Episode 29! This week we are interviewing the Western-Mass based artist, Ashley Eliza Williams. Ashley is an incredible artist born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia, and making work about interspecies communication and non-human language. Ashley has exhibited widely including at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (CO), Hersbruck Museum (Germany), The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (CO), Bronx Museum Project Space (NY), The New York Hall of Science (NY), and Wasserman Projects in Detroit (MI). Ashley’s work has been featured in many publications including New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and The Washington Post. Recent residencies include: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Vermont Studio Center, Shoals Marine Laboratory, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and Shangyuan Art Museum, China. In 2023 Ashley was a Lucille Walton Fellow and resident artist at the University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Station. This is a great conversation filled with bird song out the window as we talk about communication attempts, creating imaginary worlds, shifts in perspective scales, the impoverishment of imagination from the ongoing extinction of beings, night walks and so much more. Please give Ashley a follow on instagram. Go check out her website and stay tuned for their next upcoming shows and projects.

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Episode 28 with Boston-based artist Adam O’Day. Adam paints across genres and scales up to building sized murals all across the region! He shows his work widely and in 2014 his painting was chosen for the “portrait of a city” competition in Boston! We recorded this episode from his studio in an old shoe factory in Abington, Massachusetts, and we cover its potential haunting, his move from naval engineer to full time artist, the role of collaboration, where his interest in shanty vernacular comes from as well as talk about the relationship between his painting and music. We talk about Metal Aesthetic, the weird and inclusive family of metal heads and his band MOLLUSK… a doom/sludge metal band. We reminisce about both spending our formative years growing up in Michigan and local midwestern nostalgia as well as the practice of what it takes to turn a representational view into a real place and a finished painting. Loved this conversation and can’t wait for you to hear! As always, please go give Adam O’Day a follow on Instagram, find out when his next concert will be and check out the show notes for a ton of links.

Adam O’Day Website & Instagram

MOLLUSK

Things discussed:

Jennifer Brilli
Jessica Hess
MERK
Felipe Ortiz
Brandalizm
Connie Snipes
FAYGO
Black Sabbath
Scott Low - Appalachian Blues
Saturday Night Dance Party
OM
Calvin and Hobbes
Hayao Miyazaki - Studio Ghibli

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This week we've got a bonus episode for you! This was a really fun conversation moderated by artist & curator of this exhibition, Adria Arch! This panel discussion was in connection with the Reshaping Abstraction exhibition on view at Concord Art in Concord, MA April/May 2024. Artists featured in this panel are Lisa Barthelson, Donnabelle Casis, Olivia Baldwin, Steven Cabral & your host, Kim Carlino.

More information below:

Concord Art
Reshaping Abstraction Curated by Adria Arch
Lisa Barthelson
Donnabelle Casis
Olivia Baldwin
Steven Cabral
Kim Carlino

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Episode 27 with Rhode Island-based multi-disciplinary artist, Kelsey Miller! We traverse arctic terrain, Rhode Island coasts and a printmaker's search for vastness in an expansive conversation. I sat down with Kelsey at the Kniznick Gallery on the campus of Brandeis University to talk about an exhibition that she created a large-scale wall drawing for. This group exhibition is called A Trick of Light of Distance and is curated by Olivia Baldwin. Miller has participated in artists residencies with the Arctic Circle Residency in the International Territory of Svalbard and Proyecto 'Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. her work has been exhibited in venues in Italy, Argentina, and throughout the United States in solo, juried, and small group shows. Miller is a 2019 recipient of the MacColl Johnson Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation.

Kelsey Miller Website & Instagram

Kniznick Gallery
Arctic Circle Residency
Tristan Duke - Ice Lenses
Pancake Ice
Claudia Widdiss
Newport Art Museum
Hiroshi Sujimoto

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Episode 26 with Rhode Island based painter, Kirstin Lamb. We talk with Kirstin about her WOODS series in which we explore the layers of retranslation, interconnection and visual research to begin to know a place and capture the fleetingness of place. Kirstin studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with an MFA in 2005, and she received her AB in Visual Art and Literatures in English from Brown University in 2001. Kirstin’s work has been shown in venues across the country, recently showing with Gallery Naga in Boston, MA, Geary in Millerton, NY, Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, CT, Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence, RI, the Spring Break Art Fair in NY, the Wassaic Project in Amenia, NY, the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA and Providence College Galleries in Providence, RI, among others. She has attended numerous residencies such as the Wassaic Project, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. To name just a few! She is also represented by Gallery Naga in Boston, MA.

This conversation had so many great nuggets to book mark and go back to! We talk about the hierarchy of genres, genre bending, painting as ecstatic 80s dance party, salon walls, hex signs, falling in love with kunstkamer, thinking in multiples, ghost forests, and the love of quirky taxonomies. Follow Kirstin Lamb on social media for more information about her upcoming solo show at the Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield Connecticut opening April 27th!

Kirstin Lamb Website & Instagram

Jennifer Terzian Gallery
Gallery Naga
Cezanne’s Doubt essay
This Old Tree Podcast
Suzanne Simard
Hex Signs
Kunstkammer

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Episode 25 with NYC based painter, Nate Ethier. Ethier has exhibited in galleries such as David Richard Gallery in NYC, Auxier/Kline, Danese/Corey, LMAK Gallery, Minus Space, Geoffrey Found Gallery, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Morgan Lehman, and at institutes including the Susquehanna Art Museum, Boston University, and Georgia Southern University. Nate is also a recipient of a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award and was a nominee for the Remainder Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. His work has been reviewed in such publications as the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, the Boston Globe and the Providence Journal. He is currently represented by David Richard Glallery in NYC and has a solo exhibition of new works opening May 29th, 2024. Please give Nate a follow to learn more about his work. This is a conversation about influences, interconnection, color magic, sophisticated color logic, pride in the craft of painting and much more.

Nate Ethier Website & Instagram

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Episode 24 explores the work & trajectory of NYC-based artist, Gwyneth Leech. For almost a full decade, Gwyneth has been fascinated with painting the building and construction of massive skyscrapers in NYC. Find out what prompted this new subject matter and where it led! We talk about Gwyneth's creative path, the places imprinted upon her, choral singing, and the possibility of architecture to address the challenges of the current climate crisis. Gwyneth's artwork has been featured in solo and group shows throughout the United States and Great Britain and is the subject of a multi-award winning documentary, The Monolith. Her paintings are held in private and construction-industry corporate collections in the USA, Great Britain, Italy and Australia, including the New York Historical Society Museum. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA and Postgraduate Diploma from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Please check out links to her work below including 2 current exhibitions!

Gwyneth Leech Website & Instagram
The Monolith, documentary
Modern Steel Construction Interview

Skyscraper Museum
Garment District Alliance
John Marin watercolors discussed

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Episode 23 with Western Mass-based artist, Gina Siepel! This is a live, on-site conversation at the foot of a 100 year old Red Oak tree exploring the beginnings and thinking around their current project called: To Understand a Tree. We talk about Thoreau, myths of self reliance, creative transitions, and a deep connection and exploration to place.

Gina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker whose artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina has shown their work in museums and galleries nationally. They have been a Fellow or Artist in Residence at numerous prestigious organizations as well as the recipient of many awards.

The upcoming, Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree exhibition is opening March 1st, 2024 and running through July 21st 2024 at the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please find out more here.

Gina Siepel's website & instagram. The Recursion Series discussed.

Some links to things discussed:

Boy Mechanic Series
Henry David Thoreau
Radio Lab: Susan Simard
Sara Smith: Building Capacities for Presence & Networks for the Future Now
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
Paco Calvo: Plant Intelligence
Mathew Hall: Plants as Persons

Enjoy & Thank you for listening!

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