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In this episode, host Victoria Chapman (VC Projects)  is joined by Bethan Dear—theatre maker, performance artist, and writer—for a deep and expansive conversation about art, healing, and the currents…

In this episode, we connect with interdisciplinary artist Donna Cooper, speaking from her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia—part of the ancient Appalachian range, a land she's returned to …

In this episode, we hear directly from Steven Dayvid McKellar about his solo exhibition, on display from January 25 – March 15, 2025 at El Nido located in Los Angeles, featuring seven mixed-media pai…

In this episode, we sit down with co-curators Victoria Chapman and Stevie Kincheloe to explore the inspiration behind Now and Now and Now, a captivating group exhibition at El Nido Art Space during w…

In today's episode, I sit down with Los Angeles-based artist Shane Guffogg, whose post-postmodernist paintings have captured attention over the past 25 years. We delve into Shane's synesthesia, a uni…

In this episode, we dive into a conversation with Ipshita Maitra, a lens artist based in India, renowned for her work in mixed media and collage. Our focus is on her series “Where Voices Call,” captu…

Renowned artist Shane Guffogg and art historian and curator Thierry Tessier go head-to-head completing the Proust Questionnaire.

French novelist, critic, and essayist Marcel Proust created the “Proust…

Renowned artist Shane Guffogg and art historian and curator Thierry Tessier share an insightful talk about Impressionism and its influence. Guffogg begins by discussing his own sources of influence a…

Conversations About Art: Guffogg/Tessier (Talk 1)

Exploring Artistic Visions and Cultural Narratives

Welcome to this special series of talks featuring artist Shane Guffogg and curator Thierry Tessier. …

In this episode, I sit down with Stevie Kincheloe amidst the immersive ambiance of her art installation, "My Self Being My Self" at El Nido art space in Los Angeles. We delve deeply into the genesis …

In this episode, we delve into an engaging art discussion recorded at the opening reception of "Lines and Dots - Thoughts Before Language" exhibition held on January 27th, 2024, in the Blue Room at E…

During this episode, we speak to Ipshita Maitra, a lens-based artist from India who works across various forms of mixed media and collage.

We discuss Ipshita's "At Home, In Exile" series, captured in …

In this episode, artist Shane Guffogg discusses his recent solo exhibition at the Bovolo Museum in Venice, Italy, inspired by T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets." The exhibition, featuring twenty-one painti…

This is an informal talk during “cocktail hour” as Shane Guffogg, and I share a chat about Shane’s recollections of going in and out of Sam Francis’s studio, in Venice, California, during the late 80…

In this episode we sit down with Shane Guffogg in Hollywood to discuss the two films that have been made about his ranch by Eric Minh Swenson.

The first film was made two years ago and the second film…

In this episode, we speak to Stevie Kincheloe, co-founder of The Living Artist, about their upcoming creative Workshop Series on Living in Alignment with Your Creative Life-Cycle™, where artists lear…

In this episode, we speak to Steven Dayvid McKellar, a musician, painter, and poet from Cape Town, South Africa. After a 20-year music career, touring globally with his band, Civil Twilight, Steven b…

In this episode, we meet in Los Angeles with KARNEJ and Stevie Kincheloe regarding the inauguration of Gestura1 (2/16/23) and 1.2 (2/18/2023) and to untangle the curious web of what and how the exper…

We open this episode meeting Aya Metwalli in Bierut, just a three-weeks after her performance at ECLAT Neue Musik Festival, Stuttgart, accompanied by Tony Elieh. We hear about the audience and their …

In this episode, we meet in Hollywood at El NIDO to speak to KARNEJ about the gestura - a series of monthly performances encompassing sound, words, objects, movement, and artificial intelligence comp…