Podcast appearances and mentions of jonathan levine gallery

On this special two year anniversary episode, i talk with, one of my personal favorite artists and friend, Esao Andrews.We discuss how he first started doing covers for Circa Survive, his unique blending of haunted mystery and tender warmth, his more recent entrance onto the mural scene, and a whole lot more. I hope you enjoy this extra special edition, with one of Mesa's finest.Also mentioned in this episode: Erik Ellington, James Jean, Tomer Hanuka, Mu Pan, Kenichi Hoshine, Nicolas Uribe, Nathan Fox, Fuse Gallery, Tristan Eaton, Dr. Revolt, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Thinkspace Projects, Roq la Rue Gallery, Pow! Wow! Worldwide, Aaron Horkey, David Choe, and Martin Wittfooth.Follow Esao:Website: esao.netInstagram: @esaoFacebook: @esaoandrewsartFollow the Show:Website: artaffairspodcast.comPatreon: artaffairsInstagram: @artaffairspodcastFacebook: @artaffairspodcastTwitter: @art_affairs

Lauren Bergman, a painter working in Jersey City, NJ. As a figurative narrative artist Lauren Bergman creates stories in paint that reside at the juncture of myth and social realism. Through her personal language of symbols, the paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape. Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art classes at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton. Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz Magazine. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include the Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York. Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the Univeristy of Massachusets at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League. Bergman now lives in a converted pickled herring factory in the West Village and has a studio at Mana Contemporary. www.laurenbergman.net @i.m.lauren Tip N' Tell tipntellpodcast@gmail.com Host & Cover Art: Cydney Williams @cydneywilliamsstudio Sound & Music: Ian Eckstein @ian_eckstein Listen on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radiopublic, Spotify, Copy RSS, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, & IGTV Recorded at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 (pre covid-19 pandemic, 2019) Tip N' Tell™ Cydney Williams Studio LLC

For this English language edition of his podcast „heliumTALK - Das Kunstgespräch“, Jörg Heikhaus spoke with Jonathan LeVine, who is one of the most prestigious and colorful figures in the American Contemporary art scene. Since 1995 he exhibited artists in different venues and cities. He has been at the forefront of bringing artists from pop culture, low brow and graffiti into the established art world. In 2005 he opened the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York's famous gallery district Chelsea and set standards for the presentation of a generation of artists that had long been neglected, becoming one if not the most successful gallery for a new era in contemporary art. Towards the end this year though, Jonathan closed his physical gallery space to take a step back and consider new ways to approach a market that has become very difficult in recent years. Jonathan and Jörg have been friends for a long time, and they often talk for hours via video chat about the business, the people they work with, their experiences and the state of the art world. As friends they exchange knowledge and stories. Since Jörg started this podcast in February 2018 we always thought it might be a good idea to share some of this, because they both feel that there are a lot of topics from these private conversations that might be interesting insights for others who are also in the art circus, be it in a professional manner or as observers and fans. So this is only the first of a series of talks Jonathan and Jörg are planning to have. Because it was not recorded in the studio but thousand miles apart and in different time zones via an online-Tool it might sound a bit different than the normal podcast. We are not yet 100% satisfied from a pure technological standpoint, but we'll keep working on it to improve it next time.

Born during his parents' flight from Cambodia in the wake of the Khmer Rogue genocide, Andrew Hem grew up poised in the balance between two cultures - the rural animistic society of his Khmer ancestors, and the dynamic urban arts of the tough Los Angeles neighborhood where his family eventually came to rest. Fascinated by graffiti at an early age, he honed his skills with graphics and composition on the walls of the city before following a passion for figure drawing to a degree in illustration from Art Center College of Design. Working in gouache, oil and acrylic, he weaves atmospheric, richly textured narratives in a vivid palette of twilight blues enlivened by swaths of deep red and splashes of golden light. His haunting impressions of culture and landscape evoke the life of the spirit through the visionary manifestation of memories and dreams. Over the six years since his graduation from Art Center with a B.F.A. in Illustration, Andrew Hem has exhibited in venues worldwide, from Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York and the Portsmouth Museum of Art in New Hampshire to solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Nashville, Miami, Toronto, Zurich and Leece, Italy. He has lectured at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. His personal work has been featured in Beyond Illustration, the Society of Illustrators annual, Communication Arts, Spectrum, American Illustration, 3x3, Swallow and Hi-Fructose, among others, and his illustration clients have included The Atlantic, New Scientist, the Los Angeles Times, the Fort Worth Opera, Adidas and Lucky Brand Jeans. He lives and works in Los Angeles. www.artistdecoded.com www.instagram.com/artistdecoded www.twitter.com/yoshinostudios

Phil Hale was born in 1963 and raised in Kenya and Massachusetts. He was apprenticed to painter Rick Berry when he was sixteen, and moved to London when he was twenty-one. His early career is strongly associated with the books he illustrated for Stephen King. In the 90s he produced work for Warner Bros, Playboy, DC, Sony, Penguin and others. By 1999 he had transitioned to portraiture, and commissions included Muttiah Muralitharan for Lords Cricket Grounds (MCC), Thomas Ades of the National Portrait Gallery, and Tony Blair's official portrait for the Houses of Westminster. His fine art has been show throughout Europe and the US at numerous galleries and institutions. His most recent show was Life Wants to Live at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC. Published collections of his work included Mockingbirds / Relaxeder, Urge Ourselves Under, Record Separator, Empire, and Black Crack.  www.artistdecoded.com www.instagram.com/artistdecoded www.twitter.com/yoshinostudios

As a youth in the 1980s, LeVine recognized the appeal of countercultural aesthetics including punk flyers, comics, graffiti and tattoos. Beginning in 1994, LeVine became an independent curator, organizing exhibitions at punk and alternative rock venues in the NY/NJ area such as: CBGB, Webster Hall, Max Fish, and Maxwell's. By promoting these visual art forms through group shows in venues that were home to their musical counterparts, LeVine gave a home to this nascent art movement, early on. In February 2001, LeVine opened his own gallery Tin Man Alley in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The gallery relocated to Philadelphia in late 2002. In January 2005, LeVine renamed and moved his gallery to the epicenter of the contemporary art world, Manhattan's Chelsea district. Jonathan Levine Gallery is committed to new and cutting edge art. Our roots go back to 1995, when Jonathan's life-long participation in punk and underground music grew into a curatorial experiment with the visual culture that surrounded him. We moved to Chelsea in 2005, with an eye towards honoring and connecting with the history and context of Post War art. In 2014, the gallery opened a second space on the ground floor of 557 West 23rd Street. We contribute to the dialogue by challenging the conventions of the canon — exploring the terrain of the high/low and everything in between. Our success in nurturing the careers of Shepard Fairey, Invader, Olek and others motivates us to continue being the voice for this cultural shift. The catalogues we publish, prints we distribute, and museum shows we help to produce reflect our dedication to our artists and community. At the same time, we aim to create an accessible and engaging gallery space.  http://jonathanlevinegallery.com

In this episode, I interview Jesse Hazelip. Hazelip was born in 1977 in Cortez, Colorado amidst Navajo and Ute Nation territory, where at a young age, he became acutely aware of the racism and classism of our nation. At the age of 13, he relocated to Santa Barbara, CA. Shifting into this vastly different environment from his childhood, Hazelip became involved with graffiti, which has become the groundwork for his aesthetic and technique. His love for vandalism is rooted in the traditional sense of the act; where activism becomes ground level, unleashed for the masses to ingest alongside the ever present corporate billboards and consumer propaganda. Hazelip is currently using the Gallery environment as his main venue for showing his work, but his message does not falter, he simply has the chance to reach another level of audience. Political activism continues to be a huge thread within his works and he is currently addressing the prison system and incarceration. Hazelip is currently based in New York and recently held an exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery entitled, Love Lock: Cycle Of Violence, which addressed the inhumane prison conditions in America. His work with the issue of incarceration seems far from over, and I can only assume there are many more inspiring projects that Hazelip has yet to provide to us as inspiration on how to stay human.

In this episode, I interview Jesse Hazelip. Hazelip was born in 1977 in Cortez, Colorado amidst Navajo and Ute Nation territory, where at a young age, he became acutely aware of the racism and classism of our nation. At the age of 13, he relocated to Santa Barbara, CA. Shifting into this vastly different environment from his childhood, Hazelip became involved with graffiti, which has become the groundwork for his aesthetic and technique. His love for vandalism is rooted in the traditional sense of the act; where activism becomes ground level, unleashed for the masses to ingest alongside the ever present corporate billboards and consumer propaganda. Hazelip is currently using the Gallery environment as his main venue for showing his work, but his message does not falter, he simply has the chance to reach another level of audience. Political activism continues to be a huge thread within his works and he is currently addressing the prison system and incarceration. Hazelip is currently based in New York and recently held an exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery entitled, Love Lock: Cycle Of Violence, which addressed the inhumane prison conditions in America. His work with the issue of incarceration seems far from over, and I can only assume there are many more inspiring projects that Hazelip has yet to provide to us as inspiration on how to stay human.

We are back with a new episode of the N3rd Link Podcast. This show we hit up on the following topics: -Jeremy Geddes & Ashley Wood Solo shows at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.  Mawuli and Nico’s take on the show. -Jeremy Geddes was interviewed on the Porter Square Podcast. -Coarse Show at Rotofugi. […]