SOUND & VISION PODCAST
Brian Alfred ( @alfredstudio ) talks with artists and musicians about their life and the creative process.
‘Why I Make Art’ the podcast book out now

Beverly is on for a really fun chat where we go way back. You don’t want to miss this one! 🗣️💊🖼️
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Episode 528 / Beverly Fishman
Beverly Fishman is an artist born in 1955 in Philadelphia, who lives and works in Detroit. She received her Master of Fine Arts in 1980 from Yale University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1977.
Her work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan; Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY; Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI; Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom; SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH; and Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany.

Erica is on! Download the pod and hit @futurefairs and check out her work @tinneycontemporary
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Episode 527 / Erica Westenberger
Erica Westenberger is a New Orleans–based interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, painting, and installation. Her work builds immersive scenes shaped by apprehension, longing, and care, exploring emotional landscapes through intertwined bodies, objects, and imagined environments. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and her MFA from Tulane University in 2023. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Delta Triennial, Field Projects in New York City, and Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, Tennessee. She has presented solo exhibitions at Carroll Gallery and Sibyl Gallery in New Orleans, and at Neue Welt in Nashville. Her work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine and the Nashville Scene, and she has participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, Oxbow School of Art, and Stove Works. Her work is currently on display in Tinney Contemporary’s booth at Future Fair in New York City from May 13–16.
#art #podcast #drawing #sculpture #mixedmedia

Xavier talks sneaking his parents camera out, dance, Mexico City, capturing moments, Dolores Huerta and much more. Link in bio!
Episode 526 / Xavier Tavera
Xavier Tavera has had a passion for portraiture for most of his life as a way to engage with people and their stories. His work oscillates between documentary and the imagined with the sole purpose of telling a story. After moving from Mexico City to the United States, Xavier has devoted himself to tell the stories of the Latin American diaspora, often recontextualizing with the purpose of providing visibility and fair representation.
He has shown his work extensively in the Twin Cities, nationally and internationally including Germany, Scotland, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece and China. His work is part of the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Plains Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota History Center, Ramsey County Historical Society, the Weisman Art Museum and the National Museum of Mexican Art. He is a recipient of the McKnight fellowship, Jerome Travel award, State Arts Board, and Bronica scholarship.
#podcast #photography #xaviertavera

Madeline is on! 🎙️
Episode 525 / Madeline Ludwig-Leone
Madeline Ludwig-Leone is a Los Angeles-based visual artist working primarily in painting. She received an MFA in Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design and a BA in Fine Art and American Studies from Yale University. She had a recent solo exhibition at Gattopardo, Glendale, CA and has previously shown at Felix Art Fair with Gattopardo and Tyler Park Presents; Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Light Manufacturing, Portland, ME; The Aster Art Initiative, Los Angeles, CA; Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR; City Gallery at the Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY; and Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA, among others. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and SouthCoast Today. She was a recent resident at ChaNorth Artists’ Residency in Pine Plains, NY and at Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency in Gosnold, MA.
#art #podcast #painting

@dianewilliamsartistis on the pod. Download and listen to her talk about research based work, the Philippines, Tame Impala, weaving and much more. Shout out to @futurefairs where she will have work coming up very soon in NyC! #art #podcast #DianeWillams

Chenlu and Chiara are on!
Chenlu Hou, born in Shandong, China, in 1989, is now based in Providence, RI. She completed her MFA in Ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 and has since participated in residencies at notable institutions such as the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Penland School of Craft. Her work has been featured in exhibitions across the United States and Taiwan, including at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and the Archie Bray Foundation. Currently, Hou is a resident artist at Harvard Ceramics and a Visiting Critic in Ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Chiara No, born in Key West, FL, in 1981, resides in Johnson, VT. She studied Art and Theory at the Glasgow School of Art and earned her BA in Art History from Towson University and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. No has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been displayed in various venues, including Spring Break New York and MoCA Westport, and is part of collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Walker Art Center.
Together, Chenlu Hou and Chiara No present “What the Hands Remember to Hear,” a joint exhibition at the Aldrich Museum exploring storytelling and spirituality through ceramic sculpture, running until May 25, 2026.

Kayla is on the pod!
Episode 522
Kayla Witt is an artist born in Calgary, Canada and based in LA. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON and her MFA from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. She has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA and the Armory Show; and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON. She has participated in group shows at Arsenal Contemporary, New York; albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA; Ketabi Bourdet, Paris, FR; WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong; Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, ON; among others. Witt has completed a number of residencies including Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; and Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB. Her work has been featured in HypeArt, Booooooom, Harper’s Magazine, It’s Nice That, Surface Mag, among others.
#kaylawitt #painting #art #podcast

Nat is back!!
One of our favorite guests is back. Our first ever return guest to S&V and couldn’t be a better one than @natmeade who has a solo up @hesse_flatow called ‘FRANKLIN’. Talk about his new work, funny sad songs, cinema, teaching, making work for fellow painters, titles with multiple meanings and much more. check it out.
#podcast #art #natmeade #painting

Elizabeth is on the pod!
Episode 520 / Elizabeth Hazan
Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School where she was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
She has twice been a resident of Yaddo, and received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. Her recent solo shows include Double Fantasy at Hesse Flatow, NY, Weather, at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Under the Sun, HESSE FLATOW, NY.
Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Forbes, Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail and The Art Newspaper. She serves as the founder and director of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY.
#art #painting #podcast #elizabethhazan @elizabethhazan

A wonderful conversation with the sage @cyrillamozenter !! Don’t miss hearing her story. Link in bio.
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Episode 519 / Cyrilla Mozenter
Cyrilla Mozenter is known for her gouache-painted, pencil-drawn works on paper and hand stitched industrial wool felt pieces that include the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived and pictogram-like shapes. Her solo exhibitions include Problems of Art and Present Participle, 57W57 Arts, NY; See Why and the failed utopian, Lesley Heller Gallery, NY; the failed utopian & Other Stories, FiveMyles, Brooklyn; warm snow, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, and the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; More saints seen, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Very well saint, The Drawing Center, NY. She has produced two collaborative books with photographer/writer Philip Perkis: ar, AC Books, San Diego, 2023, and the bilingual Octave, anmoc press, Seoul, 2020. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received two fellowships from the NY Foundation for the Arts and two project grants from The Fifth Floor Foundation. She has been in residence at Pianpicollo Selvatico, Dieu Donné Papermill, and Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura-Rioarte. Her work is in numerous public collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. She taught for many years in the MFA program at Pratt Institute. #art #podcast #artist #cyrillamozenter

@charlinetyberghein is on the pod! You may have seen her show @theholenyc recently, well here’s a good ol’ chat about art and life 🎙️ 🇧🇪
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Episode 518 / Charline Tyberghein
Charline Tyberghein makes surrealist paintings by way of symbols and trompe l’ceil. Inspired by the Belgian Surrealist tradition, but also folk art, internet imagery, and other cultural influences, focussing on a high-low dichotomy. She mainly works with oil on canvas, occasionally branching out to other materials like wood to work in a more sculptural fashion. Tyberghein has shown with galleries and institutions all over the world, like Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, M HKA Antwerp, and Beursschouwburg in Brussels and a recent collaboration with Hermès in Shanghai. Gallery shows include Domestic Blitz (Gallery Vacancy, 2023), Many Drops Make A Puddle (Castor gallery, 2021), Clownette (The hole, 2025).
#art #podcast #painting #charlinetyberghein

Andy is on! A talk about painting history, minimalist music, fabricless walls and much more. 🗣️🎙️🗣️
Episode 517 / Andy Woll
Andy Woll was born in Los Angeles, California and received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. His solo exhibitions include, The First Turn of the Screw at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2021); Strange Animal at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York City (2020); Passage at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2018); and Western Wear at Denny Gallery in New York City (2018). he’s shown in group exhibitions including Pipe Dream at Uffner Liu Gallery and Night Gallery in New York City (2016); Sticks and Stones at Night Gallery, (2016); Pairs at Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, (2016); and Dave Muller’s Three Day Weekend at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles, (2015).In 2007, Andy was the recipient of the Saul and Sally Fifer Bernstein/Friends of Joe Mugnaini Award for works on paper.
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