I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

Liz Wick is the owner of Astoria Coffee in Queens, NY and art collector. In this episode, we discuss being a small business owner and providing space for artists and how Liz began her collection. Liz talks about how she started collecting as a broke college student who loved art and now her collection has grown to even include a Braque. What I love about this episode is it makes collecting accessible. I hope this episode helps artists who are intimidated by collectors and encourages others to start

This week I am talking to the wonderful and hilarious painter, Tess Billhartz. We met up in her Brooklyn studio to talk about collaboration, narrative and how film plays into her paintings. Bilhartz grew up in Dallas, Texas and received her MFA from Boston University in 2010. She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and the DNA summer residency program, among others. Solo exhibitions include On A Good Night at 0-0 Los

Today I am talking to Ekaterina Popova, Kat is a painter and creator of the magazine Create Magazine and the podcast Art and Cocktails! Kat was born in Vladimir, Russia and after moving to the United States, fell in love with painting. Her work has been exhibited all over the place nationally and she has been featured in multiple blogs and publications, including Aesthetica, The Jealous Curator, Artistic Moods, Art Reveal Magazine and a ton of other publications. In this episode, we co-interview

In this episode I talk to the Queens-based artist, Kerri Ammirata. Kerri was born in Long Island and partly raised in the Midwest. She earned her MFA from Boston University in 2010 and a BA from Anderson University in 2006. Her first New York solo exhibition 'Deep in the Knowing' was last month at Space 776.   Kerri’s work is in the form of painted shaped panels that utilize the grid and geometry. Her work responds to home altars and the idea of a spiritual domestic space. In this interview we

Ariel is a Boston-based painter whose work explores the accelerators and brakes of sexuality through the body and gestures. In this episode, we hang out in her studio and discuss how her personal history has impacted her work, memory and how her work has grown over the past few years. Ariel has had multiple solo and group shows including exhibitions at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Samson Projects, Dartmouth College, Tufts Art Gallery, Danforth Museum, Montserrat College of Art

Welcome to the first episode of I Like Your Work! In this episode, we meet, Rebecca Sargent, an artist living in Dayton, Ohio. Rebecca is a painter and also the program director at a non-profit art center where she works with students to give them a creative and productive outlet. We discuss how we both fell in love with painting while in our early twenties in Italy, road tripping through the rustbelt to find and explore forgotten spaces, and how her dreams and anxieties inform her work.  Rebecca

I Like Your Work is a podcast dedicated to interviewing creative people from painters and artists to collectors and curators. People who are involved in a creative lifestyle and also in building community with in the arts.