Artist Interview: Lisa Kellner

Words of the day: color. contemplative. minimal. awkward. woven.

Welcome Lisa Kellner to the program! She joins us from Deer Isle, Maine from her local library, how cool! 

In the conversation we dive into the 3 to 5 words to describe the paintings question, of course, as well as their influences and ideas, a little bit about titles. Also part of the interview is a tip on how to stay out of trouble while painting, writing in 3 different books as part of her studio practice, and so much more…listen below!

 

The Ride

Oil on canvas

60 x 60 inches

Land and Sea Series

 

 

 

 Warrior

48 x 32 inches

2023

Deconstructed Paintings Series

At Dusk Everything Glows

Acrylic and oil on canvas

48 x 30 inches

2022

Winnicott 

49 x 42 inches

2023

Deconstructed Paintings Series

All Roads Lead II

Acrylic polymer on canvas

24 x 24 inches

2022

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Lisa Kellner Interview

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Lisa Kellner in her studio

 

 

 

The artist's website: Lisa Kellner

 instagram: @lisakellnerstudio

 

 

Mentioned in the interview:

Giorgio Morandi

Donald Woods Winnicott

 

 

Lisa Kellner's upcoming shows:

 

Reductive

Three person exhibition

Featuring the work of Jean Jack, Lisa Kellner, and Adam Umbach

Opening August 17th

Running August 17th through September 17th 2023

Carver Hill Gallery

Camden, ME

 

 

Everything Already Then

Solo exhibition

Opening September 8th

Runs September 7th through the 13th 2023

Granite Gallery

Tenants Harbor, ME

Congrats, Lisa. And thanks for the conversation! 

Thanks for listening, listeners! 

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Artist Interview: Debbi Kenote

Hey welcome to Ahtcast!

This episode’s guest is Brooklyn based painter Debbi Kenote.

Words of the day: butterfly. symmetry. sharp. bright. and aquatic.

In the conversation Debbi shares some of her experiences from growing up in the Pacific-Northwest as well as being home schooled until high school where her artistic life was encouraged at a whole other level.

Now living in Brooklyn we talk about how her experiences prior to that makes its way into her work as well as the city’s influence. And more.

Also part of the interview are two questions submitted by previous guest Connie Goldman so be sure to listen for those. Check out the player below to listen in...

Rook  

2022  

Acrylic on dyed canvas over shaped stretcher bar 

28 x 28 inches    

 
Leafwing 2022  Acrylic, dye and hinges on canvas 48 x 56 inches 

Leafwing(closed view)

Glider 2022 Acrylic on dyed canvas 47 x 47 inches    

  Hands All Around 2022 Acrylic on dyed canvas over shaped stretcher bar 28 x 28 inches    

  Anemone 2022 Acrylic on dyed canvas over shaped stretcher bar 26 x 26 inches   Audio interview with the artist: 

Ahtcast · Debbi Kenote Interview

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Debbi Kenote in her studio

 

 

 

 

The artist's website: Debbi Kenote

instagram: @debbikenote

 

 

 

Mentioned in the interview:

Elizabeth Murray

Cob x PLOP Residency

Kate Werble Gallery @kate_werble_gallery

Bob's in Bushwick @bobs_gallery1r

5-50 Gallery @550gallery

 

 

Big thanks goes out to Debbi for the fun conversation! and also to Connie Goldman for submitting interview questions! 

 

 

Thanks to the listeners out there as well...

 

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Artist Interview: Inga Dalrymple Revisited

Hey and welcome to ahtcast! 

 

This episode invites Sydney, Australia based artist Inga Dalrymple back to the podcast! 

 

Words of the day: Edges. Sensory. Rhythm. Intuitive. Painty. 

 

It has been nearly 10 years to the day since Inga last joined me to talk about her paintings. She had a lot to share about where her paintings have been over the years and, in my humble opinion, returning in force! 

 

And as always, I encourage listeners to visit the artists’ websites while listening and look along. Or visit ahtcast.com for images of the guest artist’s work. 

 

And one more tidbit, submitting 2 questions to the conversation was previous ahtcast guest Cologne based painter Sabine Tress, so be sure to listen for those. 

 

Welcome Inga Dalrymple back to the program…...listen in below!

 

 

 

Fragment from looking and remembering

acrylic on gesso panel 

24x18cm/9.5x7in

2022

Untitled

goauche on paper

27.7x21cm/11x8.5in

2023

Hide and seek

acrylic on board

90x61cm/35.5x24in

2022

Overflow

acrylic on gesso panel

35x25cm/14x10in

2022

Angophora Walk

mixed media on paper

75x58cm/29.5x23in

2023

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Revisited: Inga Dalrymple and Phillip J. Mellen in Conversation

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Inga Dalrymple with her work

 

 

 

 The artist's website: Inga Dalrymple

 Instagram: inga.dal_paints

 

 

 

 

Mentioned in the interview:

Julie Torres

Lucy Mink

Amy Lincoln

Sabine Tress - thanks for your great questions!

Olena Kalytiak Davis

Mary Oliver

Joan Mitchell

Philip Guston

Giorgio Morandi

Paul Cezanne

Paul Klee

Mozart

Beethoven

 

 

Many thanks to Inga for joining me for a conversation 10 years in the making! Cheers...

 

 

 

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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: Astrid Dick

 Words of the Day: faith. patience. sensuousness. rigor. energy.

Paris based painter Astrid Dick joins the program for a conversation. We talk about painting as spending the best hours of every day, words and their relationship to taking painting in personally and in conversation with others, how faith in painting triggers more faith and more.

Also, previous guest Lauren G. Levine sent in a question and some thoughts for Astrid which I share in the interview, thanks Lauren!

Welcome, Astrid Dick to conversation...listen below...

 

 

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Astrid Dick Interview

 

Mentioned in the conversation:

Vincent van Gogh

El Greco

J. M. W. Turner 

Jimi Hendrix

Howard Hodgkin

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Art Spiel article written by Astrid here: Art Spiel 

The artist's website: Astrid Dick

 instagram: @chastrida

 

Thank you Astrid for the conversation and for sharing, and to Lauren for her interview question!

 

Thanks, listeners! 

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Artist Interview: Amelia Briggs

Words of the day: color. scale. object. identity. character.

Nashville, TN based artist Amelia Briggs is this episode's guest, she pops in to share her inspirations and elements of her work and creative process, some cool words that she associates with her work, as well as how she chooses work for a show. 

Amelia also talks about identity, the nature and history of an object, and how mirrors are becoming a new and important element in her work....and more. Stay tuned and listen on the player below for more!

 
Polly Pom

 Lawn

 

Dearest

 Belmont University install

 Studio pic

Amelia Briggs' website: Amelia Briggs 

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Amelia Briggs Interview

Thanks to artist Jamey Hart for sending me a few questions to ask Amelia.  

Mentioned in the inteview:

Podcasts: Bad at Sports 

The Conversation Art Podcast

Eva Hesse

Grace Hartigan

Rainer Maria Rilke

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

edited by Sherry Terkle

Amelia Briggs' online exhibition, My World Got Soft, is up through June 21st over at Eve Leibe Gallery 

Thank you for listening! 

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The Mixed Media Tapes | an update!

The mixed-media tapes is an off-shoot of ahtcast. It is a collection of short artist talks and conversations detailing art related topics, such as titling paintings, free-association in art, thoughts on various mediums etc. I started these audio recordings with artists about 2 years ago. Long story short, there is new life in the project! The mixed-media tapes are now being individually uploaded to YouTube. There are four uploaded so far, thirteen more to look forward to down the line. 

Just below is one of the recordings. Painter Marc Cheetham talks with me about titling his work.

 


Please head on over to the ahtcast YouTube channel for more of the series here: ahtcast on YouTube

Thanks for listening, and please stay tuned for more.

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Artist Interview: Katie Wynne | Part One

Words of the day: stasis. gizmo. banal. abandon. escape.

Welcome Philadelphia based installation artist, Katie Wynne. Here during part one we weave through some of the work leading up to Katie's latest work in her forthcoming two person show, with artist Haynes Riley, titled "Familiars" at Sediment Arts in Richmond, Virginia on April 7th 2017.
We will discuss where Katie is coming from with the work, as well as my interpretations. 

Below you will find the audio interview, as well as some video documentation of some of the work mentioned in our chats.

Audio interview:

Below are short videos documenting some of the work mentioned in the conversation:

 
The Sylphides have the beast captured and are grooming him from Katie Wynne on Vimeo.



Avert your gaze and you will lose your love! from Katie Wynne on Vimeo.

Some views from "Workday" below:

The artist's website: Katie Wynne

Mentioned in the interview: 

Haynes Riley

Sediment Arts

Paul Valery

Agnes Martin

Jean Baudrillard, "The System of Objects"

John Cale, the album "Vintage Violence"

Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs"

Angela Dufresne

Alexander Calder

Richard Tuttle

Tim Hawkinson

Rachel Harrison

David Berman, "Actual Air"

Robert Gober

Polly Apfelbaum

Beverly Buchanan

James Castle

Thornton Dial

Show info:

Familiars

A two person show with Katie Wynne and Haynes Riley

Opening April 7th 2017
6-9pm

Sediment Arts

208 E. Grace Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

For part two of the interview with Katie Wynne, please visit this link: Part Two

Thanks for listening!

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Artist Interview: Joanne Freeman

Words of the day: formal. direct. witty. freshness.

Ahtcast is back. This time I spoke with NYC artist, Joanne Freeman. Inspirations, community vs. isolation in art school, and working in a series are all the topics discussed. Listen in to Joanne as she also shares her thoughts the formal qualities of painting, she also talks a bit on working with the figure, yes. Listen below.

Covers, 2015, gouache on handmade paper, 20x20

Covers, 2015, gouache on handmade paper, 24x24

Covers, 2015, gouache on handmade paper, 20x20

Three Chords, 2013, oil on shaped canvas, dyptich 30x66

Moon Walk, 2015, oil on circular canvas, 12" diameter

Reel, Rock, Roll, 2015, oil on canvas, 52x54

The artist's website: Joanne Freeman    

Audio interview with the artist:

Mentioned in the conversation: 

Ellsworth Kelly, Carla Accardi, Mary Heilmann, Paul Feeley, Morris Louis, Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Leon Polk Smith, Brice Marden.

A quote shared that is supposedly from Philip Guston:

 
"I believe it was John Cage who once told me, ‘When you start working, everybody is in your studio—the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas—all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you’re lucky, even you leave.’" 

Joanne Freeman in two shows this month, info:

Galerie Gris, 

621 Warren Street 

Hudson New York. 12534

Color, Shape and Form III, 

Group show with Karen Schifano and Andrea Belag opens February, 20th

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts: New Paintings and Drawings,  

February 18th thru March 26th

New York City - Chelsea

529 West 20th, Suite 6W

New York, New York 10011 

Thanks for listening! 

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