Sound and Vision

Episode 510 / Nadia WaheedNadia is on with an epic conversation where she talks passionately about painting, being an artist, impending motherhood as so much more. This episode contains an impressive amount of STRONG LANGUAGE so be aware of that. A fun and vibrant chat about art and life. Nadia Waheed (b. 1992, Saudi Arabia) lives and works in Austin, TX. She graduated with a BFA in Painting & Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Exhibitions include The Endless Forever at Luis De Jesus in Los Angeles, Noemata at Amex Yavuz in London, Where the Real Lies at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Nicodim in Los Angeles, The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, at Nicodim in Bucharest, VAMPIRE::MOTHER curated by Jasmine Wahi at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, Heavy Bend at Gallery 1957 in London, Alexander Berggruen in  New York, Am I Human Yet at Arsenal Contemporary New Yorkamongst many others. 

Episode 509 / Terra KeckTerra Keck is a Brooklyn based artist and performer. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2018, and her BFA in Drawing from Ball State University in 2013. She moved to Brooklyn in the summer of 2018 and works in East Williamsburg. Terra’s work featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts as well as in permanent institutional collections in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Hawaii, and California. She’s had solo shows at Field Projects, Sweet Lorraine, the Honolul Museum of Art amongst other venues and group shows at Maia COntemporary, Here to Sunday, Immaterial Porjects and many others. Terra is a founding member of the international artist collective GRRIC Contemporary, an experimental art space, happening, omnipotence. In 2017 she co-curated the show “Afterschool Special” at the Honolulu Museum of Art and several shows through the GRRIC Contemporary Art Gallery in Honolulu. Terra also co-hosts the comedy podcast “Witch, Yes!” which seeks the humor and humanity of the occult, folklore, and witchcraft in its relationship to history, identity and contemporary politics. 

Ep. 508 / Our annual Year In Review with Brian BoucherSenior Market Reporter, ARTnewsBrian Boucher is an art writer based in New York. His byline has appeared in the New York Times, New York, Garage, Frieze, Sotheby’s Magazine, and CNN. Boucher was formerly senior writer for Artnet News and website editor at Art in America.We sat down for our annual recap on shows, film and music that struck a chord with him this past year. 

Episode 507 / James Walsh James Walsh is an artist who received his BFA from Rutgers in 1976 and his MFA from Syracuse in 1980. He’s had solo shows at Berry Campbell, Galeria Joan Prats, Baker Sponder, the Mendel Art Gallery, Long Fine art, the Edmonton Art Gallery amongst others and group exhibitions at KinoSaito, Helm Contemporary, Flowers Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, Gallery 2 and many others. He’s in the collection of the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Everson Museum of Art, the Mendel Art Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art. Jim currently has a show called Relief in Sight at the Sam and Adele Golden Gallery in New Berlin, New York which is run by the wonderful people at Golden Artist Colors and it’s up through Feb 20th. 

Episode 506 / Ragnar Kjartansson Ragnar Kjartansson is an artist who lives and works in Reykjavik. He engages multiple artistic mediums in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging are key tools in Kjartansson’s efforts to convey sincere emotion and offer genuine experiences to audiences. Kjartansson’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions and performances at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barbican Centre, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Reykjavik Art Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and New Museum.