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Location 1980 Podcast

by Jesse Fortune & Erik Ringman

Boots on the ground of the art world, we chat the galas and the grit with guest artists and your hosts Jesse Fortune and Erik Ringman at the world famous Location 1980 Art Collective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes

  1. 2025 in Review

    Introducing the Total Orbit Documentation System,™ likely the world's first complete rotary interview apparatus deployed in such a manner. Our immersive, gyratory video capture facility is fully designed and fabricated in-house resulting in a pioneering full-circle experience engine that is not...

  2. A Life Lived in Many Media - Alicia Long

    From musical theater spotlights to sculpture studios, and behind the camera lens - nothing is off limits to Alicia. In this conversation, we explore how a life steeped in art, design, and performance fuels her boundless energy and ever-expanding body of work. Alicia's Links Insta:...

  3. By Flesh and Wall: The Relentless Drive to Make Art with Nick Stiles

    Tonight the guys sit down with Nick Stiles, a longtime enthusiast and participant at the studio. Nick is an immensely skilled painter who works strongly in the domains of fantasy, darkness, and imagination. Especially notable is his talent with the figure, long understood as the pinnacle of...

  4. Scholar to Studio: Academic Turned Artist with Dr. Bridget R. Cooks

    Tonight's guest Dr. Bridget R. Cooks is the most well-read person we've had on the show. With a Ph.D. in Art History, Visual and Cultural Studies, she is a published author, has written in dozens of exhibition catalogues and academic journals, and has curated numerous exhibitions around the...

  5. Spec Scripts and Shifting Sands: A Screenwriter's Climb with Ed Dutcher

    Tonight the duo hosts Ed Dutcher, a screenwriter with numerous irons in the fire - something they learn is necessary if you're going to make it as an unknown in Hollywood. The glamour is real, and so is the uphill battle atop moving ground. With experience amongst the many disciplines of cinema,...

  6. Paint Beyond the Picture - Scott Ludwig

    Tonight's guest, Scott Ludwig, has been in the game for some thirty years. To simply address his works as "abstract" would be to miss the deeper layers of process that go on. Beyond depicting designed scenes, Scott's work experiments with the very medium itself: he has an intimate understanding…

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  7. The Meandering Path with Dan Felchner

    The guys sit down with Daniel Felchner, multidisciplinarian, muralist, liquid light practitioner, and outdoorsman, and discuss the shifting, emergent path that artists find themselves traveling. As always, our journey is truly the destination. Introducing some new segments, get ready with the…

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  8. 2024 in Review

    The guys do the annual Year in Review episode, looking at the triumphs and tribulations of last year while also what's exciting in 2025. It's been a year of great change at the gallery, especially in the last few months. But if there's any consistent theme at Location 1980, it's adaptability &...

  9. From Corporate to Creator: Natasha Patel's Bold Art Evolution

    After doing time as an employee, Natasha realized no path to success lay there: the only option is to take the reins in your own hands and chart a novel course. She produced flow art for a while that was a pleasing initial step into creative endeavours, and she experienced marketability, but felt...

  10. Common Threads: Cultural Connection Via Film, Music, and Beer

    Get ready for a banger: Rishi is a broadly talented artist with a litany of tales to share, and we only touch a segment of his life story on today's episode. From a childhood in Queens, NY, back and forth to ports in America and beyond, ultimately to So. Cal. he specializes in the motion picture...

  11. Bass Beyond Borders: DJ Reign

    Today we sit down with Reign Maka, who months away from his thirtieth birthday is already traveling the world for shows and events. Closer to his SoCal home, he is helping to launch a new desert event - The Chronic of Gnarnia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  12. From Muse to Master: An Angel Purging the Dæmons - Katya

    Katya began practicing art later in life, first modeling for figure drawing sessions and then attending as well. Eventually pursuing a full studio practice, she elevated to a level of fantastically expressive work in a very short time. Much of her work focuses on figures and bodies that are…

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  13. The Art of Defying Expectations: Stephanie Snee - Location 1980 Podcast

    Maneuvering multiple styles and media, Stephanie is a versatile creative both in and out of the studio. In our last four episodes we interviewed various artists from our F.eminine U.ndertones show; now meet its gallerist & curator (who is herself hanging in the show as well). Making artwork is…

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  14. Scholar to Creator: The Art of Making Artists with Amy Kells

    Amy Kells is one of 1980's longest running artists and an unfiltered, wide-open-throttle creative to her core. Believing that all people possess an artistic drive from birth, she never saw herself going that direction as a child. But a combination of skill, fortunate intervention, and having…

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  15. Decades of Innovation with Friends and Pioneers

    Nancy Anderson and Ruth Geller have been longtime friends of the studio, and have the types of art careers we love to feature: they have both practiced art consistently for decades, evolving through styles and media as mastery of one led to the search for new challenges. Having participated in...

  16. Art on the Edge: Tales from Punk Rock Renaissance Woman Jackie Danger

    Having lived all throughout the USA's west coast and a span in Oz, she has traversed the highs of sold out exhibitions and the lows of residing in garages clandestinely. The art world is one that will by turns exalt you and kick you in the chin, and few embody the will to take a lickin' and keep…

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  17. Secrets from the Fantasy Fun Farm of Tracey Moloney

    Hailing from New York, cutting her teeth in San Francisco, and making SoCal her home, Tracey’s art practice includes large scale murals, traditional fine art painting, and gallery operation. After schooling in graphic design, she decided to go into art production for herself and never stepped…

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  18. Hippie Heart and Business Mind: Corey Clark

    Corey swooped in, hosted a solo show less than a year later, then moved out of 1980 for the beautiful vastness of Joshua Tree, where he exchanged his paints for glass. A successful solo operator, he consistently drives himself to up his game by working with other artists and taking classes from...

  19. Extreme Adventures with a Maverick Artist

    Today the guys chat with an old friend of Location 1980, Bert Esenherz. He was doing out-of-the-box feats that cannot be classified as performance art, comedy, or improv alone, decades before broadband and social media made this kind of thing commonplace. Many of his events are truly art for…

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  20. Mastering the Muse

    Victori Violet traverses many worlds with a sly grin, doing expressive performance on a professional level along the way. From Austin, Texas to the Southland she literally learned to dance by playing with fire, has strong ties in the clown community, interprets words & music for deaf people, and...

  21. Holographic Horizons

    In this episode the guys chat with Jim Trolinger whose résumé read longer than a CVS receipt. He has made artwork since childhood, and pursued a degree in engineering physics, ascending to doctorate level at a prime time to be amongst the nascent holographers of the world. He eventually founded…

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  22. Unveiling Artist's Secrets

    The guys are back after a a major hiatus, and the first order of business is where they've been all year. The answer? Numerous gallery events, expansion of the studio, and another trip to That Thing in the Desert - just to name a few. A trip to the top is always a spiral route, and this year set…

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  23. Interactive, Reflective, and BIG Art with Lauren Kilb

    In this episode the guys sit down with Lauren Kilb, longtime Location 1980 artist whose specialty is interactive art: pieces that once built, are only truly complete when the audience participates in what the piece has set up. In this way, the piece is not a static thing but a context for a...

  24. Brief History of OC's Best Kept Secret

    Hosts Jesse Fortune and Erik Ringman introduce the world to Location 1980, an art collective with a decade plus history hidden in the center of Orange County, California. "The last four letters of artwork, aren't play," says Fortune, weaving together a rigorous, get-it-done discipline and a...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Boots on the ground of the art world, we chat the galas and the grit with guest artists and your hosts Jesse Fortune and Erik Ringman at the world famous Location 1980 Art Collective.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jesse Fortune & Erik Ringman

Produced by Erik Ringman

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Boots on the ground of the art world, we chat the galas and the grit with guest artists and your hosts Jesse Fortune and Erik Ringman at the world famous Location 1980 Art Collective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Location 1980 Podcast is created and hosted by Jesse Fortune & Erik Ringman.
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