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Magic Praxis
by Magic Praxis
Visual artists interview other visual artists about their work, lives and creative process. Hosted by Kate Hawes and Clarity Haynes.
Episodes
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Episode 14: Liz Collins
Multimedia artist Liz Collins draws from the materials, processes and techniques of textile and fabric media. Her work varies in scale from the object-based to the immersive and architectural, and straddles the divides between the functional, the decorative, and the expressive. We visited Liz in...
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Episode 13: Rachel Owens
Rachel Owens is a sculptor whose work is often socially engaged. She works with materials as varied as crushed glass, resin, and steel humvee truck bodies. Kate and Clarity visit her in her Brownsville, Brooklyn studio, where she discusses the logistics of creating large-scale public sculptures,...
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Episode 12: Chitra Ganesh talks with Maia Cruz Palileo
Chitra Ganesh is a multi-disciplinary artist working with myth, symbols and narrative. Guest host Maia Cruz Palileo, also a multi-disciplinary artist, was mentored by Ganesh in the Queer Art Mentorship program. During a visit to Ganesh's studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn, the artists discuss her…
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Episode 11: David Shaw
David Shaw's intricate sculptures are composed through the juxtaposition of materials such as branches, dirt, steel, glass, holographic laminate, flocking, and found furniture. In our visit to his Brooklyn studio, he discusses his long involvement with the gallery Feature Inc., which closed in…
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Episode 10: Susan Bee
Susan Bee's paintings and collages have been described as "pastoral psychedelia," and "a savage mix of Expressionism and Pop schadenfreude." Born and raised in New York City by artist parents, Bee is a longtime supporter of feminist art and women artists. She spent her student days in the 1970s...
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Episode 9: Becca Lowry
Becca Lowry carves intricate wall-mounted sculptures out of wood, which she decorates with painting and weaving. She is interested in ideas of use, architecture, vulnerability and bravery, and has said she thinks of her creations as "shields." In our visit to her Connecticut studio, she discussed...
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Episode 8: Pinar Yolaçan
Pinar Yolaçan was born and raised in Turkey, went to fashion school in London, and studied sculpture and photography at Cooper Union in New York City. Her work examines gender, power, and colonialism through a process she likens to anthropology. In this episode, we discuss her various series…
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Episode 7: Jenny Dubnau
Jenny Dubnau is a painter of portraits. Her uncanny, highly detailed oil paintings are made from the careful study of photographs she takes herself. Kate and Clarity visit the artist in her Long Island City studio, and discuss contemporary vs. historic meanings of portraiture, Barthes' idea of…
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Episode 6: Jim Butler
Jim Butler paints large-scale, detailed images of small glass maquettes he makes himself, which he calls "characters". Kate and Clarity visit him in his Queens studio, where he talks about being a young artist in the '70s, glass blowing, photography as a source for painting, and the allure of the...
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Episode 5: Chloë Bass talks with Sharon Louden
Guest host Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, and advocate for artists. Her book The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life gathers essays from 40 visual artists, one of whom is Chloë Bass. Bass is a conceptual artist working in the field of social practice. Louden...
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Episode 4: Julian Kreimer
Julian Kreimer is a painter who alternates between plein air painting and abstraction. Kate and Clarity talk to him in his Brooklyn studio about the sociology of urban plein air painting, gentrification in New York City, and how being in therapy made him a better artist. Kreimer wrestles with...
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Episode 3: Nona Faustine
Photographer Nona Faustine asks us to examine what it means to be an American. In her Brooklyn studio, Faustine talks with Kate and Clarity about the importance of paying tribute to under-recognized histories, notably the histories of slavery and of African American lives lost through police...
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Episode 2: Brenda Goodman
Clarity and Kate visit the Catskills studio of painter Brenda Goodman, and discuss how she starts a painting, her early influences in 1960s Detroit, figuration vs. abstraction, and why she doesn't consider herself a feminist. For more on this episode, and to see images of Goodman's work, visit…
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Episode 1: Elizabeth Insogna
Clarity and Kate visit the Brooklyn studio of painter Elizabeth Insogna and discuss finding your tribe, spirituality in art, the Divine Feminine, symbols and dreams. For more on this episode, and to see images of Insogna's work, visit our website at www.magicpraxis.com.
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Visual artists interview other visual artists about their work, lives and creative process. Hosted by Kate Hawes and Clarity Haynes.
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