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Author: Isaac Wexler-Mann

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Welcome to ARTMATTERS! This podcast is a passion-project, a one-man show, a her-cu-le-an effort, by the Detroit-based artist Isaac Mann. Every episode is an in-studio conversation. Episodes drop every two weeks, with a new, fantastic, talented, professional artist each time. Topics can, and often do, include technical practices, daily studio insights, studio notes, career advice, influences, relationship advice, tips for a healthier practice, and a healthier life in gen and, as always, hope, depression, expectation, success and failure.  If you’re enjoying this podcast, please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber! 

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#017 with Mark Zubrovich

#017 with Mark Zubrovich

2023-10-2601:18:13

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsMy guest today is Brooklyn-based artist Mark Zubrovich. Mark and I talk about his recent stint on the Liquitex Artist Residency, the first book he self-published "Stuff Bruce Likes to Sniff" as well as his drawing practice, love of surface, Marks thoughts about democratizing art, anxiety, effort, confidence, limitations, making problems for yourself, getting reacquainted with oil painting, scale & speed, tapping into your comm...
#016 with Nat Meade

#016 with Nat Meade

2023-10-1201:23:57

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsToday's guest is Brooklyn artist, Nat Meade. Together we discuss Nat's practice and technique in depth. His painting surface, medium, composition and scale; his small studies, drawings and casein sketches. Later in the episode, Nat and I talk about before and after he came a full-time artist, his early career and what it means to find the confidence to paint for yourself and making your weakness your thing. We finish up talking trends, ...
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's conversation is with LA-based artist, Liv Aanrud. Liv is a texile artist . . . a painter . . . someone who makes paintings out of textiles? Doesn't matter. They're great. And so was this converation. I asked Liv about the speed of her practice, her single figure compositions, beauty, where her paintings start, their color and pattern, her influences and collaboration experience. We also discuss the health and well-being ...
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today's conversation is with LA-based artist, and friend of the show, Katya Zvereva. We chat about her recent solo show “Yggdrasil” with Art Room LA, post-solo blues, salesmanship, fashion collaboration, handmade clothing, collaborating with visual artists, developing new practices and good control vs. bad control vs. pure chaos.We also talk healthy living, communication, healing, living with a creative partner, and how Katya bu...
#31 with Catherine Howe

#31 with Catherine Howe

2024-05-0901:31:54

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists!My guest today is Catherine Howe. Catherine is a New York-based artist who has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe for over thirty years, including exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, MoMA PS 1 in New York, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Her work has been reviewed by Art in America, Artforum, Art Critical, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. On today...
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists!Back today is my guest Anne Harris. She is a painter, a curator, a writer, and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In today's conversation Anne speaks about Paul’s pisco sour, the artist spouse, therapy, loneliness, momentum, the Zone, music in the art studio and why painting is a vocation, not a career. Lot’s more too. Check it out!About Anne Harris:Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery and DC Moore Galle...
#29 with Anne Harris

#29 with Anne Harris

2024-04-1101:18:23

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. My guest today is Anne Harris. She is a painter, a curator, a writer, and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery and DC Moore Gallery in New York to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute and many more besides. She is also the originator of The Mind’s I, a drawing project done with other artists which has traveled and exhibited nationally and inter...
#28 with Jen Hitchings

#28 with Jen Hitchings

2024-03-2801:27:39

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. Today i speak with the LA-based artist Jen Hitchings. Jen’s work investigates the tenuous relationship between humankind and nature and in recent years she has embarked on a deeply self-reflective investigation of the psyche, relationships, erotic desire, and cosmic forces. Her influences range from the rural Japanese landscape, the Hudson River School painters, science fiction film posters, spiritualist archetypes, and contemporary surreal...
#27 with Marina Ross

#27 with Marina Ross

2024-03-1701:42:29

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsToday's guest, Marina Ross is a Russian Jewish artist, and her paintings draw upon her experience of acculturation, The American Dream, and the trauma inherent within it as well as traditional feminine beauty, as a form of social capital, assimilation, and protection. These notions of power and control of the feminine body and the performance of femininity saturate Ross’s work. A few months back, I was in Chicago, and had the oppor...
#26 with Thai Mainhard

#26 with Thai Mainhard

2024-02-2901:17:07

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. Today’s guest is Thai Mainhard. Thai is an abstract painter that live and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thai draws inspiration from human experiences and tension found in daily life and her own memories of it. In this week’s episode I sit down with Thai to discuss how she starts a painting, the magic of good teachers, the function of mood, formula and what she calls ‘the source’ in her daily studio ...
#24 with TL Solien (Part 2)

#24 with TL Solien (Part 2)

2024-01-2501:22:56

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. And we're back with Part 2 of my three-part conversation with Wisconsin-based artist, TL Solien. Today we conclude the exploration of his early (or phase 1) art practice, including a fun description of the origins of his pictographic works. We talk about his early career experiences in visiting and exhibiting in New York City and living for a time in Paris. We discuss family, and home-life, agreements, and finances, the difficulties fo...
#23 with TL Solien

#23 with TL Solien

2024-01-1801:18:44

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The podcast for artists. I’m particularly excited about today’s episode with the artist TL Solien. Prepare yourself for an epic conversation, recorded over two separate studio visits, and subsequently over four hours of material. In light of this, I’ve edited this conversation down into three episodes, which will come out weekly until complete, unlike the usual bi-weekly format of the show. ● In episode 1, we get into TL’s painting process and his backgro...
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsHappy New Years! On today’s episode i sit down with two terrific detroit-based artists. James Oscar Lee is a painter and textile artist, and Marcus Marcus, a multi-hyphenate, who develops music, performance art, and practical design. These two have been friends for years, and are frequent collaborators, one of the many reasons i asked them both to sit down and speak with me today. In this conversation we discuss the shifting productivit...
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsOn today’s episode we have the dramatic conclusion of my conversation with the artist James English Leary. Last time, James and I spoke at length about the state of art education. Today we discuss his new watercolors, collecting art, different kinds of change, deskilling, space and depiction, 19th century French painting and how unconditional support for an artists work - like love - is for babies. We also talk Renoir, Matisse, Hockney,...
#20 with Jennifer Coates

#20 with Jennifer Coates

2023-12-0701:44:58

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsOn today’s episode, I speak with the artist Jennifer Coates. In her recent paintings, ancient deities appear like ghosts in the abstracted landscape of rural Pennsylvania. Figures merge with their surroundings as weeds and trees become a site of both Pagan ritual and painterly event. The works hang together like tapestries with a variety of marks slowly accumulating in layers and zones to create a flickering but cohesive whole. Coates i...
#018 with Jaqueline Cedar

#018 with Jaqueline Cedar

2023-11-0901:17:21

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Today on the podcast I speak with Jaqueline Cedar. Brooklyn-based artist, and founder of the Good Naked Gallery. On this episode we discuss permanence and impermanence, romance and practicality, drawing out ideas versus immediacy, productivity, the 'more is more' practice and editing after the fact, the function of inspiration, 'nope' days, pleasure in the practice, how a painting develops, photography, painting from imagination, grad ...
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsOn today's episode I speak with LA-based and Pierogi-represented artist, Andrew Ohanesian. We discuss hating a good idea, the beautiful bad idea, desperation, panic and 'that magic moment,' life reflecting the studio practice, communicating with an audience, experiencing art, memory, parring down narratives, the making of Mandies, control, being an artist assistant, the making of Dog Years and much more. Andrew Ohanesian was born 1980 in Sout...
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for ArtistsOn this episode I sit down with LA artist and Hunter Alum, Christian Rogers. We talk about his combined process of drawing, photography and painting, his cozy home studio, distractions vs flow-state, breaking rules, and rules that don't help, forcing a painting, painting variations (aka bad printmaking) overcoming challenges, joyful painting, deconstructing success, what is allowed?, ways to access the universal, who are you painting fo...
Welcome to the triumphant return of ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists! Kicking off season 2, we have the first episode of ARTMATTERS: L.A. Edition, featuring Los Angelos-based artist Hannah Knight Leighton. Hannah and I sat down in her beautiful studio and discussed the following . . .. . .Drawing with Procreate, joy & labor in the studio, children's books, abstraction/representation, tufting, gesture in textile work, how Leighton got her start as a textile artist, the role ...
#009 - Rosie McGinn

#009 - Rosie McGinn

2022-10-0501:09:09

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: the podcast for artists!The long awaited episode 9 has finally arrived! This time I'm joined by london-based, multi-displinary artist Rosie McGinn. We discuss her early career experience, the origins of her current studio practice, her recent collab with Balenciaga, artist residencies, Sassy the Sasquatch and studio meditating. And a couple of other things i'm forgetting right now. Rosie's the best, and this episode isn't too shabby either. If you're enjoying the p...
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