Episodes
April 18, 2025
Ep 87: CounterPointe Report w/ Elisabeth Condon & Jennifer Coates
Today's episode is a special conversation and recap of Elisabeth Condon and my experiences collaborating as visual artists in the ballet project CounterPointe (now in its 12th year) produced by Norte Maar and staged at the Ma...
March 25, 2025
Ep 86: The Source Channeler & The Market Child
In this audio essay, I roam from post-war France to the abstract expressionists to the artists of the East Village and even to outer space to consider times in art history when art was forced to bloom in the dark. These under...
Feb. 27, 2025
Ep 85: Meret Oppenheim's Titles
I'm offering for you here a new mini ep about what I've been thinking about lately: the wackiness of Meret Oppenheim's titles - and how they expand the mystery of her images rather than explain them. I recently snagged the ca...
Jan. 31, 2025
Ep 84: "Lifeline: Clifford Still" Film Review (Part 2) w/ Mandolyn Wilson Rosen
This is Part 2 of Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and my review of "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-all with a crusty curmudgeon as its talented but embittered subject. Don't forget t...
Jan. 23, 2025
Ep 83: "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" Film Review with Mandolyn Wilson Rosen
Mandolyn Wilson Rosen is back on the podcast! This time, instead of a book we are talking about an artist documentary. The film is called "Lifeline: Clyfford Still" 2019 directed by Dennis Scholl. It's a juicy art bio tell-al...
Jan. 10, 2025
Ep 82: Resilience Through Research (Pt 4) w/ Jennifer Coates
Jennifer Coates is back with me this week to cohost Part 4 of our series about researching our way to feeling better as artists. This time we go all the way back to 1306 to the Mongol empire and then zoom forward to the 1970'...
Dec. 24, 2024
Ep 81: Elisabeth Condon Describes a Christina Ramberg Retrospective
Welcome back, Elisabeth! This time I am very excited to be speaking to Artist, Elisabeth Condon, about one of my favorite Chicago Imagists: Christina Ramberg. The Art Institute of Chicago recently mounted a retrospective of R...
Dec. 4, 2024
Ep 80: Resilience Through Research (Pt 3) w/ Jennifer Coates
Visit glögg glögg , a POP up ART sale, Dec 13-14 in Woodstock NY: website or IG --------------- Artist, Jennifer Coates is back for Part 3 in our series about finding artistic resilience through research! This time we loo...
Dec. 4, 2024
Ep 79: Resilience through Research (Pt 2) w/ Jennifer Coates
Visit glögg glögg, a POP up ART sale, Dec 13-14 in Woodstock NY: website or IG --------------- What can an artist do during times of political unrest and instability? In this episode (Part 2 of our series), we aim to find out...
Nov. 25, 2024
Bonus: The Canopy Program w/ Catherine Haggarty
This bonus episode is a promotion for NYC Crit Club's "The Canopy Program" 2025, a year-long mentorship community for artists. Founder and artist, Catherine Haggarty, stopped by the pod to tell me more about what the program ...
Nov. 17, 2024
Ep 78: Resilience, Rocks and Matisse w/ Jennifer Coates
Jennifer Coates, friend of the pod, is back to help me consider a new way forward (artwise) after the destabilizing event of the US election. She, herself, is finding comfort in the long history of rocks, geology and the cosm...
Nov. 4, 2024
Ep 77: Interview w/ Artist, Kristen Mills
I'm back in the interview seat with Kristen Mills, an artist working in video, sculpture and installation. We discussed her latest show at Turley Gallery where she covered an entire room with cardboard and made it into a spac...
Oct. 31, 2024
Ep 76: Feeling Witchy
Dear Listeners, it's spooky season. In that spirit, I offer you this mini episode about taking a mini break from the career grind. Why not instead light a spell candle while getting clear on what we really want? Shelve the "s...
Oct. 8, 2024
Ep 75: Burchfield's Constant Leaf
Charles Burchfield (Chas to his friends) once noted how an oak leaf had fluttered down and stuck upright in the snow in his neighbors yard, like a flag, for the entire winter. It weathered many Buffalo "gales" and storms and ...
Sept. 6, 2024
Ep 74: William Shatner in Space (The Overview Effect)
Today I'm taking us on a space, art and space-art journey. Because, I've been thinking about how when William Shatner recently went up to space in Bezos' rocket, he saw in real life what he had always pretended to see on TV: ...
Aug. 16, 2024
Ep 73: Some Thoughts on Drawing (Part 2)
We're back! This is the second part of our deep dive on drawing. I asked my artist-guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty to bring along a fave drawing from art history to share and describe what "drew...
Aug. 16, 2024
Ep 72: Some Thoughts on Drawing (Part 1)
Join me and my guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty as we discuss the topic of Drawing this week. This discussion was broken up into 2 parts, so keep an eye out for Part 2 coming soon. In Part 1, we ...
Aug. 2, 2024
Ep 71: How Often Do You Think About the Fall of the Roman Empire?
...or the future of our own cultural output? Dear Listener, please enjoy this space-y, star-filled Mini Pep about the infinite freedom that comes from making digital doodles. My Threads App artists doodle harvest can be found...
July 3, 2024
Ep 70: When in Doubt - Delulu is the Solulu
This episode is based on an internet slang mantra which translates to "Delusion is the Solution." Find out why healthy artists rely heavily on healthy self-delusion to self-motivate. Like Comedian, Nina Oyama, says, one must ...
June 3, 2024
Ep 69: Eva Hesse, Sylvia Mangold & The Home Depot
This is my hot take on the seven-year-old (it's new to me!) Eva Hesse doc and the scandalous revelations contained within. Also, I receive further evidence for why we still stan our queen, Sylvia Mangold, as she asks: Is the ...
June 1, 2024
Bonus: State of the Peps Union
Some ch-ch-changes are coming to Pep Talks! I am going to be taking a break from interviews for a while to focus on studio work, but will still be releasing monthly solo episodes while I'm away. I'd like to take this opportun...
May 15, 2024
Ep 68: Interview w/ Artist, Frederick Hayes
This episode is kindly sponsored by the New York Studio School. Check out their June-July 2024 Summer Marathon courses here: nyss.org So excited to welcome Artist, Frederick Hayes, to the podcast this week. Fred makes graphit...
May 2, 2024
Ep 67: Interview w/ "How to Work a Room" Author, Susan Roane
O M G. Hold onto your hats (and brooches)! The author of "How to Work a Room" is on the podcast! Susan RoAne, best-selling author and keynote speaker, joined Mandolyn Wilson Rosen and me to talk mingling and networking in the...
March 28, 2024
Ep 66: Interview w/ Philemona Williamson
So excited to share this fantastic interview with artist, Philemona Williamson! Find out more about Philemona's vibrant paintings that show twisting, gender-bending adolescents "up to stuff," and her fascinating ambiguous poe...