Oral Fixation Art Podcast

Chicago based artists, InJung Oh, talks about her multifaceted art practice rooted in interdisciplinary practices and “volossom,” a term she coined for a repetitive motif on her paintings. She also shares her thoughts on motherhood, life as a Korean American woman, and how she uses her foundation for the betterment of a community.

New York based artist, Marina Leybishkis speaks about her latest installation, Ode to the Sea in exhibition at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery (CUNY), in New York. Marina brings some depth into the western view of peoples from all around the world seeking refuge and safety through the lens of the so called refugee crisis in Europe (c. 2018-19)

Chilean artist, Voluspa Jarpa, talks about her installation "Desclasificados" at EXPO Chicago's IN/SITU section curated by Amara Antillo of the Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center.

Spanish, English, Portuguese micro-interviews with the following EXPOSURE artists: Nadia Taquary - Brazil Sarah Mashaal - Canada Pamela Echevarria - Mexico/Chile Anahita Akhanvan - Iran/Canada Preetika Rajgariah - Houston Artists talk about their solo exhibitions. Curators talk about the artist they represent and their work as curators.

I am honored to have been invited by Expo Chicago to cover some of the events. In my roster of activities I am looking forward to interviewing curators Rosario Güiraldes who has curated this year’s EXPOSURE section, which highlights solo and two-artist presentations from emerging galleries, and Amara Antilla, curator of EXPO’s IN/SITU a program of EXPO CHICAGO dedicated to large-scale sculpture, video, film, and site-specific works throughout Festival Hall, expanding upon IN/SITU’s legacy of fostering ambitious projects that typically aren't possible within the context of a fair.

New Mexico curator,  Megan Malcolm Morgan talks about promoting social change, art-making and community engagement in a rural setting. And tells about her largest curatorial project Wo/Man House 2022 on the 50 year anniversary of Judy Chicago's Woman House (1972)

In this special edition of Oral Fixation Art Podcast, Georgia based artist, Eleanor Neal talks about her latest works inspired by her residency at Daufuskie Island, off the coast of South Carolina, the Gullah people, and her relationship with nature, her processes in art making, and long lasting friends and mentors. Presently, her works are in exhibition at Bridgeport Art Center.

In this special episode, Atlanta curator September Gray speaks about her current exhibition at the Bridgeport Art Center this winter, her journey changing careers into the art world, and the upcoming artist talk showcasing Detroit's Shirley Woodson.

New York based artist Clareese Hill talks about her researched based art practice expanding into pedagogy through the lens of technology, computational art, and real and virtual worlds.

Chicago-based, Taiwanese-American artist, Gwen Yen Chiu talks about her practice, working with aluminium, recent public works, and how she draws inspiration from folk tales, calligraphy, ephemerality in making sculptures, and life as a fist generation American.

Paola Lopez is a Mexican artist, curator, and administrator. She speaks about family life, her passage through the US and her gallery, El Arenero, an experimental art space for contemporary art.

Iranian-American artist, Azadeh Hussaini, speaks about her practice, installation art, working with paper, breaking the barriers of tradition, self-empowerment, and life in Iran and the US.

In part 2 of this episode, Azadeh talks about some of her works, processes and working with paper.

La artista peruana, Claudia Caffarena, conversa de las razones que la motivan a investigar la conexión de la identidad ancestral y contemporánea peruana y a travéz del arte explorando la intuición, la memoria colectiva y el poder mágico femenino.

In part 2, Diana gets frank about activism, cautionary tales, coming out, human rights and her most recent work being exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.

Diana Solis talks about life as an activist artist organizing and documenting events since the 1970s, from the fringes of culture. She is a first-generation Mexican-American, LGBTQ+ and LatinX Chicagoan supporting Chicano culture, 2nd, 3rd and 4th-wave feminist, working on themes of identity addressing the fragility of contemporary relevant issues.

In part 2 of Janice Marin's interview, she tells us about the most important persons in her life and the family influences that nurture the preservation of her personal history, and culture, and how it spans into her art practice. This is part of a series of Hispanic Heritage Month interviews.

Argentine-Canadian/Chicago (now Vermont)-based artist, Janice Marin talks about how changes in life prompted a new body of work and reminds us of why culture, family, and authenticity are important. This is the first of a series of Hispanic Heritage Month interviews. This interview is part 1 of 2.

Miami-based musician, Ari Urban, talks about her journey as a classically trained musician, creating healing music for the soul, and the power of mentorship.

Indiana-based artist Gina Lee Robbins talks about working with repurposed materials (findings from her walks and explorations in and outside the city) to create mixed-media sculptures and installations.

This week, I decided to roll out a brief intro

New York artist, Nona Faustine, talks about her research practice, growing up in Brooklyn, and her most current body of work as well as sharing advice on the importance of understanding the art world and creating a community for oneself (as an artist).

California artist, Nancy Youdelman, talks about her life, works, processes, and life as an artist, feminist art, Womanhouse 1972, motherhood, and ageism.

Milwaukee-based artist-curator-educator talks about her most recent curatorial project, the Sarah Ball Allis Art Museum highlighting women, femme, and non-binary artists intersecting a historic collection.

Chicago-based artist, Galina Shevchenko talks about perceptions of beauty, post-humanism, being Russian, life during the Soviet collapse, and her life and work in the USA.