The Amy Beecher Show: Recent Episodes
Amy Beecher
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.
Samantha Roth and I talk about drawing and night time on my podcast. ("Podcast"?)
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Samantha Roth A Casual Pincer
Today on the podcast is artist, filmmaker and icon Pau S. Pescador. Pau is a trans-nonbinary artist who works in film, photography, and performance. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Pau is prolific, and on the podcast we focus on work she made post-Covid that documents her life transitioning in various social spaces: her dating life, her work life, her domestic life. I love Pau, and I think you will too. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Pau S. Pescador Pau on Instagram
Julia Weist and I talk about municipal archives, private detectives, following and finding stuff.
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Julia Weist Parbunkells Public Record Sexy Librarian National Gleaning Project Guide to the Online Gleaning Resources Hub Materials for the Arts > Donations
We talk kinship, games, and the perfect first job. And a cameo from Benny!
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David Muenzer My grandparents' living room in Floral Park ‘Drawing Marketplace’ essay by David Muenzer
Photographer David Gilbert and I relish in flatness, drapery, and ghosts.
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Bronwen Tate writes poems about sex after miscarriage, among other things. She is brilliant, she is my friend. Recorded from my bed in 2022, I don’t entirely remember what we talked about…definitely writing, higher education, friendship, and Barbara Johnson.
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Show Notes Bronwen Tate’s website Barbara Johnson’s essay “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion” Subscribe to Bronwen Tate’s Substack Newsletter Read the feature on Bronwen in Jill Hess's Noted newsletter YELLOW TALE // SCARCITY published in Typo Mag (as read aloud in the episode by Bronwen) Bronwen curates a Reading Series in Vancouver. Subscribe to the newsletter here: https://wholecloth.substack.com/ Bronwen’s previous podcast appearances!: The Slowdown with Ada Limón Writers Read Their Early Sh*t Podcast interview Of Poetry podcast interview
Filmmaker Leslie Tai’s How To Have an American Baby is streaming on PBS through March 10, 2024. The POV documentary is an intimate look at the shadow economy that caters to Chinese parents who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. We discuss the film, the commodification of American motherhood, the tragedies of infant morbidity, and what birth sounds like (in any language). Trigger warning: this episode includes discussion of death and medical malpractice. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Watch How To Have An American Baby on PBS How To Have An American Baby on Instagram How To Have An American Baby Website Leslie Tai
This episode is an enlightening conversation with basket weaver and green burial expert Mary Lauren Fraser. Content warning: Mary weaves urns and coffins. We talk a lot about death and dying in this episode.
Show Notes
Mary Lauren Fraser Baskets
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Erin M. Riley makes narrative, painterly weavings that give voice to complex stories of domestic abuse and intimacy. We talk trauma, healing, self-splintering, and weaving.
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Erin M. Riley
NYC Crit Club is a misleading name for the collaborative learning program that Catherine Haggerty and Hilary Doyle founded five years ago. A) You can take classes with them from anywhere in the world B) it's super inclusive (affordable!)- less a club, more a gathering. I'm teaching there in the spring and Mira Fucking Schor is teaching there in the fall..two icons! Listen on for more info. Enrollment opens August 15th. NYC Crit Club Fall 2022 Courses PS: We don't usually do #ads because that would break from this pod's brand of time consuming and unprofitable that Amy has built over so many years. But NYC Crit Club is great, worth the exception. #intentional #plug.
Didier and I talk Miami, Haiti, immigrant experiences, concepts of home, and painting (of course). Also: how to not sleep train a baby.
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Didier William
At the beginning of the pandemic artist, critic, and co-editor of Precog magazine Gaby Collins-Fernandez gave a lecture to an empty room at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. It was about The Baroque and it was brilliant. That lecture, Georgia O’Keefe, Washington Heights, and more.
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Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Precog Magazine
Colombia born artist Este Puerta went to Catholic school in Boston, performed on the streets of Argentina, and unravels the term “Vermonter.” Wounds, wombs, and other wonders in this episode. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
Show Notes Estefania Puerta
If I could listen to a podcast and sing The Wheels On the Bus at the same time, I would listen to this week’s re-release of my conversation with Jackie Cedar, painter and founder of Good Work Gallery. I recorded it with her during the pandemic, before Ben…the cognitive equivalent of a scene you vaguely remember from a movie you once saw….
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Show Notes Jaqueline Cedar Good Naked Gallery Shelter Gallery
Happy holiday week. My gift to you: three things you can do to feel less “meh” about your holiday break.
1) Donate to the Institute of American Indian Arts, a college and research center in Santa Fe devoted to supporting indigenous American arts. One of my former students goes there.
2) Attend the last performance of my exhibition at Pari Passu view live stream or in-person.
3) Listen to this re-release. It’s with Cassandra Jenkins! She’s on tour right now, killing it. Somebody at a party once told me this was their favorite episode. Or was it that it was the only one they listened to? Not sure. Go for it.
Show Notes Cassandra Jenkins
I think it was early 2019 that I went to see Tracy Molis’ last show at Kai Matsumiya. There were two types of paintings on view: paintings of artifacts inspired by an archaeological drawing class she was teaching at Columbia, and then paintings of stills from a Rage Against The Machine music video… a different type of artifact. In some ways, this re-released podcast in honor of her next show at the gallery feels like a dusty dug up artifact, a remnant from the “before times.” Enjoy this time capsule! It’s one of our most downloaded episodes.
Show Notes Tracy Molis Kai Matsumiya
Today’s re-release is episode 37 with Leah Guadagnoli whose show Love Lies Bleeding ends November 13th at Hollis Taggart in Chelsea. Wonderful early Judy Chicago vibes going on there. Check it out.
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Let’s celebrate Colleen Asper! I curated Performing Pictures Workshop at Pari Passu Gallery with Colleen’s work as a conceptual and physical anchor. On Sunday 31 October she debuted Echo, a collaboration with artist Julie Harting, and performances will continue every Sunday through the end of November 2021. (Tickets are available here). Here is a talk I did with her in the Old Era. Brace yourself. She’s brilliant.
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Today’s re-release: this one’s exciting because it corresponds with some content that you can stream from the comfort of your own home: Aoife Spillane Hink’s film opera A Thing I Cannot Name is streaming online today for World Opera Day. Irish-American director, writer, and actor Aoife-Spillane Hinks is a longtime friend of mine. We used to joke that we were long lost sisters (similar curly hair although hers was more impressive) and even though we rarely get to connect you can tell in this episode that there’s so much love there. I am quite jealous of Aoife’s acquired Irish-American lilt, yet another reason to listen and enjoy.
Show Notes Stream A Thing I Cannot Name free and on demand for 24 hours on 25 October 2021
Today’s re-release: a talk with the brilliant Ilana Harris-Babou, whose exhibition Wholesome Fun runs at Kunsthaus Hamburg through November 28th AND whose survey is at University of Chattanooga’s ICA through Nov 5th. It’s no secret I’m a huge Ilana-Harris Babou fan. We share interests: unraveling the commodification of cart, playing with slime and glop, appropriating advertising verbiage..the list goes on.. Check out her shows, listen to the ep!
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Today we’re re-releasing Episode 35 with the singularly courageous and inspiring Amy Khoshbin! Amy’s collaboration with Jennifer Khoshbin (her sister!) and Wildcat Ebony Brown is called The Sun Seekers- an ongoing series of performances at LMCC as part of their Take Care series. Are you taking care, my fellow sun seekers, fun seekers? Drink your water. Get sleep. Wash your hands. Read a poem. Listen to a podcast. (hint hint).
Content warning: Death and dying. Some listeners may wish to skip the second half of the podcast from around 1 hour 05 minutes.
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Show Notes
Amy Khoshbin
This week we’re re-releasing Caitlin MacBride’s episode on the occasion of her show at Heroes Gallery. The venue pairs emerging artists with established, historically significant artists that have played a role in their development. Very cool. It’s up through October 30, 2021. Also, Caitlin’s getting married on Saturday, and that’s a fun thing to celebrate. Caitlin MacBride, everybody! Three cheers to her and her tight, smart, beautiful paintings.
Show Notes
Caitlin MacBride
Connecticut
RISD
Rutgers
Elaine Scarry
Bard
Audre Lorde
Painting
Ryan Trecartin, A Family Finds Entertainment
Guitar Center Guy
Mirror Mirror band
Illustration
*Savers
The OC
Working Girl
Feminist Art
Gloria Steinem
bell hooks
Cheyney Thompson
Amy Sillman
Pat McElnea
Mignon Nixon Louise Bourgeois
Danny Marcus
Brittni Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV are the artists and minds behind Fall River MoCA, a visionary new venue that opened in Fall River last year. We talk about the project and Fall River, the coolest place you’ve never heard of. Bonus: Amy enters into a painting educed trance at Katherine Bradford exhibition Philosopher’s Clambake.
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Show Notes
Fall River MoCA
Brittni Ann Harvey
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Dona McAdams has been making photographs for over forty years. We talk about where art has taken her: the stages of Performance Space in the 80’s and 90’s, Coney Island assisted living facilities, homeless shelters, small mountain communities in Appalachia, dairy farms in New England, and on the backstretch of thoroughbred racetracks. Dona’s reverence for her subjects and appetite for collaboration is remarkable. And she’s a goat farmer! All that and more.
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Show Notes Dona Ann McAdams
Performative Acts at Bennington Museum
Culture Wars with Dona Ann McAdams and John Killacky on YouTube
Wayfarers was an artist-run gallery and studio space open from 2011 until 2020. I sit down with founder George Ferrandi and former member artist Cynthia Reynolds to talk about its legacy and the fate of scrappy spaces like itself in post-pandemic cities.
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Show Notes
George Ferrandi
Cynthia Reynolds
Wayfarers
Ejecta Projects
Video documentation of what we create may save us, the final Wayfarers member exhibition, at Ejecta Projects
Catherine Haggarty’s exhibition, An Echo’s Glyph, closes at Massey Klein this Saturday. Check it out in a way that feels safe to you. Wholesome, Covid-safe dialogue with Catherine Haggarty about painting, drawing, teaching, and the show on this episode.
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Show Notes
Catherine Haggarty
Julia Trotta’s film, Forget to be Afraid: A Portrait of Linda Nochlin, is in postproduction. We talk about the shape of the project and what it was like to have Linda Nochlin as your grandma. Happy holidays!
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Show Notes
Forget to be Afraid: A Portrait of Linda Nochlin
Blank Forms
Episode 50 of the podcast is here and it’s with artist, arts administrator, and legislator John Killacky. Feeling bogged down by existential malaise? Listener, this episode is for you. And that’s because John Killacky is fucking inspiration. We talk about the Culture Wars, pandemics, the role that taste plays in institutional programming, and more.
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John Killacky
Artist Hilary Doyle’s recent paintings at Taymour Grahne depict mothers in a post-apocalyptic Metropolis. (Super relatable). We talk about those and NYC Crit Club, the artist-run school she co-founded with future guest Catharine Haggerty. All this squeezed into the length of her newborn Theo’s nap.
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Show Notes Hilary Doyle
Metrapolisexhibition at Taymour Grahne
Worcester Mass, the great White Flight from Brooklyn
Babies, Theo, sleep
Paintings within paintings
NYC Crit Club
Artist Charlotte Hallberg makes geomorphic, abstract paintings that trick and delight the eye. She is represented by Hesse Flatow in New York City. We talk about Charlotte’s travels to the Netherlands to study paint and pigment and her recent move to Prattsville New York. Also, a plea to current students.
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Show Notes
Charlotte Hallberg
Painter and performer Rufus Tureen was a child actor and survived. We talk about his path from acting to painting and how changes our sense of priorities. Plus, another dispatch from the fourth trimester vortex.
Show Notes
Rufus Tureen
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Theater Director Aoife Spillane-Hinks left The United States for Ireland after graduating from college. Since then, she has directed a range of productions in both places, founded Then This Theatre, and is currently an associate artist with PICT Classic Theater. Titillated by all things Irish after watching Normal People? This episode’s for you. And, Amy sends her best wishes from inside the black hole of early motherhood.
Show Notes
Then This Theatre
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Artist Rubens Ghenov and I talk about everything: coming to America from Brazil as a kid, The Spiritual in art, skateboarding, Korean screen painting…it’s non-linear and you’ll thank us for it.
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Show Notes
Rubens Ghenov
Artist George Rush paints his way through the trials and tribulations of addiction, parenting, an unexpected move to the Midwest. Also a professor of art at Ohio State University, George and Amy kvetch: teaching- what do we do now?
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Jaqueline Cedar does it all: paints, curates, collaborates…we talk finding what to paint (recently, her couch) and setting up a gallery in her Brooklyn apartment.
Show Notes Jaqueline Cedar Good Naked Gallery Good Naked Gallery Instagram
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Zeb’s path to becoming an artist is punctuated by situations miraculous and Kafka-esque. No wonder his drawings and videos explore similar themes. And, quarantine dispatch #2 from home.
Show Notes Zebadiah Keneally
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Rachel Domm says “no” to the 9-5, “yes” to pastels and co-operatively run galleries. Plus, my first social distancing dispatch.
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Show Notes
Rachel Domm
NYC
Georgia/The South
Printed Matter
Art Book Fairs
Being an Illustrator
Productivity
Quitting Jobs
Working Remotely
Agnes Martin
Eva Hesse
Georgia O'Keeffe
Johannes Vanderbeek at Zach Feuer
Oil pastels
Ceramics
Graphite
Carbohydrates
Pasta Shapes
Essex Flowers
Cooperative Art Spaces
MFA programs
Studio Visits
Critique
Emily Nemens is editor-in-chief of the Paris Review. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this past February. I met Emily my sophomore year of college in a painting class. All this and lots of diversions on this week’s episode.
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Show Notes Emily Nemens The Cactus League
Ana Cardoso calls me from Lisbon to talk about painting, babies, and what’s weird about the American approach to critique.
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Show Notes Ana Cardoso
Artist Morgan Blair knows her way around a Savers. All her cool thrifting tips, plus some talk about painting, puzzles, Seinfeld, Worcester Mass, and Paul Simon in this episode.
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Show Notes Morgan Blair
Seinfeld
Puzzles
Paul Simon’s Graceland
Click bait articles
Comedy
KAWS
Post Analog Painting
The Hole
Printmaking with Louis Buhl
Fearless and prolific artist and residency director Leah Guadagnoli joined me to talk about her artwork, her life in the Hudson Valley, and starting a residency out of her live-work space.
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Show Notes Leah Guadagnoli Maple Terrace Artist Residency and Mentorship Program Tilleard Projects Jillian Steinhauer, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week", The New York Times Flutter Experience Soft Violence, Asya Geisberg Gallery
Dr. Craig Richard and Melinda Lauw discuss their respective ASMR related projects in two excerpted interviews. Consider these a “teaser” for Amy’s ASMR project for Untitled Art Fair’s podcast.
Artist and politician Amy Khoshbin and I talk for a long, long time about her early experiences working with Laurie Anderson, her upcoming show, experiencing death and loss, and her run for city council in 2021.
Content warning: Death and dying. Some listeners may wish to skip the second half of the podcast from around 1 hour 05 minutes.
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Show Notes Amy Khoshbin
Bahai Faith
The fearless Amy Khoshbin! City Council 2021 in District 38
Solo show GHOSTS at project for empty space about Dad’s death
Synergy
Engaging people with gun violence talk while they get a tattoo
What is the opposite of a weapon?
Ursula K Le Guin
First tools that humans used were containers
Being containers for one another
Slacker moment
Fallow Time
Austin, Texas
Sierra Nevada College, MFA
Low Res
Russell Dudley Julia Schwadron
NYU MFA in Convergent Media
Laurie Anderson, Delusion
Sandy Stone
Hal Hartley
Red Burns
Karen Finley
Jillian Steinhauer
The Yes Men
Death
A Pressing Conference at Spring/Break Art Fair
Political meditations
District 38
Carlos Menchaca
I am Adobe video
Jessica Gardner, cinematographer
Illustrator Joana Avillez calls me from Los Angeles, where nobody walks outside and the deli is far, far away. We talk about growing up around artists, deciding not to become one, what illustration is, and figuring out how to write about loss.
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Show Notes:
Joana Avillez
The Sardine Zine
SVA MFA Program in Visual Essay
RISD
South Street Seaport
New York
1990’s
Award winning children’s book author, artist, and writer Thyra Heder and I take a deep dive into what it means to make art for children, how studying film helps her create picture books, and why it’s okay to fake it sometimes.
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Show Notes
Thyra Heder
Fraidyzoo
The Bear Report
Abby Manock
SMFA
Brown University
Art Semiotics
Abrams Books
Childrens’ Book Publishing
Episode 32 is here! And it’s a little mini-one. My show, Container Store Cantastoria, opens at Hesse Flatow today, and so I’ve been busy working on all of that...prints...a performance...some weird display easels…. No time really for a full sit-down interview. But! A new feature to the podcast rolls out soon, one we’re calling “Leave A Message.” Starting Monday, listeners will be able to leave me a voice message through the website that I’ll respond to on future episodes. Stay tuned for a link to that feature.
And because I didn’t want to leave listeners without any content to consume (you content hungry vultures), I’m offering you a brief rant on teaching jobs called “How Not To Get a Teaching Job.” Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes College Art Association of America
Hyperallergic.com: How Much Does An Adjunct Actually Make? by Hakim Bishara
This week we re-release Episode 13 with Em Rooney. Em has an upcoming exhibition at Galerie Fons Welters that opens September 7th called You, too, know that you live. The press release was written by the artist Nancy Lupo, our episode 6! Go get’em, Em.
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Show Notes http://bodega-us.org/em-rooney.html http://chrisdomenick.com/ https://vimeo.com/195207884
Artist Caitlin MacBride has lived in 60 different apartments in Brooklyn. Hear about each and every one of them. Also: painting, opiated adjacency, and weird house parties.
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Show Notes:
Caitlin MacBride
Connecticut
RISD
Rutgers
Elaine Scarry
Bard
Audre Lorde
Painting
Ryan Trecartin, A Family Finds Entertainment
Guitar Center Guy
Mirror Mirror band
Illustration
*Savers
The OC
Working Girl
Feminist Art
Gloria Steinem
bell hooks
Cheyney Thompson
Amy Sillman
Pat McElnea
Mignon Nixon Louise Bourgeois
Danny Marcus
Artist Ilana Harris-Babou and I discuss her New York City upbringing, wellness culture, Audre Lorde, and the making of her most recent work, which is up right now in the Whitney Biennial. Also, a brief tribute to my mom.
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Show Notes:
Brooklyn, Senegal, Senegalese Diaspora, African Time, Family Planning, Aspiration, Cooking, Audre Lorde, The Erotic, Cookbooks, Cooking Shows, Labor, Capitalism, Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Marree Brown, St. Ann’s, Friends Seminary, College Admissions, Private School, New York City, Yale, Racism, Columbia MFA, Anna Betbeze, Sarah Oppenheimer, Yoni Eggs, Vaginal Steaming
Artist Catherine Telford-Keogh is in residency at the Pelling Laboratory for Biophysical Manipulation at the University of Ottawa. (She’s Canadian!) Her recent sculptures are made out of cells on view at Interstate in Bushwick, NY. We talk art, energy drinks, healthcare, and getting kicked out of the United States.
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Show Notes:
Catherine Telford-Keogh
Pelling Laboratory for Biophysical Manipulation
Bioart
Monster lab drinks
Healthcare
Canada
Henrietta Lacks
Jasbir Puar Assemblages
Interstate
Jessica Stockholder
Rosalind Krauss
Sculpture
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Artist Rose Nestler stopped by my apartment before getting honored at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her self-described break down on the way to a job in Staten Island was the impetus for heading back to school after a decade of living and working as an artist in New York. We talk about how that turned out in this episode. Spoiler alert: turned out great.
Show Notes:
Rose Nestler
Sonya Blesofsky
Marriage
Joan Jonas
Spokane (WA)
Stephen Gaskin & Ina May Gaskin
The Farm commune (TN)
Mount Holyoke College
Joan Mitchell Foundation
Teaching Artists
Brooklyn College
Ortega Y Gasset
Fabric
Sculpture
MFA
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5 years later, we re-release Episode 7 with artist Reuben Lorch-Miller. Reuben! The great! We talk house plants, creative constraints, magic tricks, and marriage. All timely topics! Amy’s house plants are thriving and she’s getting hitched this week. Get ready for a blast from the past.
Tanya Goel records an episode with me on the last day of her exhibition of paintings and frescos at Nature Morte. Artist and gallery owner Peter Nagy mocks us in the background.
Since her first appearance on the show (episode 11), Virginia Lee Montgomery has been making videos out of hotel rooms. With insects. On a $200 budget. She is a Material Research Artist-in-Residence at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Dynamic and Controlled Materials and her solo show, The Pony Hotel, opened at Museum Folkwang in Essen on May 9th. Did I mention the insects? Lots of that on this episode.
We talk botox, life in Istanbul, and how a traumatic encounter surfing the dark web prompted her to turn away from figurative and digital work to abstract painting.
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 them all.
www.sophiacleary.com
penistheband.com
https://twitter.com/_sophia_cleary?lang=en
Seung Min Lee grew up in Maspeth, Queens. Now she’s in the Hamptons (occasionally), unsurprised. Topics include 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:
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Under Tylass, 2016
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Creaned Gap, 2016
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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.
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
Artist Maggie Sullivan talks to me about studying fungus in the woods of Virginia, dating two brothers, and her distaste for relational aesthetics. Something for everyone!
Artlab at Mountain Lake Biological Station
Gotta love Dan Savage
Adam Wolpa
Lane Relyea
Maggie's work will part of Christopher Warwinofsky's collaborative piece in this exhibition at Miami art week on December 5th
Nora Griffin finds inspiration in the desert town Truth or Consequences; hasn't met my therapist.
Conversation notes: Vermont Studio Center, nature, "the sublime," Columbia, art parents, analysis, Stephanie Campos, Ron Gorchov, Van Hanos, Dave Hickey, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, IPTAR, Peter Gallo
I know I said I'd be back soon but things got complicated. Anyway, I'm here now, what do you want? Just give me a minute to smoke this cigarette and make some calls and then we'll get you changed and fed. Here's a snack stop your moping.
(But seriously stay tuned. Had some technical difficulty getting things running smoothly on iTunes and trying to clean up my audio quality. What can I say? I'm learning. Expect some new episodes to pop up around October 15th).
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Still from Vaseline, 2012
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy travels with his boyfriend to a house built in a cave in France on the Rijksakademie’s budget to shoot his video, VASELINE. Check out more of his work here.