Location 1980 Podcast

From musical theater spotlights to sculpture studios, and behind the camera lens - nothing is off limits to Alicia. In this conversation, we explore how a life steeped in art, design, and performance…

Tonight the guys sit down with Nick Stiles, a longtime enthusiast and participant at the studio. Nick is an immensely skilled painter who works strongly in the domains of fantasy, darkness, and imag…

Tonight's guest Dr. Bridget R. Cooks is the most well-read person we've had on the show. With a Ph.D. in Art History, Visual and Cultural Studies, she is a published author, has written in dozens of …

Tonight the duo hosts Ed Dutcher, a screenwriter with numerous irons in the fire - something they learn is necessary if you're going to make it as an unknown in Hollywood. The glamour is real, and s…

Tonight's guest, Scott Ludwig, has been in the game for some thirty years. To simply address his works as "abstract" would be to miss the deeper layers of process that go on. Beyond depicting designe…

The guys sit down with Daniel Felchner, multidisciplinarian, muralist, liquid light practitioner, and outdoorsman, and discuss the shifting, emergent path that artists find themselves traveling. As a…

The guys do the annual Year in Review episode, looking at the triumphs and tribulations of last year while also what's exciting in 2025. It's been a year of great change at the gallery, especially in…

After doing time as an employee, Natasha realized no path to success lay there: the only option is to take the reins in your own hands and chart a novel course. She produced flow art for a while that…

Get ready for a banger: Rishi is a broadly talented artist with a litany of tales to share, and we only touch a segment of his life story on today's episode. From a childhood in Queens, NY, back and …

Katya began practicing art later in life, first modeling for figure drawing sessions and then attending as well. Eventually pursuing a full studio practice, she elevated to a level of fantastically e…

Maneuvering multiple styles and media, Stephanie is a versatile creative both in and out of the studio.  In our last four episodes we interviewed various artists from our F.eminine U.ndertones show; …

Amy Kells is one of 1980's longest running artists and an unfiltered, wide-open-throttle creative to her core. Believing that all people possess an artistic drive from birth, she never saw herself g…

Nancy Anderson and Ruth Geller have been longtime friends of the studio, and have the types of art careers we love to feature: they have both practiced art consistently for decades, evolving through …

Having lived all throughout the USA's west coast and a span in Oz, she has traversed the highs of sold out exhibitions and the lows of residing in garages clandestinely. The art world is one that wil…

Hailing from New York, cutting her teeth in San Francisco, and making SoCal her home, Tracey’s art practice includes large scale murals, traditional fine art painting, and gallery operation. After sc…

Corey swooped in, hosted a solo show less than a year later, then moved out of 1980 for the beautiful vastness of Joshua Tree, where he exchanged his paints for glass. A successful solo operator, he …

Today the guys chat with an old friend of Location 1980, Bert Esenherz. He was doing out-of-the-box feats that cannot be classified as performance art, comedy, or improv alone, decades before broadba…

Victori Violet traverses many worlds with a sly grin, doing expressive performance on a professional level along the way. From Austin, Texas to the Southland she literally learned to dance by playing…

In this episode the guys chat with Jim Trolinger whose résumé read longer than a CVS receipt. He has made artwork since childhood, and pursued a degree in engineering physics, ascending to doctorate …