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

Episodes

January 13, 2026 77 mins

Joe Fig is an artist known for work that explores the creative process, and the spaces 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 in...

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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 Con...

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December 30, 2025 77 mins

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,...

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December 23, 2025 67 mins

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 pressure...

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December 16, 2025 70 mins

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 Robert...

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December 9, 2025 70 mins

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Her photographs 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 Fello...

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December 2, 2025 88 mins
Mathew Cerletty (b. 1980, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) paints hyperreal depictions of signage, commercial tableaux, and everyday items with a precision that veers into the uncanny. At first glance, his paintings appear seamless, almost digital, but closer inspection reveals traces of the artist's hand that attest to his dedication to traditional craft. His recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2025); Herald St, London (2024); S...
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November 25, 2025 89 mins

Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award.

His current solo exhibition Drawings is at Picture Theory in New York...
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November 18, 2025 72 mins

Tony Mascatello is a New York based painter of narrative images who began this process as a performance artist in SOHO long ago. Working on a small scale, he creates intimate spaces that invite the viewer to enter into an imagined experience.  

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November 11, 2025 73 mins

Clare Grill (born 1979, lives and works in Queens, NY) received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parlance, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; Cutwork, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain; and Wich Language and Oyster, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, Th...

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November 1, 2025 86 mins

Dylan Vandenhoeck, born in New York City in 1990, is a painter and musician. His meandering and embodied perspective approach to observational painting questions what it means to paint from life today. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012 and MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2017. His most recent solo shows include “Right Under The Nose” at Jack Barrett Gallery (2024), “Inside Out, Outside In” at Jack Barr...

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October 24, 2025 67 mins

Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) is a New York born and based multidisciplinary artist. The artist’s interests span renaissance art, celebrity, psychology, occult practices, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery as well as divinatory visions in a practice motivated by ritualistic impulse and alchemical processes that investigate media’s physical and emotional divide. His p...

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October 18, 2025 87 mins

Kai Altair is a musician and guide exploring the meeting place of music, ritual, and consciousness. 

Rooted in animist, earth-based traditions, she creates spaces for remembrance and ecstatic renewal.

Through sound, compassionate support, and lineage holding, her work invites connection to benevolent realms walking in partnership with the deeply human.  

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October 11, 2025 80 mins

Lauren Clay is a visual artist from Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design, and MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is best known for her wall-based relief sculptures and elaborate wallpaper installations. She currently lives and works in New York city. 

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October 4, 2025 78 mins

Julie Curtiss was born in 1982 in Paris, France and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris and graduated in 2006 with a BA and MFA. Recent solo exhibitions include Gagosian Gallery Paris (2025), White Cube HongKong (2023) White Cube Mason’s Yard, London (2021); Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2019); Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2018); and 106 Green, Brooklyn, Ne...

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September 27, 2025 60 mins

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist. His multimedia artworks merge photography, painting, and sculpture in low-relief wall works that read like urban archaeology—fragments of city life preserved and reimagined.

Ethan has exhibited his artwork nationally and internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New York, Higher Pictures, New York; ...

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September 20, 2025 70 mins

Zuriel Waters was born in 1984 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Received an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 with a fellowship from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Diego State University in 2007. Has shown work in group exhibitions throughout New York City at galleries such as Underdonk, CANADA, Tappeto Volante, Deanna Ev...

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September 13, 2025 74 mins

Richard Tinkler was born in Westminster MD in 1975 and went to college at the University of North Texas and graduate school at Hunter College. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and shows at 56 Henry in NYC.  

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September 6, 2025 84 mins

Brigitte Mulholland opened her eponymous gallery in Paris in April 2024. She was previously a Senior Director at Anton Kern in New York, as well as an independent curator of numerous shows.   

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August 30, 2025 87 mins

Robert Feintuch (b. 1953, Jersey City) lives and works in New York City. Since 1983 his paintings and drawings have been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally at galleries and museums including Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, CRG Gallery, New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery New York, Moskowitz/Bayse, Los Angeles, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Studio La Citta...

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