What’s My Thesis?

163 Blinking In and Out of Existence: Art, Quantum Physics, and Skinwalker Ranch - Artist Leah Beeferman

162 True Crime, Religion, and Cults - Camilla Taylor

161 Shepard Fairey: a Mapping Point of Gentrification and Neoliberal Art - Raul Baltazar

160 Leaving Los Angeles - Artist/Ceramics Restorer Debora Broz

159 What We Say About You in Spanish - Emmanuel Galvez

158 Art Labor - Artist Samuel Scharf

157. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing - Artist Megan Reed

156. Dystopian Optimism - Bridget Batch

155. The Music We Love to Hate - Juan Gomez

154 Art Studio Fire - Surge Wiltron

153. Que Pasa USA? - Pamela Ramos

152. Underdog Imperialism - Justin Michelle

151. The Third Culture Kids and the Information Superhighway - Malado Francine

150. Whatever Happened to Nostalgia? - Artist/Printmaker May Roded

149. Artist as a Full Time Job - Artist/Painter Doug Domonkos

148. Metalwork and Poetry - Artist/Fabricator Jacky Perez

Artist and Fabricator Jacky Perez talks about balancing her art practice and her career as a fabricator for the entertainment and fine art industries, and why poetry and book making are important to her practice. 

147. Theories about Edges - Artist Megan Muller

Recorded at her show Theories about Edges at The Fulcrum Press, Artist Megan Muller talks about making photographic images using a flatbed scanner instead of a camera. 

146. Don’t Huff Sh*t, Kids - Lauren Maryam Moradi

145. Hopeless Horny Teenagers in Love - Soyoung Shin

Artist Soyoung Shin talks about her recent obsession with Young Adult books, and the nostalgia they bring for a time when emotions were all encompassing and hormones painted your perception reality. Filmed at Tiger Strikes Astroid Los Angeles during the Inbetween group show curated by liz Nurenberg, this conversation about teenage labido goes off the rails fast.

144. Nikki Ochoa

143. How to Make Art Friends - Maiden LA Co-Founder Molly Schulman

Artist and Maiden LA Co-Founder Molly Schulman and Javier Proenza talk about how they went from relative obscurity to active members of the artist run scene in LA without having MFAs. From the Launch of Maiden LA in 2016 to the current ambitions of What's My Thesis? Javier and Molly discuss their good and bad experiences networking in the art world.

142. The Athenian Marketplace - Robert Ramirez

141. Christine Atkinson

140. Humor in Art - Rose Briccetti

139. Don’t Talk Sh*t About LA - Gozie Ojini

138. Artist Run LA - Carl Baratta

Artist, and Co Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles, Carl Baratta talks about his love for the artist run side of the art world. Carl is one of five founding members of High Beams, a recurring nomadic art show that started during the pandemic and gave artist run spaces and collectives and opportunity to show work during lockdown. the next High Beams will be in Colorado.

137. OK Boomer - Sam Dybeck

136. $6000 Worth of Weave - Quinn Hunter

135. Thumbtack Wrestling - Christopher Anthony Valesco

134. Whatever Happened to Critical Thought? - Emily Blythe Jones

133. Collaboration - Clare Gatto

132. Pre and Post Millennium Ravers - Victor Castañeda

131. Artist Baking Residency - Sara Nishikawa

130. Family Archive Project - Kamal Badhey

129. Light - Gerald Collins

Artist Gerald Collins uses light and color

128. Where Inspiration Comes From - Pilar Rius

Artist Pilar Rius initiates a discussion about where inspiration comes from as we observe cultural differences between the French and Americans. Are Americans too positives and the French too negative? We observe the evolution of the genius as an external source of inspiration to the contemporary understanding that a person is a genius, because they have access to inspiration. we end on a fun discussion on wether the origin of inspiration is always a positive experience, or is it something that also comes from emotions like outrage? Is Javier a conspiracy theorist, or has America carceral system really that insane?

127. Streets and Context - Hiroshi Clark

Artist and skater Hiroshi Clark stops by to discuss the streets as a multi-use space with ever changing context. Wether used as a metaphor, "I'm from the Streets," a means of transportation, a space where photographing strangers is legal, or a home for the presently unhoused, we consider streets in context of the use value these uniquely public spaces have.

126. Drug Memories - Ian McDaniel

Musician and Sound Engineer Ian McDaniel and I wax philosophical our favorite drug memories. We get in to all the wild, grimy shit we ALLEGEDLY did as kids, and make up all of it for street cred in the rap game.

125. Art Practice and the Unknown - Marley Starskey Butler

Multidisciplinary artist Marley Starskey Butler shares his thoughts on the relationship between art practice and the unknown, sharing stories about how his trust in the process allows him to explore new ideas that may take him years to understand how they fit into his work.

124. While the Encampments Burned - Alex Andrew Sanchez

Painter Alex Andrew Sanchez comes on the show for a post covid catch up. We talk about feigning interest in kids stuff as an artist parent, and watching the homeless encampments out side his building burn down.