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Amy Beecher interviews artists
Amy Beecher is a visual artist working in installation, digital imaging, sound, and text. In 2013 she created a podcast, The Amy Beecher Show, as an excuse to invite people to her 160 square foot Brooklyn apartment. She's since moved, and The Amy Beecher Show has moved with her. Like an easily amazed and distracted therapist, Beecher opens doors to the inner workings of her subject's artistic lives, inviting guests to reflect on their work, their process, and, mostly, everything else.
Singer-songwriter Cassandra Jenkins lives in the Upper West Side studio apartment her touring musician parents raised her in. We talk about how a Cat Stevens cover she recorded at home led to a studio album.
Everyone thinks Tracy Molis was a Goth teenager. Not true, but she'll take it. Her show at Kai Matsumiya closes January 13th.
Sophia Cleary is so many things: comedian, artist, drummer, doula, private investigator, gay. Yes, we cover it all. www.sophiacleary.com penistheband.com https://twitter.com/_sophia_cleary?lang=en
Seung Min Lee grew up in Flushing, Queens. Now she’s in the Hamptons, unsurprised. Coddling, negging, and zombie modern dancing.
I almost went to UCLA for college. Lia Lowenthal makes me regret that I didn’t. John Baldessari pours himself a weird nightcap. Listener, listen on. Lia Lowenthal http://www.lialowenthal.com Documentation of Lia’s Performances https://vimeo.com/user31691511 LL LLC https://lia-lowenthal.squarespace.com Images: Under Tylass, 2016 Creaned Gap, 2016 Installation view of GETHENS at Richard Telles, LA Elnotie, Elavid II, and Seasugra Oz Catoche Spur TB 3911.2 (detail), 2017, cedar, birch, stain, paint, tinted chrome, Elnotie (cast latón, tumbaga), 6 ½ x 8 x 4 ½ inches (16.51 x 20.32 x 11.43 cm), from Lia’ show at Richard Telles, LA and 6. Dilated Surpintel, Socrates Sculpture Park, 2016-2017
David Roesing and I have so much fun talking about his show at Page NYC we put ourselves in timeout. Twice.
Vanessa Guilly Santiago is drawing up a storm. We talk about her new work, riot girl, traveling around LA, and feeling like an outsider. Also, remember to donate to RAICES and help migrant parents reunite with their children.
The first ever podcast recorded in my new Recess in Brooklyn, NY! Bobo is Phil Cote, Drew Gillepsie, and Nick Payne. Bobo’s work is elaborate, goofy, and controversial. We have a lovey-dovey conversation about it. Nick’s not there. Links: http://www.bobo-nyc.com/ Images: Operational Calchead Hellbox String answers within innards of a TI-83 graphing calculator, this pre-calcl student has managed to find multiple methods of cheating on this scantron and in cheating puberty. Because of this ultimate no-no, he is now locked in this angry hell cube in a continual transition state of puberty. LES ASMR Flu Fashion A fashionista sensitive to soft sounds and soft down home fibers serves as a flu bearing host. As a resident of a city very susceptible to contagion she can't help herself passing the neurolinguist NYC subway sickness into the $7,000 binaural microphone as she broadcasts gently whispered num-num’s. She further escapes her sickness reality by buying really high end snuggly wears and listening to comforting ASMR trigger videos in her charcoal wool protection blanket cacoon. (Thanks to Amanda Phelan for supplying apparel) Installation shot of Wegman’s, 1916 “The isness” Art and Class
The only way out is through the hole, says artist Colleen Asper. This episode is a deep dive into Sum/Body, Colleen Asper’s latest exhibition at Stellar Projects. We’re talking holes. And by that I mean we’re talking vaginas. And clitorises. Mostly the later.
The trashiest episode of The Amy Beecher Show yet. In her Greenpoint apartment, Al turns the podcast around and bullies me about my relationship and past drug use. Yes, eventually, we talk about her recent NY-Times reviewed show at 56 Henry. Sure. But it’s a complete trash fire otherwise. Also, Al is taking over the Instagram. Check that out.
Em Rooney has a show coming up at the Museum of Modern Art soon. What else would we want to talk about? Marriage, Vermont, and gardening in the studio. That’s what.
Amy talks music, DIY culture, and White Whales with Stephen Lacy of Academy Records. Maximum Rock and Roll http://www.maximumrocknroll.com Stephen Lacy http://www.academyrecords.org Wolfman jack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack Fact Sheet Five https://www.amazon.com/Factsheet-Five-Zine-Reader-Underground/dp/0609800019
Artist Virginia Lee Montgomery grew up in the Bayou and now has a pretty weird day gig that takes her all over the country. (No spoilers, though). Recent work includes a collaboration with the Dark Matter lab at Yale, an installation of what she calls subversive currency at Sculpture Center, and a solo exhibition at Meyohas Gallery (both in New York). More topics: Rodeo, Michael Smith, horse wigs. Amy talked to Virginia Lee Montgomery in her tiny studio in Bushwick last June. Virginia Lee Montgomery http://www.virginialeemontgomery.com/ The Body Keeps the Score https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G3L1C2K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Elizabeth Gross Volatile Bodies http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=21041 Graphic Facilitation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_facilitation Greene Naftali Gallery http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artists/michael-smith Donate Money to Help Hurricane Survivors in the Bayou: Houston Food Bank http://www.houstonfoodbank.org/ The L.G.B.T.Q. Disaster Relief Fund helps people “rebuild their lives through counseling, case management, direct assistance with shelf stable food, furniture, housing and more.” http://www.montrosecenter.org/hub/lgbtq-hurricane-harvey-disaster-relief-fund-2/ Houston Pets Alive! is a rescue group with a specific focus on recusing and re-homing animals displaced from hurricanes. http://www.houstonpetsalive.org
Amy Beecher talks to painter and performer Jennifer Sullivan about drugs, stripping, loss, women’s pictures, amateur porn attempts, and coins the phrase “art piece.” Jennifer Sullivan http://www.jennifersullivan.org/videos.html Women’s pictures: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_film Emma Gray (Jen’s LA Gallerist): http://emmagrayhq.com/ Andre J: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/fashion/25andre.html Skowhegan: https://www.skowheganart.org/ Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown: http://web.fawc.org/program Man’s Search for Meaning by Victork Rolf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545759.Man_s_Search_for_Ultimate_Meaning Mirror Work: https://www.louisehay.com/what-is-mirror-work/ Maha Rose: https://www.maharose.com/
In 2015 Amy talked to the legendary Bert Crenca, founder of AS220. Hear about how recovering from addiction and finding himself as an artist led shaped Crenca’s vision for AS220. This is an inspiring one. Hold onto your hats. Bert Crenca- Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD-T4LIddtE Pregones Theater http://pregonesprtt.org AS220 https://as220.org Edgar Cayce https://www.edgarcayce.org The Junkie Priest http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/13/nyregion/daniel-egan-84-drug-fighter-known-as-junkie-priest-dies.html https://www.amazon.com/Junkie-Priest-Father-Daniel-S/dp/B000J0OK8E daytopnj http://daytopnj.org
Leeza Meksin-what a delight! This conversation took place around a month ago in my mother's psychotherapy office. Leeza and I talk "shop" about Spandex, mind over matter, figure skating, and her new gig at Columbia. Trigger warning: this episode is heavy on the grad school talk. Alexis Michelle Elizabeth Gross Wayne Kostenbaum Wayne Kostenbaum and Leeza Meskin's Pink Trance Notebooks Gowanus, Oh! George Rush
Reuben Lorch-Miller and I talk about magic tricks, grieving, marriage, rule-based art, and being "a part of a moment." Also, "I'm back." Intro recorded at my new empty apartment in Providence. Sounds a little different in there, no? That's what affordable spaces sound like. SAMBAND ÍSLENSKRA MYNDLISTARMANNA (THE ASSOCIATION OF ICELANDIC VISUAL ARTISTS) Shandaken Project Reuben's work at Dose Projects, James Hollis Unwound Adorama Prints
Nancy Lupo explains Lizard Syndrome, getting up at 5AM, and choosing materials that she can carry. Her work is up right now at PS1 through May 25th. Soloway Richard Artschwager Drawings Foam Guerilla Glue- add water! Other people's narratives Public art Who are 4x8 materials made for anyway? And also this...to this....to this....to this. Winnicot Playing and Reality Lee Lozano's Drawings Pat McElnea Writings of Agnes Martin Blinky Palermo
Whats the classiest way to take out your trash? What do my dreams mean? Who is Nate Heiges? Nate and I sit in my apartment and chip away at those glaciers. Nate Heiges Abject...? According to Julia Kristeva Linda Arredondo Sarah Lucas Huh, wow Jessica Stockholder Isa Gensken Golden Girls