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In the Studio with Peter D. Gerakaris

NYC-based American painter and interdisciplinary artist Peter D. Gerakaris shares his views on paintings that can inebriate, art functioning as a surrogate Nature in cities, and familiar geometry from the 80′s television show 3-2-1 Contact. ”I feel our brains constantly play tricks on us by ‘remixing’ memories, like DJ’s spinning nostalgic fabrications.”

In the Studio with Tomas Vu

NYC-based American painter, printmaker Tomas Vu offers his perspectives on Artist in Residency programs.  Vu is currently faculty at the School of the Arts, Columbia University.  He holds the LeRoy Neiman Professorship in Visual Arts and also serves as the Artistic Director of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies.  At the Neiman Center, Vu has produced a serial body of work entitled Flatlands.  

In the Studio with Tim Kent

Brooklyn-based Canadian painter Tim Kent discusses his Swagger portraits, the cinematic genius of Stanley Kubrick, and his lively friendships with filmmaker Jay Bulger and actor Adrian Grenier. “I studied linguistics for a while and I got a good grip on how it was supposed to work, but I don’t necessarily agree that language is the way that art needs to work.”