Podcasts by We Eat Art
We Eat Art is a podcast featuring the most in-depth one-on-one interviews with contemporary artists available on the internet. Hosts John Mejias and Zak Smith talk to a wide variety of fellow painters, sculptors, installation artists and other art-world figures about their lives, techniques, philosophies, and biographies. It's also funny.
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We Eat Reine Paradis from 2018-10-03T00:00
Reine Paradis produces quirkily utopian photographs of a world seemingly painted into being in bright bold strokes that belie the complexity, labor and danger involved in creating them. We talk abo...
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We Eat Young Joon Kwak from 2018-08-15T00:00
we talked Young Joon Kwak about trauma, sculpture, William Burroughs the X Men, being a punk being trans, growing up in a conservative household, the healing power of literature, and being a massiv...
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We Eat Castanier Gallery from 2018-08-08T00:00
For Patreon Subscribers: Five artists at once!! Zak hosts an artist panel discussion in Culver City at the Castanier Gallery where he had a group exhibition with Claire Collette, Adam Beris, Kenton...
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We Eat Jim Shaw from 2018-07-30T00:00
We talk to Jim Shaw about melting face masks, weirdness, thrift store paintings, Oism, meaning and secrecy, being in a two-artist household, assistants, Destroy All Monsters, second jobs for artist...
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We Eat Amanda Schmitt from 2018-07-12T00:00
We talked with Amanda about the exact moment she decided she couldn't be an artist, whether or not she likes to enjoy life, erotic uses for spreadsheets, video art, Makunaima, how exactly you becom...
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We Eat Deborah Roberts from 2018-06-27T00:00
We got to talk to rising star Deborah Roberts in maybe? her first long interview about process, the world through the eyes of little girls, Tanner and Normal Rockwell, getting called "African", bei...
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We Eat Zak Smith from 2018-05-31T00:00
Zak Smith, our host, gets spoken with, to mark his show at Fredericks and Freiser gallery this month. Friend of the show Sean McCarthy joins John to interview Zak about brush hair, punk and fine ar...
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We Eat Beyond Baroque from 2018-05-18T00:00
We are taping the show live tomorrow, May 19th, at Beyond Baroque in Venice Beach California! Audience members get a chance to stump us with pieces the hosts will have to analyze on the spot. Come ...
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We Eat Ron Athey from 2018-05-03T00:00
we talk to Ron Athey about growing up with weird religion, having sex in the 1970s, having aids in the 1980s, being used as a pawn in the NEA Culture wars, the early West coast punk rock/ industria...
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We Eat Andrew Schoultz from 2018-04-20T00:00
We talked with Andrew Schoultz about his physical and political relationships with cities, staying out of trouble by skateboarding, getting in to trouble with graffiti, going political in jail, mak...
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We Eat Zak Smith's 1001 Nights from 2018-04-19T00:00
Our sonic invitation to the art opening of the century. It's not just a promo teaser, it's an audio adventure. Zak has an opening today (April 19th) at Fredericks and Freiser gallery in NY. It'll b...
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We Eat Artillery from 2018-04-05T00:00
Hey kids, We Eat Art has a new partner--
Artillery magazine is going to be sponsoring some of our episodes. Here's a promo that goes in to more detail
We Eat Glen E. Friedman from 2018-03-29T00:00
We talk to Glen E. Friedman about photographing skaters, punks and rappers, how to photograph character, the point of wide-angle lenses, working together with the subject to get the perfect picture...
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We Eat Black Panther (sneak preview) from 2018-03-26T00:00
We talked with artist and “Black Pulp” curator Mark Thomas Gibson and vintage Marvel expert Jeff Lester to find out everything you ever wanted to know about the comic books that contributed to Bl...
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We Eat Ben Tolman from 2018-03-15T00:00
we talked to Ben about the police chasing him across the country after he ran away from his Mormon parents and confiscating all of his art and we also talk about that art and also about bureaucracy...
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We Eat Jocelyn Hobbie from 2018-03-02T00:00
We talk to Jocelyn Hobbie about how pointless it is to talk about art, about medieval illumination, and egg tempera, about whether girls would hang out with you or whether they’re actually made of ...
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We Eat Gary Taxali from 2018-02-22T00:00
We talk to Gary Taxali about the optimistic era of corporate mascots, disturbing santas, irony, whether or not money can be funny, working for cigarette companies and the Canadian government and Ai...
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We Eat Anuradha Vikram from 2018-02-14T00:00
We talk to writer-curator Anuradha Vikram about Claes Oldenberg, Carolee Schneeman, Sesame Street at the Temple of Dendur, sexism in midcentury art, Lee Krasner, Minimalism, Mike Kelley, Nam Jun Pa...
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We Eat Gronk from 2018-02-08T00:00
Gronk talks to us about B-movies, being inspired by a coffee table, the well-dressed women who determined the course of his life, Max Beckmann, making theatre sets, the Asco art collective and thei...
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We Eat Aaron Johnson from 2018-02-01T00:00
We have far too much fun talking to Aaron Johnson about James Ensor, Garbage Pail Kids, deplorables, preparing disgusting slides and housesitting on the palazzo in Honduras, Trump-era art, pizza, t...
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We Eat Mike Giant from 2018-01-25T00:00
Mike Giant talks to us about Americana, graffiti, and running from the police, and advises us all to do drugs, meditate, and shoot guns.
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We Eat Peter Shire from 2018-01-17T00:00
Peter Shire is an artist and designer whose public projects and furniture defined the look of the modern west coast. We visit Peter's funhouse studio to talk about being an artist and a businessman...
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We Eat Melissa Brown (apologies for the abnormal sound quality) from 2018-01-10T00:00
We talk to Melissa Brown about abstraction, beauty, chaos, Vegas, chance, printmaking vs painting, preserving moments in time, color choices and rear view mirrors.
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We Eat James Jean from 2018-01-04T00:00
In our longest episode to date we talk to James Jean about assimilation, the paintings nobody buys, how Zak and James both painted Sasha Grey, death awareness, social media, legitimacy and competit...
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We Eat Jonathan Ehrenberg from 2017-12-28T00:00
John Ehrenberg creates otherworldly videos with a side of deadpan humor. We talk about how that sensibility formed, how the work gets made, and how it relates to John's old day job in animation.
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We Eat Robyn O'Neil from 2017-12-21T00:00
We visit Robyn's studio to talk about death, artists as represented in 1980s sitcoms, Romanticism, ugliness, making art in Hollywood, Howard Stern, being Werner Herzog's student, poetry, and everyt...
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We Eat Patrons from 2017-12-10T00:00
We make the case for going full stop. WEA would like to take you with us, but we need your help. We've launched a Patreon account with rewards at:
https://www.patreon.com/weeatart
Thank yo...
We Eat Rona Pondick from 2017-11-15T00:00
We talked to Rona Pondick about Egyptian art, having ideas and not having ideas, how people are just animals, how long it takes Rona to make a sculpture, death, process and scary teeth.
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We Eat Jen Ray from 2017-07-18T00:00
Jen Ray puts together stylishly feminist drawings and performance pieces of amazon women using fantastic imagery drawn from rock's trippy and fantastic side. We talk about drawing, music, politics ...
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We Eat Al Jaffee from 2017-05-15T00:00
Al Jaffee has quite literally been making cartoons longer than any artist in history. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he works at Mad Magazine.
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We Eat Drew Heitztler from 2017-04-01T00:00
Drew Heitzler is a conceptual artist and occasional curator who works in a variety of media. We talk about how you represent a train of thought, what's harder: making art or curating it?, working a...
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We Eat Valerie Hegarty from 2017-02-28T10:05:57
Valerie Hegarty's sculptures show nature reclaiming art and history and often get mistaken for actual decay. One piece is attacked by a woodpecker, another harpooned, another one has an idea she to...
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We Eat RPGs - episode extra from 2017-01-18T00:00
An outtake from this weeks episode with Nicholas Di Genova. Nick and Zak discuss the aesthetics of Role Playing (video)Game art and the subject matter of podcasts.
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We Eat Nicholas Di Genova from 2017-01-18T00:00
Nicholas DiGenova (aka Medium) is a painter, sculptor and street artist who makes art about mutant monsters. We talk about all that, plus ecology, scale, his urban and rural phases, the worst denti...
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We Eat Ganzeer from 2017-01-09T10:23:40
Ganzeer paints, draws, designs, makes street art and comics and was chased out of Egypt for being a dissident. We talk about where his ideas come from, how he puts them together and what it was lik...
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We Eat 2017 from 2017-01-04T17:56:23
A new years message from the podcast that loves the taste of art.
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We Eat Jane Dickson from 2016-11-11T15:46:04
Jane Dickson makes psychologically loaded paintings about light, darkness, the city and the people who live there. We talk about all that, of course, plus Jane gives us some great details about the...
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We Eat Jon Pylypchuk from 2016-11-03T00:00
John Pylypchuk makes paintings and sculptures of pathetic little creatures in the grip of massive forces they'll never understand. We talk about John's collective, the Royal Art Lodge, being a rock...
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We Eat Trenton Doyle Hancock from 2016-10-28T00:00
Trenton Doyle Hancock's delirious paintings, prints, drawings, performances, toys, books and sculptures depict a complex mythological world that comments on the one we live in. We talk about a chil...
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We Eat Molly Crabapple from 2016-10-20T00:00
Molly Crabapple is a journalist/artist who just put out the memoir Drawing Blood. We talk about the book, and about New York, activism, art vs illustration, artistic lineage and how you go from bei...
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We Eat Ted Mineo from 2016-10-13T16:05:10
Ted Mineo makes objects that shouldn't exist--mixtures of lurid color and uncanny texture. We talk about a lot of things, including how they relate to fiberglass New Orleans restaurant food ad scul...
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We Eat Mark Thomas Gibson from 2016-10-06T16:56:25
Mark Thomas Gibson makes powerfully graphic paintings oozing with poetic weirdness. He also went to the same art schools as Zak and shows at the same gallery. So we had a lot to talk about.
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We Eat Mary Reid Kelley from 2016-09-29T00:00
Mary Reid Kelley has just been officially declared a genius by the MacArthur Foundation. She makes densely allusive videos that refer to classical mythology and literature and freak everyone out. W...
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We Eat Raymond Pettibon from 2016-09-22T00:00
Raymond Pettibon is known for the pulpy intensity of his ink drawings, the cryptic text that accompanies them. Nowadays he shows internationally all over the world, but when he started he was just ...
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We Eat Carolina Miranda from 2016-09-15T19:24:41
Carolina Miranda is an art editor and art writer at the LA Times. We talked to her about how she ended up doing that and what that's like, plus garages, being a fox in a world of hedgehoggy writers...
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We Eat Diana Cooper from 2016-09-08T00:00
Diana Cooper makes wonderfully detailed microcosmic abstractions that start with painting and drawing and then go where they need to from there. She got like a Guggenheim grant and a 10-year retros...
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We Eat Gary Panter from 2016-09-01T17:19:39
Gary Panter is a manic expressionist painter, draughtsman and underground comic artist. He's the author of the surrealistic Jimbo, had work in the seminal 80s alternacomic zine RAW and, yeah, also ...
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