I Know Strange People

I Know Strange People

Ever see someone who has paint on their pants, tattoo sleeves, an asymmetrical haircut, and someone exclaims that guy/girl must be an artist? These are not the creatives I seek out to interview. There’s a romantic notion that artists need to be eccentric, but the real oddities usually happen behind closed doors. Explore the unconventional in the creative process through interviews with artists, and other creative types with host and artist Jeffrey Morabito.

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December 3, 2024 88 mins

When artist, writer, curator, and translator Paul D’Agostino was asked to participate in this interview podcast, he had the notion to flip the script and interview the interviewer. "Flat Theater" a concurrent two person show that host Jeffrey Morabito is in is discussed, among other revelatory topics such at how all paintings are self portraits and which are the best places to get pizza in New York.

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Dennis Kardon went to Yale to study medicine only to find his real passion after taking a life drawing class there. Although Kardon left Yale as an abstract painter, it was only years later during a walk and conversation through the Metropolitan Museum of Art with John Currin did he realize that he could do anything he wanted to do in a painting.


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June 20, 2024 81 mins

Already a pioneer in the 80's East Village art scene in NYC, Artist Judy Glantzman recently moved to Chatham New York to focus on her work. Judy discusses what it means to take on a character in art, the artifice of it, and how the "Pure Theatre" of painting gives you freedom.


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Painter Rodney Dickson comes from humble beginnings in a small town in Northern Ireland. Being an artist has led him many places around the world but has predominantly lived in NYC  since the 90's.  A student of Mike Knowles who himself is a student of Frank Auerbach (all three still correspond), Rodney is part of a lineage of thick impasto painters while still exploring new possibilities.

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Cordy Ryman thinks it's semantics whether or not he is a painter or sculptor.
Having grown up in a family of artists, he knew early on that putting art on a pedestal becomes a barrier. Seeing the built-in paradoxes of the art world led Cordy to start Art Cake, a studio residency program and project space in Brooklyn, New York.

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January 11, 2023 91 mins

Painter John Rogers, better known as Ghoulorama on instagram has been told he's smarter than he looks. Drawing from working in a bank that was robbed, living in "Killa-delphia" and of course watching cars on fire,  a deeper sense of how humor is a coping mechanism is conveyed, even when the viewer doesn't always get the joke. 




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August 31, 2022 80 mins

Bill Scott was never looking to be an artist, it was like many other things - just in front of him. Following what was in front of him took him after art school to Paris where he had a chance encounter with Joan Mitchell that became a fruitful but complicated relationship. Bill’s paintings are like himself:  they are meant to be seen from a distance and up close.
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Maria Yolanda Liebana has a free flowing conversation on her many interests ranging from Anime, 80's pop culture, her Catholic school upbringing, and her hometown of Paterson NJ.
Her idiosyncratic style is a result of these ingredients and her perspective of the world today as a Latinx Multidisciplinary Artist.

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Celeste Morton shares how she gets to try on an identity through painting Cowgirls.  Having started as a film theory major in school, we discussed how other films, particularly Westerns, influenced her work.

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Painter and Pasadena native Justin Duffus reveals his journey from living coast to coast and what led him be free in his life and painting by turning the camera around onto himself.


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December 22, 2021 68 mins

Bronx New York native Eric Holzman started out in a rock band but eventually went to art school. After having the profound experience of seeing a Piero della Francesca painting, his path was set. Life, painting, The Beatles, abstraction, and the dignity in art are some of the topics discussed.

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October 20, 2021 67 mins

Marybeth Chew takes a deep dive into the main source of her paintings; film stills from horror films. This process deals with much more than just paintings and films, but a greater transformation of how we identify ourselves through movies in today's image-conscious society.

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October 14, 2021 2 mins

This short audio montage explains the conception of this interview based artist podcast with music by Michael J. Vitale. 

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For Homer Shew, the art department was where he found his community in boarding school. This continued in college to the extent he had to move back in NY to be with his community. After being moved to make a painting of chef in an alleyway in Chinatown, Homer began his series of portraits of Chinese-Americans.

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For abstract painter Hollis Heichemer, going with the flow works well for her.  We talk about  the many jobs we've had, watching nature change, our love for Haruki Murakami and getting rid of that noise so that you can go down deeper into your creativity.

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Artist and Filmmaker David Scott Kessler reveals his long journey in completing his documentary “The Pine Barrens”. David takes cues from originally being a painter on how to work the camera, while challenging his preconceived ideas about the people and place that inhabit this film.

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Ashley didn't fit in with the cool kids in the Art Department, so she studied Greek and Latin instead, inadvertently learning what was really important for her paintings. Cool kids, bad paintings, the music scene in Athens Georgia, weaving in the Odyssey, and Mac'n Cheese are some of the topics that are discussed.

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Mary DeVincentis discusses the multiple sources for her rich imagery and narrative in her painting. Having  Aphantasia, the inability to visualize mental images,  sources such as spoken word and song lyrics provides a pathway to her inner world.

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A Memphis Tennessee native, Paul Behnke's art has brought him many places.  Currently based in Taos, New Mexico, he was a part of the Bushwick art scene for some years when he co-ran the gallery, Stout Projects.  Along with his paintings we get to talk about movies, Star Trek, pop culture, pandemic life, and his new project, Monklike Habits.

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Painter Clintel Steed talks about his latest exhibition, "Behind the Hood". 

In this interview, the hood is not just the last stop on the subway, but it also refers to hood worn by the Ku Klux Klan. It was a popular trope for Philip Guston to paint as a challenge to white supremacy. When it was recently announced that Guston's retrospective at the National Gallery was postponed due to the political climate, Clintel ha...

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