Betsy Enzensberger sculpts works that create a visceral longing and remembrance of the most nostalgic delights from childhood. The artist uses the familiarity of those sweet treats to help us remember the simplicity, value and culture of desserts so often associated with positivity and joy.
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Enzensberger was born and raised in New York. She graduated from Tulane University and is now a Los Angeles-based artist with a studio in Mar Vista. She has shown with galleries domestically in Los Angeles, Miami, Des Moines, Dallas and New York, and internationally in Hong Kong, London, Stockholm, Hamburg and Byron Bay, Australia. You can find her sculptures in multiple public and private art collections.

Betsy Enzensberger has become quite well known for her realistic, larger-than-life sculptures of dripping, frozen treats. Resin looks like candy. It appears delicious and sweet. The shiny exterior has a wet, melting quality. Her Tragically Sweet series plays with the desires of everyone’s inner child. The lure of sweet, sticky popsicles artificially instills intense longing. The colorful confections practically beg to be rescued and consumed.
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“Resin - I love it. It’s beautiful, sexy, mysterious. It’s also toxic, messy, and annoyingly exhausting to create. However, I enjoy the challenges that resin presents. There’s just something about it I can’t resist. If the process was easy, I wouldn’t be doing it.”

– Betsy Enzensberger
betsyenzensberger.com

Ep. 76 Original Melting Pops with Betsy Enzensberger

ibuki-kuramochi.com
Born in Japan,  Artist IBUKI KURAMOCHI specializes in artworks for exhibition (paintings and media arts), and also specializes in live performances combining her live painting with her Japanese Butoh dance. From 2012, Ibuki started exhibiting works in major cities in Japan, U.S.A.,Taiwan, France, Italy and Australia.She studied Butoh dance at the world renown Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio in Yokohama in 2016.
Through her work, she pursues the physicality of Butoh’s poetic choreography and the pursuit of the human body in anatomy. She visualizes her performance and body movements as two-dimensional works and video works.​ Ibuki explores concepts of the body, thought and physical resonance, metamorphosis, Femininity and fetishism.​ In 2019, Ibuki received a USA O-1 artist visa. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

​Artist Statement 
Physicality is the key point of my art’s theme. My work exists in various media such as video works, performances and painting works. The body is owned by every human being, but it is different for each person. As anatomist Takeshi Yoro says, "There is nothing more personal than your own body”. Each body is born to and owned by each individual, and is completely original. Also,I have few experiences of sleeping comfortably at night, and I often have nightmares which I remember well after waking up. Most of the nightmares are like a strange, violent and weird film. I believe that these dream experiences have directly influenced my work, and that the visual experiences that I see every night are inevitably the essence of my work. Also, in my dream experience, the "Id" in Sigmund Freud is exposed. (The Id is the primitive and instinctive component of personality. 
It consists of all the inherited, ((i.e. biological components of personality present at birth)), including the sex ((life)) instinct – Eros ((which contains the libido)), and the aggressive ((death)) instinct - Thanatos.) When I’m creating a video, I consciously discover my own "Id" and output it. In the case of creating my paintings, I subconsciously discover my own "Id" and output it. That process feels like swimming. These subconscious and conscious extracted "Id" have a consistent physicality. I can say that my video work represents the output of Id’s body sensation, and my painting work represents the output of Id’s brain sensation.

I’m also inspired by things that involve sexuality such as masculine and feminine, transformation, meltability, and compatibility.
Also, the sorcerous elements and attachments in fetishism are like stretching the desires of the body. Sometimes things become a substitute for the body. Also life and death come and go on the side of that fetishism / eroticism. For example, the mind and the body move between the membranes, or the body escapes from the body and materializes. Under the pandemic, all human relationships are now concentrated in the virtual world through the Internet. People’s thoughts, remarks, and lives appear in our vision which forms into photographs, movies, letters, and become a huge timeline. My work evokes and awakens the oblivion of the physical body in the current virtual world.

Ep.78 Ibuki kuramochi Japanese Media/ Performance /Butoh artist

Join us for a lively conversation with Klaire Lockheart and Aaron C Packard! We get an update with Klaire on all things Miss Art World South Dakota and more! We also get to know Aaron's background and career within photography. 
Visit them here 
https://www.klairelockheart.com/
https://www.aaronpackard.com/

Ep. 79 The Dream Team: MAW South Dakota Klaire Lockheart & Aaron C Packard

Looking for the latest art news?! We got you covered with a little extra on the side.

Ep. 83. Stealing a Monet & Cows

https://www.hammondartstudio.com/

Hammond, represented by Rehs Contemporary Galleries in Midtown Manhattan, grew up in the historic Hudson Valley of New York. His earliest influences included Jim Davis and Charles Schultz, as well as characters created by DC and Marvel Comics. His interest in art was further fueled by the strong museum and arts background of his parents.
 
In the late 90's, Hammond studied the business and presentation side of the fine art world while working for Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ. In doing so, he was exposed to world-renowned artists such as Dale Chihuly, Francoise Gillot, Fritz Scholder and Paul Jenkins. He had his first solo exhibition in 2000 and earned his B.A. in Art from Arizona State University in 2006. 
 
While trained in representational art, Hammond began working from the subconscious, and in 2011 he shifted to an abstract expressionistic style. The initial outcome was his first abstract series, UNTITLED.  
 
In 2012 he moved to Cincinnati, OH. He then partnered with Artworks Cincinnati on multiple projects, and in 2014 he founded the Cincinnati Abstract Art Group. 
 
Hammond’s work was selected for the Ohio Governor’s Office and Residence Loan Program in 2016 and he has received three purchase awards through the Ohio Percent for Art program. He has had solo exhibitions in AZ, NY, OH and WI and is in public and private collections nationally.

EP. 85 Hammond's unique abstract art that tells a story.

Keep up with up is going on in the art world! The main news story is artist, Jens Haaning, says the blank canvases make up a new work of art — titled "Take the Money and Run"

Ep. 86 Art News 'Take The Money And Run'

Caitlin Mary Margarett is a Midwestern artist, born and raised between Minnesota and Iowa. CMM attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison, seeking an MFA in 4D (2024). She holds a BFA in performance art and a BA in art history from the University of Northern Iowa (2018).

Rooted in a durational, performative practice, CMM's work shifts between seeking an esthetic, spiritual ambience and an immediate, frenetic urgency about our climate crisis. Her work is a multimedia exploration of place and the near past; utilizing video, photography, ceramics, antiques, and textiles to evoke both nostalgia and solastalgia. She has most recently been analyzing her local ecology and considering the Midwest landscape as an article of history in and of itself. The 100 Days project is a durational performance practice that began in 2020, illustrating the timeline of the Midwest’s loss in biodiversity alongside her maternal family's immigration from Denmark to Iowa. The project is focused on generating a discussion surrounding our concept of time, ecological and cultural erosion, and grief. In 2021, her 100 Days V.ii documented the Iowa Derecho's damage and showed her multi-day pilgrimage across the state. In the final days of V.ii, CMM documented the homes, graves, and churches of her maternal line, and the Rompot prairie that was destroyed by Cargill and the City of Cedar Rapids. Through 100 Days V.i in 2020, CMM cataloged much of her surrounding landscape and domestic rituals at the onset of the pandemic.    

CMM's art practice is a means to make sense of her own feminist spirituality within systems of cultural / ecological flourishing and suffering. Her work poses questions about individual agency, and the experience of being locked in cycles of redemption and reemergence. These recurring threads, woven into narratives around site specificity and our connection to place, coalesce into new work that asks what our roles are as we brace for the impact of our climate emergency.  

    

Her work has been shown throughout the Midwest, at 2021's Miami Art Week as a part of the PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE / Satellite Show that runs concurrent with Art Basel Miami; at Louisiana State University for the 2019 Queeramics Symposium; in Ceramics Monthly; Emergency Index V. 8 and V. 9; and Aesthetica Magazine. She is currently preparing for her research trip to Denmark in 2022 and her solo show in Berlin, Germany, at LiTEHAUS GALERIE & PROJEKTRAUM, also slated for 2022. CMM's next upcoming solo show is scheduled at ARTIFACT Gallery, New York, NY, on January 11-29, 2023.
https://www.caitlinmarymargarett.com/

Ep. 89 Caitlin Mary Margarett

Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn is an Atlanta-based Interdisciplinary Artist. Blinkhorn’s work advocates for the LGBTQ+, disabled, and aging communities. Blinkhorn, who uses a powerchair, focuses her work on acceptance through acknowledgement of difference, body positivity, disability education through experience and exposure, human sexuality, and story-telling.
https://jeblinkhorn.wixsite.com/mysite

Ep. 91 Jessica E Blinkhorn Atlanta-based Interdisciplinary Artist

Samuel and Miss Art World chat about art news! From Damien Hirst's Diamond Skull that never actually sold and an artist placed a cube made from $11.7 million worth of gold in Central Park—protected by its own security detail.

Ep. 93 Cube of Gold & a Diamond Skull

Welcome listeners! Samuel and Miss Art World chat about the latest art news. Including how artists are responding to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the couple stole a de Kooning to hang in their bedroom. 

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-thief-collector-de-kooning-heist-review-1234622038/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-artists-are-responding-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-180979653/

Ep. 94 Artists Responding to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. AiOP also produces an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October.

https://artinoddplaces.org/story/ 

Mission
Art in Odd Places aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.

History
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) began as an action by a group of artists led by Ed Woodham to encourage local participation in the Cultural Olympiad of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. In 2005, after moving back to New York City, he re imagined it as a response to the dwindling of public space and personal civil liberties – first in the Lower East Side and East Village, and since 2008, on 14th Street in Manhattan. AiOP has always been a grassroots project fueled by the goodwill and inventiveness of its participants.
AiOP 2022: STORY

OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS 
Art in Odd Places invites proposals for its seventeenth annual public art and performance festival taking place along 14th Street in Manhattan, NY – from Avenue C to the Hudson River this fall. 

“Obstacles are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.” ― Unknown

Today, public personal merit is based on the number of followers on social media – and relevance changes with the shifting weather. True identity and community are where words are genuinely heard, truths shared, stories told, and perceptions possibly changed. Is it feasible to change others’ perceptions? 

Finding meaning in life is a collective universal truth. The pursuit of meaning can be lost in the static of the passionate necessity to search.

One’s narrative writes itself. Every insurmountable obstacle, laugh, devastation, tear, scar, heartbreak, familiarity, and inexperience is a chapter. If executed with fearless honesty and mindful intent – change is possible. Will the story of your existence endure the test of time?

Art in Odd Places(AiOP) 2022: STORY scheduled for September 23-25, 2022, curated by Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn invites proposals for its seventeenth annual public art and performance festival taking place along 14th Street in Manhattan, NY – from Avenue C to the Hudson River.

Art in Odd Places 2022: STORY seeks imaginative proposals by artists from the Disabled, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Allied communities that tell her, his, their STORY (Community. Identity. Endurance. Merit. Perception).  
 
Jessica Elain Blinkhorn, Who Am I Who Are You? 
ABOUT THE CURATOR: Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy very young. The muscle wasting disease has left her as a wheelchair user but she uses living with a disability to inform her work and educate society about differences. She began to explore Performance Art in Graduate School to assist with creating and constructing a social narrative to promote change, equity, and inclusion. She has been featured on ABC World News(2010), was the subject of the award-winning documentary short  “Grounded by Reality”(2010), and has received grants from Change, Inc., FL(2012), Artist Fellowship Grant, NY(2013, 2014, 2015, 2021), Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, NY(2018, 2020, 2021), C4 Atlanta, GA(2020). Blinkhorn is an AiOP veteran(2018, 2021) and most recently, was named a Franklin Furnace Awardee, NY(2019-20), Artist in Residence at the Momentary, AR(2020), Artist in Residence for the Paseo Project, NM(2021), Atlanta BeltLine Artist, GA(2021-22), and an ELEVATE Artist, GA(2021).

Ep 95 Art in Odd Places

“Carter (born 1986, Dallas, Texas) is a transdisciplinary artist with a BFA from Stanford University and an MFA from Southern Methodist University. His work is presented as videos, publications, installations, and performances to encompass multi-sensorial and layered circumstances encountered by the artist. Personal interactions, media bombardment, observed and lived experiences, and material excess/waste influence his work towards a complex revolutionary promise. These are ecologically centered works often heavily linked to the material history of currency in how it relates to the histories of marginalized people. Carter is of Black and Native American heritage and views his work as a continuation of the survival and storytelling practices of these cultures. More broadly, he is interested in how these practices have analogies across cultures worldwide. Stories of origins, the afterlife, superhuman beings, and of love and tragedy are the most compelling for him. Carter creates work dealing with what these stories mean in an often violent and oppressive context and the power they have toward influencing revolutionary momentum.”

https://xxavieredwardcarter.wordpress.com/about/

Ep. 96 Xxavier Edward Carter

The Year Time Stopped
The Global Pandemic in Photos
By Christina Hawatmeh, Nour Chamoun

Curated by the founders of Scopio, a community-based image marketplace, a stunning and unforgettable visual history that captures the world’s response to major events that defined 2020: the COVID pandemic and the sweeping movements for racial and social justice.

In 2020, the world experienced massive change. Millions of lives were ended—and millions more upended—by the Covid-19 pandemic. The shocking police killings of Black men and women gave rise to powerful social movements and widespread collective action to rectify centuries of injustice and racism in the United States and globally. Together, these three colossal events tested the resilience of the social fabric bringing us all together. 

Attempting to illuminate and make sense of this new reality, photographers from around the world documented these transformational moments as they unfolded. Carefully combing through their archive, the founders of Scopio have curated these photographs to tell the story of the year 2020. It began with a collective sense of isolation and fear to eventually people coming together and protesting the social injustices that were uncovered later that year.

Representing artists from around the globe, The Year Time Stopped seeks to empower us and give credence to the extraordinary circumstances that changed our world. The 200 images in this striking visual collection are indelible, impassioned, and unforgettable. Taken together, they are a singular testament to this unprecedented time.

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Ep.98 The Year Time Stopped

Join Samuel and me for some trashy art news just for fun.

Ep. 97 Art News Junk

Ep. 99 Stolen Art News

We are back!! Chat with us about all things Miami Basel. What was hot and what was not? What sold and what was everyone talking about?

Ep. 100 Miami Basel

Hi Art World!! Meet artist John Bourn II who is a digital artist and illustrator specializing in representational painting, portraits and concept art. I thrive off of creating characters and worlds of my own l, I'm always excited to lend my vision to a new project.

https://johnbourn2.artstation.com/
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https://www.instagram.com/johnbournii/
https://www.instagram.com/merlins_paintbrush/

Ep. 101 Disney, Streaming, & more with artist John Bourn II

Co-hosts Katherine & Samuel chat with Heather Sincavage an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in performance art but also includes drawing, sculpture, and installation. She uses her own experiences with intimate partner violence as a case study analyzing what it is to live with trauma.  https://www.heathersincavage.com @hsincavage

Her work has appeared in the Tate Modern in London and LiteHaus Galerie in Berlin amongst other locations across Europe. She has performed at the Queens Museum and Grace Exhibition Space in NYC; Tempting Failure Festival of Performance Art & Noise in London, Alive at Satellite during Miami Art Basel; Latvian Center for Performance Art in Riga; and galleries across the United States.  Additionally, her work has been projected on the historic Daniels and Fisher historic bell tower in downtown Denver, Co.  She has exhibited in over 40 solo and group exhibitions across the United States and in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Finland, and Iceland. 

Originally from Southeastern Pennsylvania, she received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and her MFA from School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She is an alumna of The Vermont Studio Center as well as numerous other residencies and fellowships in the United States and throughout Europe. Her work has been published in Surface Design Journal and the 2022 publication “An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art: SELF/S” by Dr. T.J. Bacon for the University fo Chicago Press.

In 2018, Heather received the Tanne Foundation Award, a peer-nominated honor for scholarship excellence and emergent contributions to the performance art field. She currently is an Associate Professor of Art and the Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University.

Ep. 102 Heather Sincavage

Ashley M. Patton is a PhD candidate in the department of Art History and holds a minor in Early Modern Studies. Her research interests include early modern Italian sculpture, gender, religion, and materiality. Her dissertation project, titled "Tangible Women: Marble Sculptures of Female Saints in Seventeenth-Century Rome," explores the construction of early modern gender in post-Tridentine Rome by examining how sculptors employed different typologies of white marble sculpture in sacred spaces to present archetypal, yet largely inimitable models of the early modern, ideal Christian woman. She is also interested in the global impact of early modern Catholicism, including the trans-Atlantic relationships between Italy and the Americas in the seventeenth century.

Ashley is currently the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Curatorial Intern in the department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum as a Graduate Intern and the Getty Research Institute as a Research Assistant. She has also contributed to multiple museum exhibitions, including “Turkish Rugs on Tudor Walls: 16th Century Trade between England and the Islamic World” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and “Albrecht Dürer: Master of the Black Line” at the Huntington Library.

Ep. 103 Art History with Ashley Patton

Rachel Bailit and Ron Schmidtling share a common philosophy: Life should inspire art and art should inspire life! Rachel is an actress & model, and Ron is a visual artist. A creative match, they began a collaboration that has lasted over ten years. Rachel and Ron met in a drawing group at The Getty Museum in 2011. Both actively involved in the LA underground and commercial art scene, they began to collaborate, meeting in galleries, museums, art schools, and unconventional art spaces. Inspired by friendship and a shared love for movie characters, nature, and the diversity and richness of LA, their works represents artistic freedom, imagination, and limitless possibilities. Rachel and Ron also examine the sacred relationship between artist and model, which requires commitment, trust, and a shared vision. It also explores body image within a Hollywood backdrop where voluptuous bodies are often objectified and stereotyped. The exhibit is a multi-media experience, including paintings, drawings, photography, video, and costumes.

July 8 - July 11, 2023
Opening and Reception: Saturday, July 8th,  6-10pm 
Artist talk back with blue-chip director Billy Gross, live music and reception: Sunday, July 9th 3pm

https://santamonica.bgartdealings.com/show/bg-gallery-the-artist-and-the-muse

Ep. 104 The Artist & The Muse

Art News! Get your Art News! Artist David Hockney paints Harry Styles' portrait. Thoughts?

Ep. 105 Art News Harry Styles Portrait by David Hockney

Ep 106. Art News

Welcome! Today we chat about the US Judge Rules AI-Generated Art Not Protected by Copyright Law among other random things

Ep. 107 A lot about nothing

Miss Art World and Lisa are back to share their thoughts on The Other Art Fair LA, they answer the question- Is it worth it for the artist? Is it worth it to even attend? They also give an unsolicited artist critique and go over some things that artist just shouldn't do at their booth and what they should do. Listen in for our most controversial episode yet!

Ep. 17 The Other Art Fair - Is it really worth it?

Meet an artist who loves painting birds and is super good at it! Lisa and Miss Art World sit down with Jon Ching to discuss with artwork, art prints, and studio.

Ep, 42 Artist Jon Ching and his birds

Miss Art World and Lisa sit down to chat about performance art, photography, copyright laws and whether or not you should sign and date your work!

Ep. 43 To Do or Not To Do: Prints And Signing Your Work

Miss Art World and Lisa sit down to chat about lessons learned from Katherine's solo show, trending art news topics and of course Banksy!

Ep. 45 Lessons Learned from Miss Art World's Solo Show, Art News and Banksy

Join Lisa and Miss Art World as they sit down with the amazing Karen Sarrow the Director of artHYPE. Karen Sarrow (b.1969) in Coventry, England, immigrated to the United States with her family at an early age. Living in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons, the artist has been widely exhibited in the USA and abroad. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Truman State University in Missouri (1991), and a Master of Arts degree from Ohio State University, where she studied Medieval, Contemporary, and African American art history (1994). Sarrow earned the terminal degree of a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pratt Institute’s graduate program in New York (2003). While her activism, her canvases, and her mixed media work remain primary occupations, she complements these endeavors with curating exhibitions of contemporary art. Along with her husband, Jonathan, Karen Sarrow founded artHYPE (artHYPE.net) and is now its director. Her mission is to support and exhibit emerging artists who make meaningful, committed work, grounded in humanism.

Ep.47  artHYPE Director Karen Sarrow

Oscar Ramirez
Visions in my head are sometimes created for others to see. #Art #losangeles #oilpaintings #Laartist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qjGS2NMMPg

Ep. 70 A true LA based Artist Oscar Ramirez

Davidmjester.com
"I was born in Palm Springs, California a while ago and raised in San Diego. I got my MFA at Rutgers University I always felt that I was meant to make Art, but wasnt until the last 2 years that I dedicated full time to Art. I paint on average 12 hours a day, about 330 days a year, and being in the studio so much is bliss.
I have always been drawn to the pool in my art. Metaphorically, its filled with water, and so are we - Body fluids and cleanliness were a jumping of point for this current series. Those who are inside the pool and those who are outside and the different viewpoints and the views are often distorted ones - just like the conservative views of the gay community, and vice versa. I love distortion and so it is a frequent part of my work and I enjoy pushing the abstract shapes that occur in water environments. Pool cleaners hum around working to make the water crystal clear like Prep and meds do within our veins. The pool is another world that is part of the world around it - just like the gay community is an integral part of the overall society. The water in the pool and us has been shared by every other living being since the water developed here - there is a history to it."

Ep. 71 The Amazing David Jester

What up Art World! Are you an artist? Do you like art? Are you new and interested in learning about art without any judgement? Do you have a friend or significant other that likes art and you just need help getting into it? Well then this is the podcast for you! Sit down and listen to Miss Art World and guests as they navigate this world. They discuss popular trends, interview artists, critique local and national pieces.

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