Podcast appearances and mentions of brian calvin

Brian Calvin b.1969 Lives and works in Ojai, CA.
Calvin studied at the University of California, Berkeley and at The Art Institute of Chicago. He received the California Arts Council Fellowship and an art residency from Art Production Fund, Giverny, France. Calvin has exhibited at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Corvi Mora, London; Cabinet, Milan; Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA; and Gallery Side 2, Tokyo. Among his group exhibitions are at Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among other places. His work is included in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. He has a show up now at Anton Kern Gallery, check it out!

Welcome to the Dior Talks podcast series themed around the seventh edition of Dior Lady Art and hosted by Paris-based journalist Katya Foreman. For this year's event, 11 artists from around the world have participated in a game of metamorphosis by rendering the iconic Lady Dior handbag as a unique piece of art.   “It was really about finding the perfect image,” says our latest guest, Brian Calvin, a California-based contemporary artist known for his large-scale paintings of women. Human features serve as building blocks for this influential artist who uses painting as a way to process the world around him from the most banal, such as going to the grocery store and meeting someone, to “seeing whatever Hollywood is putting out there.” In his captivating works, recurring compositional elements like lips and eyes take on extra significance, like portals evoking prehistoric or Egyptian art.   Cue ‘Backstage,' which served as the inspiration for the artist's large Lady Dior bag, revisited with intricate beading and embroidery to rich, tactile effect. On one side, curtains of hair reveal a simplified and abstracted eye, while the other features three female figures; two in profile and one where only a large eye is visible.    “The paintings are often staring you down,” explains Calvin. “They're looking right back at you, and the bags are doing that, too. Wherever you go, on some level, these eyes are going to be following you.”   His smaller bag, meanwhile, features a head lying down, like a landscape, lending a daydreamer quality with the hair going all the way around the bag. “In its own way, it's like a rolling hillside, a little pastoral,” says the artist.    Tune into the episode to hear Calvin discuss transposing his world onto the 3D Lady Dior, and his thoughts on the symbiosis of fashion and art. 

We're so excited to share with you our live episode from this year's Long Island Retro Gaming Expo! Recorded back on August 10th, Brian & Calvin welcomed someone who was a passenger in a Crazy Taxi and he got a bit lost. Enjoy! Starring Micah Sherman! (@MicahSherman) @PlayablePodcast @LIRetro ***The full video is up on our YouTube in 2 parts if you'd like to follow along in FULL VISUAL TOO!***

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation presents Brian Calvin in Conversation with Frederick Janka, Executive Director.

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER! Holy cow everyone! We are SO excited that Brian & Calvin got to commentate a real, live Super Smash Bros Ultimate battle! What's even better, is we're joined by a bunch of our previous guests.  We get to watch some of the most famous characters ever go at it: Princess Peach. Princess Daisy. Kirby. Pokemon Trainer. Link. King Bowser. The Wii Fit Trainer. And, finally...MARIO himself! We also get to talk to Brandon Quinn, our fighting game location scout, and also our WNBA Jam announcer to give us their feedback about the match-up. Oh, and maybe a special guest or two. Please use the hashtag #PCP100 when talking about this episode on social media. Tell everyone! We made it to 100 episodes!!! Enjoy! @PlayablePodcast

Happy New Year's, everyone! Here at Playable Characters Podcast, we like to help people. Not just your famous hero or villain from games. But sometimes the little guy needs some representation too. Who will give them a voice??? Well, today we had an unexpected guest that we tried to help. He's the owner of the car that keeps getting demolished from the Street Fighter 2 bonus round. Enjoy! Starring Micah Sherman! (@MicahSherman) @PlayablePodcast ***Seriously though...Brian & Calvin (and Aalap's ghost) can't thank you enough for this amazing year we've had here. We've had so much fun doing this and we are so thrilled how every episode has been received and the growth we've had. Big things coming! Here's to an even better 2019!***

Woof woof! Today we have the dog from Duck Hunt joining us! In our first episode as a duo as Aalap goes off find himself, Brian & Calvin are truly honored to have this good boy in the studio today. We talk to him about ducks, guns, and why his game never got a sequel. Enjoy! Starring Derek Humphrey (@derek_humphrey) @PlayablePodcast (follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Twitter) Check out our cafepress store for some PCP Merch! https://www.cafepress.com/playablepodcast