MARIE B. GAUTHIE

November 4, 2025

November 5, 2025

This week Marie B. Gauthiez joins the podcast to talk about her art evolution, growing up in France, traveling the world, and finding her way to the United States. Her mixed media work explore a range of materials both found and printed all coming together to make installation works that explore memory, identity, and the self.

Marie is part of the two-person exhibition with Griffin Allman entitled Withholding that opens at Studio Break Gallery in West Chicago, on Saturday November 8th from 5-8PM.

Griffin was selected as a 2024 Studio Break Student Competition podcast winner by our juror Natalie Pivoney.

JO LOCKE

September 4, 2025

September 5, 2025

This week Jo Locke joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice exploring social practice and collaborative works in a wide variety of traditional and found materials.

Jo’s work will be featured in the group exhibition, Only Dust Know’s What’s Left Behind, at Presa House Gallery.

Jo was selected as a 2024 Studio Break Student Competition podcast winner by our juror Natalie Pivoney.

RYAN PALUCZAK

March 7, 2025

This week Ryan Paluczak joins the podcast to talk about his journey as a studio artist exploring a range of mixed media that includes print, sound, sculpture, and most recently photography.

In the episode, we discuss Ryan’s solo exhibition entitled “People Pleaser” that opens Friday March 7th 4-7PM at ARX Gallery at Southeastern Missouri State University; the exhibition runs Feb 21st - March 21st.

LILLIAN YOUNG

April 21, 2023

This week Lillian Young joins the podcast to talk about her work, which utilizes lost or forgotten moments of Black history through painting and mixed media installation works.

Lillian currently has work in the exhibition She/Her, at Ro2 Art Gallery in Dallas (TX) through April 29th as well as an upcoming solo exhibition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center in June of 23’.

AMY SACKSTEDER

January 20, 2023

Amy Sacksteder joins the podcast to talk about her studio practice that includes, painting, mixed media, and installation based works. Her work is currently being exhibited in “There Just Isn’t” at Tiger Strikes Gallery in Greensville (SC) & “18: A collection of abstract works at Janice Charach Gallery in West Bloomfield (MI).

LEA ANDERSON

November 26, 2021

Lea Anderson joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice, that uses a wide range of materials and processes to create variety of 2D, 3D, and installation based works.

KELDA MARTENSEN

October 1, 2021

Kelda Martensen is a printmaker utilizing woodblock and other techniques to create prints, collage, and artist books.

JOSHUA JAY JOHNSON

September 10, 2021

Joshua Jay Johnson is known for his print and drawing based works that take anywhere from three to nine months work to complete.

MEGAN HINDS, NICHOLE ROLLER & DAVID LINNEWEH

April 23, 2021

This 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).

SEAN CAULFIELD

February 12, 2021

Sean Caufield joins the podcast this week to discuss his abstracted environmental landscapes that explore the boundaries of the biological and mechanical.

DOUG RUSSELL

January 8, 2021

Doug 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.

BETHANIE IRONS

October 24, 2020

Bethanie Irons joins the podcast to discuss her recent series of Vanitas Still Life Paintings/Illustrations that use symbols to explore ideas of life, death, and the passage of time during the global pandemic of 2020.

NICK SATINOVER 2

February 28, 2020

Nick Satinover returns to the podcast to share his latest series of print and mixed media works which will be accompanied by a series of original recordings using a Tascam 4-Track recorder.

MATTHEW T. MCLAUGHLIN

June 28, 2019

This 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.

LISA LOFGREN

March 1, 2019

Lisa Lofgren joins the podcast this week to discuss her work which explores a multitude of printmaking techniques to create layered prints as well as installations that based on her experiences of landscape.

ERIKA B. HESS

December 21, 2018

This week Erika B. Hess joins the podcast to discuss her paintings that explore the figure, landscape, and still life, which create narratives in her work from daily observations.

DIANA BAUMBACH 2

April 6, 2018

Diana Baumbach returns to the podcast to discuss her current work, which focusing on repetition and the hand-made.

ILARIA ROSELLI DEL TURCO

July 21, 2017

Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco joins the podcast to discuss her studio practice which focuses on paintings of still life and portraits under direct observation.

TARO TAKIZAWA

May 25, 2017

This week Taro Takizawa joins the podcast to discuss his recent drawings, prints and vinyl wall installations.

JASON URBAN

February 9, 2017

Jason Urban joins us from Austin to provide an overview of his studio practice which explores a wide range of printmaking, sculpture, and installation art.