MIchael Gaughan is a Minneapolis-based painter, educator, performer, musician and friend, and it's an honor to have him on the show. We talk about comedy in painting, sincerity and absurdity, painting from pop culture references, art-school, having a solid value system as an artist and so much more. This is a fun, genuine and enriching conversation about creativity and real life, and I know you'll enjoy it. Happy Thanksgiving! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

Lots of bases get covered in this episode so strap in for a fun one, folks. Talking about the futility of talking about painting. Receiving ideas over forcing them. Byung-Chul Han, Bob Dylan, Dorothea Tanning. The debut of a brand new tik-tok inspired segment, ART FACTS, about the most famous painting in the world. Plus, a listener voicemail leads to talk of graffiti and street art. What's my opinion of it? LISTEN AND ALL WILL BE REVEALED samspano.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

I gave myself a hernia-sort of. Maybe it was just a psychosomatic condition caused by TOO MUCH PAINTING... Plus: Listener voicemails! Overworking paintings, gut health, diet/exercise routines, amorous feelings in the studio and Stendhal syndrome are all discussed on this mid-September review. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

In the season 3 premier of PAINTER MAN, follow the making of a new large oil painting from start to finish over the course of a 16 hour day in the studio.  I recorded short segments throughout the day narrating my thoughts and feelings about the new seascape as well as a few other new things happening in Studio Spano. samspano.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

Dispatch from the studio. Recorded late night sleepy style in classic painter man fashion.   I'm deep in the process but wanted to check-in and say hello. Hello.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

Justine Rivas is a painter and writer based out of Los Angeles, and a good friend of mine. She recently had her MFA thesis exhibition at UCLA, which we get into a little bit.  We also talk about her time as an apprentice for an herbalist that went awry and how she wrote a play about it,  how we met at the San Francisco Art Institute, our short-lived band, balancing sincerity with humor,  psychedelia, dating red flags and green flags, and so much more.  Justine Rivas- Plateaus at Et Al, San Francisco, CAJustine Rivas - How to Carry a Cloud at The Valley, Taos, NM  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

I answer some listener questions about last week's episode: fantasy movies, Carl Jung, being sensitive. Also some mythology talk and working with pastels.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

Season 2 premiere. We're back. A painting is never finished. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

Art and music critic Harry Tafoya joins us this week as we take a look at a recent New York Times article by art critic Holland Cotter on the Titian show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,  and explore why museums and critics might feel the need to frame historical art through a contemporary political lens.   Is it possible to show reverence for art on social media? Have we forgotten how to not only look at art, but feel it too? How can museums and critics help us wade through the murk? PLUS:  Harry on getting blocked by Jerry Saltz, Alice Neel at the MET, wife- guy painters and perverted painters, and so much more. SIDE NOTE: Throughout the episode we repeatedly make reference to Harry's Instagram  @gaykatemoss. Sadly, after the recording of this episode Harry's account got nuked. You can now find Harry on Instagram at @harrytafoya and on Twitter at @gaykatemoss --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message

Back with a very special episode, the first interview/studio visit on the show, with NYC-based painter Jennifer Sullivan. I visited Jennifer's studio in July following her show of paintings at Turn Gallery in New York, titled SLEEPER.  We talk about everything going into her new work  including Courtney Love,  earnestness and vulnerability as a transgressive act, painting as a diary, meditation and breathing exercises, cats as muses, becoming a "serious painter",  the power of seeing Susan Rothenberg paintings in person and so much more. You can find Jennifer Sullivan's art here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/painterman/message