What we’re about
We're here to give you an inside glimpse into the stories and struggles of some of New York City's top contemporary artists and gallerists. We believe that the conversations we have as artists have the capacity to redirect, and refine our purpose as creators and as humans. We hope to bring you stories from the art world that are inspirational, practical and entertaining.
Many hours go into producing each interview - this includes a massive amount of editing, research, and social media promotion. The hosts are all emerging artists, and are doing this in the limited time they have free from juggling multiple jobs. We would love to be able to pay our editor more, get better audio equipment, and release episodes more frequently. We are enormously grateful for our listener base, and would be thrilled to have a stronger connection to our audience.
We want YOU! The movers, shakers, thinkers, believers in art as practice and art as fine craft, allegory, philosophy, faith, and even psychology to be listening to this show and developing opinions that deepen in ANY direction at the end of each episode.
Our interviews are a space for hard questions, vulnerable personal truths, self reflection, critical thinking, and storytelling. This podcast should act as a creative catalyst for artists, collectors, art professionals, and art lovers alike. If you enjoy this podcast, please support us in our quest to create a better art world, and a powerful community of artists that support and challenge each other.
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Tun Myaing - Producer
Tun is the founder, director and producer of the podcast. He’s also responsible for the overall design and artwork of the site. This is one of his many passion projects that is part of building a community of like minded people to create new ideas and share them with the world. His other projects include creating videos about working artists today and their creative journeys and process. Tun Myaing was born in Burma and has been making art ever since. He received degrees at The Fashion Institute of Technology and The New York Academy of Art. He is a painter and curator currently residing in New York.
Sophia Kayafas - Current host
Sophia Kayafas was born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia and moved to NYC five years ago to complete a Masters and Fellowship at the New York Academy of Art. Kayafas currently teaches drawing at Pratt University’s Foundation Department. Kayafas is a figurative oil painter that addresses her religious ideals and contradictions with vibrant narratives and introspective curiosity. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
"I love this podcast. Art is something to be reckoned with- Let's not forget it!”
Dina Brodsky - Current host
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist painter. Known for her miniaturist style, her highly detailed depictions of urban interiors, natural environments, and unsuspecting human and animal subjects are evocative of renaissance portraiture and landscape. Brodsky often paints on small circular surfaces, forcing viewers to move closer to the work. She was drawn to miniature painting from her study of Islamic miniature art and medieval illuminated manuscripts, whose techniques she combined with those of classical painting. She is amongst a group of contemporary realist painters, such as Timothy Barr and Hollis Dunlap. Born in 1981 in Minsk, Belarus, she moved to the United States at the age of 10, and received her BFA at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2006. She has taught in several institutions, including the Castle Hill Center for the Arts, the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Marshall Jones - Main host
Marshall Jones is a painter, teacher and curator currently working in New York City. His work has been shown in numerous galleries across the United States including Denise Bibro NYC, One Art Space NYC and Bennington Center for the Arts VT. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Phyllis Mason Grant and the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant. This fall he was an artist in resident at ESKFF at MANA Contemporary in Jersey City. He has curated and assisted with many galleries in New York City including the (UN) FAIR and Mark Miller Gallery.
past host
Kim Power - Past host
Kim Power is a painter, writer, curator and teacher living in New York City. She has exhibited since 2002 in solo and group shows throughout the U.S., France and The Netherlands. A graduate of the New York Academy of Art (2014), Power has written for The Brooklyn Rail, ARTPULSE magazine, Art Aesthetics magazine and the blogs ArteFuse, The Blue Review, Surface Design Association Blog and Quantum Art Review.
Power has curated and co-curated a number of successful exhibitions, including Natural Proclivities at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College) and Representing: Selected Works from Alumni and Faculty of the New York Academy of Art at Artisan Lofts in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. She teaches the Drawing I and Masters Critique I-IV classes at the New Jersey City University in New Jersey and works freelance writing exhibition catalogue essays and professional writing for artists. Her recent painting Capitol Oil Co. (aka The Birds) will be exhibited in October 2019 in the exhibition Movie Night, curated by Rick Davidman for PoetsArtists at ILLE Arts in Amagansett, New York. In March 2020, she will have paintings in the exhibition Artists Off Grid at Abend Gallery in Denver, Colorado.
SOUND EDITORs
Past sound editor: Lucas Fauble
Lucas is our sound editor and although not a formally trained fine artist like our hosts, he has an insatiable interest in the art world that editing our show seeks to satisfy. When he's not working on the podcast he spends his time as a video editor, printmaker, and avid doodler. He is currently living in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, but he'll be moving to the city soon if Sophia has anything to say about it.
Current sound editor: Eric Monroe
Eric is part of a band called My Darling Light which originated in New York City in 2017, this band now calls Nashville home. My Darling Light will be releasing two new albums in 2023, one of which is a double length acoustic record, while embarking on a series of shows throughout the continental United States.
All three band members hail from different parts of the country - Eric Monroe from New York City, Nick Gruver from Charlotte North Carolina and Trent Cokely from Evansville, Indiana. Together they make up My Darling Light.
Current sound editor: Tun Myaing
Tun the producer taught himself how to edit podcasts when he founded the Art Grind. He still edits some of the episodes sometimes when he has time.