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Brian Alfred
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Date created
2016/04/21
Latest episode
2026/04/23
Average duration
69 min.
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8 days

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Brian Alfred sits down with artists and musicians to discuss their process and inspiration in their creative life.

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Diane Briones Williams
2026/04/23
Episode 524 / Diane Briones Williams  Diane Briones Williams is an artist born in the Philippines who is based in Los Angeles whose work explores fragmented histories, cultural memory, and diasporic identity shaped by colonization. Her work has been featured in select publications and radio interviews including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Magazine, CBS News, KPCC, Laist, LA Weekly, Artillery, Eastsider LA and KPFK. Williams exhibited in several solo and group shows at the Armory Center for the Arts, 18th Street Art Center, Muzeo, Human Resources, Official Welcome, Museum of Art and History, California State University Northridge, College of the Canyons, Cerritos College Gallery, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University San Diego, Children's Museum of the Arts New York, Berkeley Art Center, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries and Grafiska Sällskapet Stockholm, Sweden among others. She has works in private and public collections at National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles and Washington DC, Glendale Community College and Azusa Pacific University. Williams earned her MFA at University of Southern California (USC) in 2021 and BFA at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 2013. If you're in New York this May, check out Future Fair, the forward-thinking contemporary art fair returning to Chelsea for its sixth edition, May 13 to 16. We’re proud to be a media partner of this year’s fair, which brings together 68 exhibitors from around the world, with a strong focus on curatorial vision, emerging and under-recognized voices, and a community-driven approach.Sound & Vision listeners can get 30% off tickets with the code SOUNDANDVISION, all one word, at futurefairs.com. 
Claudia Doring Baez
2026/04/16
Episode 523 / Claudia Doring Baez Claudia Doring Baez is and artist born and raised in Mexico City who is based in New York City. She received her B.A. from Columbia University, New York, NY (1982) and her M.F.A. in Fine Art from the New York Studio School, New York, NY (2012). Claudia’s paintings are animated by a reverence for art history and literature and is steeped with references that range from German Expressionism to Marcel Proust to Cindy Sherman.  Her exhibitions include shows in NYC, Mexico City, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, ZonaMaco Art Fair, Mexico City, Scope Basel Switzerland, Lehman College NY, La MaMa Galleria NY, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Galeria Emma Molina, and she’s featured in publications such as Art News Magazine. She has a curretn solo show at Jane Lombard Gallery at 58 White Street in NYC and an upcoming show at Bookstein Projects on 39 E. 78th street opening April 23rd.  She is also a co-host of the HOW DOES THE ART WORLD WORK? podcast.
Chenlu Hou & Chiara No
2026/04/09
Episode 523 / Chenlu Hou & Chiara No Born in Shandong, China in 1989, Chenlu Hou is currently based in Providence, RI. She earned her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. Since then, she has completed residencies at Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Penland School of Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Archie Bray Foundation. Her works have been included in exhibitions at Kristen Lorello, New York; YIRI Arts, Taipei City, Taiwan; the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Texas; and the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT; among other venues. Hou is currently a resident artist at Harvard Ceramics and a Visiting Critic in Ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Chiara No was born in 1981 in Key West, FL, and currently lives and works in Johnson, VT. She studied Art and Theory at the Glasgow School of Art in 2002-03 and received a BA in Art History from Towson University in 2005 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. She has been on faculty at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an instructor at University of Pennsylvania. She has shown at Spring Break New York, NY; MoCA Westport, Westport, CT; Field Projects and Bible, New York, NY; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; EXILE, Vienna, Austria; Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL; and has participated Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair in both New York and Los Angeles. Her works on paper are included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Special Collection, the Walker Art Center’s Library and Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Library.  Chenlu Hou and Chiara No: What the Hands Remember to Hear. A joint exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of two artists who use ceramic sculpture to explore storytelling and spirituality up through MAY 25, 2026. 
Kayla Witt
2026/04/02
Episode 522 / Kayla Witt Kayla Witt is an artist born in Calgary, Canada and based in LA. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON and her MFA from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. She has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA; and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON. She has participated in group shows at Arsenal Contemporary, New York; albertz benda, Los Angeles, CA; Ketabi Bourdet, Paris, FR; WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong; Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, ON; among others. Witt has completed a number of residencies including Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; and Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB. Her work has been featured in HypeArt, Booooooom, Harper’s Magazine, It’s Nice That, Surface Mag, among others. 
Nat Meade
2026/03/26
Episode 521 / Nat Meade Nat Meade received his BFA from the University of Oregon and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Juxtapoz, The Boston Globe, and Hyperallergic. He attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 2009, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016, the Siena Art Institute in 2018, and the James Castle House Summer Residency in Boise, Idaho in Summer 2021. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Nat returns to the pod as he just hung a show called Franklin at Hesse Flatow for a talk about his new work, funny sad songs, cinema, teaching, making work for fellow painters, titles with multiple meanings and much more. 
Elizabeth Hazan
2026/03/19
Episode 520 / Elizabeth Hazan Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School where she was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  She has twice been a resident of Yaddo, and received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. Her recent solo shows include Double Fantasy at Hesse Flatow, NY, Weather, at  Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Under the Sun, HESSE FLATOW, NY.  Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Forbes, Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail and The Art Newspaper. She serves as the founder and director of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY.
Cyrilla Mozenter
2026/03/12
Episode 519 / Cyrilla Mozenter Cyrilla Mozenter is known for her gouache-painted, pencil-drawn works on paper and hand stitched industrial wool felt pieces that include the transplantation of cutout letters, letter-derived and pictogram-like shapes. Her solo exhibitions include Problems of Art and Present Participle, 57W57 Arts, NY; See Why and the failed utopian, Lesley Heller Gallery, NY; the failed utopian & Other Stories, FiveMyles, Brooklyn; warm snow, Adam Baumgold Gallery, NY, and the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; More saints seen, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Very well saint, The Drawing Center, NY. She has produced two collaborative books with photographer/writer Philip Perkis: ar, AC Books, San Diego, 2023, and the bilingual Octave, anmoc press, Seoul, 2020. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received two fellowships from the NY Foundation for the Arts and two project grants from The Fifth Floor Foundation. She has been in residence at Pianpicollo Selvatico, Dieu Donné Papermill, and Instituto Municipal de Arte e Cultura-Rioarte. Her work is in numerous public collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. She taught for many years in the MFA program at Pratt Institute.
Charline Tyberghein
2026/03/05
Episode 518 / Charline Tyberghein Charline Tyberghein makes surrealist paintings by way of symbols and trompe l’ceil. Inspired by the Belgian Surrealist tradition, but also folk art, internet imagery, and other cultural influences, focussing on a high-low dichotomy. She mainly works with oil on canvas, occasionally branching out to other materials like wood to work in a more sculptural fashion. Tyberghein has shown with galleries and institutions all over the world, like Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, M HKA Antwerp, and Beursschouwburg in Brussels and a recent collaboration with Hermès in Shanghai. Gallery shows include Domestic Blitz  (Gallery Vacancy, 2023), Many Drops Make A Puddle (Castor gallery, 2021), Clownette (The hole, 2025).
Andy Woll
2026/02/26
Episode 517 / Andy Woll Andy Woll was born in Los Angeles, California and received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. His solo exhibitions include, The First Turn of the Screw at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2021); Strange Animal at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York City (2020); Passage at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2018); and Western Wear at Denny Gallery in New York City (2018). he’s shown in group exhibitions including Pipe Dream at Uffner Liu Gallery and Night Gallery in New York City (2016); Sticks and Stones at Night Gallery, (2016); Pairs at Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, (2016); and Dave Muller’s Three Day Weekend at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles, (2015).In 2007, Andy was the recipient of the Saul and Sally Fifer Bernstein/Friends of Joe Mugnaini Award for works on paper. 
Hilary Harnischfeger
2026/02/19
Episode 516 / Hilary Harnischfeger Hilary Harnischfeger (b. 1972, Melbourne, Australia) earned her MFA from Columbia University, New York (2003) and her BFA from the University of Houston, Houston, TX (2001). The artist has had work included in institutional exhibitions at the Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT (2023); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (2016); State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY (2016); the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2014); MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (2013); American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC (2013); the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2013); Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX (2010); Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (2005); Artists Space, New York, NY (2005); and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (2002); among others. Harnischfeger has had recent solo exhibitions at Clear Sky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021); Rachel Uffner Gallery, new York, NY (2021, 2015); Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2014); and Front Gallery, Houston, TX (2012). In 2007, Harnischfeger was the recipient of the Maria Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program Award. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; and the Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT. Harnischfeger lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 
Mika Obayashi 
2026/02/12
Episode 515 / Mika Obayashi   Mika Obayashi (b.1995) is a fiber and sculpture artist from Michigan. She earned her BA from Amherst College in 2019 and her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2025. She has exhibited her work in the US and Japan with recent solo shows at Carvalho in Brooklyn and 5U Space in Philadelphia. She has been generously supported by grants from the American Craft Council (2023), the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2023), and the St. Botolph Club Foundation (2020). Obayashi has been an artist-in-residence at Women’s Studio Workshop (2022) and Vermont Studio Center (2025). She is currently serving as the 2025-26 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn. 
Michael Brennan
2026/02/05
Episode 514 / Michael Brennan Michael Brennan (b. 1965, Pine Island, FL; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited his paintings and works on paper nationally and internationally for the past three decades, including in the United States, Mexico, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, China, Australia, and New Zealand.   Here at the gallery, he previously mounted four very well-received solo exhibitions – Floating Weeds (2023), Late Spring (2018), Grey Razor Paintings (2014), and Knife Paintings (2006) – and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including our major survey exhibition MINUS SPACE at MoMA PS1 in 2008-2009 and Twenty (2023). Brennan’s work have been reviewed in publications including The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, Art New England, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtNet Magazine, NY Arts, and Philadelphia Inquirer. He is also an accomplished arts writer, and his reviews and essays have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, ArtNet Magazine, Two Coats of Paint, The Village Voice, The Architect’s Newspaper, American Abstract Artists, and Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution, as well as in numerous exhibition catalogues. Brennan’s work is included in collections such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art, American Express, General Dynamics, Daimler AG, and Sony Corporation. He holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute and a BA in Classics from the University of Florida. He has taught at Pratt Institute since 1998 and is currently Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts Department. He has also previously taught at the School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and Cooper Union (all NYC).  
Langdon Graves
2026/01/29
Episode 513 / Langdon Graves Langdon Graves is a Virginia-born, New York City-based artist who holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Painting & Printmaking and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. She is adjunct faculty at Parsons and Assistant Professor in the Graduate Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute. Langdon has shown her work throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia with solo and group exhibitions that include Dinner Gallery, TEI’s Art in Buildings, Mrs., Tilton Gallery, Deanna Evans Projects, Grimm, Taymour Grahne Projects, STONELEAF and the Delaware Contemporary Museum. Langdon has attended the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, the Kunstenaarsinitiatief Residency and Exhibition Program in the Netherlands, the Object Limited residency in Bisbee, Arizona and STONELEAF Retreat in upstate New York. She is a recipient of Canson & Beautiful Decay’s Wet Paint Grant and has been featured in Artnet, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Vice Creators Project, Juxtapoz, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, the Artmatters podcast and Madeline Schwartzman’s See Yourself X.
Jasper Hagenaar
2026/01/22
Episode 512 / Jasper Hagenaar  Jasper Hagenaar is a painter who lives and works in the Netherlands. Evoking the ambience of vintage lifestyle magazines or art book photography there is so much ambience captured in Jasper’s carefully framed imagery. Often times portraying still life compositions built from other existing artworks, his paintings feel both contemporary and classic, all while appearing faded and aged and therefore precious. Jasper was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 2004 and 2005. He was a recipient of both the jury and public award of the Royal Dutch painting prize in 2012. His works are part of significant Dutch museum collections as the Centraal Museum Utrecht, Dordrechts museum and the Teylers museum. His paintings have recently been shown internationally in group exhibitions at Hive, Centre for contemporary arts, Beijng and Rhodes Contemporary art gallery, London. His works can be found in numerous corporate and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad. He lives and works in Hedikhuizen, the Netherlands and is represented by Althuis Hofland Fine Arts in Amsterdam.
Kwamé Azure Gomez
2026/01/15
Episode 511 / Kwamé Azure Gomez Kwame Azure Gomez is an artist born in Akron, Ohio who lives and works in New Haven, CT. Kwame has exhibited throughout the US and Europe in venues such as James Cohan Gallery, New Image Art Gallery, SoLA Contemporary, Stony Island Arts Bank, Anthony Gallery, Dada Gallery and others. Kwame recently completed the NXTHVN artist residency in New Haven and received her BFA from the University of Akron and her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2022 Kwame received the Emerging Artist Grant from New American Paintings.  Kwame will be in a group show opening on the 15th called Between Matter & Illumination at Marianne Boesky where she will have her first NYC solo show coming up as well. 

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4.7 out of 5
285 reviews
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Erawm 2024/06/04
Amazing
I love this podcast! The inclusion of music alleviates the focus on purely the visual which could get oppressive. An interesting take. All of the sto...
★★★☆☆
victoya91 2025/10/02
Focused
I would love if he asked much more about the artist’s process from start to finish and how they come up with their imagery, and in general what they t...
★★★★★
Melisgal 2023/11/01
Melisgal
This is without a doubt my favorite contemporary art podcast. I feel like I’m in the same room as Brian & the artists he interviews. Conversations wan...
★★★★★
Orange Featherrr 2023/10/23
Mini biographies of bright, interesting artists
I love learning about how different artists made it work. Brian Alfred gets smart, talented artists on this pod and asks good questions. Fun, informat...
★★★★★
Formerly in NY 2021/11/12
Candid and insightful
Thoughtful and meaningful connections between art, music, process, and environment. Brian Alfred gets at the humanity behind the work, inviting the li...
★★★★☆
ALexys11 2023/01/28
Great line up, sleepy pace
A lot of art pods annoy me because the hosts have next to no points they get to; just conversing about random stuff and tangents as if the listener sh...
★★★★★
Ruth Marvin 2021/11/11
Amazing!
Brian Alfred’s melodious blend of warmth, intelligence and humor is hypnotic. I highly recommend!
★★★★★
Manorama9 2021/06/27
Inspiring
Its wonderful listening to you speak with artists on their process and work. Inspiring and thought provoking. Thanks.
★★★★★
KriKri1990 2021/06/25
Carl D’Alvia
Loved this interview so much! The silver lining of getting older and still being in the conversation 🥰
★★★★★
M. Kinomoto 2021/05/27
Relaxing and Inspiring
Brian is a patient and kind interviewer, and I love hearing about the artists’ history, process, and experiences unrelated to art. The conversations a...
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