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I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists

By: Erika b Hess
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I Like Your Work supports artists! Each week artist Erika b Hess interviews artists, gallerists, and curators to cover topics that will help you in your art practice. From inspiring interviews from the lives of artists to business practices you will walk away ready to get in the studio. Art
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  • Artist Elizabeth Alexander: Transforming Found Objects and Domestic Spaces

    Artist Elizabeth Alexander: Transforming Found Objects and Domestic Spaces
    16 Oct 2026
    Elizabeth Alexander is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptures and installations made of deconstructed domestic materials. She holds degrees in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy, MFA (2009), and Massachusetts College of Art, BFA (2004). Alexander's work has been exhibited at institutions across the country including the Museum of Art and Design, National Museum of Women in the Arts, North Carolina Museum of Art, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, and Nasher Museum. Her work is included in collections at the Crystal Bridges Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, 21c Museum Hotels, and the Mint Museum. The National Museum of Women in the Arts included Alexander in the 'Women to Watch" series focusing on paper (2020). She has recieved awards from the Harpo foundation, the Society of Arts + Crafts, Blanche E. Colman foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a Burke Prize nominee by the Museum of Arts and Design. She has been included in publications such as Hyperallergic, the Denver Post, the Boston Globe, Galerie Magazine, and the Modern Art Notes Podcast. Alexander is represented by K Contemporary (Denver, CO and Santa Fe, NM). She is Associate Professor and Sculpture Department Coordinator at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. "Drawing from her own working-class upbringing, Elizabeth Alexander works to unpack the social, cultural, and psychological pressures within American domesticity. Raised to see the possibility in found or unwanted things, she regards the domestic environment as an extension of human ingenuity. Domestic environments additionally act as witnesses, emotional containers, status markers, and value signifiers. Home is where ideas about class, gender, taste, safety, and belonging are first learned and reinforced; sometimes through language, but often through the things we live with. Her studio practice begins with that tension between the domestic ideal and its human inhabitants. Laborious craft is the slow and steady machine behind all of Alexander's work where she spends endless hours breaking an object down and sorting the remaining and extracted parts for future reassembly. Cast paper forms and found material artifacts such as porcelain tableware, wallpaper, and other common furnishings are gathered and manipulated to probe at the many contradictions within their gentile appearance. The form of this work shifts from handheld objects to site-specific installations to photographs and works on paper, but the question remains: how do our possessions carry the values we inherit, perform, and pass on?" LINKS: https://www.elizabethalexanderstudio.com/ @keepingappearances Artist Shoutout: @wanderingmindstudio (mom), norfolkironworksinc (dad) inspiring friends: @alicia.renadette, @aprilpauza, @funlolacoker, @timothyhornsculpture, and @skyegilkerson I Like Your Work Links: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ILikeYourWork/home The Symbolic Landscape- Erika b Hess at Umbria Contemporary Arts May 30- June 13, 2027 https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor https://www.millersville.edu/eckertartgallery/current-season/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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    53 min
  • A Life in Painting: Landscape, Egg Tempera & Staying True to Your Work with Nick Blosser

    A Life in Painting: Landscape, Egg Tempera & Staying True to Your Work with Nick Blosser
    2 Oct 2026
    Born in Columbiana, Ohio in 1958, the Nick Blosser received a B.F.A. (1980) and an M.F.A. (1982) from The Ohio State University. Their work has been recognized through prestigious national and state awards, including an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship (1983), a Rome Prize Fellowship to live and paint at the American Academy in Rome (1984–1985), and National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships (1987–1988 and 1991–1992). After residing in Ohio until 1989 and later living in Chehalis, Washington, the Blosser relocated to Tennessee in 1991. He taught art at Milligan College from 1991 until 2022, shaping generations of students, and currently lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee. "The subjects for my paintings come from the out-of-doors. I prefer the ordinary or unassuming over the "scenic " or picturesque. I like to find interesting forms and beauty in what many people hardly pay attention to or disregard. I generally start with drawings that come from direct observation but feel free to internalize what I see, simplify or add imagination to the process. I rarely but sometimes also use photos (when time is limited) but still do drawings from those before painting, which is mostly done in my studio. I'm essentially after what a subject feels to me in an inward perhaps even spiritual way. For over 40 years my main painting mediums are egg tempera and watercolor." LINKS: Nickdblosser@gmail.com https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/nick-blosser Artist Shoutout: Theodore J. Murphy - @tedmurphy7 I Like Your Work Links: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ILikeYourWork/home The Symbolic Landscape- Erika b Hess at Umbria Contemporary Arts May 30- June 13, 2027 https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor https://www.millersville.edu/eckertartgallery/current-season/ Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram
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    47 min
  • Abstract Painting and the Archaeology of Mark-Making with Danny Balgley

    Abstract Painting and the Archaeology of Mark-Making with Danny Balgley
    18 Sep 2026

    Danny Balgley is a painter whose large-scale abstract works investigate the archaeology of mark-making, using a process of physical accumulation and excavation to explore how surfaces hold, reveal, and dissolve history. Danny Balgley (b. New York, NY) lives and works in Queens, NY. He holds an MFA from Columbia University, a BFA from Cooper Union, and attended the Yale School of Art Norfolk program on an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Grant. He has been nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship and received grants from the Ellen Gellman Fellowship, the Ethel Cram Memorial Prize, and the Mark Rothko Award. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, New American Paintings, Arts in Square, and most recently, Friend of the Artist.

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    https://www.dbalgley.com/ https://www.instagram.com/dannybalgley/

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    The Symbolic Landscape- Erika b Hess at Umbria Contemporary Arts May 30- June 13, 2027

    https://www.umbriacontemporaryarts.com/product-page/the-symbolic-landscape-instructor

    https://www.millersville.edu/eckertartgallery/current-season/

    Watch our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ilikeyourworkpodcast

    Submit Your Work

    Check out our Catalogs!

    Exhibitions

    Studio Visit Artist Interviews

    I Like Your Work Podcast

    Say "hi" on Instagram
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    38 min
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