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Bree Stallings, Charlotte artist: To Be Seen & Celebrated exhibition

Episode 149: You can’t deny that eyes are the window to the soul. Today I go on-site to see Bree Stallings’s solo exhibition, To be Seen & Celebrated. Bree & I chat about the project behind the exhibition, where she was commissioned to paint 100 individual eyeballs in memory of a loved one.

Bree gives a percentage of it to the residents Brookhill Village, an affordable housing community in Charlotte, for eye exams & glasses.

To be Seen & Celebrated, c. Bree Stallings

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Let’s Have a Ball! Chat with Andrea Rosen of the Fleming Museum

Episode 147: Today I talk to Andrea Rosen, the head curator at the Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vt. She tells me all about the Artist, Wood Gaylor, which is the topic of her new book, Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913-1936 which just came out. We talk about the corresponding exhibition, Let’s Have a Ball! which goes until May 8, 2020.

Check out this video of Andrea talking about Wood Taylor


Samuel Wood Gaylor (American, 1883-1957), Picnic, Shaker Lake, Alfred, Maine, 1923. Oil on canvas in hand-carved frame by Robert Laurent. Courtesy of Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC, New York

featured image credit: Let’s Have a Ball! Wood Gaylor and the New York Art Scene, 1913–1936  — February 7 – May 8, 2020.  Image: Samuel Wood Gaylor (American, 1883-1957), Arts Ball, 1918, 1918. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. 

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Prints from Europe: Chat with Wim Roefs of the if Art Gallery

Episode 145: Today I talk to Wim Roefs of the ifArt Gallery in Colombia, SC about the Prints from Europe exhibition. This exhibition contains limited edition prints from the last six decades. Join us as we talk about this fabulous exhibition & we also learn what makes a print valuable.

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Bart at TAM exhibition, Part 2: Chat with Bill Heeter

Episode 143: Today I talk to the collector who inspired the Bart at TAM exhibition, episode 141. Bill Heeter generously loaned his vast collection of vintage Simpsons art to the museum. I was lucky enough to talk to him about the inspiration behind it, what he does with it, & where he’s going with it. [Hopefully to Charlotte].

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RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST!: Chat with Andrea Rosen of the Fleming Museum

Episode 142: Today I talk to Andrea Rosen of the Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont. We talk about the art of activism in the RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST! exhibition which goes until December 13, 2019.

Tony Gleaton (African-American, 1948-2015)
Un hijo de Yemayá (A Child of Yemaya), Hopkins, Belize,
from the series
Africa’s Legacy in Central America, 1990
Gelatin Silver Print
Courtesy of Light Work
John Edmonds (African-American, born 1989)
Jordan Raising His Hand (Encounter), 2015
Inkjet Print
Courtesy of Light Work
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Sabra Field (American, born 1935)
Plainclothesman and Residents: Watts, from the
Decade Portfolio, late 1960s
Linocut print on Goyu paper
Gift of the Pentangle Council on the Arts 1991.80.63I
Francisco De Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828), What a Golden Beak! (Que Pico De Oro!), No. 53 from Caprices (Los Caprichos), 1797-1799. Etching and burnished aquatint on laid paper. Gift of Henry Schnakenberg  1945.2.42

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Bart at TAM: Animating America’s Favorite Family, Pt 1: Chat with Margaret Bullock from the Tacoma Art Museum

Episode 141: Today I talk to Margaret Bullock from the Tacoma Art Museum where she is the Interim Chief Curator, Curator of Collections and Special Exhibitions. We talk about the Bart at TAM exhibition, which features Bill Heeter’s vintage Simpson’s collection. It goes until December 31, 2019. Stay tuned for Part 2, where I talk to the collector, Bill Heeter

Bart at TAM: Animating America’s Favorite Family
Images by Tacoma Art Museum/ Photographer Amber Trillo
Bart at TAM: Animating America’s Favorite Family
Images by Tacoma Art Museum/ Photographer Amber Trillo

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Michelle Gaugy: Art Consultant in Santa Fe, NM

Episode 140: Today I talk to Michelle Gaugy, Art Consultant & the former owner of the Gaugy Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I found her on Quora.com, where she answered some questions I was interested in, regarding art markets. I looked her up on Facebook & connected with her there.

The Gaugy Gallery
Artist, Jean-Claude Gaugy 

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Kirby Kendrick, New Mexico painter

Episode 136: Today I talk to Kirby Kendrick, all the way in New Mexico. Kirby is a wealth of information, as well as a top-notch artist. I found her while researching information on Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter. When I saw her beautiful paintings, I knew I had to get her on the show.

Featured image: La boheme, Collage, acrylic, oil, charcoal and ink on Canvas 60 x 72″

Homage to Manet. Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe
Mixed Media on Canvas
36 x 52″
Sistine Pop!
Tempera, stencil, ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper
26 x 40″
De Kooning’s Angel
Tempera on Paper
40 x 26″

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