Strand, the Story of an Artist

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

Episode 027: Rachael Tarravechia

@Tarravechia     Tarravechia.com
Rachael Tarravechia’s work investigates the threshold of private versus public and aims to capture fleeting, intimate moments.  Moments where the room was just previously occupied, and now there are no people, no phones, no cameras, yet the aura of humanity still lingers. Tarravechia lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and is represented by Ceysson & Bénétière.
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast

Episode 026: Devin Osorio

@devinosorio     devinosorio.com
Devin Osorio is a first-generation Dominican Artist who currently lives and works in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Osorio takes inspiration from Dominican culture and folkloric traditions, including a strong emphasis on textile patterns. These cultural influences merge with biographical details from Osorio’s lived experience, yielding paintings that function as secular reliquaries, commemorating a life lived between cultures.
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast

Episode 025: Peach Tao

@Peacheeblue    peachtao.com   chinatownmuralproject.org
This is a conversation that I had with Peach Tao in a small park in Chinatown, NYC. Peach is a muralist and one of the co-founders of the Chinatown Mural Project. She began this endeavor a couple of years ago with her mentor, Karlan Chan. Together, they are bringing back large-scale murals to the Chinatown area. Peach defines their paintings as whimsical, fun, and culturally appropriate images depicting their community's culture, history, and everyday lives.
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast

Episode 024: Anothony Goicolea

@AnthonyGoicolea   AnthonyGoicoleastudio.com
Anthony is an artist who lives and works in New York City. During this conversation, he describes some of his memories of how he began his artistic career and he also shares a little bts of his LGBT Memorial that rests along the Hudson River.
A sample of his work is included in the exhibition titled “Bump in the Night”, located @nightcafegallery in London, England. This exhibition is guest-curated by Thom Oosterhof and will be on view until July 26. @thomoosterhofprojects @nightcafegallery
Produced by Kevin Kirkwood. @kevinwillpaint @strandpodcast