Inside Art Podcast

For this episode I talk with Katie Merz in her Brooklyn studio. She and I produced a show of her work in my gallery Velocity in Brooklyn, NY 25 years ago (which was reviewed and featured on the front page of the NYTimes Arts section by Roberta Smith). We talk about her new work and its similarity to that early show, and how she feels at home working on city streets and using architectural facades around the world as her canvas.Merz’s visual language is connected to cartoons, graffiti and mode...

In this episode I talk about why I make this podcast. There's an aspect to being an artist that I love, where everything in life is art. Everything we do, we say is considered, is input that eventually ends up in our artwork. What we do for a living while we're trying to make art, how we connect with others, what kind of spaces we live in, what kind of studio we occupy or don't, informs, affects and feeds us. Often it's the seed of an idea that becomes art later. I’m making this podcast ...

In this episode I speak with Brooklyn based artist Millie Benson. She makes abstract paintings and performative photography. We talk about the in-between space, not knowing what something will become when you’re in process, and ultimately the transformation that is possible through art making. Millie shares some recent photographic work using her body and a collage of objects found in nature, as well as mini brightly colored paintings she made during the pandemic. Cycles of loss and rebi...

Los Angeles based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela constructs staged scenes with machine parts and metal fragments to create dramatic photographs that reference architecture and art history while questioning our relationship to work and workers. His diverse practice also includes printmaking, sculpture, installation and video. We talk about capitalism and the idea of a post-worker world, subjectivity and memory in relation to landscape, and his labor union roots in Chile.As head of the UCLA photogra...

For this first episode of Inside Art, I speak with artist Tom Franco who lives between LA and Oakland, CA. Endlessly creative, passionate and community driven, Tom makes whimsical found art sculpture, brightly colored fantastical paintings, and large scale story-telling ceramics. We talk about all the things we didn’t learn in art school, like creating community, collaboration, letting go of the outcome, finding affordable studio spaces, and how to be a happy person. Tom shares his journ...

Welcome to Inside Art podcast. Where you will get to see through the eyes of artists who transform our understanding of the world. Join me for this personal investigation of the artists’ relationship to inspiration, art making and flow. I’m Sarah Rossiter, and my work has been shown in contemporary art galleries and museums internationally. I’ve spent my career making work that pushed my understanding of art even further. I was always in search of something more I wanted to express. When I lo...