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Episode 037: Seiji Anderson

Seiji Anderson is an Art Director, Designer and Animator who aims to bring together a rich sense of spatial design with cinematic visuals. Leveraging a keen eye for lighting, cinematography and environments, Seiji relishes the opportunities where CGI can meet narrative ideas to elevate a project’s emotional impact. He continues to push the boundaries of his craft by exploring emerging technologies such as Unreal Engine.
With a background in Architecture and Visualization, Seiji spent his early career working with world-renowned architects, including projects for the Obama Presidential Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After shifting his focus to motion design, he has had the privilege of delivering work across multiple films, TV series, and automotive projects for clients including Marvel Studios, Pixar, FX and Ford Motor Company.
@seijigram    https://seiji.nyc/
Listen to this, and all episodes of The Strand by clicking the link in the @strandpodcast bio. Or, at kevinwillpaint.com/strand . Episodes are also found on Spotify, iHeart, and other major podcast platforms.
Photos courtesy of Seiji Anderson
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint
Shouts to @joachiim_1_8 for sparking this conversation

Episode 036: Massiel Mafes

@massielmafes                 www.massielmafes.com
@Golden_art_fdn            www.goldenfoundation.org
This episode is a recording of my conversation with Massiel Mafes at her studio on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. Massiel, a painter and textile artist originally from Miami, and I were connected by our mutual friend, Regina Jestrow, also an incredible fiber artist from Miami. Both Massiel and Regina are the 2024 studio residents at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, located in Upstate New York. During our conversation, Massiel talked about her recent residency experience, describing the environment at the Golden Foundation, and the work she created during her time there.
Listen to this, and all episodes of The Strand by clicking the link in the @strandpodcast bio. Or, at kevinwillpaint.com/strand . Episodes are also found on Spotify, iHeart, and other major podcast platforms.
Photos courtesy of Massiel Mafes
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint
Shouts to @reginajestrow for making this interview possible.  www.reginajestrow.com

Episode 035: Gustavo Rizerio

@gustavorizerio                www.GustavoRizerio.com
Gustavo Rizerio is a notable tattoo and contemporary artist living and working in New York City. Originally from Brazil, Gustavo has spent his entire life honing his skills and innate abilities as an artist. Drawn to the power and permanence of an image, Gustavo explores multiple mediums in his work, such as oil and acrylic painting, through everyday objects and other materials, touching on the slow transformative process that art takes with the passing of time.His work encompasses the decorative aspects of art nouveau, symbolism, and the clean modernist lines of contemporary art. Exploring the pure subjectivity and expression of an idea over the realistic description of the natural world, Gustavo brings meaning and value to his work through colors, lines, and composition.
Listen to this and all episodes of The Strand by clicking the link in the @strandpodcast bio. Or, at kevinwillpaint.com/strand . Episodes are also found on Spotify, iHeart, and other major podcast platforms.
Photos courtesy of Gustavo Rizerio
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint
Shouts to @cotto_rivera_art for making this interview possible.  

Episode 034: Layo Bright

@layobright     https://layobright.com/
@thealdrich      https://thealdrich.org/ 
This is episode 34 and the eleventh conversation in my New York Minutes series. 
Layo Bright is a New York-based sculptor from Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores migration, legacy, and identity through hybrid portraits, textiles, and mixed media works. Her solo museum debut Dawn and Dusk is currently on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield CT, USA, till Fall 2024.
Photos courtesy of Layo Bright
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint https://www.kevinwillpaint.com/ 
Shouts to @arts_nkola for making this interview possible. 

Episode 033: Carlos Nunez

Episode 033: Carlos Nunez
@c.arlosnunez                 https://www.nunezcarlos.com/
@mimo.mimo.mimo.mimo.mimo.
This is the tenth conversation in my New York Minutes series. Carlos Nunez is a Venezuelan artist who lives and works in New York. His work addresses historical networks of power and their impact on mundanity. He focuses specifically on the relationships between Venezuela and the United States. 
Another component of Carlos’s creative endeavors is his art gallery, Mimo, located in Brooklyn. 
For the final months of 2024, Mimo has three shows lined up. The upcoming group exhibition will display work from Natalia Mejía, María Elena Pombo, and Renata Del Riego this will run from September 13, 2024 — October 13, 2024
Listen to this, and all episodes of The Strand by clicking the link in the @strandpodcast bio. Or, at kevinwillpaint.com/strand . Episodes are also found on Spotify, iHeart, and other major podcast platforms.
Photo courtesy of Carlos Nunez
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint     kevinwillpaint.com
Shouts to Steven L. Anderson for making this interview possible.

Episode 032: Amelia Carley

Episode 032: Amelia Carley
@ameliacarley          ameliacarley.com       
Amelia lives and works in Brooklyn, NY is an artist and also an educator at Pratt Institute. Her paintings and sculptures explore the interpretation of memories and dreams dealing with landscapes and fictitious sites. She has exhibited at such venues as SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (New York, NY), Southampton Art Center (Southampton, NY), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO), Day & Night Projects (Atlanta, GA)
“Within my work, I construct a visual representation of an artificial place, a study of an invented land. This invented place became a realm of escapism where I explore color theory and lighting conditions, while simultaneously unpacking weighted feelings of impending environmental issues of the Anthropocene.” - Carley
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast
Photo courtesy of Amelia Carley

Episode 031: Andrew Herzog

@ andrew_herzog       andrewherzog.com      schoooool.com
Andrew Herzog is an American interdisciplinary artist and designer. He works medium agnostically on a mixture of ephemeral and indefinite projects that utilize a circular approach to working with the environment, technology, people, and constructed objects. In an effort to establish an accessible language for his work, he uses recognizable materials, methodologies, and mechanisms, creating opportunities to exercise our visual and critical perspectives. Employing his background in creative technology, graphic, and interaction design, his work offers spaces to interface with Art, each other, and our world amid the Anthropocene epoch. He is a partner and director at School, a design and engineering studio, and an alumnus of Google Creative Lab. 
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast

Episode 030: Rick Midler

@RickMidler  RickMidler.com  
This is the eighth episode in my series titled The New York Minutes. It is a conversation that Rick and I shared in his Ditmas Park studio. He enjoys the process of collecting decorative papers that can be broken down to form collage works on canvas or panels. A sample of his work was recently on view at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Learn more about this show by visiting bwac.org.
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast

Episode 029: Logan Royce Beitmen

@loganroycebeitmen  loganbeitmen.com
Logan is an art writer and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn. His expertise is in contemporary art, art theory, South Asian art, and comparative aesthetics. This is a conversation that we shared at a picnic table in Brooklyn at Prospect Park. Logan and I met several years ago while he was the Gallery Director at the University of Miami. It was nice to catch up with all of the exciting projects that he has worked on… especially his tenure as the gallery director for Freight+Volume. Learn more about his creative endeavors at Loganbeitmen.com or on Instagram @loganroycebeitmen
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast

Episode 028: Lauren Clay

@Laurenclay  laurenclay.com  
@picture.theory        picturetheoryprojects.com
This is the sixth episode of my series titled The New York Minutes. It is a conversation that I had with Lauren in her Bushwick studio. There, we discussed how she began as an artist. Our conversation then moved to her current body of work that is on view in Chelsea at PictureTheory. This exhibition is titled Love Feast and features six wall-based sculptures and an immersive wallpaper installation.
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast