Podcasts by The First Stop
A podcast that explores the minds of artists in and around New Haven, a city with a rapidly growing community of contemporary artists.
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Paul Theriault: Electronic Empathy from 2019-06-03T08:00:17
Paul is an electronic media artist working with computers, cameras, televisions, scanners and more. He seems to have empathy for the often slightly outdated technology he tinkers with, mapping emot...
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Gerald Sheffield: The Space between "Shock and Awe" from 2019-02-04T04:12:43
Gerald is an artist working in painting, assemblage and installation art. His most recent work delves into his time deployed in Iraq by the United States Army. Much of his work seeks to complicate ...
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Greyson Hong: "Your Only Limit Is You" from 2019-01-22T01:16:13
Greyson is a multimedia installation and performance artist whose recent work investigates the limits of human experience. Greyson often uses her own body as a site of artistic experimentation. Muc...
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Hong Hong: Atmosphere Absorbed from 2018-12-03T12:20:36
Hong builds colorful and monumental compositions using paper pulp. These large-scale works record the shifting conditions of time and environment as they cure outside over many hours. Hong is fasci...
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Zachary Keeting: Assembled Expressions from 2018-11-19T09:00:28
Zach’s bold and vigorous paintings appear to harness the momentum of mid-century American expressionism, but they have an orderly logic to them: each explosive brushstroke seems to have been caref...
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Joe Smolinski: Impure Nature from 2018-10-01T12:48:50
Joe is a multimedia artist working in drawing, photography, video, digital 3D modelling, and animation. His practice engages with technology, environmental science, landscape painting, science fict...
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Nina Yuen: The Appropriated Self from 2018-09-17T08:00:36
Nina is an artist and filmmaker whose work deals with gender, narcissism, migration, psychology, philosophy, and so much more. In her visually stunning films, she transforms fragments of appropriat...
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Monique Atherton: Trauma and the Psychological Landscape from 2018-09-04T01:47:06
Monique’s uncompromising photographs of people and places explore past and present traumas of dislocation and abandonment. Many of them communicate an alienated sense of intimacy. They become explo...
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Floating Walls with Julie Pereira from 2018-08-20T21:47:16
Julie’s work deals with the cyclical nature of growth, decay, and erosion, and the way in which time seems to mysteriously contract and expand. Much of her work transcends its material properties t...
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Unearthing the Present with artist Howard el-Yasin from 2018-08-06T09:00:04
Howard is fascinated by the materials (shards, fragments, dead skin cells) Americans produce and discard. He’s captivated by the way in which these objects reflect our current moment of mass-produc...
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A Quick Preview of Upcoming Episodes from 2018-07-30T20:14:12
This is a quick preview of upcoming episodes. The host David Livingston also reports that there will be seven more episodes in the fall season.
To view works discussed in the currently availabl...
Radial Energy with artist Cat Balco from 2018-07-23T03:43:55
Cat Balco's colorful mandala-like paintings suggest centripetal motion and radiate energy. They’re thrilling to look at as beautiful abstractions, and at closer viewing her expressive paint strokes...
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Fragility, Strength, and the Infinite with artist Jacquelyn Gleisner from 2018-07-15T20:40:59
Jacquelyn is fascinated by textile patterns, the expansive and cyclical nature of time and space, and the relationship between fragility, vulnerability, and strength—especially in the context of fe...
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Interior Space with artist Polly Shindler from 2018-07-09T20:02
In this podcast, David Livingston Interviews the artist Polly Shindler. Polly is a prolific painter, who over the years has toggled between abstraction and realism. She has always been a collector ...
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Paint, Ads and Pharmaceuticals with artist Jeff Ostergren from 2018-07-09T03:58:24
An interview with the Jeff Ostergren, an artist who makes art using crushed pharmaceuticals and processed "food." Go to https://www.firststopart.com to view accompanying images.
Jeff is a ...