Episodes

  • Artist Elizabeth Alexander: Transforming Found Objects and Domestic Spaces

    Artist Elizabeth Alexander: Transforming Found Objects and Domestic Spaces
    Oct 16 2026
    Elizabeth Alexander is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptures and installations made of deconstructed domestic materials. She holds degrees in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy, MFA (2009), and Massachusetts College of Art, BFA (2004). Alexander's work has been exhibited at institutions across the country including the Museum of Art and Design, National Museum of Women in the Arts, North Carolina Museum of Art, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, and Nasher Museum. Her work is included in collections at the Crystal Bridges Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, 21c Museum Hotels, and the Mint Museum. The National Museum of Women in the Arts included Alexander in the 'Women to Watch" series focusing on paper (2020). She has recieved awards from the Harpo foundation, the Society of Arts + Crafts, Blanche E. Colman foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a Burke Prize nominee by the Museum of Arts and Design. She has been included in publications such as Hyperallergic, the Denver Post, the Boston Globe, Galerie Magazine, and the Modern Art Notes Podcast. Alexander is represented by K Contemporary (Denver, CO and Santa Fe, NM). She is Associate Professor and Sculpture Department Coordinator at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. "Drawing from her own working-class upbringing, Elizabeth Alexander works to unpack the social, cultural, and psychological pressures within American domesticity. Raised to see the possibility in found or unwanted things, she regards the domestic environment as an extension of human ingenuity. Domestic environments additionally act as witnesses, emotional containers, status markers, and value signifiers. Home is where ideas about class, gender, taste, safety, and belonging are first learned and reinforced; sometimes through language, but often through the things we live with. Her studio practice begins with that tension between the domestic ideal and its human inhabitants. Laborious craft is the slow and steady machine behind all of Alexander's work where she spends endless hours breaking an object down and sorting the remaining and extracted parts for future reassembly. Cast paper forms and found material artifacts such as porcelain tableware, wallpaper, and other common furnishings are gathered and manipulated to probe at the many contradictions within their gentile appearance. The form of this work shifts from handheld objects to site-specific installations to photographs and works on paper, but the question remains: how do our possessions carry the values we inherit, perform, and pass on?" LINKS: https://www.elizabethalexanderstudio.com/ @keepingappearances Artist Shoutout: @wanderingmindstudio (mom), norfolkironworksinc (dad) inspiring friends: @alicia.renadette, @aprilpauza, @funlolacoker, @timothyhornsculpture, and @skyegilkerson I Like Your Work Links: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ILikeYourWork/home The Symbolic Landscape- Erika b Hess at Umbria Contemporary Arts May 30- June 13, 2027 https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor https://www.millersville.edu/eckertartgallery/current-season/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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    53 mins
  • A Life in Painting: Landscape, Egg Tempera & Staying True to Your Work with Nick Blosser

    A Life in Painting: Landscape, Egg Tempera & Staying True to Your Work with Nick Blosser
    Oct 2 2026
    Born in Columbiana, Ohio in 1958, the Nick Blosser received a B.F.A. (1980) and an M.F.A. (1982) from The Ohio State University. Their work has been recognized through prestigious national and state awards, including an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship (1983), a Rome Prize Fellowship to live and paint at the American Academy in Rome (1984–1985), and National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships (1987–1988 and 1991–1992). After residing in Ohio until 1989 and later living in Chehalis, Washington, the Blosser relocated to Tennessee in 1991. He taught art at Milligan College from 1991 until 2022, shaping generations of students, and currently lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee. "The subjects for my paintings come from the out-of-doors. I prefer the ordinary or unassuming over the "scenic " or picturesque. I like to find interesting forms and beauty in what many people hardly pay attention to or disregard. I generally start with drawings that come from direct observation but feel free to internalize what I see, simplify or add imagination to the process. I rarely but sometimes also use photos (when time is limited) but still do drawings from those before painting, which is mostly done in my studio. I'm essentially after what a subject feels to me in an inward perhaps even spiritual way. For over 40 years my main painting mediums are egg tempera and watercolor." LINKS: Nickdblosser@gmail.com https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/nick-blosser Artist Shoutout: Theodore J. Murphy - @tedmurphy7 I Like Your Work Links: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ILikeYourWork/home The Symbolic Landscape- Erika b Hess at Umbria Contemporary Arts May 30- June 13, 2027 https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor https://www.millersville.edu/eckertartgallery/current-season/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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    47 mins
  • Abstract Painting and the Archaeology of Mark-Making with Danny Balgley

    Abstract Painting and the Archaeology of Mark-Making with Danny Balgley
    Sep 18 2026

    Danny Balgley is a painter whose large-scale abstract works investigate the archaeology of mark-making, using a process of physical accumulation and excavation to explore how surfaces hold, reveal, and dissolve history. Danny Balgley (b. New York, NY) lives and works in Queens, NY. He holds an MFA from Columbia University, a BFA from Cooper Union, and attended the Yale School of Art Norfolk program on an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Grant. He has been nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship and received grants from the Ellen Gellman Fellowship, the Ethel Cram Memorial Prize, and the Mark Rothko Award. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, New American Paintings, Arts in Square, and most recently, Friend of the Artist.

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    The Symbolic Landscape- Erika b Hess at Umbria Contemporary Arts May 30- June 13, 2027

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    38 mins
  • Artists Need Other Artists-Welcome to Season Nine

    Artists Need Other Artists-Welcome to Season Nine
    Sep 4 2026

    Welcome to Season Nine of I Like Your Work!

    In this opening episode, I'm reflecting on something I've been thinking about a lot lately: artists need other artists. So much of our work happens alone in the studio, but getting out into the world, seeing work in person, traveling, learning together, and having conversations with other artists can have a huge impact on our practices.

    I share some thoughts from my recent experience teaching The Symbolic Landscape in Italy and why in-person experiences like this can be so important—not only for making work, but for building relationships and seeing your practice in a new way. I'm excited to be returning to Italy to teach the course again, and I'll be sharing more information soon for anyone interested in joining me.

    I also talk about what's ahead for I Like Your Work this season, including our upcoming exhibition at Eckert Art Gallery at Millersville University, guest curated by Heidi Leitzke.

    As we begin our ninth season, thank you for continuing to listen, share the podcast, support the artists we feature, and be part of this community. I'm so excited for the conversations and opportunities ahead.

    In this episode:

    • Creating meaningful in-person experiences

    • Reflections on teaching and making art in Italy

    • Returning to Italy for The Symbolic Landscape

    • Our upcoming exhibition at Millersville University

    • What's ahead for Season Nine

    Learn more about I Like Your Work, upcoming opportunities, and ways to support the podcast at ilikeyourworkpodcast.com.

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    The Symbolic Landscape- Erika b Hess at Umbria Contemporary Arts May 30- June 13, 2027

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    https://www.millersville.edu/eckertartgallery/current-season/

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    10 mins
  • Color and Craft with Artist Lisa Solomon

    Color and Craft with Artist Lisa Solomon
    Apr 17 2026
    Lisa Solomon is a studio artist that moonlights as a college professor and illustrator/graphic designer. Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization (sparked from her Hapa heritage), Solomon's mixed-media works and large installations revolve thematically around domesticity, craft, and personal histories. She often fuses "wrong" things together--recontextualizing their original purposes, and incorporating materials that question the line between ART and CRAFT. She also is focused on bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative.She received her BA in art from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. She has exhibited and works with galleries both nationally and internationally, is in numerous private and public collections, and is continually tweeking artworks in her backyard studio. She resides in Oakland, California with her husband, a teenager, two kitties, a three legged pit-bull, a dachshund mutt and many, many spools of thread. She is the author of - A Field Guide To Color - a workshop work-a-long watercolor journal on color theory and the follow up The Color Meditation Deck, a historical book on Crayola crayons, Knot Thread Stitch, the Illustrator for 20 Ways to Draw a Chair and Draw 500 Everyday Things. Her latest book is Art, Craft, Color is published by HardieGrant. She is also an instructor on CreativeBug. LINKS: www.lisasolomon.com @lisasolomon Artist Shoutout: publisher @hardiegrantusa https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-us Bridget Watson Payne * @watsonpayne https://bridgetwatsonpayne.com Christine Buckton Tillman * @christinebucktontillman www.christinebucktontillman.com Libby Black * @libblack www.libbyblack.com Jen Hewett * @jenhewett www.jenhewett.com Risa Iwasaki Culbertson * @Risa_Iwasaki_Culbertson Ana Bianchi * @analovescolor www.analovescolor.com Sonya Philip * www.100actsofsewing.com Robert J. Bosscher * @rjbosscher www.risaculbertson.com Jen Duffin / Nova Mercury Design * @novamercury Robert Mahar * @robert_mahar www.robert-mahar.com Crystal Bodven / Crystallized Cookies @CrystallizedCookies www.crystallizedcookies.com Dana Williams-Johnson @callmedwj www.yardsofhappiness.com Kanako Abe * @abemanatee www.kanakoabe.art Rashida Coleman-Hale * @iamrashidacolemanhale www.rashidacolemanhale.com Twinkie Chan * @twinkiechan www.twinkiechan.com Courtney Cerruti * @ccerruti www.courtneycerruti.com e bond * @eisroughdraft www.ebondwork.com Kim Nguyễn * @blackslipbabes Carissa Potter Carlson* @peopleiveloved www.carissapotter.com Jenifer Lake * @jenifer_lake www.jeniferlake.com Anne Weil * @flaxandtwine www.flaxandtwine.com Thank You to our Sponsor Rise and Repaint: riseandrepaint.com/ilyw Thank you to our sponsor Creativity Matters Coaching: The Brave Creator Project https://www.creativitymatterscoaching.com/brave-creator-project I Like Your Work Links: Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ILikeYourWork Apply to be a Studio Visit Artist: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/submitwork Pre-order our catalog: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/resources Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to ilikeyourworkpodcast@gmail.com with the subject "mini eps" Join Erika in Italy at Umbria Contemporary Arts this Summer: https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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    49 mins
  • Exploring Race, Class, and Social Standing though Painting with Artist Kyle Hackett

    Exploring Race, Class, and Social Standing though Painting with Artist Kyle Hackett
    Apr 3 2026
    Kyle Hackett's paintings explore race, class, and social standing through approaches to self-representation and the constructed image. Hackett (b. Still Pond, MD) earned his MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art and his BFA in Fine Arts from the University of Delaware. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, the Civil Society Institute Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center Residency, the Ruth Katzman Scholarship at The League Residency in New York, and Best in Show at the 2014 Bethesda Painting Awards Exhibition. His work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, The Washington Post, HuffPost, Aesthetica Magazine (UK) and is published in the British Library. Hackett received a Mayoral Salute from the City of Baltimore for his solo exhibition "Rate of Contingency." Recent exhibitions include The Ruth Borchard 2025 Self Portrait Prize (UK); The Herbert Smith Freehills 2024 Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (London, UK); "Revisit/Reimagine" at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum (Annapolis, MD) and "Circular Narratives" at Vinegar Projects (Birmingham, AL). Hackett's work is represented by Goya Contemporary Gallery (Baltimore, MD). His work is part of collections at Ethan Cohen Gallery (New York) the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Capital One Lounge at Washington Dulles International Airport, the Soho House Art Collection, among others. Hackett is Assistant Professor and co-director of the MFA Studio Art Program at American University (Washington, DC). "My work explores race, class, and social standing through approaches to self-representation and the constructed image. Inspired by nineteenth- and twentieth-century portraiture and precarious modes of depiction, I deconstruct ideas of secure identity and fixed painting techniques through subtexts of the staged, self-aware portrait. Referencing contraptions, braces, or postures from early photography that might objectify and hold a sitter in place, I relate image-making, inflection, and fixedness to concepts of double consciousness. A connected body of work involves vanitas still-life paintings created from discarded self-portrait reference photographs. Quickly compressed, twisted, fixed, bound, doubled, and hung, the discarded images take on new forms. Meanwhile, the slower process of making each painting becomes a living record and reflection on the initial need to discard the reference. Within this process, my work combines the power dynamic and politic of the picture plane. I examine how authenticity, self-referential source materials and painting methods can articulate systems of identity, representation, and contemporary power structures within and against the conventions of historical genres, such as portrait painting. I highlight how constructing images can construct new relations to serve as a framework for institutional and personal identity-making. Often using indirect glazing to layer an image, I consider how content exists in between spaces, subjects, and beneath painted surfaces. How can slowing down the viewing process challenge the conditions between the image, surface, and material? At the same time, how can this reveal insights into the painter's psychological state and the painting? By emphasizing conflicts between inner and outer, I hope to foster simultaneous ways of being understood beyond position and as human." LINKS: kylehackettstudio.com @kylehackettstudio Artist Shoutout: Charles Mason III: www.cmason3.com @tarem3 Tim Doud: www.timdoud.net @timdoud_art Thank You to our Sponsor Rise and Repaint: riseandrepaint.com/ilyw I Like Your Work Links: Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ILikeYourWork Apply to be a Studio Visit Artist: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/submitwork Pre-order our catalog: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/resources Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to ilikeyourworkpodcast@gmail.com with the subject "mini eps" Join Erika in Italy at Umbria Contemporary Arts this Summer: https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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    47 mins
  • Building Structures and Community: Weaving, Sculpture and Painting with Artist Beck Lowry

    Building Structures and Community: Weaving, Sculpture and Painting with Artist Beck Lowry
    Mar 20 2026
    Beck Lowry (New Haven, Connecticut, 1980) is a mixed-media artist whose intricate, wall-hung abstractions explore themes of protection, labor, and lineage. Lowry's work has been exhibited at Yossi Milo and Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh, NY; Headstone Gallery, Kingston, NY; Fred Giampietro Gallery and Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; and Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE. Lowry was a 2024-25 resident of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; and has participated in residencies at Interlude, Kingston, NY; and Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY. Their work has been covered in Artforum, New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, Art Speil, Galerie, and Two Coats of Paint. Works by Lowry are held in the public collections of Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT, and Gateway Community College, New Haven, CT. Lowry holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and a Certificate in African Studies from Smith College, Northampton, MA. The artist lives and works in Connecticut. Installation of a large sculpture with Deanna Evans Projects for Main Window Dumbo. On view 24/7 from the sidewalk until March 22nd at Main Window Dumbo, 1 Main Street, Brooklyn. Closing Reception: Sunday, March 22 from 1-3pm.-- NADA NYC with Morgan Lehman Gallery (May 13–17) -- The Aldrich Decennial (large group show of Connecticut artists) at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, June 7, 2026 to January 10, 2027 LINKS: becklowry.com @becklowry I Like Your Work Links: Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ILikeYourWork Apply to be a Studio Visit Artist: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/submitwork Pre-order our catalog: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/resources Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to ilikeyourworkpodcast@gmail.com with the subject "mini eps" Join Erika in Italy at Umbria Contemporary Arts this Summer: https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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    47 mins
  • Artist Richard Raiselis: Painting the Boston Landscape

    Artist Richard Raiselis: Painting the Boston Landscape
    Mar 6 2026
    Richard Raiselis is a Boston-based painter known for his perceptive urban landscapes that explore the act of seeing within everyday environments. His work frequently focuses on the city of Boston—its rooftops, streets, power lines, clouds, and architecture—often viewed from unusual vantage points such as high windows or rooftops. Through careful observation and subtle shifts in perspective, Raiselis transforms ordinary scenes into meditations on light, structure, and visual perception. Raiselis is Associate Professor Emeritus at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, where he taught painting for over three decades before retiring in 2025. His long tenure at Boston University shaped generations of artists while allowing him to develop a studio practice deeply rooted in observation of the surrounding city. His paintings have been exhibited widely and are included in exhibitions at institutions such as the National Academy of Design in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the New Britain Museum of American Art, among others. Working primarily in oil on linen, Raiselis approaches painting as a form of visual reporting, capturing the subtle drama of light, weather, and shifting urban space. His work demonstrates how sustained attention to ordinary places can reveal unexpected complexity and beauty. LINKS: gallerynaga.com @rraiselis I Like Your Work Links: Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ILikeYourWork Apply to be a Studio Visit Artist: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/submitwork Pre-order our catalog: https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/resources Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to ilikeyourworkpodcast@gmail.com with the subject "mini eps" Join Erika in Italy at Umbria Contemporary Arts this Summer: https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor Join the Works Membership! https://theworksmembership.com/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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