ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists Isaac Wexler-Mann

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 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 internationally. As for her studio practice, in Anne’s own words she wants her paintings to, "function like an eyelid, veering from dry to wet, inside to outside, opaque to transparent, form to formless, mute to aggressive, space curved outward toward the viewer, held in by fragile surface tension, the picture plane as membrane, the entire painting an eyelid.”

This is a two-parter folks, so don't forget to listen to part one from last week if you haven't already. Thanks for listening! 
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host: Isaac Mann
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guest: Anne Harris
www.anneharrispainting.com
insta: @anneharris.painting 

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 internationally.
On today’s episode we discuss routine, productively, working slow, numb panic, depression, relevance, on trend/off trend, contracts, royalties, a culture that values art but not artists, drawing, invisible labor, how art develops it’s meaning over time and the Venus of Willendorf. 
As for her studio practice, well, in Anne’s own words she wants her “paintings to function like an eyelid, veering from dry to wet, inside to outside, opaque to transparent, form to formless, mute to aggressive, space curved outward toward the viewer, held in by fragile surface tension, the picture plane as membrane, the entire painting an eyelid.”

Anne Harris was a blast to talk to, eloquent, honest and insightful. This is a two-parter folks, here’s part one. Enjoy. 
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host: Isaac Mann
www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann
 
guest: Anne Harris 
www.anneharrispainting.com
insta: @anneharris.painting 

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 surrealist painting.
On today's episode: Jen and I discuss vertical vs horizontal compositions, deadlines, negotiation skills, her upcoming 21 ft-mural commission for Mailchimp, starting a painting, building a painting  and potential new directions in her painting practice. and a whole lot more.

About Jen Hitchings:
Jen Hitchings (1988, New Jersey) received her BFA in Painting & Drawing from SUNY Purchase College in 2011 and a certificate in Small Business & Entrepreneurship from CUNY Hunter College in 2018. She has attended residencies at Adventure Painting (Yellowstone National Park), DNA (Provincetown, MA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Studio Kura (Itoshima, Japan). Solo presentations of her work have taken place at Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, CA) in 2023, Taymour Grahne (London, UK) in 2023 and online in 2022, One River School (Englewood, NJ) in 2019, MEN Gallery (New York, NY) and PROTO (Hoboken, NJ) in 2018, and Ideal Glass (New York, NY) in 2017 which was accompanied by a 16 x 30’ outdoor mural. In 2021, she completed two large-scale outdoor murals at The Wassaic Project, on view through 2023. In 2023, she was commissioned by Mailchimp to produce a 9 x 21’ indoor permanent office mural at their new headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at Richard Heller, Anat Ebgi, Good Mother (Los Angeles), Kutlesa (Goldau, Switzerland), Chen Projects at Louisa Art Center (Taipei, Taiwan), Taymour Grahne (London, UK), Ana Mas Projects (Barcelona, Spain), Gaa Gallery, Cindy Rucker, Pierogi (New York, NY), and The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) among others. She was a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts’ New Works Grant in 2018. Between 2013–2020, Hitchings co-directed Transmitter and Associated Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, is the founder of artist-focused consulting agency Studio Associate, and Director of Career Services at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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guest: Jen Hitchings
www.jenhitchings.com
insta: @jenjonesjones

Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists

Today'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 opportunity to swing by ArtRuss Gallery, where Ross’s latest solo show, Emerald City, was opening the following day. Ross walked me through her exhibition after which, we sat down and recorded this conversation. 

Ross and I discussed painting on paper, curating Emerald City, control and agency, working in bursts, accountability partners, community, cofounding the NYC Creative Salon, and her most recent work with the Chicago Crit Club.
Ross also speaks openly about the loss of her son Rafi, and about painting’s role in coping with trauma. 


About:

Marina Ross is an artist, instructor, and curator based in Chicago, IL. She earned her MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 2018 and her BFA in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Her work has been exhibited in New York at Sugarlift, Friday Studio Gallery, Art Helix, and Highline Stages and throughout Chicago at Goldfinch Gallery, Heaven Gallery, The Franklin, Sulk, and Baby Blue Gallery, among others. She received The Stanley Award for International Graduate Research from The University of Iowa and attended the Saint Petersburg Artist Residency in Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017). Her work is in numerous public and private collections. She runs a critique group for professional artists in Chicago and teaches art at Loyola University Chicago and Roosevelt University.

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host: Isaac Mann
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insta: @isaac.mann
 
guest: Marina Ross
www.marina-ross.com/
insta: @marinaross_studio

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 practice. 

We also discuss collage, scale, leaving the rectangle and how to leave the studio with a little bit of excitement to start tomorrow.


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 host: Isaac Mann
 www.isaacmann.com
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guest: Thai Mainhard
https://www.thaimainhard/
insta: @thaimainhard

Intro and Closing Music  by ARRN
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. 
Today is the final installment of my conversation with the artist TL Solien. In this last section, TL talks about building his dream studio, selling his dream studio, the best years of his career, dwindling interest, staying afloat, vulnerability, taking things personally, contemplating failure, building paintings in moments of fracture, learning art history late, finding satisfaction, healthy fuel, 30 minutes of joy, scale, notes from an opera, Tex Avery cartoons, how he starts a painting now, being stumped, and problem solving.

I'd like to add that I've been receiving a lot of love for the previous parts of this  conversation, and if this means you would like more long-form conversations like this one, please let me know at artmatterspodcast@gmail.com 

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About:

T.L Solien, born in Fargo North Dakota in 1949, received a BA degree in Art from Moorhead State University, Moorhead MN in 1973, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977.


TL Solien has been  invited to  participate in numerous exhibitions  of National and International magnitude including, the 1983 Whitney Biennial, the 39th  Biennial of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; Avant-Grade in the 80”s, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The American Artist as Printmaker,   Brooklyn Museum NY; Images and Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Contemporary Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Solien was the subject, recently, of a 25 year retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, entitled “ T.L. Solien: Myths and Monsters", as well as a touring exhibition porganized by the Plains Museum of Fargo North Dakota, entitled "Toward the Setting Sun", comprised of 65 work, and supported by a 200 page catalog published and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.

TL Solien has had approximately 40 solo exhibitions over the last 25 years.


TL Solien is represented in numerous corporate and public collections including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;  High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The Tate Modern, London;  The Smithsonian Museum ,Washington D.C.;  The Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles;  The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.;  The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI. and  Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI.   TL Solien is currently represented by Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, and his most recent solo exhibition was at OTI in Los Angeles, CA. 


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host: Isaac Mann
www.isaacmann.com
insta: @isaac.mann

guest: TL Solien
https://www.solientl.com/
insta: @tlsolien