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Inspiring podcast featuring interviews with artists, meditators and pioneers of culture. Hosted by Brooklyn, NY based artist Dan Gratz.

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Wardell Milan

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2026/04/22

Building upon a conceptual foundation in photography, Milan’s practice encompasses drawing, collage, and painting to explore ideas of the body, beauty, and the unconscious. The composite, fragmented figures in his work inhabit ambiguous landscapes of painted abstraction, navigating themselves through recontextualized historical and contemporary environments. Through them, the body—the physical, the psychological, and the photographic body—is understood as a multi-faceted, intersecting site of

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Ashlie Atkinson

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2026/04/15

Ashlie Atkinson is an Arkansas-born actress now living in Brooklyn, NY, who has amassed a pile of over 100 credits in film and television since her debut in 2004. Notable roles include a virulent klan wife in Spike Lee's Blackkklansman, the psychopathic taxidermist Janice on Mr. Robot, and the ever-capable dispatcher Ruby in The Lost Bus (starring Matthew McConaughey) on Apple TV. Ashlie currently portrays 1880s party girl Mamie Fish on HBO's hit show The Gilded Age, and unlicensed nurse and

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61:49

Leon Chase

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2026/04/07

Leon Chase is a self-taught filmmaker, musician, visual artist, occasional writer, and full-time curious person. For nearly a decade, he has dedicated himself to capturing—and celebrating—the "vanishing weirdos" of New York City.

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78:04

Bob Holman

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2026/04/01

Founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and the author of 22 poetry collections (print/audio/video), most recently two books written 50 years apart The Unspoken (YBK/Bowery), Life Poem (YBK/Bowery) as well as Bob Holman’s India Journals (Rattapallax), The Cutouts (Matisse) (PeKaBoo Press) and Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press). He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. As the original Slam Master and a director of the Nuyorican Poets Café, creator of the world's first

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104:49

Jonathan Allmaier

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2026/03/25

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented four solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Brown University, and his MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of

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Holly Coulis

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2026/03/18

Holly Coulis was born in Toronto, ON and moved to NYC in 1999. She currently lives and works in Athens, GA. Her work is represented by Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles and Klaus von Nichtssagend in NYC, where they are currently hosting her exhibition, "Whereabouts".

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57:05

Sam Jablon

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2026/03/12

Sam Jablon (b. 1986, Binghamton, New York) lives and works in New York City. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY and his BA from Naropa University. His work has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Hauser & Wirth, Blum & Poe, Morgan Presents, and the Pit. His work is held in the collections of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ICA Miami, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and

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86:32

Dona Nelson

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2026/03/04

Dona Nelson received a BFA from Ohio State University in 1968, attending the WhitneyIndependent Study Program in 1967 while still an undergraduate. Among other grants, Nelson received an Anonymous was a Woman Grant in 2015, an Artist Legacy Foundation Award in 2013, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2011, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. In January/February of this year, they had a solo exhibition at Canada Gallery, in conjunction with Thomas Erben. Nelson’s paintings are included in

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77:04

Liz Ainslie

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2026/02/25

Liz Ainslie is an abstract painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her abstractions are generated from observations and memories spanning 1970s interior decor, the Upstate New York landscape, My Little Pony, and ancient Greek wall paintings. You can read about Liz's recent solo exhibition at Deanna Evans Projects on Two Coats of Paint. Liz's work has been featured in shows at White Columns, PLATFORM, Transmitter, Good Naked, Rhett Baruch, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Mepaintsme, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Tappeto

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70:18

Henry Gunderson

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2026/02/18

Henry Gunderson (born 1990, San Francisco, CA) is an American artist based in New York. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Gunderson received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Gunderson has had solo exhibitions at 247365 (New York), Derek Eller (New York), Perrotin (New York and Shanghai), Gern en Regalia (New York), Loyal (Stockholm), Water McBeer (New York), Ever Gold (San Francisco), Carl Kostyal (London), Castiglioni (Milan) and has been included in numerous group

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71:21

Kevin Lowenthal

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2026/02/10

Kevin Lowenthal (b. 1994, Philadelphia) lives and works in New York, NY. Lowenthal received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work employs the use of techniques from weaving, papermaking, and painting: he laminates the canvas with cotton fibers to build a ground on which to makes the paintings. Stages, curtains, and mannequins are spotlighted in their relationship to an index universal alchemy. Recent solo exhibitions were with Derek Eller, New York, NY; 243 Luz in Margate, UK, as

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79:03

Chason Matthams

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2026/02/03

Chason Matthams' focus is on capturing the ephemeral experience of consciousness and pointing to its fragmentary nature. While at first glance his paintings seem to be contemplative experiments in mimesis, prolonged looking reveals threatening undertones. Matthams’ employs specific combinations of colors, angles of perspective, and exhaustive detail to anthropomorphize each of his subjects, rendering them just barely sinister. Flitting between mechanical and organic objects, Matthams’ exacting

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70:22

Lucia Love

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2026/01/27

Lucia Love’s visually rich paintings are loaded with references to art history, mythology, politics, and the dynamics of power. By layering these references, contemporary allegories emerge, pushing each piece into the realm of idea painting. Their idiosyncratic paintings have appeared at Cue Foundation, Giovanni’s Room, Sargent’s Daughters, The Hole, JDJ, and others. Their work has been included in The Bunker Artspace of Beth Rudin DeWoody, and the Xiao Museum collection in Rizhao City China.

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67:11

Mary Laube

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2026/01/20

Mary Laube's work is fundamentally concerned with the contradictory nature of pictorial space, as it carries the promise of spatial expansion: an implied horizon with the illusion of spatial possibility. Yet, the physical surface of a painting agitates this illusion, as it asserts its truth as a flat surface. Within this plane her work antagonizes our relationship to culture, and the fraught process of defining it. Recent exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC), the Knoxville Museum of Art,

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77:18

Joe Fig

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2026/01/13

Joe Fig is an artist known for work that explores the creative process, and thespaces where art is made and contemplated. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is the author of the acclaimed books Inside the Painter's Studio and Inside the Artist’s Studio, which share an intimate view inside the studios of today’s leading artists. His work can be found in numerous museums and leading private collections including the Parrish Museum, Norton Museum, New Museum and the Fogg

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Esteban Cabeza de Baca

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2026/01/06

Esteban Cabeza de Baca is a painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between New York and the borderlands of the Southwest United States. Cabeza de Baca’s work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. Cabeza de Baca’s works are in the permanent collections of Harvard University, North Dakota Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Parrish Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and

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77:02

Cordy Ryman

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2025/12/30

Cordy Ryman is an abstract artist who fuses painting and sculpture using humble materials, most often acrylic paint and wood. He’s known for large-scale, site-specific installations that can be broken down into smaller components and stand-alone pieces. Ryman’s works are often responsive, reacting to their environments, their own layered histories and to one another. He maintains a prolific resourceful playfulness in his practice, with an evolving vocabulary of form and color that informs the

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67:36

Kevin Umaña

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2025/12/23

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city life and the pressures of assimilation. This duality seeded the fragmented forms and layered symbolism

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70:32

Emily Noelle Lambert

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2025/12/16

Emily Noelle Lambert creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that navigate the space between abstraction and figuration. She holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College (NY) and a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College (OH). Lambert has had solo exhibitions at Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC). Additional solo exhibitions include Freight + Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Dimin Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnus (NYC), Thomas Robertello Gallery (IL), Greenfield Community College (MA), and ARTBN (South

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Lydia McCarthy

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2025/12/09

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Herphotographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante in San Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. Lydia was a Lighthouse Works Fellow in 2025 and served as an Associate Professor of Photography at

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