Background Noise, Volume 115: Damel Carayol
May 31, 2022
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I had the pleasure of working on a project with Damel Carayol toward the end of 2021. The project was called “Black Art, Black Stories,
Background Noise, Volume 114: Robert Pokorny
April 25, 2022
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Like many of us, Long Beach, CA-based artist Robert Pokorny made mixtapes as a young man. Back then, making a mixtape was an art in
Background Noise, Volume 113: Zachary Benson Friedberg
February 24, 2022
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Santa Ana, CA-based artist Zachary Benson Friedberg seems to love music just as much as he loves art. On top of his own vibrant, surreal
Background Noise, Volume 112: Jon Burgerman
December 2, 2021
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I first happened upon Jon Burgerman while waiting in line outside of a Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York City. The
Background Noise, Volume 111: Vonn Sumner
October 14, 2021
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Vonn Sumner has had art in his bones for quite some time. Growing up around art (his father was also an artist), it was no
Background Noise, Volume 110: Wendell Gladstone
October 6, 2021
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Wendell Gladstone’s psychedelic acrylic paintings depict a world full of often pale green and yellow characters. There’s a bit of unease to them that I
Background Noise, Volume 109: Nick Gazin
September 8, 2021
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Nick Gazin really likes the Beatles. So much so, that he worked them into every single one of his answers here. Granted, for a while,
Background Noise, Volume 107: Allison Bamcat
May 26, 2021
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Allison Bamcat admittedly uses art as a form of personal catharsis. It’s not something she just does for the fun of it (although she obviously
Background Noise, Volume 106: Mr Two Three
May 12, 2021
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Honestly, I’ve been sitting on this volume of the series for a bit partly due to general life stuff, and partly because I haven’t known
Background Noise, Volume 105 : David Krovblit
April 19, 2021
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It’s easy to get completely lost in David Krovblit’s work. Every time I look at his intricate and extremely colorful images, I notice something I
