November 21, 2025
This week Bonny Leibowitz joins the podcast to talk about her mixed media installations and sculpture works, which examine the boundaries between manufactured and organic landscapes.
Bonny has an upcoming exhibition: Adventures In Plunderland that opens December 6th from 6-8 PM at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center in Dallas Texas. The exhibition runs December 6th - January 10th.
Bonny was selected as a 2021 Studio Break Professional Competition podcast winner by our juror Erika B. Hess.
Read MoreOctober 10, 2025
This week Jason Lipow joins the podcast to talk about his interdisciplinary practice that explores a range of found media to create painting, sculpture, and installation work.
Jason was selected work was selected for our 2024 Studio Break Professional Competition by Marc Mitchell, Curator & Director of Exhibitions at the University of Arkansas.
Read MoreSeptember 26, 2025
This week Quinn Antonio Briceño is our guest for a new podcast where we talk all about his studio practice. Quinn’s paintings include mixed media works that combine acrylic paint and image transfers and images that speak to his American and Nicaraguan background.
Quinn was selected as a 2022 Studio Break Student Competition podcast winner by our Studio Break host David Linneweh.
Read MoreMay 10, 2024
This week Nichole Gronvold Roller joins us to talk about her colorful mixed media works that are influenced by the arts and craft movement, design, wallpaper, and observations of every day.
Nichole is featured in the two person exhibition “Color Stacks” with Maryalice Carroll at Studio Break Gallery in West Chicago, May 18th-June 11th with an opening reception on Saturday May 18th from 5-8PM.
Read MoreThis week Dan Oliver joins the podcast to talk about his paintings that are influenced by Surrealism, Pop-Art, and growing up in middle America.
Dan also talks about his recent exhibition “Shelter” at JPS Gallery in Paris (France) as well as an upcoming solo exhibition at Lorin Gallery in Los Angeles, April of 2024.
Read MoreThis week Erin Raedeke joins the podcast to talk about her colorful paintings based off of observation that explore a variety of subjects that include still life, interior, landscape, and portraiture.
Erin has a solo exhibition “46 Years” that opens on Saturday July 22nd from 5-8 PM at Studio Break Gallery in West Chicago. The show will feature 46 4” x 6” paintings, each one based off one of her 46 years of life. Works are available and can be reviewed on the gallery page.
Read MoreThis week Megan Hinds, Nichole Roller, and David Linneweh sit down for a group discussion about their work for the three person exhibition entitled “Pathways” that runs April 23rd-June 4th at McLean County Art Center in Bloomington (IL).
Read MoreDoug Russell joins us to talk about his amazingly detailed drawings, which explore themes of history, decay, and renewal through a variety of works based off ruins, travel, imagination, intuition, and observation.
Read MoreJennifer Small joins the podcast to discuss her colorful abstractions that are based on fragments of banal photos taken from every day experiences.
Read MoreThis week Leah Schretenthaler discusses her background and process of creating laser etched silver gelatin prints in her recent series entitled: The Invasive Series of the Built Environment. Her work explores the impact of manmade elements and alterations that diminish the sacred landscape of Hawaii where she’s from.
Read MoreThis week Emily Somoskey joins the podcast to talk about her mixed media works combining paint and collage media to examine how we experience actual space and psychological space simultaneously.
Read MoreThis week Alice Stone Collins joins the podcast to talk about her work, which examines the ordinary and universal through her mixed media works that incorporate paint, paper, and collage.
Read MoreThis week Mitchell Johnson joins the podcast to discuss his paintings that explore color and shape through non-representational abstraction as well as representational works influenced by travels to Cape Cod, Asia, and Europe.
Read MoreThis week Matthew T. McLaughlin joins the podcast from the Washington D.C. area to talk about his multimedia works which incorporate printmaking, drawing, and installation based works, which explore the environment, landscape, and boundaries.
Read MoreThis week Benjamin Scott Anderson discusses his plein air works that combine repeated experiences of painting from the same landscape in various conditions which are distilled into the same painting.
Read MoreThis week Tom Colcord joins the podcast to talk about his work which has explored paintings based on observation, installation, and collage.
Read MorePaul Silas Trapp joins us from Portland (OR) to discuss his paintings that include small scale and large shaped works that explore the ‘place’ by blending representation and abstraction.
Read MoreThis week Christopher Burk joins us from Columbus (OH) to discuss his paintings and drawings which are based off of observations of the urban landscape.
Read MoreThis week Joseph Podlesnik joins the podcast from Phoenix (AZ) to discuss his recent series of photo based work after spending years drawing and painting.
Read MoreBarbara Marks joins us from Connecticut to discuss her evolution as a painter following a successful career as a graphic designer in the book publishing industry.
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