An interview with conceptual artist Patricia Carr Morgan about her wide-ranging work exploring memory, loss, reality, & the impacts of climate change
All in Visual Artists
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
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lande Yoosuf
Lande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer. In this interview, she discusses her unusual approach of turning her short film, Second Generation Wedding, into a full-length screenplay, then adapting that screenplay into her novel, Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian, Muslim Family in the New York Diaspora
Conjuring spirits & the spirit of art with NICKOLA POTTINGER
An interview with Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Nickola Pottinger about her solo exhibition at Mrs., like yuh neva lef’ yaad, up through March 9
YOKO SHIOYA discusses her 20 years as Artistic Director of the Japan Society, NYC
Yoko Shioya, Artistic Director of the Japan Society, NYC, talks with Catherine Tharin about her 20 years as Director of Programming
KAREN FINLEY will not be redacted
Performance artist, poet, educator, and musician Karen Finley talks about her long career of disrupting the delicate sensibilities of senators, provoking the patriarchy, and the ways her work is newly resonating in today’s regressive cultural climate
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ VLM
Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM) is a multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, & sculpture. In this interview, she discusses her recent solo exhibition at Austin's Women & Their Work, Eye Moon Cocoon, along with her unique parallel career as a Graphic Facilitator
Highlights of 2023
A look back at some of the notable INTERLOCUTOR interviews, reviews, and podcast episodes from 2023
DRAWING AS PRACTICE @ the National Academy of Design
Sara Reisman, Chief Curator of the National Academy of Design, discusses the Academy’s inaugural group exhibition Drawing as Practice, at its new Chelsea, New York location
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Miles Hyman
A conversation with French-American artist Miles Hyman about his inspirations, process, and the works now up in his solo show Secret Lives at NYC’s Philippe Labaune Gallery
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
The Metaphysical Dreamworlds of VLM
Multidisciplinary artist Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM) discusses her mesmerizing multimedia exhibition Eye Moon Cocoon, now up at Austin’s Women & Their Work
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Hallie Packard
A lively chat with artist Hallie Packard about her wildly organic, surreal, and magical paintings
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Harper Simon
An in-depth discussion with author/musician Harper Simon about his ambitious new multimedia project, Meditations on Crime, comprised of years-long collaborations with many high-profile musicians, artists, and writers
The transcendental ambiguities of BETHANY CZARNECKI
Painter Bethany Czarnecki discusses the sensual, polychromatic, and biomorphic realms on display at her solo show A memory, eternal - now up at NYC’s Massey Klein Gallery
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
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Gigi Chen
Artist Gigi Chen discusses her deep admiration of birds and why she loves to place them in settings that mix the natural world with artificial aspects such as neon - joined by special guest co-host and fellow artist Dan Alvarado
GIGI CHEN'S neon naturalism
Gigi Chen talks about the gorgeous, intricate, and whimsical feathered subjects of her richly detailed paintings
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