Sound and Vision

Sound and Vision

Brian Alfred sits down with artists and musicians to discuss their process and inspiration in their creative life.

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January 15, 2026 67 mins

Episode 511 / Kwamé Azure Gomez

Kwame Azure Gomez is an artist born in Akron, Ohio who lives and works in New Haven, CT. Kwame has exhibited throughout the US and Europe in venues such as James Cohan Gallery, New Image Art Gallery, SoLA Contemporary, Stony Island Arts Bank, Anthony Gallery, Dada Gallery and others. Kwame recently completed the NXTHVN artist residency in New Haven and received her BFA from the University of Akron and...

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Episode 510 / Nadia Waheed

Nadia is on with an epic conversation where she talks passionately about painting, being an artist, impending motherhood as so much more. This episode contains an impressive amount of STRONG LANGUAGE so be aware of that. A fun and vibrant chat about art and life.

Nadia Waheed (b. 1992, Saudi Arabia) lives and works in Austin, TX. She graduated with a BFA in Painting & Drawing from The School of the Art...

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January 1, 2026 75 mins

Episode 509 / Terra Keck

Terra Keck is a Brooklyn based artist and performer. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2018, and her BFA in Drawing from Ball State University in 2013. She moved to Brooklyn in the summer of 2018 and works in East Williamsburg. 

Terra’s work featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts as well as in permanent insti...

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Ep. 508 / Our annual Year In Review with Brian Boucher

Senior Market Reporter, ARTnews

Brian Boucher is an art writer based in New York. His byline has appeared in the New York Times, New York, Garage, Frieze, Sotheby’s Magazine, and CNN. Boucher was formerly senior writer for Artnet News and website editor at Art in America.

We sat down for our annual recap on shows, film and music that struck a chord with him this past year. 

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December 25, 2025 71 mins

Episode 507 / James Walsh

 James Walsh is an artist who received his BFA from Rutgers in 1976 and his MFA from Syracuse in 1980. He’s had solo shows at Berry Campbell, Galeria Joan Prats, Baker Sponder, the Mendel Art Gallery, Long Fine art, the Edmonton Art Gallery amongst others and group exhibitions at KinoSaito, Helm Contemporary, Flowers Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, Gallery 2 and many others. He’s in the collection of the Edmonto...

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December 18, 2025 71 mins

Episode 506 / Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson is an artist who lives and works in Reykjavik. He engages multiple artistic mediums in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging are key tools in Kjartansson’s efforts to convey sincere emotion and offer genuine expe...

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December 11, 2025 75 mins

Episode 505 / Sarah Ann Weber

Sarah Ann Weber (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Sarah has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, 12.26, Club Pro, The Franklin, and SOCO Gallery. Her group exhibitions include Stems, MAUVE, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, ...

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December 4, 2025 69 mins

Episode 504 / Elmer Guevara

Elmer Guevara is an artist born and raised in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cal State University Long Beach and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College in New York City. Elmer’s work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at M&B Gallery, F2T Gallery, Residency Art Gallery, Lyles and King, and Barbati Gallery among others.

His work has been covered in publica...

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November 27, 2025 73 mins

Episode 503 / Ruby Sky Stiler

Ruby Sky Stiler is an artist born in Maine and based in Brooklyn. She has been the subject multiple solo presentations, including New Patterns, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2022); Group Relief, Fairfield University Art Museum, CT (2020); Fresco, Saint-Gaudens Memorial Park, Cornish, NH (2019); Ghost Versions, The Aldrich Contemporary A...

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November 20, 2025 57 mins

Episode 502 / Yung Jake

Yung Jake is an artist & rapper who received his BFA from Cal Arts in 2012. He has had 13 solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, and over 25 group exhibitions in the U.S., China, Finland, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, respectively. Yung Jake is also a musician and directed music videos for Rae Sremmurd and Pusha T. His work has been featured at venues including Sundance, where his videos D...

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November 13, 2025 85 mins

Episode 501 / Christian Rex van Minnen

Christian Rex van Minnen was born in Providence, RI in 1980 and received his BA from Regis University, Denver in 2002. He has exhibited throughout the US and internationally, and is represented by Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, VETA Galeria, Madrid, Ross+Kramer Gallery, NYC, and Richard Heller Gallery, LA.

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Episode 500! Many thanks to all you listeners for supporting over these 500 episodes. This is a first, we are releasing this as a video podcast. The audio isn't as optimal as in the studio but the subtitles will help. Many thanks to the artists for speakimg with me and the Williamburg Biannual for hosting the event.

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November 13, 2025 5 mins

Brian sends a short message ahead of the 500th episode. The 500th is the first and only video podcast. Make sure you check it out on Spotify to see the subtitles.

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November 6, 2025 73 mins

Episode 499 / Claudia Wieser

Claudia Wieser is a German artist based in Berlin. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and Smart Museum, Chicago, IL. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegen...

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October 30, 2025 70 mins

Episode 498 / Elena Redmond

Elena Redmond (b. 1998, Pittsburgh, PA) lives and works in New York City. Redmond presented her first solo exhibition at DIMIN titiled "Sitting Ducks" spring of  2025. Redmond exhibited in DIMIN’s three-person exhibition “Unfeigned Mysteries” in 2024, featured in “A Women’s Thing”. She has mounted solo exhibitions with Long Story Short, Los Angeles (2022); and Tchotchke Gallery, New York (2022)....

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October 23, 2025 79 mins

Episode 497 / Gretchen Andrew

Gretchen Andrew is an artist born in Los Angeles, United States, 1988 who lives and Works in London and Park City, Utah. She studied Information Systems and got a BS from Boston College, and worked for Intuit as a Software Engineer, Google as a People Technology Manager, and apprenticed with Billy Childish at his studio.

She’s had shows at Gray Area, San Francisco, Heft Gallery, NYC, Hope 93, London. FxH...

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October 16, 2025 92 mins

Episode 496 / Chad Hasegawa

Chad Hasegawa (B. 1983, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a San Francisco-based artist and a graduate of the San Francisco Academy of Art.Born and raised in Hawaii, Chad moved to SF in 2000 to attend the Academy of Art. Upon graduating, he went on to work for top ad agencies, including Venables, Bell, & Partners and Goodby, Silverstein, & Partners. After leaving advertising to focus on making art, he got his s...

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October 9, 2025 63 mins

Episode 495 / Jim Gaylord

Jim Gaylord is a New York based artist known for his abstract, sculptural reliefs made from cutout paper. He earned an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and The Museum of Modern Art in New Y...

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October 2, 2025 85 mins

Episode 494 / Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka

Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka is a Japanese-Canadian, queer artist that lives with bipolar condition, all of which sculpts her practice. She works primarily with paper, and uses printmaking, ink drawing and natural dying combined with sewing. She engages with historical paper processes and materials that both require and contribute to a clean environment.  Her adaptations of traditions, in the form of scu...

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September 25, 2025 78 mins

Emily Coan / Episode 493

Emily Coan (b. 1991 St. Petersburg, Florida) is an artist based in the Hudson Valley, NY. In 2013, she received her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Florida, and moved to New York City as a painter in 2015. Her multilayered, glazed oil paintings deal with themes of femininity & women’s labor set in fairytale-esque environments. Her work has been featured in Interview Magazine, T Magazine, Artnet, ...

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