Art Uncovered: Recent Episodes
Kimberly Ruth
Amy Ritter is a New York-based artist who recently received a NYFA grant to continue her investigation into forgotten and marginalized mobile home communities across the United States.
In this episode Kimberly and Amy talk about Amy’s experience of growing up in a mobile home, her close relationship with her conservative father and her desire to listen to the struggles of low-income Americans and to understand their political motivations.
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Michael Ambron is a New York-based artist and paint maker whose work is rooted in the visual phenomena of daily experience.
In the episode Kimberly and Michael talk about Michael's interest in meditation, his visual exploration of his experience with sleep paralysis and his paint-making business printmakers notes.
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Juan Carlos Escobedo is a San Antonio-based artist whose work explores his identity as a queer, brown, Mexican-American, raised in a low-socioeconomic community along the US/Mexico border.
In this episode Kimberly and Juan talk about the culture shock Juan experienced moving from the south to the north east, his experience with residual glass and race shame and his quote unquote high end fashion label of garments made largely out of cardboard.
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Zach clark is an artist, educator and founder of National Monument Press, a publishing house focused on small edition artist books, zines and printed matter completed largely through collaboration with other artists.
In this episode, Zach and Kimberly talk about about Zach’s process of printing and distributing artists books, the aesthetic of risograph prints and his current project of printing 12 photo books in collaboration with other artists.
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Sam Dienst is a tapestry weaver and sculptor currently living and working in Detroit.
In this episode Sam and Kimberly talk about Sam’s path to becoming a weaver, her journey through graduate school and the tools and techniques she uses to build her style and sustain her practice.
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Poppy Delta Dawn is an artist and professor of weaving at the University of Kansas.
In this episode Kimberly and Poppy talk about the history of the loom and capitalism’s effect on the weaver. They also wove (pun intended) similarities between the act of weaving and transness. Lastly, Poppy shared her plans to raise sheep on land that is operated by her university.
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Hanna Washburn is a Beacon-based artist who hand sews sculptures out of recycled textiles.
In this episode Kimberly and Hanna talk about Hanna’s dedicated studio practice and her explorations of ideas related to the home and the human body.
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wei is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with sound, media and movement to talk about topics of queerness, foreignness and otherness. wei received an MFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in new media at the Ccademy of Art University in San Fransisco. They have participated in numerous artist residencies such as NARS foundation, Anderson Ranch Art Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Over the course of the conversation Kimberly and wei talk about wei’s work with sound, their background in design and art theories related to otherness
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This week Kimberly spoke with Lauren Whearty, a Philly-based painter, educator and curator who currently teaches at The University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia. In this episode Kimberly and Lauren talk about Lauren’s studio and domestic-inspired paintings, her navigation through the art world and her experience as co-director of Ortega y Gasset gallery in NYC.
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This week Kimberly spoke with Emily Dicarlo, a Toronto-based artist whose sound, video and performance-based work explores the subjective nature of time and it’s relationship to labor, rest and the demands of late capitalism.
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This week Kimberly spoke with Sara J. Winston, a New York-based artist whose photographic self-portraiture practice works to capture her experience of living multiple sclerosis. In this episode Kimberly and Sara talk about Sara’s experience with MS, her relationship with the camera, notions of home and her process of publishing books.
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This week Kimberly spoke with Allison DeBritz, an artist and educator whose work intimately considers the gendered paradigms of domestic spaces and relationships through an interdisciplinary feminist lens. In this episode Kimberly and Allison talk about Allison’s work with found images, photography and collage, her media’s relationship to conversations surrounding women’s reproductive rights and her involvement in post-school crit clubs.
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Franky Frances Cannon is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator, who is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. In this episode, Kimberly and Franky talk about Franky’s merging of art and writing, her visual book review of Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol’s Queer Ecologies by Anthony Grudin and her graphic book Walter Benjamin Reimagined, which was published by MIT Press.
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Alison Kuo is an Asian American artist who pursues intersectional relationships across communities through artistic engagement. She is also the co-founder of Sisters in Self-Defense, a group that unites asian American women of all ages and teaches them self defense skills. In this episode we talk about Alison’s current solo exhibition You Pick the Moon, which is up at Field Projects in New York City until April 20, her work with Sisters in self defense and the transformation of her artistic practice due to her community engagement in New York City’s chinatown.
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This week Kimberly spoke with Harlan Crichton, a Maine-based artist who works with photographic processes. In this episode, Kimberly and Harlan talk about Harlan’s transition from traditional photography to abstract photography and other topics such as storytelling and science fiction.
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In this week’s episode of Art Uncovered Kimberly spoke with Diana Jean Puglisi, an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work transforms and re-contextualizes objects associated with women’s work. During the conversation, they talk about Diana’s current research into women’s health and the work she produced immediately following the birth of her first child.
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In this episode Kimberly speaks with Monica Church, a Hudson Valley based abstract artist working in painting, collage and printmaking. Over the course of the conversation they talk about Monica’s journey to abstraction, her building of space through various materials and her relationship to photography.
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James Stamboni is a figurative painter whose work explores themes of religious and western iconography and portraiture. In this episode, Kimberly and James talk about religion, near death experiences and the Grateful Dead.
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In this first episode since 2022, Kimberly spoke with Charlotte Woolf, a queer artist and educator with a background in photography and gender studies. Throughout the conversation they talk about Charlotte's work of expanding the notion of what agriculture is and their desire to increase representation within the industry.
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Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in New York City. Bel's work explores the public space and its relationship to art, architecture and education. Throughout the conversation Kimberly and Bel talk about Bel's work as an educator and her work with public monuments.
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Matt Hulse is the director and creator of the feature length film Sound For the Future, an experimental documentary film that explores his childhood growing up in England in the 1970s.
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Kate Collyer is a PhD candidate in Studio Art at the Burren College of Art in Galway, Ireland. Her work—an exploration of climate change and shifting landscapes—has been exhibited internationally, most notably in the Krakow Printmaking Triennial in Poland. She is the 2014 recipient of the Southern Graphics Council International Graduate Fellowship Award.
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William Chan is a New York based artist and United States War Veteran, whose work includes performance interventions and photography. In this episode Kimberly and William talk about William’s ideologies surrounding communication, compassion, American politics and laughter.
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Gabi Magaly is a Mexican-American artist whose work encourages strength and independence in the women of her culture. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas and works remotely as a full time professor of photography at Diné College in Arizona.
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Allison Maria Rodriguez is a first generation Cuban-American artist working predominately in video installation. Her work explores the relationship to her family and heritage and the connections she makes between the personal and the environmental.
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Tootsie Warhol is a NY-based, Iraqi American artist and activist with degrees from the University of Virginia and Brooklyn Law School.
In this episode Tootsie talks about his current performance “Michael Jackson: So Bad It Hurts,” a protest against the Michael Jackson musical that opened on Broadway this week.
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Karmel Sabri (b. 1995) is a socially engaged Palestinian artist, organizer, and designer whose work begs us to look at Palestine with an alternative lens that celebrates culture and fosters meaningful discussion.
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Julia Kwon is a Korean-American artist working with textiles. Julias work explores the objectification of the asiatic female body, and the complexity of constructing identity within the context of globalism, cultural hybridity and intersectionality.
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Celeste Voce is an LA-based artist whose work explores the relationship between the production of analog images and performance.
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This episode follows Kimberly and she explores for the first time Newburgh Open Studios.