Art Uncovered

ASH HAGERSTRAND is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores their experience of navigating medical spaces as a femme person with disabilities. In this episode Kimberly and Ash talk about Ash’s relationship to online wellness communities and their work in sculpture and digital art.

Ash is also the founder of Chronically Online, an online gallery focusing on the work of disabled people.

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MURIEL HASBUN is a Washington DC-based artist whose work explores issues of cultural identity, migration and memory.

In this episode Kimberly and Muriel talk about El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, the significance of her mother’s art gallery during wartime and her interest in photography’s ability to capture subjective experiences.

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Genevieve Cohn is a Boston-based artist who has had solo exhibitions at Hashimoto Contemporary Gallery in New York City and Jack Bell Gallery in London.

Her feminist paintings explore women, community and rituals. In this episode Kimberly and Genevieve talk about Genevieve’s studio practice, her interest in literature and her process of building female communities. 

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NATESSA AMIN is a Philly-based artist who recently had a solo exhibition at the Cue Foundation in New York. She is also the winner of the Fleisher Wind Challenge.

In this episode Kimberly and Natessa talk about Natessa’s participation in a unique residency in the woods and her exploration of the connections between her family, migration, Eastern traditions and the act of painting.  

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LYDIA KERN was a recent resident at Yaddo and a recipient of the Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award. 

In this episode Kimberly and Lydia talk about Lydia's integration of her experiences of grief and her appreciation for collective human experience. They also talk about Lydia's love for art and language and her studio rituals associated with the preparation of found objects.

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Amy Ritter is a New York-based artist who recently received a NYFA grant to continue her investigation into forgotten and marginalized mobile home communities across the United States. 

In this episode Kimberly and Amy talk about Amy’s experience of growing up in a mobile home, her close relationship with her conservative father and her desire to listen to the struggles of low-income Americans and to understand their political motivations.   

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Michael Ambron is a New York-based artist and paint maker whose work is rooted in the visual phenomena of daily experience.

In the episode Kimberly and Michael talk about Michael's interest in meditation, his visual exploration of his experience with sleep paralysis and his paint-making business Paint Makers Notes. 

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Juan Carlos Escobedo is a San Antonio-based artist whose work explores his identity as a queer, brown, Mexican-American, raised in a low-socioeconomic community along the US/Mexico border. 

In this episode Kimberly and Juan talk about the culture shock Juan experienced moving from the south to the north east, his experience with residual glass and race shame and his quote unquote high end fashion label of garments made largely out of cardboard.    

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Zach clark is an artist, educator and founder of National Monument Press, a publishing house focused on small edition artist books, zines and printed matter completed largely through collaboration with other artists. 

In this episode, Zach and Kimberly talk about about Zach’s process of printing and distributing artists books, the aesthetic of risograph prints and his current project of printing 12 photo books in collaboration with other artists.

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Sam Dienst is a tapestry weaver and sculptor currently living and working in Detroit.

In this episode Sam and Kimberly talk about Sam’s path to becoming a weaver, her journey through graduate school and the tools and techniques she uses to build her style and  sustain her practice. 

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Poppy DeltaDawn is an artist and professor of weaving at the University of Kansas. 

In this episode Kimberly and Poppy talk about the history of the loom and capitalism’s effect on the weaver. They also wove (pun intended) similarities between the act of weaving and transness. Lastly, Poppy shared her plans to raise sheep on land that is operated by her university.

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Hanna Washburn is a Beacon-based artist who hand sews sculptures out of recycled textiles. 

In this episode Kimberly and Hanna talk about Hanna’s dedicated studio practice and her explorations of ideas related to the home and the human body. 

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wei is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with sound, media and movement to talk about topics of queerness, foreignness and otherness. wei received an MFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in new media at the Academy of Art University in San Fransisco. They have participated in numerous artist residencies such as NARS foundation, Anderson Ranch Art Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 

Over the course of the conversation Kimberly and wei talk about wei’s work with sound, their background in design and art theories related to otherness

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Lauren Whearty is a Philly-based painter, educator and curator who currently teaches at The University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia. In this episode Kimberly and Lauren talk about Lauren’s studio and domestic-inspired paintings, her navigation through the art world and her experience as co-director of Ortega y Gasset gallery in NYC.

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Emily DiCarlo is a Toronto-based artist whose sound, video and performance-based work explores the subjective nature of time and it’s relationship to labor, rest and the demands of late capitalism. In this episode, Kimberly and Emily talk about Emily's visits to universal time labs (yes they are a thing!) and the importance of (and challenges of) rest.

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Sara J. Winston is a New York-based artist whose photographic self-portraiture practice works to capture her experience of living multiple sclerosis. In this episode Kimberly and Sara talk about Sara’s experience with MS, her relationship with the camera, notions of home and her process of publishing books.

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Allison DeBritz is an artist and educator whose work intimately considers the gendered paradigms of domestic spaces and relationships through an interdisciplinary feminist lens. In this episode Kimberly and Allison talk about Allison’s work with found images, photography and collage, her media’s relationship to conversations surrounding women’s reproductive rights and her involvement in post-school crit clubs.

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Franky Frances Cannon is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator, who is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. In this episode, Kimberly and Franky talk about Franky’s merging of art and writing, her visual book review of Like a Little Dog: Andy Warhol’s Queer Ecologies by Anthony Grudin and her graphic book Walter Benjamin Reimagined, which was published by MIT Press.

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Alison Kuo is an Asian American artist who pursues intersectional relationships across communities through artistic engagement. She is also the co-founder of Sisters in Self-Defense, a group that unites asian American women of all ages and teaches them self defense skills. In this episode we talk about Alison’s current solo exhibition You Pick the Moon, which is up at Field Projects in New York City until April 20, her work with Sisters in self defense and the transformation of her artistic practice due to her community engagement in New York City’s chinatown. 

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This week Kimberly spoke with Harlan Crichton, a Maine-based artist who works with photographic processes. In this episode, Kimberly and Harlan talk about Harlan’s transition from traditional photography to abstract photography and other topics such as storytelling and science fiction.

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