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The Portraitists

Nick Guacheta"

Casual conversations with portrait & figurative artists. Hosted by Nick Guacheta".

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00:50:37

Steve Cannon, 6/29/24

The Portraitists ·

2024/05/29

A conversation with Steve Cannon, an Irish figurative artist practicing in Galway, Ireland. Cannon’s work remained steadily focused on human portraiture. Cannon captures his subjects with prying attention - resulting in hyper honest and vulnerable product - described as beginning “[torn apart]”. Cannon’s work has been frequently platformed by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. @stevecannonartist

00:52:34

Zboik Czajkowski, 4/16/24

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2024/04/16

A conversation with Zboik Czajkowski, a Polish figurative artist that practices between the cities of Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. Czajkowski is a prominent figure in the street art and graffiti scene - his career taking him from London to Tokyo. Czajkowski’s current practice is balanced between large-scale mural commissions, which he executes with a small team, and that he pursues as an opportunity for travel and social engagement - and his studio practice, where he digests his emotions

01:21:35

Wylee Risso, 4/14/24

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2024/04/15

A conversation with Wylee Risso, a figurative painter currently practicing in Portland, OR. Risso’s body of work spans an eclectic assortment of subjects - images untethered by audience-focused theming, but instead images that strike the artist - the refracted lightshow of a dishpit, or a single frame of a cult-classic. Risso translates these images into a signature style characterized by a frenzy of lines that search for supernatural geometry - resulting in a sharp, flat, Euclidean

01:49:56

Rustam Hasanov, 4/12/24

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2024/04/12

A conversation with Rustam Hasanov, a Russian-American figurative artist currently practicing in Atlanta, GA. Hasanov is a multidisciplinary artist with a career in animation and character design. Inspired to rediscover the artistic passions of his youth - nonreactive to audience or commercialism - Hansanov has refocused on a ritualistic, and non-commodified practice. Hasanov creates rapid expressive gestural figures of his selected models - explore their condition as he emulates his own and merges

00:58:18

Roxy Peroxyde, 4/5/24

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2024/04/05

A conversation with Roxy Peroxyde, a figurative artist practicing in Montreal, Canada. Peroxyde is best known for her vivid contemporary interpretations of classic paintings which she describes to be “witnesses to how times change but people stay the same”. Peroxyde yields to her subconscious as she develops her compositions - blending humor, pop culture, fashion, and a universal, but sometimes suppressed, feminine gaiety in her images. *ref, roxyperoxyde.com @roxyperoxyde

00:59:54

James Zamora, 3/29/24

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2024/03/29

A conversation with James Zamora, a Texan figurative painter currently practicing in Savanna, GA. Zamora is known for his realist still life paintings that span subjects from traditional floral arrangements to images of contemporary mundanity. Zamora also elevates and immortalizes images and icons from his childhood - giving vintage gaming consoles the reverence of a Flemish composition. @jameszamora

01:08:32

Amy Erickson, 3/11/24

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2024/03/12

A conversation with Amy Erickson, an Oklahoman figurative painter practicing in Seattle, Washington. Erickson's work spans media from oil paint, to colored pencil, to collage. Her deep and lifelong attention to subject and multi-iterative method result in a "compression of multiple dimensions into one object”. Erickson's work seeks to illustrates the profound within familiar moments and settings. *ref, paraphrase, canvasrebel.com @amyericksn

01:18:04

Amy Erickson, 3/11/14

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2024/03/11

01:24:11

Tom Mead, 3/1/24

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2024/03/01

A conversation with Tom Mead, a figurative painter practicing in Essex, England. Mead's work explores "the visuals and ideology from childhood including toys, naïvely constructed environments, ambiguous narratives, and an undercurrent of existentialism."*ref, paraphrased, tommead.co.uk @tommeadmead

00:41:11

Jon Hingston, 2/28/24

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2024/02/28

A conversation with Jon Hingston, an English figurative painter currently practicing in New York City, New York. Hingston paints landscapes, still lifes, figures, and portraits - adapting to the seasons and circumstance, his format and subjects lend to opportunity. Hingston's work explores chromatic honesty and the deconstruction of figurative representation.

01:07:01

Aaron Nagel, 2/26/24

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2024/02/27

A conversation with Aaron Nagel, a portrait painter currently practicing in Portland, Oregon. Nagel applies his reverence for renaissance aesthetics, and interest in antique religious imagery to produce classically inspired portraiture, some with playful Catholic nods. @aaronnagel

01:23:02

Kirsten Valentine, 2/21/24

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2024/02/22

A conversation with Kirsten Valentine, a figurative painter currently practicing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Valentine utilizes found vintage photography as references - peering into the moments of strange people in strange times. Valentine combines mediums, graphics, and sober figurative representation, often suspended in a stark white void. @kirstenvalentine

01:04:25

Daria Troshkina, 2/18/24

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2024/02/18

A conversation with Daria Troshkina, a Russian figurative painter practicing in Berlin, Germany. Troshkina recently approached oil painting from a background in tattoo art and its greater general culture. Fandom of horror, metal music, classic Russian love stories, and the Baroque aesthetic intersect in her experimental subject matter. @dariatroshkina

01:01:13

Juliano Mazzuchini, 2/16/24

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2024/02/16

A conversation with Juliano Mazzuchini, a Brazilian figurative painter currently practicing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mazzuchini, with an extensive background in theater, translates the full-body kineticism of stage acting to the composition of his paintings. Combined with the aesthetic of vintage flash photograph, Mazzuchini's work balances between eerie and familiar. @mazzuchini

01:24:12

David Shevlino, 2/13/24

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2024/02/14

A conversation with David Shevlino, a figurative painter currently practicing in Raleigh, North Carolina. Shevlino, with a foundation of classical appreciation and traditional technique, liberated by the rhythms of plein air, and ambition to discover a unique and self-expressive voice, had developed a style of figurative render that has inspired a generation of painters. @davidshevlino

01:12:19

Shannon Purcell, 1/13/24

The Portraitists ·

2024/02/13

A conversation with Shannon Purcell, a portrait artist practicing in Austin, Texas. Purcell seeks to create ‘talismanic’, concrete works that have substantial presents. His work explores self-portraiture beyond the self - beyond the attributes of sex, gender, or even the singular body at its most literal. @shannonpurcellart

01:20:56

Roni Taharlev, 2/11/24

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2024/02/11

A conversation with Roni Taharlev, a figurative painter practicing in Jaffa, Israel. Taharlev's work nods to the aesthetics of classical European painting, while exploring themes such as the objectification, gender, and birth. *ref, wikipedia.com @taharlevroni

01:45:20

Bobby Leash, 2/9/24

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2024/02/09

A conversation with Bobby Leash, a figurative, manga-inspired painter. Leash practices in proximity to Bangkok, Thailand. Leash's work is inspired by the visual grammar he absored as a young comic enthusiast, and now acts a means to tell the stories of his life. His imminent solo exhibition at Joyman Gallery centers around themes of perseverance in the face of surrender. @bobbyleash

01:28:29

Lucy Stopford, 2/8/24

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2024/02/08

A conversation with Lucy Stopford, a portrait painter currently practicing in Oxford, England. Stopford explores the relationship between marks and likeness; surpassing the obvious and rejecting the safety and repetition of a reliable method to find a new language for each subject. *ref, lucystopford.com @lucystopford_artist

01:39:48

Jotham Malave', 2/4/24

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2024/02/04

A conversation with Jotham Malave', a figurative painter whose practice, in part, aims to rediscover and sustain Puerto Rican heritage and culture despite opposing forces. *ref, mapr.org @jotham.malave

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