regarding her varied and focused working methods. 

Brooke’s show is titled Divulgences, catch it if you are in the New Bedford, MA area for the reception October 13th 2022 from 5 to 8pm. The exhibition runs September 12 – October 20, 2022 at the Co+ Creative Center at 137 Union Street in New Bedford, MA. 

Also featured in the interview are 3 questions submitted by previous Ahtcast guest Chicago based painter, Renee Robbins! 

Listen below for more... 

 Spacial Divulgence 2

Acrylic on cut paper

6 x 6 inches

2019

 Reciprocity 10

Ink on paper

15 x 11 inches

2021

 Glorious Congruity

Enamel on monotype

24 x 18 inches

2020

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Revisited: Brooke Mullins Doherty and Phillip J. Mellen in Conversation

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Brooke Mullins Doherty with her work

The artist's website: Brooke Mullins Doherty

Divulgences, catch the show if you are in the New Bedford, MA area for the reception October 13th 2022 from 5 to 8pm. The exhibition runs September 12 – October 20, 2022 at the Co+ Creative Center at 137 Union Street in New Bedford, MA.

 

 

Mentioned in the interview: 

Maplecroft Fall River, MA

 Renee Robbins - thanks for your questions!

Eva Hesse

Judy Pfaff

Barbara Takenaga

Gustav Klimt

 

 

Many thanks to Brooke for the conversation!

 

And thank you listeners! 

 

 

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Artist Interview: Ronan Bowes

Words of the day: transitive. tension. experimentation. looking. passages.

This episode's guest is Ronan Bowes! In the conversation you'll hear Ronan share some of his early formative experiences with art and how they helped him in the right direction. Also what practice helped shape his identity as an artist, he expresses his love of materials and how work can take on the studio patina, also part of the interview is talk of painting as installation and blurring the lines of painting and constructions...listen below for more...

I also wanted to send a quick thank you to previous Ahtcast guest Heather Yip for sending me an interview question for Ronan, thanks Heather!

 

 

Border

oil, wood, plaster and spray paint

approx. 94 x 20 x 20 cm / 37 x 8 x 8 in

2017

Xanax

oil on canvas

196 x 178 cm / 77 x 70 in

2016

 

Undeclared

oil on canvas with artist frame

126 x 98 cm / 50 x 39 in

inset studio installation with wall, steel and concrete 

2019/2020

 

Untitled

installation North wall (detail) 

work on paper with expanded painting on studio wall and wood

approx. 12ft x 20ft

2020

You Are Here

mixed media on recycled wood with artist frame

152 x 122 cm / 60 x 48 in

2018

 

 

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Ronan Bowes Interview

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The artist's website: Ronan Bowes

 instagram: @ronan_o_buadhaigh

 

Visit Ronan Bowes' solo show 'Decompression' online May 7th through May 29th 2022 at: Gallery 545

 

 

Mentioned in the interview:

 

Rita Duffy

Billy Connoly

Catherine Haggarty

Hilary Doyle

New York Crit Club

Katharina Grosse

Helen O'Leary

Susan Carr

James Kalm

Art 21

Louisiana Channel

Helen Frakenthaler

Elizabeth Murray

Joan Mitchell

Richard Tuttle

Etel Adnan

Mainie Jellet

Roy Holt

Basil Blackshaw

William Crozier

Bram Bogart

Frank Stella

Arshile Gorky

Matisse

El Greco

Jackson Pollock

Picasso

 Philip Guston

Francis Bacon

 

 

Many thanks to Ronan Bowes for the conversation, and congratulations on your show 'Decompression' goes out to you!

 

 

And thank you for listening! 

 

 

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Artist Interview: Guest Host Lauren Levine interviews Paul Behnke

Words of the day: figuration. abstraction. sketchbook. practice. driven.

Guest host Lauren G. Levine takes over the interview mic to talk with fellow painter Paul Behnke about his work and practice, as well as his move to Taos, NM with his wife.

Paul also shares his thoughts about ways of working on his paintings, his sketchbook practice, and how his current living conditions and location influence, or don’t influence, his current body of work. And more…listen below...

2 paintings by guest host Lauren Levine:

In The Grasses, Underfoot

Oil on canvas

2020

72 x 60 inches

What's the Sky's Name Again?

Oil on canvas

2020

72 x 60 inches

 

 Guest host, painter Lauren G. Levine

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2 paintings by featured interview guest Paul Behnke:

 

 Spirit Double

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

2022

44 x 42 inches

 

 

3-6-22

Acrylic on canvas

2022

44 x 42 inches

 

 

Featured interview guest, painter Paul Behnke in his studio Taos, NM, photo by Robin Stout

 

 

Audio conversation between Levine and Behnke:

Ahtcast · Guest Host Lauren Levine interviews Paul Behnke

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More from Lauren Levine and Paul Behnke:

Levine's website: Lauren Levine

instagram: @laurenglevineart

 

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Paul's website: Paul Behnke 

 

instagram: @paulbehnkepaintings 

 

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Mentioned in the conversation:

 

Jack Kirby

John Hoyland

Rorschach test

Debra Ramsay

James Kalm

Wassily Kandinsky

Patrick Graham

Lawrence Durrell

Nicole Eisenman

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 

Emil Nolde

Henry Miller

Graham Dane

 

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Many thanks to guest host Lauren G. Levine. And also to Paul Behnke for being a great guest! I'm grateful for their conversation.

 

 

 Thanks for listening!

 

 

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Artist Interview: Barbara Laube

Words of the day: history. ritual. open. magic. portrait. 

This episode’s guest is Barbara Laube. In the conversation you’ll hear personal accounts and connections between the artist and her work. As well as the surprising, and not so surprising, places the work derives from. Also a list of artists’ studios she would like to visit. 

This interview also features a few questions submitted by previous guest Brigid Watson. And more…..listen below:

Dorothy's Dress

15 x 8 inches

oil on linen

2022

Install of small works

Morning Has Broken

5 x 4 inches

oil on linen on panel

2022

Mending

 7 x 5 inches

oil on canvas

2021

Barbara Laube in her studio

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Barbara Laube interview

The artist's website: Barbara Laube

instagram: @barbaralaube

 

 

Morning Has Broken 

runs February 12th through March 20th 2022 

With a reception on Saturday March 5th from 2 - 5 pm

at Gold/scopophilia in Montclair, NJ

 

 

 Mentioned in the interview: 

 Vincent van Gogh

Jackson Pollock 

Willem de Kooning

Franz Kline

Bill Jensen

Barnett Newman

Mark Rothko

Giorgio Morandi

 Michelangelo

Velazquez 

della Francesca

 

Many thanks go out to previous ahtcast guest Brigid Watson for collaborating on questions for this interview!

 

Congratulations on Morning Has Broken, and thanks for the conversation, Barbara!

 

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(Original intro song by David T Miller and Phillip J. Mellen)

Artist Interview: Sabine Tress | Space Oddities

Words of the day: gesture. vulnerability. consciousness. Zero gravity.

For this episode Sabine Tress returns to the podcast, from her studio in Cologne, Germany, to discuss the work in her solo show Space Oddities. 

This conversation acts mostly as a virtual tour of Sabine’s exhibition. It details the relationships between the actual exhibition space, the paintings, the viewer, and the painter herself. Somehow I make my way into the mix as well. 

I did not know this interview would journey in the direction it did, it wasn’t until editing did I realized how these states were apparent. This recording creates a virtual venue where the show takes place for those who can’t make it to the brick and mortar space, and yet helps make it a show not to miss in person. Listen below...

Blizzard

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in

acrylic on canvas

2021

Teddy

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in

acrylic on canvas

2022

Ma Vie Sous Marine

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in 

spray and acrylic on canvas

2022

 

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Sabine Tress | the Space Oddities interview

 

 

The artist's website: Sabine Tress

 

  Space Oddities runs through February 12th 2022

at Esther Verhaeghe Art Concepts

Brussles, Belgium

 

More info on the show: Esther Verhaeghe Art Concepts

 

  Esther Verhaeghe and Sabine Tress!

instagram: 

@sabtress

@esthersartytrail

She's vague

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in

acrylic and spray on canvas

2021

Sabine Tress,...congrats and thanks for the conversation!

 

 

(Original intro song by David T Miller and Phillip J. Mellen)