Afleveringen
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A conversation with Amy Dury, an English figurative artist currently practicing in Brighton, England. Dury’s art education was detoured in her youth, but through a series of adventures Dury graduated from her preferred Glasgow School of Art with a degree in printmaking. Like many artists, Dury’s art career was suspended by the responsibilities of parenthood and sourcing a stable income, but when Dury saw the opportunity to teach painting at Varndean College in Brighton, England - she reignited her practice with extreme focus. Dury’s foundation in printmaking can be seen in her work as her paintings are rendered with defined blocks, experimental textures, and an overall graphic quality. Dury’s focus on historical photography has spurred her to explore archival video - snapshotting the frames she finds most interesting - straddling the line between photographer and time traveler.
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A conversation with Aysha Nagieva, a Russian-born artist living and practicing in London, England. Nagieva spent her early girlhood in Moscow, discomforted by the rigidity of the traditional Russian artistic expectation. After transplanting to London, Nagieva’s interest in unfettered expression and fashion design developed into an artistic practice that nods to her Russian roots, while expanding beyond the boundaries of the academy. Nagieva hijacks the motif of the russian doll - transplanting it from its traditional origins into a contemporary and cheeky universe. Playfully, Nagieva breaks all the rules that intimidated her as a girl - and through her body of work an expansive self portrait emerges.
@aysha.nagieva
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A conversation with Lorenna Lannes, a Brazilian figurative artist practicing in New York, New York. Lannes’ work focuses primarily on capturing and exploring the impression of covert signals of emotion and intention - the “energy” a person emits beneath verbal and physical language. To paraphrase Lannes’ description - these sub-physical signals are the most honest, and learning to interpret them can be of great utility - no more so than keeping yourself safe.
@lorennalannes
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A conversation with Luke Hannam, an English figurative artist based in Rye, England. Hannam is a multidisciplinary artist - raised with a foundation in improvisational jazz - Hannam’s drawing and painting practice resemble this ‘ordered chaos’. Hannam is deeply interested in timeless motifs - the warrior, the fertility goddess; the dove of peace. As Hannam describes, the dove’s flight - it’s strength and ability - emerges from its delicacy – as so does Hannam’s images - which convey power with economic, decisive lines.
@lukehannampaintings
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A conversation with Sonja Haroldson, an American figurative artist based in New York City, and currently at residence in Wilton, Connecticut. Haroldson is a multidisciplinary artist whose output spans music, sculpture, drawing, and painting. Haroldson’s two dimensional work manifests in a style similar to architectural drafting - graphic lines, economic blocking, and simplified palettes - with energetic marks and muscular impasto. Harldson’s quasi-brutalist and cerebral fashion is curiously balanced with her preferred subject of tranquil and mundane scenes of apartment-dwelling and urban life.
@sonjaharoldsonart
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A conversation with Jaron Gyger, a Swiss figurative artist currently practicing in Berlin, Germany. Gyger’s practice acts as a type of journal, illustrating life experiences or emotional anecdotes. Gyger’s works are rendered in a style that lands in the intersection of kinetic abstraction, cubism, and figurativism. Gyger’s images take an unabashed approach to genuinity, prioritizing honesty and communication over politeness or popularity.
@jaron_gyger
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A conversation with Kuda Mushangi - born Zimbabwe, and raised in England - Mushangi is a figurative artist currently practicing in London, England. Mushangi immigrated to the UK with his family at the age of 9. Now a practicing architect, Mushangi rediscovered his boyhood passion for visual art as an escape from the rigidity of his career and its requirements. Mushangi is a relatively new painter, and his debut project is conjuring and recording the vague and vanishing memories of his early youth in Zimbabwe. Like all childhood memories, Mashangi’s scenes balance innocence, confusion, and disproportionality - all while rendered in a style that nods to a childlike interpretation.
@kuda.mushangi
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A conversation with Kate Powell, an American multi-disciplinary artist currently practicing between Tacoma, WA and Philadelphia, PA. Powell is a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ low-residency MFA class of 2024.
Powell’s creative output spans music, sculpture, drawing, and painting. Powell’s subjects span portraiture, first-person observation, and still lifes of found objects. Binding this frenzy of work, a thread of jovial curiosity and intense feeling.
@katepowellartist
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A conversation with Matt Murphy, an English portrait painter currently practicing in Brighton, England. After a childhood fascination with art, and graduating A-Levels, Murphy took a long-term hiatus from his practice. While living in Vietnam, marooned by the Covid Pandemic, Murphy began working with the regionally popular media, water colors. This new media inspired a different process, which carried onto Murphy’s work with oils. Red and gazing, Murphy’s subjects appear through the flowing, loose marks.
@mattmurphyart
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A conversation with Debora Koo, a Korean-American figurative painter currently practicing in Charlotte, North Carolina. Koo received her B.A at Smith College in Massachusetts, and her M.F.A. from Ewha University in Seoul, Korea. Koo’s work explores themes of otherism, romantic despair, and nostalgia. Koo’s iconic cake paintings offer a sense of indulgence and familiarity that pull the viewer into a sensatory memory like a kept polaroid. Koo's work has been exhibited in Ulsan, Korean, London, New York City, and Charlotte.
@deb_koo
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A conversation with Cory Swenson-Scott, an American figurative painter practicing in California and abroad. Swenson-Scott received his Master of Fine Art from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and has collected an expansive series of accolades in the California area, including a repeat annual showcase at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Swenson-Scott has been awarded various residencies which allow him to practice in destinations such as Sweden, Mexico, and Japan. Both at home, and abroad, Swenson-Scott’s practice involves the identification and representation of those who are not typically portrayed in fine art - which is particularly elevated through the artist's traditional style and application. This includes those of uncommon fashion, social outcasts, and persons who would otherwise not have the opportunity - as is the case in Swenson-Scott’s series of rural Japanese folk.
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A conversation with Stelios Pupet, a Greek figurative artist that practices in Athens, Greece. Pupet developed his artistic practice as a young graffiti artist running from the authorities in the Athenian Metro. Pupet retained these foundations as he evolved into his fine art practice. Pupet depicts the human form, often female, often obscured or masked, or tranquil in an urban/suburban gardenscape. Pupet’s recent signature is his style of rendering in bold rigid shapes, capturing a moment as it freezes into 8-bit.
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A conversation with Steve Cannon, an Irish figurative artist practicing in Galway, Ireland. Cannon’s work remained steadily focused on human portraiture. Cannon captures his subjects with prying attention - resulting in hyper honest and vulnerable product - described as beginning “[torn apart]”. Cannon’s work has been frequently platformed by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
@stevecannonartist
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A conversation with Zboik Czajkowski, a Polish figurative artist that practices between the cities of Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. Czajkowski is a prominent figure in the street art and graffiti scene - his career taking him from London to Tokyo. Czajkowski’s current practice is balanced between large-scale mural commissions, which he executes with a small team, and that he pursues as an opportunity for travel and social engagement - and his studio practice, where he digests his emotions through the warped portraiture he renders in a signature visual language he’s developed since his youth.
@zboik
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A conversation with Wylee Risso, a figurative painter currently practicing in Portland, OR. Risso’s body of work spans an eclectic assortment of subjects - images untethered by audience-focused theming, but instead images that strike the artist - the refracted lightshow of a dishpit, or a single frame of a cult-classic. Risso translates these images into a signature style characterized by a frenzy of lines that search for supernatural geometry - resulting in a sharp, flat, Euclidean fantasyscape.
@wyleerisso
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A conversation with Rustam Hasanov, a Russian-American figurative artist currently practicing in Atlanta, GA. Hasanov is a multidisciplinary artist with a career in animation and character design. Inspired to rediscover the artistic passions of his youth - nonreactive to audience or commercialism - Hansanov has refocused on a ritualistic, and non-commodified practice. Hasanov creates rapid expressive gestural figures of his selected models - explore their condition as he emulates his own and merges the two. As a self-described introvert, through this practice, Hasanov seeks to connect.
@rustamhasanov
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A conversation with Roxy Peroxyde, a figurative artist practicing in Montreal, Canada. Peroxyde is best known for her vivid contemporary interpretations of classic paintings which she describes to be “witnesses to how times change but people stay the same”. Peroxyde yields to her subconscious as she develops her compositions - blending humor, pop culture, fashion, and a universal, but sometimes suppressed, feminine gaiety in her images.
*ref, roxyperoxyde.com
@roxyperoxyde
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A conversation with James Zamora, a Texan figurative painter currently practicing in Savanna, GA. Zamora is known for his realist still life paintings that span subjects from traditional floral arrangements to images of contemporary mundanity. Zamora also elevates and immortalizes images and icons from his childhood - giving vintage gaming consoles the reverence of a Flemish composition.
@jameszamora
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A conversation with Gina Altadonna, a figurative artist currently practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Altadonna is a multidisciplinary artist, known for her vibrant watercolor and oil paintings. Altadonna uses her practice as a means of both inward and outward dialogue - articulating the experiences of girlhood and womanhood. Unabashedly, Altadonna reclaims the preferences of her youth and broadcasts them in her macabre compositions - depictions of trauma, melancholy, and mortality rendered in candies and ribbons.
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A conversation with Amy Erickson, an Oklahoman figurative painter practicing in Seattle, Washington. Erickson's work spans media from oil paint, to colored pencil, to collage. Her deep and lifelong attention to subject and multi-iterative method result in a "compression of multiple dimensions into one object”. Erickson's work seeks to illustrates the profound within familiar moments and settings.
*ref, paraphrase, canvasrebel.com
@amyericksn
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