A look at some notable Interlocutor interviews and arts/culture coverage from 2025
All tagged Isabel Hou
NICK BRANDT's images of strength & resilience in the face of climate change
Photographer Nick Brandt’s series The Day May Break is an ongoing project exploring the human & environmental toll of climate change worldwide. In this interview, he discusses its latest chapter, The Echo of Our Voices, featuring Syrian refugees now living in Jordan
Timelessness & urgent relevance in the works of AUSTEN BRANTLEY
Austen Brantley, a Detroit-based artist whose sculptures & public projects venerate Black cultural figures, talks about the ways he seeks to make his work both timeless & urgently relevant, & the aftermath of the recent vandalization of his statue memorializing the Tuskegee Airmen
The aristocratic gangstas of ÉPOQUE ROYALE
Artist Andreas Englund discusses his new series, Époque Royale - on display at Oslo’s Alex Sushi from March 13 - June 1, & the unique ways that both his Aging Superhero series & Époque Royale dig into the heart of humanity
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ JMikal Davis aka Hellbent discusses his unique approach to creating abstract art in public spaces
Tyler Nesler talks with JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent, a muralist, painter, & street artist who lives & works in Brooklyn & who specializes in a unique combination of American quilt-making & folk art traditions with a street art aesthetic
FOLK ART MEETS THE STREET - A Conversation With JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent
An interview with JMikal Davis, aka Hellbent, a muralist, painter, & street artist who lives & works in Brooklyn & who specializes in a unique combination of American quilt-making & folk art traditions with a street art aesthetic
STEVEN SEIDENBERG'S architectures of silence
Lens-based artist Steven Seidenberg in conversation with Isabel Hou about his series/book, The Architecture of Silence, which documents the abandoned lives in the Italian South and the failed post-war land reform movement (Riforma Fondiaria)
PATRICIA CARR MORGAN'S explorations of memory, loss, & reality
An interview with conceptual artist Patricia Carr Morgan about her wide-ranging work exploring memory, loss, reality, & the impacts of climate change
The pure abstractions of JERRY MCLAUGHLIN
Isabel Hou talks with Mexico-based artist Jerry McLaughlin about his abstract artworks, which incorporate unusual materials like ash from bog peat and willow fires, his inspiration from architectural elements & surfaces in central Mexico, & more
Highlights of 2023
A look back at some of the notable INTERLOCUTOR interviews, reviews, and podcast episodes from 2023
YUGE ZHOU'S Love Letters
An interview with Chicago-based artist Yuge Zhou about her video art installation series Love Letters and its two new episodes now up at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Rosalind Withers discusses Flash Points: The Photography of Ernest C. Withers
Rosalind Withers, daughter of Civil Rights Movement photographer Ernest C. Withers, discusses the exhibition Flash Points: The Photography of Ernest C. Withers
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Martine Johanna
In our latest podcast interview, Dutch artist Martine Johanna discusses her overall thematic approaches, the works displayed in her third solo show for New York’s Massey Klein Gallery, How to Eliminate Stress and Anxiety Through Good Housekeeping + much more
Art as a weapon ~ MALIZA KIASUWA
Artist Maliza Kiasuwa discusses the mixed-media collage and sculpture work in her solo show Art as a weapon, now on display at Morton Fine Art in Washington, DC
MARTINE JOHANNA: How to Eliminate Stress and Anxiety Through Good Housekeeping
A brilliantly perceptive interview with artist Martine Johanna about her solo show How to Eliminate Stress and Anxiety through Good Housekeeping, up through May 20 at NYC’s Massey Klein Gallery
ALEXIS PICHOT'S tidal oscillations
French experimental photographer Alexis Pichot discusses his recent series Insula, which presents haunting and starkly beautiful imagery of rocky coastlines and small islands partly illuminated by a full moon
The geographic abstractions of PHILIPPE HALABURDA
New York City-based artist Philippe Halaburda talks about his use of “psychogeographic mapping” expressed through the unique conceptual landscapes he creates with abstracted colors and lines
Highlights of 2021 ~ MEG LIONEL MURPHY'S Traumatica Dramatica
A repost of our June 2021 interview with Meg Lionel Murphy about her vibrant and emotionally charged paintings
MEG LIONEL MURPHY'S Traumatica Dramatica
Meg Lionel Murphy talks about her vibrant and emotionally charged paintings — now on display for her debut NYC solo exhibition at The Untitled Space
HINRICH KRÖGER
An interview with Berlin-based ceramic artist Hinrich Kröger about his work currently up at the C24 Gallery’s group show “Earthen Delights”