Dan Grayber is a Oakland Artist. He graduated from SFAI with his MFA in 2005. He is represented by Johansson Projects in Oakland, California. I met up with Dan at his recent show at Johansson Projects and we talked about his work. Let’s start near the beginning. I read that your journey started with an…
Conrad Guevara is a sculpture, performance, and installation artist based in San Francisco. He received his masters at the San Francisco Art Institute and has gone on to do interactive, abstract solo-work as well as collaborations with Bonanza Art Collective. He was happy to meet me over coffee to discuss accessorizing, parades, and dragging stuff off the…
Kay Healy is a Philadelphia based artist who joined me for our second ever podcast style interview. Kay screen prints onto fabric that she turns into amazing sculpture/ installations. Kay talked to me about how her projects, Coming Home, Lost and Found, her internment camp series and how her works has shifted over the last few years, to embracing…
I met American artist, Joshua Hagler, at the opening of his solo show The Adopted at Jaus earlier this year. With extensive research, he’s using various mediums to explore the role of religion. The variety of figures, shapes and endless texture against large scale canvases, begs us to ask the same questions he poses about religion, its history and our relationship…
Sofie Ramos is an installation artist currently pursuing her MFA at UC Berkeley. Below is a reflection on my visit to her studio space at the Richmond Field Station. Bright, dry, and dead silent. The Richmond Field Station, home of the UC Berkeley MFA studios, seems all but deserted in the middle of a Tuesday,…
Mary Grisey is a Toronto-based fiber and installation artist whose work echoes the poetry of ancient Greek mythology. Her work deals with the transformation of ephemeral materials and illustrates the inevitable toll of decay on a massive scale. She created META, a line of hand-crafted jewelry that employs ancient techniques such as weaving, braiding, natural…
Bryan Proteau is a 24-year-old illustrator and tattoo artist living the in the Bay Area. We met months ago after the show a band he has done illustrative work for and whose members are our mutual friends. Bryan’s mix of medieval imagery, alchemical references, and monochromatic palette have drawn attention and admiration from a many….
Jagdeep Raina is a Canadian born visual artist who recently had a solo exhibition at Grice Bench in Los Angeles. Raina explores his Punjabi heritage through archived material, along with the Punjabi diaspora through current events. When did you decide to pursue visual art? I am interested in telling stories of South Asian diasporic histories…
Parinya Champ (b. 1984, Manhattan) is a Los Angeles based visual artist and source-field researcher. I met him at a group show in downtown Los Angeles. What convinced me most to reach out to him was the reaction of the audience to his work, at the show. We weren’t all just in awe; we all felt…
How would you describe your subject matter or the content of your art practice? My work finds its origin in historic, scientific and/or anatomic sources ranging from the woodcuts by Andreas Vesalius to CT-scans, MRI-scans, autopsy images and the plastinations by Gunther von Hagens. As in medical practice, I dissect the body layer by layer….
