Studio Break

Iain Anderson joins the podcast to talk about his photo works that range from landscapes to a series of portrait works for his BFA Thesis exhibition that explore a moment in time between the viewer and the subject.

Maia Stern joins the podcast to discuss her work, which is influenced by fairy tales and folklore through a variety of glass and mixed media based sculptures and installations.

This week Megan Hinds, Nichole Roller, & David Linneweh sit down for a group discussion about their work for the three person exhibition entitled “Pathways” that runs April 23rd-June 4th at McLean County Art Center in Bloomington (IL).

Carin Mincemoyer joins the podcast to discuss her multimedia sculpture, installation, and public works that explore the relationship between humans and the natural environment.

Anastasia Sitnikova joins the podcast to talk about her conceptually driven mixed media and installation works that explore the relationship between technology, psychology, and human nature.

Wansi Ieong joins the podcast to discuss her paintings which are created through a combination of observation and memory.

Robert Fifield joins the podcast to discuss his studio practice and evolution as a painter and teacher.

Paolo Arao joins the podcast to discuss his colorful abstract paintings that are mixed media and include a variety of  fabric and textile materials.

This week Gabe Langholtz joins us to talk about his work and how his passion for playing music transitioned to creating narrative based paintings, which he describes as Naive Modern.

Sean Caufield joins the podcast this week to discuss his abstracted environmental landscapes that explore the boundaries of the biological and mechanical.

This week Ashleigh Morton joins the podcast to talk about her colorful paintings that explore themes of isolation and anxiety through a variety of mixed media drawings & paintings based on experiences working at a grocery store.

Isadora Stowe joins the podcast to discuss her multimedia and installation work which explores memory and environment transformed into colorful and complex psychological landscapes.

This week Rebecca Casement joins the podcast to discuss her beautiful mixed media work that distill personal and emotional experiences into abstracted sculptures and installations.

Doug Russell joins us to talk about his amazingly detailed drawings, which explore themes of history, decay, and renewal through a variety of works based off ruins, travel, imagination, intuition, and observation.

Jennifer Small joins the podcast to discuss her colorful abstractions that are based on fragments of banal photos taken from every day experiences.

This week Kate Kaminski, Ben Cohan, John Reddington, & David Linneweh  reflect on their lives since graduating from Southern Illinois University nearly 15 years ago.

This week Brian Frink returns to the podcast to share a bit about his current paintings and drawings, which are influenced by the landscape, water, and the moon amongst other things.

Sam Mack joins the podcast to discuss their work and  writes: “the installations of my work form a grammar of materials that utilizes institutional signs of caution and control punctuated by trans and queer-signaling. interwoven references point toward a slippage of both material and language that exists between physical, academized, and a theoretical corporeal existence.”

Spencer Molnar joins the podcast to discuss his paintings that utilize acrylic and spray paint through a balancing act of digital and analog processes as well as philosophy and critical theory.

Bethanie Irons joins the podcast to discuss her recent series of Vanitas Still Life Paintings/Illustrations that use symbols to explore ideas of life, death, and the passage of time during the global pandemic of 2020.