Alex Donis (artist)
Alex Donis is hands down one of the funniest artists working today. In addition to this (which counts for a hell of a lot in my book) he also happens to make fantastic work. Listen along as Alex tells the story of being censored in L.A., pretending to be a janitor at his own show, the current skinny on the justice system and much much more.
Jens Hoffmann (director of the Wattis Institute) and Renny Pritikin (director of the Nelson Gallery)
These two titans of knowledge come together in a bunker style basement in the belly of California College of the Arts. A dynamite conversation where they address everything from the trials of running a gallery connected to a school, to who curates better: artists or art historians, to John Cage, to missed opportunities in the theater.
Excellent stuff
James Gobel (painter), and Steve Zavattero (Partner at Marx & Zavattero)
Internationally acclaimed painter, James Gobel, sits down with Steve Zavattero, co-partners of one of San Francisco’s hottest galleries Marx & Zavattero. These two tear it up! From fat lumberjack bears, to the fineries of felt, to the madness of revamping a business, to one of my favorites… Lil’ Kim.
Mmmmm…. got to get on this one.
Richard Kamler (artist, activist, educator, and curator) and Rigo23 (artist and activist)
Rigo23 and Richard Kamler, two top knotch artist/activists operating in the bay area met up at San Francisco State University’s Fine Art Gallery and told the tale of modern prison culture. They are both included in a hit show there called Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America. Listen along as they speak of everything from death row at San Quentin, to modern censorship, to school security, police states, and the sound of lions roaring.
Smokin!
Zefrey Throwell (yours truly), Susanne Cockrell (artist and professor), Liz Thomas (Matrix curator at Berkeley Art Museum) and Ted Purves (artist and professor)
Artists Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves jump in the mix with the new Matrix curator for the Berkeley Art Museum, Liz Thomas. These three are unstoppable! Conversationally relaxed and quick as a diamond whip, the three of them toss around such topics as preserved food stuffs, the nature of lemons, the bastards of the private world, revisioning museums, and of course the big one of them all, DEATH.
If you miss this interview, consider yourself officially uninformed.
Matt Gonzalez (human rights attorney and Nader’s vice presidential running mate) and Catharine Clark (Catharine Clark Gallery)
Catharine Clark, a cutting edge gallerist with a taste for the controversial, matches up with Matt Gonzalez who is a human rights attorney and just announced his vice president candidacy to run with Nader in 2008. These two take on public land, private galleries, the mighty JPG, and of course politics politics politics. This is an excellent interview, a must listen.
Jocelyn Saidenberg (writer) and Margaret Tedesco (artist)
Jocelyn Saidenberg, a gifted poet, writer, and archivist here in San Francisco goes up against one of my favorite people in the whole world, Margaret Tedesco, who is an artist, teacher, curator, and happens to run the hottest new space in San Francisco called 2nd Floor Projects. Listen to these two talk about the nature of collecting, communal burrows, the trials and tribulations of the “Stacks”, and the flak that archivists across the globe take so that we may thumb idly.
