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My guest back again today is Helen Frederick, an artist whose career has spanned decades of innovation in printmaking, paper-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Helen earned both her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and went on to found Pyramid Atlantic, a hub for contemporary printmaking, hand paper-making, and book arts.
Her work is held in over 45 international collections and has been exhibited in prestigious institutions like the Phillips Collection, MoMA Kyoto, the Whitney Museum, and many more. She has also served on numerous arts boards and panels and is a Professor Emeritus at George Mason University.
In today’s episode, Helen and I discuss working from leftovers, strengthening your position for creation, will power, perfection and survival. Helen also explains how she finds answers in chaos, why she believes artists are warriors and together we explore a collaborative series of works she is currently in the middle of.
This conversation is continued from last week’s episode. Enjoy!
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
My guest today is Helen Frederick, an artist whose career has spanned decades of innovation in printmaking, paper-making, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Helen earned both her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and went on to found Pyramid Atlantic, a hub for contemporary printmaking, hand paper-making, and book arts.
Her work is held in over 45 international collections and has been exhibited in prestigious institutions like the Phillips Collection, MoMA Kyoto, the Whitney Museum, and many more. She has also served on numerous arts boards and panels and is a Professor Emeritus at George Mason University.
In today’s episode, We dive into Helen's experience learning papermaking in India, and how the physicality of paper and pulp play a huge role in her art to this day. We also discuss controlling production, manifesting your own materials, collaboration, overcoming limitations and daily check-ins with friends. Plus, she takes us through her pulp painting process! I had a blast talking with Helen. Her passion and perspective make this episode one you dont want to miss. This conversation will be continued on next week’s episode, Let’s jump into it!
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
On today’s episode we speak with visual artist, Gerardo Camargo.
I joined Gerardo in his studio where we discussed his drawings and assemblages, and the choreography of home-construction. We also speak about limitation, scarcity, uncertainty and the ways Gerardo’s studio practice and perspectives shifted after he emigrated to the United States.
Gerardo is a self-taught artist from Mexico City. He began working as a cartoonist at the age of 12. In 2002 he was saelected by the Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts as a Promising Emerging Artist. In 2004, he co-founded Zarco Gallery, an independent space for contemporary art in Cuernavaca His work has been shown in galleries and museums in Mexico and the United States. Gerardo lives and works in Washington, D.C.
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
On today’s episode we continue our wonderful conversation with the artist Cianne Fragione.
Today, we discuss the use of non-traditional materials, hear stories from her early career and education, some early opportunities and career reflections from her time in the Bay area. We talk about recipes, patinas and dance, finding good alternatives to destructive moods, and how to trust that odd work when it comes quick and effortless.
Cianne Fragione was born in 1952 and currently lives and works in Washington D.C. She has developed her process-oriented work over five decades, crossing boundaries between abstract painting and sculpture, object, and image. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions at national and international venues and has been the recipient of many awards, fellowships, and residencies, including the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Fellowship and The Legacy Project sponsored by the Joan Mitchell Foundation to name just a few.
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
On today’s episode I get a whirlwind tour of the techniques, recipes and studio practices, of the spectacular Cianne Fragione.
This conversation will be a two-parter, and will be concluded next episode. Today, in part one, we discuss making your own paints, why lead white is such a fantastic color, chaos vs organization, Cianne’s warm-up books, adhesives, “the shake test”, prepping surfaces, rhythm, paper, and the joy of destruction. Cianne also speaks extensively on the making of her massive 24-part painting entitled Heaven and Earth are Dressed in Their Summer Wear, completed in 2012.
Cianne Fragione was born in 1952 and currently lives and works in Washington D.C. She has developed her process-oriented work over five decades, crossing boundaries between abstract painting and sculpture, object, and image. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions at national and international venues and has been the recipient of many awards, fellowships, and residencies, including the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Fellowship and The Legacy Project sponsored by the Joan Mitchell Foundation to name just a few.
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P.S. Cianne and I discuss multiple artworks in her studio which were included in the studio visit photo collection and can be found as a free post on my Patreon page. So feel free to click here and you can look while you listen:)Enjoy my conversation with the artist Cianne Fragione!
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
Today I speak with the Washington DC-based artist Tom Bunnell. Tom received his BA and BFA in Art and Art History from the University of Oregon in 1995 and his MFA in Painting from American University in 1998. Tom has exhibited nationally and internationally and he currently teaches art at St Stephen’s & St Agnes School and American University.
In today’s episode, Tom and I discuss his origins as an abstract painter, his drawings, painting from observation, motifs, Tom’s confidence in materials and mistrust of process, how these days he efficiently utilizes shorter amounts of studio time, the need to protect the ideas within the studio, and we also discuss some of Tom’s recent paintings in depth. We also trash Philip Guston a little bit.
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My guest today is Ebtisam Abdulaziz. Ebtisam is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. She explores issues of identity and culture through installation, performance, mixed-media, painting and works on paper. She has exhibited extensively and internationally including the 53rd Venice Biennale as part of the United Arab Emirates and Abu Dhabi Pavilions. Her installations, paintings, works on paper and videos are held in numerous public and private collections.Her video work Autobiography from 2007 was purchased for the Guggenheim Museum collection in Abdu Dhbai. Additionally Abdulaziz was named as one of 100 Powerful Arab Women of 2013. She has been living and working in Washington, D.C. since 2014.
In our conversation, Ebtisam explains her art-making as a mix of meditation, play and practicality. We discuss her drawings, her mentor Hassan Sharif, her daily practice, how her practice relates to her audience, how she judges ideas only after they are complete, and so much more. Enjoy the show!
About Ebtisam Abdulaziz:
Combining the scientific with the arbitrary, Abdulaziz draws from her training in science and mathematics, methodically exploring subconscious states and the expansiveness of daily life. She creates codes, systematic structures, graphic language, and performative gestures to force viewers to question their assumptions about rules in the natural and formulaic world. The intimate juxtapositions of these concepts center awareness on our surrounding environment and the issues that perplex and shape us.
In addition to the Venice Biennale, Ebtisam Abdulaziz's work has been exhibited at the 7th and 10th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Dubai Next, Basel; The Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; The Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany; The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Benin Biennial 2012, Kora Centre, Benin; FotoFest Biennial, Art in Houston, Texas; Cara Gallery; Smack Mellon gallery in New York; NYUAD Art Gallery; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; Tampa; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. In 2014, her work was part of the touring exhibition of Past Forward: Contemporary Art from the Emirates, which took place across several American cities and is included in international collections. Her installations, paintings, works on paper and videos are held in numerous public and private collections.You can now support this podcast by clicking HERE where you can donate using PATREON or PayPal!
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
Today begins my Washington DC Artists Edition, a six-part series I could not be more excited to release.
Starting today with my guest, the wonderful Cheryl D. Edwards.
Edwards is an African American artist who was born in 1954. She began studying art in 1987 in New York City in a class at the Art Student League taught by Ernest Crichlow.
Edwards has been living and working in Washington, DC for the past 28 years. She has exhibited in many shows in DC, New York, Virginia, Maryland, Miami, Texas, Pennsylvania, Rotterdam, Monaco, and Hong Kong. Her medium is oil, ink, printmaking, mixed media, and acrylics.
On this episode Edwards and I speak about authenticity, the courage to fail, artists helping artists, space, deconstruction, abstraction, searching for something elusive, annual intentions and so much more.
I had a fantastic time speaking with Cheryl, and I am beyond proud to be sending her stories, advice, experience, ideas and vibes out there into pod-radio land. Enjoy the show.
Upcoming / Current Exhibition Notes:
This upcoming weekend, Cheryl Edwards is participating in the Seattle Art Fair where she will be represented by Monte Azul Arts Center in collaboration with Stewart Gallery. She is also currently exhibiting in Gilejeje Denmark at the Paper Academy.
About Cheryl Edwards:
Cheryl is a 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2015 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Awardee. Cheryl is the winner of the Black Writers Fellowship: Reporter awarded by Hand Papermaking, Inc. Cheryl is an awardee in the Art Cart: Saving the Legacy project selected by the Research Center for Arts and Culture. The Art Cart Project resulted in the archival of her artwork in the Academic Commons Columbia University archives. Cheryl was also a Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the David Driskell Center (2015-2023,University of Maryland), a member of the Education Committee of the McClean Project for the Arts and an Advisor to the Washington Sculptors Group in Washington, D.C.
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
On today’s episode I speak with Joe Hollier. Joe is a multi-disciplinary artist from Brooklyn. He is also the co-founder of The Light Phone.
Joe and I met back in the day, participating in group shows around Brooklyn. Back then i knew him as a collage artist, who was also hard at work on a mysterious plastic gadget. That gadget turned out to be The Light Phone, a simple phone that makes calls and helps keep distractions to a minimum.
I actually picked up a Light Phone earlier this year and much later put 2 and 2 together that this was Joe’s project. So I looked Joe up and asked if he’d like to sit down with me sometime and talk about art and life and phones. He said “yes.” Here’s my conversation with Joe Hollier.
Joe Hollier studied design at the School of Visual Arts. He is a filmmaker, designer, director, and entrepreneur. He likes to make stop animations, collages, patterns and drawings, music videos, documentaries, and books.
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Today on ARTMATTERS, Brooklyn-based artist Dik Liu and I finish up last week’s conversation. On today’s episode Dik talks about living in New York since the 80s, teaching, being a loner, his museum habits, painting when he doesn’t know the outcome, spending decades painting light and Leonard Bernstein. He also gave me some personal advice on my practice, which was too good not to include. So that’s there too.
A little background on the man: Dik F. Liu received his MFA from Yale University. He is widely represented in exhibitions throughout the U.S. As a teacher, Liu has taught at Cooper Union, Hofstra University, and the School of Visual Arts and is currently teaching at the New York Academy of Art, Pratt Institute, and the New School University.
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
On today’s episode I speak with the artist Dik Liu. I studied with Dik back in the day and was thrilled when he accepted my invitation to join me for this episode.
Dik F. Liu received his MFA from Yale University. He is widely represented in exhibitions throughout the U.S. As a teacher, Liu has taught at Cooper Union, Hofstra University, and the School of Visual Arts and is currently teaching at the New York Academy of Art, Pratt Institute, and the New School University.
Today we discuss observational painting, Manet, skill, ego, abstract painting, color and light, Dik’s practice and material curiosity, the Maroger Formula, the economy of brushwork, consistency, failure, Rembrandt, world-building and painting as a form of engagement or escapism. It was great to reconnect with Dik, the man is a wealth of information and experience. This conversation is a two-parter, so stay tuned next week for the dramatic conclusion.
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On today’s episode I speak with NYC-based artist, Langdon Graves!Together we sit down in her Bushwick studio and speak about building objects, combining mediums, Trompe-l'oil, different kinds of drawing, efficiency, the lead-up to an exhibition, different kinds of flow-states, preciousness, physical fatigue after long studio sessions, teaching, mentorship and community, a few ideas about contemporary art education, relief printmaking, variations, reading, and multi-tasking.
Langdon Graves is a New York City-based artist with a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Painting and Printmaking and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. She is adjunct faculty now at both Parsons and the MFA program at Pratt Institute. Langdon is represented by Dinner Gallery in New York and has had solo exhibitions in New York, Florida, Virginia, Arkansas, Vermont and Massachusetts and has participated in group shows and fairs throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Langdon has attended the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, the Kunstenaarsinitiatief Residency and Exhibition Program in the Netherlands, the Object Limited residency in Bisbee, Arizona and STONELEAF Retreat in upstate New York. She is a recipient of Canson & Beautiful Decay’s Wet Paint Grant and has been featured in Art in America and Artnet, Maake, VICE Creators, Juxtapoz, Art F City, Blouin Artinfo, Hyperallergic and Madeline Schwartzman’s See Yourself X.
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I’m recording this intro from Washington DC where I’m rounding up a couple last interviews of the tour. It’s been a great trip so far and I’m very excited to share these conversations with you later this summer.
On today’s episode i speak to LA-based artist Georgina Clapham. I met Georgina on the PLOP artist residency in London back in 2018 and I was very excited to hear she had moved to LA to get her Masters at Otis College of Art and Design, which is where we sat down for this interview.
Today we talk humor, finishing touches, allowing for discomfort, change, and what it feels like before change, stagnation and the return of joy and passion, seeing yourself in a painting, making yourself more available, new tools, the vulnerability of drawing, working unmonitored and a lot more.
Georgina Clapham was born in Somerset, England. She has previously attended City and Guilds of London Art School, and The Glasgow School of Art. In 2015 she was awarded The Richard Ford Travel Scholarship to draw at the Prado Museum, Madrid, Her work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, holding her debut solo show, ‘Mythologies and Metamorphoses,’ at Triumph Gallery, Moscow in 2018.
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My guest today is Catherine Howe. Catherine is a New York-based artist who has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe for over thirty years, including exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, MoMA PS 1 in New York, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Her work has been reviewed by Art in America, Artforum, Art Critical, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times.
On today's episode, Catherine and I discuss color, mise en place, gallery requests, speed, snark, pressure, an ecstatic practice, tuning out chatter, a crisis of confidence, resilience and change, enjoying contradiction, trust, gratitude and the three types of studio visits from hell.Special Note:
For all my listeners in the LA area, Catherine Howe's upcoming exhibition Wallflower, opens May 18 at Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles and runs through July 6. I highly recommend checking this one out! Opening reception for wallflower is Saturday, May 18 from 4-7 Now on to the show….
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists!
Back today is my guest Anne Harris. She is a painter, a curator, a writer, and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In today's conversation Anne speaks about Paul’s pisco sour, the artist spouse, therapy, loneliness, momentum, the Zone, music in the art studio and why painting is a vocation, not a career. Lot’s more too. Check it out!
About Anne Harris:
Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery and DC Moore Gallery in New York to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute and many more besides. She is also the originator of The Mind’s I, a drawing project done with other artists which has traveled and exhibited nationally and internationally. As for her studio practice, in Anne’s own words she wants her paintings to, "function like an eyelid, veering from dry to wet, inside to outside, opaque to transparent, form to formless, mute to aggressive, space curved outward toward the viewer, held in by fragile surface tension, the picture plane as membrane, the entire painting an eyelid.”
This is a two-parter folks, so don't forget to listen to part one from last week if you haven't already. Thanks for listening!You can now support this podcast by clicking HERE where you can donate using PATREON or PayPal!
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
My guest today is Anne Harris. She is a painter, a curator, a writer, and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery and DC Moore Gallery in New York to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute and many more besides. She is also the originator of The Mind’s I, a drawing project done with other artists which has traveled and exhibited nationally and internationally.
On today’s episode we discuss routine, productively, working slow, numb panic, depression, relevance, on trend/off trend, contracts, royalties, a culture that values art but not artists, drawing, invisible labor, how art develops it’s meaning over time and the Venus of Willendorf.
As for her studio practice, well, in Anne’s own words she wants her “paintings to function like an eyelid, veering from dry to wet, inside to outside, opaque to transparent, form to formless, mute to aggressive, space curved outward toward the viewer, held in by fragile surface tension, the picture plane as membrane, the entire painting an eyelid.”
Anne Harris was a blast to talk to, eloquent, honest and insightful. This is a two-parter folks, here’s part one. Enjoy.You can now support this podcast by clicking HERE where you can donate using PATREON or PayPal!
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
Today i speak with the LA-based artist Jen Hitchings. Jen’s work investigates the tenuous relationship between humankind and nature and in recent years she has embarked on a deeply self-reflective investigation of the psyche, relationships, erotic desire, and cosmic forces. Her influences range from the rural Japanese landscape, the Hudson River School painters, science fiction film posters, spiritualist archetypes, and contemporary surrealist painting.On today's episode: Jen and I discuss vertical vs horizontal compositions, deadlines, negotiation skills, her upcoming 21 ft-mural commission for Mailchimp, starting a painting, building a painting and potential new directions in her painting practice. and a whole lot more.
About Jen Hitchings:
Jen Hitchings (1988, New Jersey) received her BFA in Painting & Drawing from SUNY Purchase College in 2011 and a certificate in Small Business & Entrepreneurship from CUNY Hunter College in 2018. She has attended residencies at Adventure Painting (Yellowstone National Park), DNA (Provincetown, MA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Studio Kura (Itoshima, Japan). Solo presentations of her work have taken place at Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, CA) in 2023, Taymour Grahne (London, UK) in 2023 and online in 2022, One River School (Englewood, NJ) in 2019, MEN Gallery (New York, NY) and PROTO (Hoboken, NJ) in 2018, and Ideal Glass (New York, NY) in 2017 which was accompanied by a 16 x 30’ outdoor mural. In 2021, she completed two large-scale outdoor murals at The Wassaic Project, on view through 2023. In 2023, she was commissioned by Mailchimp to produce a 9 x 21’ indoor permanent office mural at their new headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at Richard Heller, Anat Ebgi, Good Mother (Los Angeles), Kutlesa (Goldau, Switzerland), Chen Projects at Louisa Art Center (Taipei, Taiwan), Taymour Grahne (London, UK), Ana Mas Projects (Barcelona, Spain), Gaa Gallery, Cindy Rucker, Pierogi (New York, NY), and The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) among others. She was a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts’ New Works Grant in 2018. Between 2013–2020, Hitchings co-directed Transmitter and Associated Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, is the founder of artist-focused consulting agency Studio Associate, and Director of Career Services at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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Today's guest, Marina Ross is a Russian Jewish artist, and her paintings draw upon her experience of acculturation, The American Dream, and the trauma inherent within it as well as traditional feminine beauty, as a form of social capital, assimilation, and protection. These notions of power and control of the feminine body and the performance of femininity saturate Ross’s work.A few months back, I was in Chicago, and had the opportunity to swing by ArtRuss Gallery, where Ross’s latest solo show, Emerald City, was opening the following day. Ross walked me through her exhibition after which, we sat down and recorded this conversation.
Ross and I discussed painting on paper, curating Emerald City, control and agency, working in bursts, accountability partners, community, cofounding the NYC Creative Salon, and her most recent work with the Chicago Crit Club.Ross also speaks openly about the loss of her son Rafi, and about painting’s role in coping with trauma.
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Marina Ross is an artist, instructor, and curator based in Chicago, IL. She earned her MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 2018 and her BFA in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Her work has been exhibited in New York at Sugarlift, Friday Studio Gallery, Art Helix, and Highline Stages and throughout Chicago at Goldfinch Gallery, Heaven Gallery, The Franklin, Sulk, and Baby Blue Gallery, among others. She received The Stanley Award for International Graduate Research from The University of Iowa and attended the Saint Petersburg Artist Residency in Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017). Her work is in numerous public and private collections. She runs a critique group for professional artists in Chicago and teaches art at Loyola University Chicago and Roosevelt University.
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
Today’s guest is Thai Mainhard. Thai is an abstract painter that live and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thai draws inspiration from human experiences and tension found in daily life and her own memories of it.
In this week’s episode I sit down with Thai to discuss how she starts a painting, the magic of good teachers, the function of mood, formula and what she calls ‘the source’ in her daily studio practice.
We also discuss collage, scale, leaving the rectangle and how to leave the studio with a little bit of excitement to start tomorrow.
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Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists.
Today is the final installment of my conversation with the artist TL Solien. In this last section, TL talks about building his dream studio, selling his dream studio, the best years of his career, dwindling interest, staying afloat, vulnerability, taking things personally, contemplating failure, building paintings in moments of fracture, learning art history late, finding satisfaction, healthy fuel, 30 minutes of joy, scale, notes from an opera, Tex Avery cartoons, how he starts a painting now, being stumped, and problem solving.
I'd like to add that I've been receiving a lot of love for the previous parts of this conversation, and if this means you would like more long-form conversations like this one, please let me know at [email protected]
Finally please consider supporting this podcast by donating to ARTMATTERS Patreon. I just set it up and by donating you will help ensure the availability and continuation of these quality conversations.About:
T.L Solien, born in Fargo North Dakota in 1949, received a BA degree in Art from Moorhead State University, Moorhead MN in 1973, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977.TL Solien has been invited to participate in numerous exhibitions of National and International magnitude including, the 1983 Whitney Biennial, the 39th Biennial of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; Avant-Grade in the 80”s, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum NY; Images and Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Contemporary Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Solien was the subject, recently, of a 25 year retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, entitled “ T.L. Solien: Myths and Monsters", as well as a touring exhibition porganized by the Plains Museum of Fargo North Dakota, entitled "Toward the Setting Sun", comprised of 65 work, and supported by a 200 page catalog published and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.
TL Solien has had approximately 40 solo exhibitions over the last 25 years.TL Solien is represented in numerous corporate and public collections including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The Tate Modern, London; The Smithsonian Museum ,Washington D.C.; The Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles; The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI. and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI. TL Solien is currently represented by Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, and his most recent solo exhibition was at OTI in Los Angeles, CA.
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