March 20, 2025 • 29 mins
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Stephanie Taormina returns to the podcast to discuss her upcoming solo art exhibition at the Yocum Institute, featuring her "Magic Series" of abstract expressionist paintings and ceramic sculptures. This full-circle moment brings her back to the very institution where she took art classes as a teenager, now showcasing nearly 50 pieces of her work in a month-long exhibition.
• Creation of the "Magic Series" as a visual representation of what magic might look like
• Developing a distinctive coral-based color palette specifically for this collection
• Incorporation of ceramics including tall vessels and "magical sea urchin" flower sculptures
• Finding hidden words and messages within the abstract paintings
• Reconnecting with her artistic roots after focusing on interior design and "Have Some Fun Today"
• Drawing parallels between today's social climate and the birth of abstract expressionism during American turmoil
• Expanding artistic capabilities through curiosity and stretching creative boundaries
• Launching the "One Collection" of hand-painted handbags, merging her art with fashion
Visit Stephanie's exhibition at the Yocum Institute from March 23rd through April 26th to experience "The Magic Series" and meet the artist at the opening reception.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
from real estate to real life and everything in
between the brad weisman showand now your host, brad weisman.
All right, we're back.
Yes, we're back and we have arepeat guest.
I think everybody likes when wehave repeat guests because, uh,
we know who they are and she'sbeen on here.
Actually, I think this might bethe third or fourth time.
(00:23):
I We'll have to talk about thatthen.
But this is Stephanie.
Taramina is in the studio today, but it's not for the reason
that you think she's in thestudio.
Typically she's here to talkabout have some fun today, which
is great and we like that.
But she is really, really doinga lot with paintings and also
ceramics, and she's having a bigshow at the Yoakum Institute
(00:47):
this weekend.
So, stephanie, how are youdoing?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm great, I'm awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's always good to see you, thank you.
Yeah, and is this third orfourth time?
I can't remember.
Fourth time, I think it'sfourth.
It's fourth because you were on.
We talk about this every timeYou're on a podcast.
I had before yes, and so thefourth.
I think she should get an award.
What do you think that's right?
I think she's on besides PeteHeim, but Pete's a different
story.
But you're the.
You're probably the most timeson out of any guests, out of any
(01:14):
other type of guests.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Pete's on once a month, but that's a real estate
show.
Yeah so, yeah.
So you must've done somethingright Either say that or
something wrong?
I don't know, I'm not sure whatit is.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Maybe I'm just a pest .
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, you're not a pest at all.
No, because I always say whenyou want to come back, you're
welcome back.
I really appreciate it we alwayshave good stuff to talk about.
So, yeah, so you're here forsomething a little different.
Yes, I got this postcard in themail.
I think it was this, and it's areally nice postcard.
You are doing a I guess theycall it solo art show, right,
(01:46):
yep, at the Yoakum Institutethis weekend coming up.
Yes, and I'm excited.
So March 23rd through April26th, your artwork is going to
be there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'm excited.
I can't wait to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hugo, we got to go see this artwork.
That's righty, yeah, that'srighty, yeah, that's right, it's
unbelievable.
So tell me about how does thishappen?
Like I mean, I know you'repainting all the time how does
it get to a point where you haveyour solo show like this Well,
I got very lucky.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I would say.
I mean, I think that you knowI've been painting my entire
life, even through all theinterior design, and have some
fun today.
I have always been an artist.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And it's actually really interesting because when
I was 16, and.
I had just moved to Wyomissing,I saw that there was an art
institute where I could takeclasses.
I could take classes and, as ayoung girl, I would at night.
Go take these night classeswith these adults who were
(02:50):
probably my age, but I thoughtthey were so old at the time.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Isn't it amazing how that changes it is really funny.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
But so I was actually .
I actually learned how to oilpaint at the Art Institute.
Why Missing Art Institute?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, I remember that , absolutely, absolutely.
I took singing lessons there.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, that's so cool, yeah, so so to be able to go
back and have my first solo showoutside of my own different art
studios.
I've had over the years um isamazing, and so how it happened
was.
Um the beginning of last year Iknew that I really wanted to
put a lot of effort into mymaking my art.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And I started the series called the magic series
which we touched on last timeyou were here.
Yes, I know, and so the wholepremise for it was me really
trying to figure out how I wantto spend my energy.
You know, the older you get,you get very reflective.
Oh yeah, I totally understandit's probably why you're doing
(03:46):
this podcast it's totallyunderstand.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, the older you get, the more you sit there and
go okay, there's actuallyprobably more behind me than
there is in front of me.
Yeah, possibly, we know, nobodyknows right.
Um, but it makes you start tothink.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Every minute becomes a lot more valuable, yeah, so so
I made this decision, that Iwas really going to put a lot of
energy into my art, and I wasthinking about you know cause
you need to have like a like apremise for your, for making art
, and so my premise was makingmagic.
And when I make art, it feelslike it feels like magic
(04:23):
happening in my life.
Yeah, you know, because thesethings come out of you and these
paintings, you know, justappear through hours and hours
of putting paint on a canvas.
But there's a lot more to itthan that.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So every painting that I made, I was doing a lot
of meditating, I was doing a lotof writing, I was doing a lot
of thinking and introspectionand I knew the paintings I
wanted to make.
I was doing a lot of writing, Iwas doing a lot of thinking and
introspection and I knew thepaintings I wanted to make and I
was trying to create a visualfor what magic could look like
if you were to see it.
So that is what these paintingsstarted out as that's the
(04:59):
premise.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And so, when you come to the opening, you will be
surrounded by many works of art,different sizes, but all with
this vision of magic as thecentral theme.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So there is a commonality, there's a I don't
know what's the word I'mthinking of, but there's like a
focus there.
The magic is the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's the theme.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And that's the theme.
That's what I was trying tothink of the word, the theme.
So that's the theme of, of thewhole show that you're doing.
You know all the artwork that'sthere.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And now does that then evolve?
So this year, 2025, that was2024.
The works that you did nowyou're putting them out and to
the public, or whatever does itas an artist.
Is that now?
Is there like a thing that'sgoing to happen?
2025 is there?
Do you think there's somethingthat's going to come up another
theme or no?
How's that work?
Absolutely yeah she looks at meconfused.
(05:54):
She's like don't you know that?
I'm like I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I, I have no clue well, just just to go back for a
second yeah, go ahead, go backhow this happened.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, how'd it happen .
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So I was like, having this intention, that I was
really going to make all thisart and really focus on the art,
and the one thing I wanted tohave happen was to be offered a
solo show.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh my gosh, Isn't that something so?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
it was like, I think in February I got a text from a
friend, lisa Tiger, another realestate person, sure, and she
happens to be on the.
Got a text from a friend, lisaTiger, another real estate
person and she happens to be onthe Berks Art.
Council and she's an artist aswell.
I don't know if you know, that.
But so you know, Lisa and I knoweach other and she remembered
my work from when I had mystudio at the Goggle Works many
(06:39):
years ago before have Some FunToday.
And she reached out to mebecause she wanted to see if I
had any of those paintings,because I was doing different
series back then.
And she came to me and she saidyou know, Steph, I loved your
rock series and I have to behonest, I didn't get it then,
but now I think it's amazing,and so we were kind of like
(06:59):
talking about art.
And then she reached out to meand she said would you want to
do a solo show?
And I was like, yes, that'sawesome.
And so that's how it?
Happened, I guess.
They went back to the board andthey said, yeah, let's give her
a show.
And so they schedule it out ayear ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So that's how long these things happen.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So you knew this a year ago I knew this a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wow, that's crazy.
I've just been working on allthe pieces and then figuring out
which ones I wanted to use inthe show, because it has to like
work in the space.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then I decided I've been working with an art
mentor out of New York City.
He's a professor at Columbiaand you know we were just kind
of going over the differentworks and he kind of he kind of
said something that you knowsparked my curiosity.
Yeah, and he kind of saidsomething that sparked my
curiosity, and he was talkingabout how you could maybe create
different types of art that goalong with it.
(07:52):
So it just got me thinkingabout ceramics.
And so I did like three monthsof an open studio at the
Goggleworks in their ceramicstudio to kind of round out the
different media I wanted to usefor the show.
So it's, it's going to be veryinteresting of the paintings and
the ceramics and the sculptures, and it's all my work and it's
(08:15):
all magical.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I saw the flowers the flowers.
Is that what they are, Flowers?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's kind of like a flower like little flower, but
you said, like sea urchin orsomething I call them my magical
sea urchin.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, that's what I thought, but they look like.
So I saw those and they're cool, yeah, because they're kind of
laced with a little bit of agold ornament, whatever.
Yeah, they're very pretty.
You don't need to wear glasseswhen you're doing them either.
I was watching your video.
I I'm painting this and I can'treally see it.
I should go get my glasses, butI'm too lazy.
She just kept going.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sometimes, you know, I go into my studio at night
just because I'm like, oh, letme just go in here.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I am.
You know, sometimes it's lateat night.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And I don't have my glasses on.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, of course, as we know, when we get in our 50s,
we need to wear glasses.
Absolutely, yeah, that's agreat, that's so okay.
So, going back, so you get toldyou that you get asked to do
this show.
So now, when you're ready forthat, when you hear that, do you
then start painting like crazy,or do you just kind of you just
still have to do, you feel likestressed out about it?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
no, I didn't feel stressed out about it all, I was
just super excited and it wasjust like fuel you know, to keep
on looking at what I had andseeing what else I wanted to add
in to complement the group, andthen there's all the framing
and there's like a lot of funstuff too, actually, because you
(09:37):
have to get it all readytogether and then you have to
pick out which ones are yourfavorites.
Well, I wouldn't say like myfavorites, it's more like what
is going to work in the show,because I'm not showing
everything.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Well, you can.
I made a ton of paintings lastyear.
I would take up the wholebuilding.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I mean there's almost 50 pieces of art in the show.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Wow, which is a lot yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
But I'm doing like two areas that is more like a
salon style hang.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And so that's like what I mean by that.
It's like you take a wall andthen you hang paintings floor to
ceiling.
Okay, so you're hanging liketons of paintings on one space
Sure.
As opposed to if you were to goto like an art gallery in New
York.
City.
You would just see like onepainting and then you know,
maybe six feet yeah, yeah,another painting, one, yeah and
(10:29):
you know I am kind of doing thatfor part of the show because I
do like paintings to breatheyeah it's like a little pet
peeve of mine, like when peoplewant you to be in an art show
and there's just too manypaintings yeah, because you're
right, it doesn't give.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It doesn't give each one its own ability to shine.
Yeah, yeah so I.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't like that, so you know.
I was trying to figure outwhat's going to make this work
the best yeah, yeah, because youonly have so much space to work
with.
I mean, that's not a hugegallery yeah and it's a little,
I think, a little challenging,you know, yeah, I know, I know
where it is there.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Actually, I've seen the wall there because our kids
are, our daughter dances there.
Yes, I'm in the building prettyoften actually.
Okay, so, yeah, so let's goback to the actual art.
What is this type of art called?
Again, what's it called?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
well, I mean, it's basically abstract expressionism
abstract expressive.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Now what does that mean?
Like what I always like, lookat these and I go okay, so when,
when you, when I look at this,like, do you look at?
Do you see this ahead of timeor does it just come out of you
while you're doing it?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's a great question.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, no, I totally.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Like if I'm painting a bear, I see the bear in my
head ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, I would never say I'm going to paint a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I'm not a realist.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
However, I have been stretching my repertoire.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I have been stretching my repertoire and I
have been.
I did a self portrait and I dida portrait of my mother.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I saw those on a picture One of your pictures of
your studio.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I saw it in the background.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yes, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, so I do believe , as an artist, in stretching
your capabilities.
So for me whenever I getcurious about something, I then
have to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, got it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It's just I've learned that about myself and
that is how I push myself intonew territories and expand what
I can do, and I think as anartist, it's really important to
do that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Because then when you go to do your work, these
elements kind of seep in and itmakes you a better artist.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, it's kind of funny because, as you're saying,
that I'm thinking about when Itold you I took opera lessons at
one point.
I don't sing opera, but when Itook opera I knew I wasn't going
to be an opera singer, but Idid it because I was curious.
There you go, I was curious,and also I had heard that the
main thing that you learn fromtaking opera lessons is how to
breathe, because they're verygood at using their diaphragm to
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get that out and be loud and dowhat you need to do.
So it's the same kind of thing.
I don't use the opera soundwhen I sing, okay, but I use the
diaphragm exercises that Ilearned from that.
So it's, it's part of that,it's the same kind of.
It's almost reminds me of that.
It was so weird I didn't thinkabout that until now.
So you, even though you're notpainting those kinds of things,
all the time when you go to doyour artwork, it's in there and
(13:23):
it's in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, and it just, it improves.
It improves your work.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And I would say just about curiosity in general.
I mean, curiosity is a driverfor me, for everything.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I do yeah, absolutely .
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And I think it's important to recognize the
things that drive you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, absolutely.
Now the colors.
Do you know ahead of time whatcolors you're going to use?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Well, okay, so yes and no, okay.
So this whole palette of themagic series is a palette that I
haven't really used before, soI think that's very interesting.
But I was, I was thinking aboutwhat colors, and when I I
talked to myself okay, it's okay, we all do.
(14:09):
I'm talking, don't talk back oh,I answer myself too okay, now
that's a little different, butlike I was trying to think of
what colors come to my mind whenI think of magic, so so that
was where I started.
I was with a question to myselfand then, of course, I answered
myself good, good that's good.
(14:30):
Coral was like is the driver,yeah, of everything.
Every painting almost in thisseries has the color coral yeah,
now which color is that?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I'm not so good with that the pinkish or the peachish
color yeah, which I love thatcolor it's a beach color.
It's like a beachy color.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, love that color I think it's my favorite color
yeah, it's a great color and soI find myself using that color,
and last year that color was wasthe impetus, yeah, but then you
know, you kind of, as you'repainting for me, I kind of just
naturally get a feeling for whatcolor should come next wow and
(15:07):
sometimes, and sometimes youmess up, I mean you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So when you mess up, can you just paint over that
then?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Hell yeah, says the artist, yeah, so you can just,
you can just start painting overthat and then, and that goes
away.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yes, oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That's pretty cool, and is there words in there?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Okay, cause I started thinking that there was
something wrong with me, causeI'm looking at this, I'm like
thinking there's words in there.
Are they actually?
There's letters, but is there aword in there?
Yes, there's um you allowed tosay what it is, or it says keep
going.
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's the name of the painting.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Wait, okay, I see the going.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, so I actually covered up the keep.
Oh, okay, because my art mentorthought it was a little obvious
.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh, got it.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
He just mentioned that, and then it was up to me
if I wanted to do anything aboutit.
So interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You can't see the keep but I see the going there,
totally see the going.
And I knew there was letters inthere.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah and um, I think this painting it's quite large.
It's honestly like almost asbig as your whole back wall.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And so to me it's like my, it's like my pep talk.
Okay, so it's keep going keepgoing because you know the stuff
that we're doing is not easystuff.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know it takes a lot of self-discipline.
It takes a lot of justperseverance.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, I mean, look at , look what you've done with
your brand.
I mean you're, you're have somefun today, Brad, that's not
something that happens overnight.
We all know that.
Yeah, it's a labor of love,right Is what that is.
So let's talk more about so.
You're going to be there for awhole month.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay, how does somebody?
How do?
If I want to see it and it'snot the first day how do we?
Is it open certain times of theday or I mean, I'm, I think,
the Yoakum Institute is open allday, every day, and I think you
could just go.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So stop by.
I mean it's going to be be anothing like it in berks county
good anytime good, you know it'sgonna be a unique thing.
I really want to bring back artto this area in a different way
good when I had my art studioat the goggle works and early
(17:24):
part of the 2000s, I used tohave art openings all the time
we had had music, we had drinkspeople came dressed up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It was fun, like I go to art openings all the time in
New York and they're probablyfancy or no.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Um well, it depends where you go.
If you go to the ones inChelsea.
They're fancy.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
People get dressed up and it's like major people
watching the craziest mostamazing outfits and prices.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh the prices.
You can't even see the prices.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh, no way, they don't even you can't even see
the prices.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Like to to know what the price of a piece of art is
and a Chelsea gallery.
You have to.
Somehow they have to believethat you might buy one.
So you better put together in acertain way that they will hand
you the price list.
But they're really strict onthat, so most of the time you
don't know how much things are.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Speaking about price, are your paintings for sale
then?
Yes, so when?
So when they go?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
to the prices will be there.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Hey, Hugo, we're going to be good enough to get
the prices on this.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
This is good.
This is good.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
All you need is a vest and a shirt and you can
have the price.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So, and you know, the cool thing about it is like if
I were to do it at any gallery.
I mean, they take, they take50%.
The Yoakum Institute will get40% of anything that sells.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And I'm I'm cool with that you know, like I would
love I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I would be really happy if what I do supports the
Oakham.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Institute.
It's a good, good organization.
They do good stuff, good stuff,all right, so let's go.
Let's go into what I wanted toask you before was the um.
Is there going to be anypottery there at all?
Yeah, at the show there will be.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, I have um Four pieces of my tall vessels that I
made.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And they're in the magic series too.
Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes, and I made these little flower sculptures.
Those things are cool andthey're going to be sold per
piece.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I'm definitely going to go back and do more of
that because I thought it was socool.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, and it looks cool.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It was so interesting to be at the Goggleworks in
their ceramic studio aroundtheir ceramic artists.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Because I really I mean, I've done things with
ceramics over the years but it'sbeen like a little bit here, a
little bit there.
But these people oh yeah.
And so I had such a respect forwhat they do, and they were all
so nice and helpful.
What I was doing was sodifferent.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'm sure they were like what the hell is she doing?
They're like whoa.
But you know, and the work iscrude, you know, it's not like
these refined beautiful thingsthat they're throwing.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But that's what makes it cool.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But that's to me what makes it cool, absolutely.
You know, and also you can gobuy refined yeah, Refined
potteries everywhere.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, but to actually do it that it's something
that's a little bit more earthy.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, it's cool, so I'm a little addicted to it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, it's fun.
I've never done it but I've.
I know people that do it thatwell, wes Mucky, who will have
one we'll have him on here atsome point from Nolte forest
pottery, Um, but he's a goodfriend of mine and he he throws
his own clay.
I mean it been.
He just makes it look amazingand then does his all kinds of
different artwork on.
It's pretty cool.
You should go to his studio.
Oh, I will.
He's got a great studio out andoff of new holland road okay,
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cool.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I think I I knew him from yeah years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, absolutely he's been around for a long time
he's been doing for a long time.
So let's go.
One of the questions I had as Iwas thinking about some notes
here.
So you do interior design.
I also saw you're working on ahouse.
Right now.
You're doing a makeoversomewhere, I think, down at the
beach.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I saw that.
So interior design you do.
The fashion parallel was what Icall it, which is basically
your have some fun today stuff,and now you're doing paintings.
Which of those children do youlove the best?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
My art.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Your art Interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So you've come full, you've come back to cause.
You've kind of always done that, but your art is still your.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, it's funny Like I've always been an artist.
Before I was a fashion designeror an interior designer, you
know, you, you, you just arewhat you are, you know.
But I've done other things forwork and you know the have some
fun today thing.
I couldn't not do that.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Right, you know when my dad passed away like I had to
.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I had to do that, but I think it was through COVID
you know when everybody wasstarting.
People were becoming artistsfor the first time in their life
, and I think that's so amazing.
Um, I started painting againjust cause.
I had nothing else to dobesides work.
So, um, I started painting andI think it was really being in
New York the past couple ofyears and going I'm right, I'm
(21:54):
in Chelsea.
So I'm near these like amazinggalleries and I was going around
to them and thinking my artfeels just as good as a lot of
stuff I'm seeing Like why am Inot doing this?
So I slowly kind of startedgoing to more art shows and I
got into a couple art shows inNew York and then I got offered
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the solo show here, and thenI've I've redid my art website,
which is now you can shop on theart website.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
What's the art website?
Just so we have we have it'sstephanieradochiraminacom.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
okay, okay, yeah, good, that's good to know, yeah
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
For some reason I didn't stumble upon that, or
maybe I missed it somehow yeah,maybe I guess you know so many
things people are sharing, yeah,yeah exactly.
No, I'm gonna have to have tocheck that out because that's
something we can share also onour socials and stuff like that.
Yeah, that'd be really cool.
So that's so basically, and Ikind of had a feeling you were
going to say the art, the art.
Back to the art.
I mean it's all art.
I mean the, the, the have somefun today.
(22:55):
It's art.
I mean you're creating, youknow things, and and of course,
interior design is art and allthat stuff, but it's this is now
.
Yeah, Like to.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
to paint for me is like kind of just having a
conversation with, with my deepinner soul, you know, and I find
I find something really sobeautiful about that.
It's almost like leaving alegacy.
Oh yeah, I mean talking aboutthat, that thinking about your
life and thinking about, likehow are people going to remember
you?
How was my family going toremember me?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I know it sounds a little morbid.
No, it's not morbid.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
No, I don't think that's morbid.
I think that's just beingresponsible for one of knowing
that nobody will be here forever.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And you know, if we have the ability to leave a
legacy and I'm not talking money, I'm talking a legacy in other
ways why not?
I mean, you know, and also it'sa contribution, yeah, in
history, it's a contribution asa timestamp in our life.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, right now.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Right now, like it's so interesting that you say that
because you know the abstractexpressionist movement which I
you know, I'm an abstractpainter.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And that was created in the United States in.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
New York City, oh, interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Through the Great Depression, world War I, world
War II and the turmoil thatpeople were experiencing because
all the people in Europe, thecreatives, all came to New York
City during World War II because, they were fleeing persecution.
So New York was this?
It just burst with all thiscreativity and constraint.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And that's where it came from.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And so, right now, that is where my work is going
to go after this show, because Ifeel like we are going through
something in this country and inour world right now, and I want
to.
I want my work to re to reflectthat history.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Very cool.
That's awesome, yeah, and, andwe'll see what that is then.
I don't know what it's going tobe.
We don't know yet, but we'llknow next year.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's exciting to have like, an, like an inspiration.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, absolutely so.
That's well and it is nice tohave.
And also, why not take some ofthe stuff that's going on and
put it into something that ispositive or, you know, whatever
you want to call it?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, yeah, very cool , very cool, so all right.
So how do we tie in?
Have some fun today with thisyou talked about?
I said, you know where's havesome fun today?
Not obviously it's not likeit's going away, but like where
is that in your life and wherehow is that going to be?
Are these going to cometogether?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah Well, um, you know, earlier, actually February
one, we launched our onecollection, which is one of a
kind hand painted handbags.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It's really cool, is that?
The one I saw on the beach thatyou were showing off.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I did that one for myself.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It looks good.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, just to kind of, why not?
Yeah right, I liked it, it'svery nice, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Doesn't it have these colors in it?
It does pinky coral, but it'skind of it lends itself to that.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, it's totally my thing, and so we collaborated
with five other artists.
Very cool In total and we askedthem we actually just said,
which bags inspire you, and thenthey pick them, and then they
painted whatever they wanted andthey're on our website and they
are each one of a kind.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's neat.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And so little things like that.
Like, I definitely want to domore art related things with.
Have some fun today, but onething at a time.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, have some fun today.
The magic collection, whateverthere you go yeah.
That's cool, very cool, I loveit, I love it.
What do you think, hugo?
It's cool, very cool, I love it, I love it.
What do you think, hugo?
It's fun, it's magic, it ismagic, it is magic.
So is there anything else youwant to tell us about the show
or anything?
I mean, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Just that.
I'm really excited We've sentout over a thousand invitations.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Which is a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So I'm hoping it's going to be a really fun event.
Yep photographer going to bethere documenting the awesome,
you know, the big social kind ofthing we're going to have
drinks cool and hopefully a lotof fun.
People being curious about thework I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I gotta check my schedule for sunday and see, see
if I can do it, but I'm gonnatry and get out there I mean I
come for like yeah, an hour yeah, I just, I definitely want to
see it fun to catch up withdifferent people because it's
going to bring all differentwalks of Berks County, hopefully
.
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's awesome.
It's really cool.
Well, thanks for coming back.
Absolutely, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You're very welcome Anytime.
I said before, anytime you wantto come back, you can come back
.
Right, Hugo?
No-transcript.
from real estate to real life and everything in
between the brad weisman showand now your host, brad weisman.
All right, we're back.
Yes, we're back and we have arepeat guest.
I think everybody likes when wehave repeat guests because, uh,
we know who they are and she'sbeen on here.
Actually, I think this might bethe third or fourth time.
(00:23):
I We'll have to talk about thatthen.
But this is Stephanie.
Taramina is in the studio today, but it's not for the reason
that you think she's in thestudio.
Typically she's here to talkabout have some fun today, which
is great and we like that.
But she is really, really doinga lot with paintings and also
ceramics, and she's having a bigshow at the Yoakum Institute
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this weekend.
So, stephanie, how are youdoing?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm great, I'm awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's always good to see you, thank you.
Yeah, and is this third orfourth time?
I can't remember.
Fourth time, I think it'sfourth.
It's fourth because you were on.
We talk about this every timeYou're on a podcast.
I had before yes, and so thefourth.
I think she should get an award.
What do you think that's right?
I think she's on besides PeteHeim, but Pete's a different
story.
But you're the.
You're probably the most timeson out of any guests, out of any
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other type of guests.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Pete's on once a month, but that's a real estate
show.
Yeah so, yeah.
So you must've done somethingright Either say that or
something wrong?
I don't know, I'm not sure whatit is.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Maybe I'm just a pest .
Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, you're not a pest at all.
No, because I always say whenyou want to come back, you're
welcome back.
I really appreciate it we alwayshave good stuff to talk about.
So, yeah, so you're here forsomething a little different.
Yes, I got this postcard in themail.
I think it was this, and it's areally nice postcard.
You are doing a I guess theycall it solo art show, right,
(01:46):
yep, at the Yoakum Institutethis weekend coming up.
Yes, and I'm excited.
So March 23rd through April26th, your artwork is going to
be there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'm excited.
I can't wait to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hugo, we got to go see this artwork.
That's righty, yeah, that'srighty, yeah, that's right, it's
unbelievable.
So tell me about how does thishappen?
Like I mean, I know you'repainting all the time how does
it get to a point where you haveyour solo show like this Well,
I got very lucky.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I would say.
I mean, I think that you knowI've been painting my entire
life, even through all theinterior design, and have some
fun today.
I have always been an artist.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
And it's actually really interesting because when
I was 16, and.
I had just moved to Wyomissing,I saw that there was an art
institute where I could takeclasses.
I could take classes and, as ayoung girl, I would at night.
Go take these night classeswith these adults who were
(02:50):
probably my age, but I thoughtthey were so old at the time.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Isn't it amazing how that changes it is really funny.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
But so I was actually .
I actually learned how to oilpaint at the Art Institute.
Why Missing Art Institute?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, I remember that , absolutely, absolutely.
I took singing lessons there.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, that's so cool, yeah, so so to be able to go
back and have my first solo showoutside of my own different art
studios.
I've had over the years um isamazing, and so how it happened
was.
Um the beginning of last year Iknew that I really wanted to
put a lot of effort into mymaking my art.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And I started the series called the magic series
which we touched on last timeyou were here.
Yes, I know, and so the wholepremise for it was me really
trying to figure out how I wantto spend my energy.
You know, the older you get,you get very reflective.
Oh yeah, I totally understandit's probably why you're doing
(03:46):
this podcast it's totallyunderstand.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, the older you get, the more you sit there and
go okay, there's actuallyprobably more behind me than
there is in front of me.
Yeah, possibly, we know, nobodyknows right.
Um, but it makes you start tothink.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Every minute becomes a lot more valuable, yeah, so so
I made this decision, that Iwas really going to put a lot of
energy into my art, and I wasthinking about you know cause
you need to have like a like apremise for your, for making art
, and so my premise was makingmagic.
And when I make art, it feelslike it feels like magic
(04:23):
happening in my life.
Yeah, you know, because thesethings come out of you and these
paintings, you know, justappear through hours and hours
of putting paint on a canvas.
But there's a lot more to itthan that.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So every painting that I made, I was doing a lot
of meditating, I was doing a lotof writing, I was doing a lot
of thinking and introspectionand I knew the paintings I
wanted to make.
I was doing a lot of writing, Iwas doing a lot of thinking and
introspection and I knew thepaintings I wanted to make and I
was trying to create a visualfor what magic could look like
if you were to see it.
So that is what these paintingsstarted out as that's the
(04:59):
premise.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And so, when you come to the opening, you will be
surrounded by many works of art,different sizes, but all with
this vision of magic as thecentral theme.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So there is a commonality, there's a I don't
know what's the word I'mthinking of, but there's like a
focus there.
The magic is the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's the theme.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And that's the theme.
That's what I was trying tothink of the word, the theme.
So that's the theme of, of thewhole show that you're doing.
You know all the artwork that'sthere.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And now does that then evolve?
So this year, 2025, that was2024.
The works that you did nowyou're putting them out and to
the public, or whatever does itas an artist.
Is that now?
Is there like a thing that'sgoing to happen?
2025 is there?
Do you think there's somethingthat's going to come up another
theme or no?
How's that work?
Absolutely yeah she looks at meconfused.
(05:54):
She's like don't you know that?
I'm like I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I, I have no clue well, just just to go back for a
second yeah, go ahead, go backhow this happened.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, how'd it happen .
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So I was like, having this intention, that I was
really going to make all thisart and really focus on the art,
and the one thing I wanted tohave happen was to be offered a
solo show.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh my gosh, Isn't that something so?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
it was like, I think in February I got a text from a
friend, lisa Tiger, another realestate person, sure, and she
happens to be on the.
Got a text from a friend, lisaTiger, another real estate
person and she happens to be onthe Berks Art.
Council and she's an artist aswell.
I don't know if you know, that.
But so you know, Lisa and I knoweach other and she remembered
my work from when I had mystudio at the Goggle Works many
(06:39):
years ago before have Some FunToday.
And she reached out to mebecause she wanted to see if I
had any of those paintings,because I was doing different
series back then.
And she came to me and she saidyou know, Steph, I loved your
rock series and I have to behonest, I didn't get it then,
but now I think it's amazing,and so we were kind of like
(06:59):
talking about art.
And then she reached out to meand she said would you want to
do a solo show?
And I was like, yes, that'sawesome.
And so that's how it?
Happened, I guess.
They went back to the board andthey said, yeah, let's give her
a show.
And so they schedule it out ayear ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So that's how long these things happen.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So you knew this a year ago I knew this a year ago.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wow, that's crazy.
I've just been working on allthe pieces and then figuring out
which ones I wanted to use inthe show, because it has to like
work in the space.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And then I decided I've been working with an art
mentor out of New York City.
He's a professor at Columbiaand you know we were just kind
of going over the differentworks and he kind of he kind of
said something that you knowsparked my curiosity.
Yeah, and he kind of saidsomething that sparked my
curiosity, and he was talkingabout how you could maybe create
different types of art that goalong with it.
(07:52):
So it just got me thinkingabout ceramics.
And so I did like three monthsof an open studio at the
Goggleworks in their ceramicstudio to kind of round out the
different media I wanted to usefor the show.
So it's, it's going to be veryinteresting of the paintings and
the ceramics and the sculptures, and it's all my work and it's
(08:15):
all magical.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I saw the flowers the flowers.
Is that what they are, Flowers?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's kind of like a flower like little flower, but
you said, like sea urchin orsomething I call them my magical
sea urchin.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, that's what I thought, but they look like.
So I saw those and they're cool, yeah, because they're kind of
laced with a little bit of agold ornament, whatever.
Yeah, they're very pretty.
You don't need to wear glasseswhen you're doing them either.
I was watching your video.
I I'm painting this and I can'treally see it.
I should go get my glasses, butI'm too lazy.
She just kept going.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sometimes, you know, I go into my studio at night
just because I'm like, oh, letme just go in here.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And I am.
You know, sometimes it's lateat night.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And I don't have my glasses on.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, of course, as we know, when we get in our 50s,
we need to wear glasses.
Absolutely, yeah, that's agreat, that's so okay.
So, going back, so you get toldyou that you get asked to do
this show.
So now, when you're ready forthat, when you hear that, do you
then start painting like crazy,or do you just kind of you just
still have to do, you feel likestressed out about it?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
no, I didn't feel stressed out about it all, I was
just super excited and it wasjust like fuel you know, to keep
on looking at what I had andseeing what else I wanted to add
in to complement the group, andthen there's all the framing
and there's like a lot of funstuff too, actually, because you
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have to get it all readytogether and then you have to
pick out which ones are yourfavorites.
Well, I wouldn't say like myfavorites, it's more like what
is going to work in the show,because I'm not showing
everything.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Well, you can.
I made a ton of paintings lastyear.
I would take up the wholebuilding.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I mean there's almost 50 pieces of art in the show.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Wow, which is a lot yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
But I'm doing like two areas that is more like a
salon style hang.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And so that's like what I mean by that.
It's like you take a wall andthen you hang paintings floor to
ceiling.
Okay, so you're hanging liketons of paintings on one space
Sure.
As opposed to if you were to goto like an art gallery in New
York.
City.
You would just see like onepainting and then you know,
maybe six feet yeah, yeah,another painting, one, yeah and
(10:29):
you know I am kind of doing thatfor part of the show because I
do like paintings to breatheyeah it's like a little pet
peeve of mine, like when peoplewant you to be in an art show
and there's just too manypaintings yeah, because you're
right, it doesn't give.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It doesn't give each one its own ability to shine.
Yeah, yeah so I.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't like that, so you know.
I was trying to figure outwhat's going to make this work
the best yeah, yeah, because youonly have so much space to work
with.
I mean, that's not a hugegallery yeah and it's a little,
I think, a little challenging,you know, yeah, I know, I know
where it is there.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Actually, I've seen the wall there because our kids
are, our daughter dances there.
Yes, I'm in the building prettyoften actually.
Okay, so, yeah, so let's goback to the actual art.
What is this type of art called?
Again, what's it called?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
well, I mean, it's basically abstract expressionism
abstract expressive.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Now what does that mean?
Like what I always like, lookat these and I go okay, so when,
when you, when I look at this,like, do you look at?
Do you see this ahead of timeor does it just come out of you
while you're doing it?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's a great question.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, no, I totally.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Like if I'm painting a bear, I see the bear in my
head ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, I would never say I'm going to paint a thing.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I'm not a realist.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
However, I have been stretching my repertoire.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I have been stretching my repertoire and I
have been.
I did a self portrait and I dida portrait of my mother.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I saw those on a picture One of your pictures of
your studio.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I saw it in the background.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yes, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, so I do believe , as an artist, in stretching
your capabilities.
So for me whenever I getcurious about something, I then
have to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, got it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
It's just I've learned that about myself and
that is how I push myself intonew territories and expand what
I can do, and I think as anartist, it's really important to
do that.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Because then when you go to do your work, these
elements kind of seep in and itmakes you a better artist.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, it's kind of funny because, as you're saying,
that I'm thinking about when Itold you I took opera lessons at
one point.
I don't sing opera, but when Itook opera I knew I wasn't going
to be an opera singer, but Idid it because I was curious.
There you go, I was curious,and also I had heard that the
main thing that you learn fromtaking opera lessons is how to
breathe, because they're verygood at using their diaphragm to
(12:59):
get that out and be loud and dowhat you need to do.
So it's the same kind of thing.
I don't use the opera soundwhen I sing, okay, but I use the
diaphragm exercises that Ilearned from that.
So it's, it's part of that,it's the same kind of.
It's almost reminds me of that.
It was so weird I didn't thinkabout that until now.
So you, even though you're notpainting those kinds of things,
all the time when you go to doyour artwork, it's in there and
(13:23):
it's in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, and it just, it improves.
It improves your work.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And I would say just about curiosity in general.
I mean, curiosity is a driverfor me, for everything.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I do yeah, absolutely .
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And I think it's important to recognize the
things that drive you.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, absolutely.
Now the colors.
Do you know ahead of time whatcolors you're going to use?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Well, okay, so yes and no, okay.
So this whole palette of themagic series is a palette that I
haven't really used before, soI think that's very interesting.
But I was, I was thinking aboutwhat colors, and when I I
talked to myself okay, it's okay, we all do.
(14:09):
I'm talking, don't talk back oh,I answer myself too okay, now
that's a little different, butlike I was trying to think of
what colors come to my mind whenI think of magic, so so that
was where I started.
I was with a question to myselfand then, of course, I answered
myself good, good that's good.
(14:30):
Coral was like is the driver,yeah, of everything.
Every painting almost in thisseries has the color coral yeah,
now which color is that?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I'm not so good with that the pinkish or the peachish
color yeah, which I love thatcolor it's a beach color.
It's like a beachy color.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, love that color I think it's my favorite color
yeah, it's a great color and soI find myself using that color,
and last year that color was wasthe impetus, yeah, but then you
know, you kind of, as you'repainting for me, I kind of just
naturally get a feeling for whatcolor should come next wow and
(15:07):
sometimes, and sometimes youmess up, I mean you.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So when you mess up, can you just paint over that
then?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Hell yeah, says the artist, yeah, so you can just,
you can just start painting overthat and then, and that goes
away.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yes, oh, wow.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That's pretty cool, and is there words in there?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Okay, cause I started thinking that there was
something wrong with me, causeI'm looking at this, I'm like
thinking there's words in there.
Are they actually?
There's letters, but is there aword in there?
Yes, there's um you allowed tosay what it is, or it says keep
going.
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's the name of the painting.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Wait, okay, I see the going.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah, so I actually covered up the keep.
Oh, okay, because my art mentorthought it was a little obvious
.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Oh, got it.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
He just mentioned that, and then it was up to me
if I wanted to do anything aboutit.
So interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You can't see the keep but I see the going there,
totally see the going.
And I knew there was letters inthere.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah and um, I think this painting it's quite large.
It's honestly like almost asbig as your whole back wall.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And so to me it's like my, it's like my pep talk.
Okay, so it's keep going keepgoing because you know the stuff
that we're doing is not easystuff.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know it takes a lot of self-discipline.
It takes a lot of justperseverance.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, I mean, look at , look what you've done with
your brand.
I mean you're, you're have somefun today, Brad, that's not
something that happens overnight.
We all know that.
Yeah, it's a labor of love,right Is what that is.
So let's talk more about so.
You're going to be there for awhole month.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Okay, how does somebody?
How do?
If I want to see it and it'snot the first day how do we?
Is it open certain times of theday or I mean, I'm, I think,
the Yoakum Institute is open allday, every day, and I think you
could just go.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So stop by.
I mean it's going to be be anothing like it in berks county
good anytime good, you know it'sgonna be a unique thing.
I really want to bring back artto this area in a different way
good when I had my art studioat the goggle works and early
(17:24):
part of the 2000s, I used tohave art openings all the time
we had had music, we had drinkspeople came dressed up.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It was fun, like I go to art openings all the time in
New York and they're probablyfancy or no.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Um well, it depends where you go.
If you go to the ones inChelsea.
They're fancy.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
People get dressed up and it's like major people
watching the craziest mostamazing outfits and prices.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh the prices.
You can't even see the prices.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh, no way, they don't even you can't even see
the prices.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Like to to know what the price of a piece of art is
and a Chelsea gallery.
You have to.
Somehow they have to believethat you might buy one.
So you better put together in acertain way that they will hand
you the price list.
But they're really strict onthat, so most of the time you
don't know how much things are.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Speaking about price, are your paintings for sale
then?
Yes, so when?
So when they go?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
to the prices will be there.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Hey, Hugo, we're going to be good enough to get
the prices on this.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
This is good.
This is good.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
All you need is a vest and a shirt and you can
have the price.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So, and you know, the cool thing about it is like if
I were to do it at any gallery.
I mean, they take, they take50%.
The Yoakum Institute will get40% of anything that sells.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And I'm I'm cool with that you know, like I would
love I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I would be really happy if what I do supports the
Oakham.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Institute.
It's a good, good organization.
They do good stuff, good stuff,all right, so let's go.
Let's go into what I wanted toask you before was the um.
Is there going to be anypottery there at all?
Yeah, at the show there will be.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, I have um Four pieces of my tall vessels that I
made.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And they're in the magic series too.
Yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes, and I made these little flower sculptures.
Those things are cool andthey're going to be sold per
piece.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I'm definitely going to go back and do more of
that because I thought it was socool.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, and it looks cool.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It was so interesting to be at the Goggleworks in
their ceramic studio aroundtheir ceramic artists.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Because I really I mean, I've done things with
ceramics over the years but it'sbeen like a little bit here, a
little bit there.
But these people oh yeah.
And so I had such a respect forwhat they do, and they were all
so nice and helpful.
What I was doing was sodifferent.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'm sure they were like what the hell is she doing?
They're like whoa.
But you know, and the work iscrude, you know, it's not like
these refined beautiful thingsthat they're throwing.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But that's what makes it cool.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But that's to me what makes it cool, absolutely.
You know, and also you can gobuy refined yeah, Refined
potteries everywhere.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, but to actually do it that it's something
that's a little bit more earthy.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, it's cool, so I'm a little addicted to it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, it's fun.
I've never done it but I've.
I know people that do it thatwell, wes Mucky, who will have
one we'll have him on here atsome point from Nolte forest
pottery, Um, but he's a goodfriend of mine and he he throws
his own clay.
I mean it been.
He just makes it look amazingand then does his all kinds of
different artwork on.
It's pretty cool.
You should go to his studio.
Oh, I will.
He's got a great studio out andoff of new holland road okay,
(20:33):
cool.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I think I I knew him from yeah years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, absolutely he's been around for a long time
he's been doing for a long time.
So let's go.
One of the questions I had as Iwas thinking about some notes
here.
So you do interior design.
I also saw you're working on ahouse.
Right now.
You're doing a makeoversomewhere, I think, down at the
beach.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I saw that.
So interior design you do.
The fashion parallel was what Icall it, which is basically
your have some fun today stuff,and now you're doing paintings.
Which of those children do youlove the best?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
My art.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Your art Interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So you've come full, you've come back to cause.
You've kind of always done that, but your art is still your.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, it's funny Like I've always been an artist.
Before I was a fashion designeror an interior designer, you
know, you, you, you just arewhat you are, you know.
But I've done other things forwork and you know the have some
fun today thing.
I couldn't not do that.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Right, you know when my dad passed away like I had to
.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I had to do that, but I think it was through COVID
you know when everybody wasstarting.
People were becoming artistsfor the first time in their life
, and I think that's so amazing.
Um, I started painting againjust cause.
I had nothing else to dobesides work.
So, um, I started painting andI think it was really being in
New York the past couple ofyears and going I'm right, I'm
(21:54):
in Chelsea.
So I'm near these like amazinggalleries and I was going around
to them and thinking my artfeels just as good as a lot of
stuff I'm seeing Like why am Inot doing this?
So I slowly kind of startedgoing to more art shows and I
got into a couple art shows inNew York and then I got offered
(22:17):
the solo show here, and thenI've I've redid my art website,
which is now you can shop on theart website.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
What's the art website?
Just so we have we have it'sstephanieradochiraminacom.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
okay, okay, yeah, good, that's good to know, yeah
I know.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
For some reason I didn't stumble upon that, or
maybe I missed it somehow yeah,maybe I guess you know so many
things people are sharing, yeah,yeah exactly.
No, I'm gonna have to have tocheck that out because that's
something we can share also onour socials and stuff like that.
Yeah, that'd be really cool.
So that's so basically, and Ikind of had a feeling you were
going to say the art, the art.
Back to the art.
I mean it's all art.
I mean the, the, the have somefun today.
(22:55):
It's art.
I mean you're creating, youknow things, and and of course,
interior design is art and allthat stuff, but it's this is now
.
Yeah, Like to.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
to paint for me is like kind of just having a
conversation with, with my deepinner soul, you know, and I find
I find something really sobeautiful about that.
It's almost like leaving alegacy.
Oh yeah, I mean talking aboutthat, that thinking about your
life and thinking about, likehow are people going to remember
you?
How was my family going toremember me?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I know it sounds a little morbid.
No, it's not morbid.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
No, I don't think that's morbid.
I think that's just beingresponsible for one of knowing
that nobody will be here forever.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And you know, if we have the ability to leave a
legacy and I'm not talking money, I'm talking a legacy in other
ways why not?
I mean, you know, and also it'sa contribution, yeah, in
history, it's a contribution asa timestamp in our life.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, right now.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Right now, like it's so interesting that you say that
because you know the abstractexpressionist movement which I
you know, I'm an abstractpainter.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And that was created in the United States in.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
New York City, oh, interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Through the Great Depression, world War I, world
War II and the turmoil thatpeople were experiencing because
all the people in Europe, thecreatives, all came to New York
City during World War II because, they were fleeing persecution.
So New York was this?
It just burst with all thiscreativity and constraint.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And that's where it came from.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And so, right now, that is where my work is going
to go after this show, because Ifeel like we are going through
something in this country and inour world right now, and I want
to.
I want my work to re to reflectthat history.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Very cool.
That's awesome, yeah, and, andwe'll see what that is then.
I don't know what it's going tobe.
We don't know yet, but we'llknow next year.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's exciting to have like, an, like an inspiration.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, absolutely so.
That's well and it is nice tohave.
And also, why not take some ofthe stuff that's going on and
put it into something that ispositive or, you know, whatever
you want to call it?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, yeah, very cool , very cool, so all right.
So how do we tie in?
Have some fun today with thisyou talked about?
I said, you know where's havesome fun today?
Not obviously it's not likeit's going away, but like where
is that in your life and wherehow is that going to be?
Are these going to cometogether?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah Well, um, you know, earlier, actually February
one, we launched our onecollection, which is one of a
kind hand painted handbags.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It's really cool, is that?
The one I saw on the beach thatyou were showing off.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I did that one for myself.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It looks good.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, just to kind of, why not?
Yeah right, I liked it, it'svery nice, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Doesn't it have these colors in it?
It does pinky coral, but it'skind of it lends itself to that.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, it's totally my thing, and so we collaborated
with five other artists.
Very cool In total and we askedthem we actually just said,
which bags inspire you, and thenthey pick them, and then they
painted whatever they wanted andthey're on our website and they
are each one of a kind.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's neat.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And so little things like that.
Like, I definitely want to domore art related things with.
Have some fun today, but onething at a time.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, have some fun today.
The magic collection, whateverthere you go yeah.
That's cool, very cool, I loveit, I love it.
What do you think, hugo?
It's cool, very cool, I love it, I love it.
What do you think, hugo?
It's fun, it's magic, it ismagic, it is magic.
So is there anything else youwant to tell us about the show
or anything?
I mean, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Just that.
I'm really excited We've sentout over a thousand invitations.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Which is a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So I'm hoping it's going to be a really fun event.
Yep photographer going to bethere documenting the awesome,
you know, the big social kind ofthing we're going to have
drinks cool and hopefully a lotof fun.
People being curious about thework I'm.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I gotta check my schedule for sunday and see, see
if I can do it, but I'm gonnatry and get out there I mean I
come for like yeah, an hour yeah, I just, I definitely want to
see it fun to catch up withdifferent people because it's
going to bring all differentwalks of Berks County, hopefully
.
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's awesome.
It's really cool.
Well, thanks for coming back.
Absolutely, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You're very welcome Anytime.
I said before, anytime you wantto come back, you can come back
.
Right, Hugo?
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