About this episode
Welcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists On today’s episode I speak with NYC-based artist, Langdon Graves! Together we sit down in her Bushwick studio and speak about building objects, combining mediums, Trompe-l'oil, different kinds of drawing, efficiency, the lead-up to an exhibition, different kinds of flow-states, preciousness, physical fatigue after long studio sessions, teaching, mentorship and community, a few ideas about contemporary art education, relief printmaking, variations, reading, and multi-tasking. Langdon Graves is a New York City-based artist with a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Painting and Printmaking and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. She is adjunct faculty now at both Parsons and the MFA program at Pratt Institute. Langdon is represented by Dinner Gallery in New York and has had solo exhibitions in New York, Florida, Virginia, Arkansas, Vermont and Massachusetts and has participated in group shows and fairs throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Langdon has attended the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, the Kunstenaarsinitiatief Residency and Exhibition Program in the Netherlands, the Object Limited residency in Bisbee, Arizona and STONELEAF Retreat in upstate New York. She is a recipient of Canson & Beautiful Decay’s Wet Paint Grant and has been featured in Art in America and Artnet, Maake, VICE Creators, Juxtapoz, Art F City, Blouin Artinfo, Hyperallergic and Madeline Schwartzman’s See Yourself X. You can now support this podcast by clicking HERE where you can donate using PATREON or PayPal! If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please rate, review, subscribe and SHARE ON INSTAGRAM! If you have an any questions you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com host: Isaac Mann www.isaacmann.com insta: @isaac.mann guest: Langdon Graves www.langdongraves.com insta: @laaang