Xavier Tavera

Erica Westenberger

Episode 527 / Erica Westenberger Erica Westenberger is a New Orleans–based interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, painting, and installation. Her work builds immersive scenes shaped by apprehension, longing, and care, exploring emotional landscapes through intertwined bodies, objects, and imagined environments. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and her MFA from Tulane University in 2023. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Delta Triennial, Field Projects in New York City, and Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, Tennessee. She has presented solo exhibitions at Carroll Gallery and Sibyl Gallery in New Orleans, and at Neue Welt in Nashville. Her work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine and the Nashville Scene, and she has participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, Oxbow School of Art, and Stove Works. Her work is currently on display in Tinney Contemporary’s booth at Future Fair in New York City from May 13–16.

Xavier Tavera

Episode 526 / Xavier Tavera Xavier Tavera has had a passion for portraiture for most of his life as a way to engage with people and their stories. His work oscillates between documentary and the imagined with the sole purpose of telling a story. After moving from Mexico City to the United States, Xavier has devoted himself to tell the stories of the Latin American diaspora, often recontextualizing with the purpose of providing visibility and fair representation. He has shown his work extensively in the Twin Cities, nationally and internationally including Germany, Scotland, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece and China. His work is part of the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Plains Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota History Center, Ramsey County Historical Society, the Weisman Art Museum and the National Museum of Mexican Art. He is a recipient of the McKnight fellowship, Jerome Travel award, State Arts Board, and Bronica scholarship.

Madeline Ludwig-Leone

Episode 525 / Madeline Ludwig-Leone Madeline Ludwig-Leone is a Los Angeles-based visual artist working primarily in painting. She received an MFA in Fine Art from ArtCenter College of Design and a BA in Fine Art and American Studies from Yale University. She had a recent solo exhibition at Gattopardo, Glendale, CA and has previously shown at Felix Art Fair with Gattopardo and Tyler Park Presents; Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Light Manufacturing, Portland, ME; The Aster Art Initiative, Los Angeles, CA; Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR; City Gallery at the Downtown Arts Center, Lexington, KY; and Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA, among others. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Hyperallergic, and SouthCoast Today. She was a recent resident at ChaNorth Artists’ Residency in Pine Plains, NY and at Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency in Gosnold, MA.

Diane Briones Williams

Episode 524 / Diane Briones Williams  Diane Briones Williams is an artist born in the Philippines who is based in Los Angeles whose work explores fragmented histories, cultural memory, and diasporic identity shaped by colonization. Her work has been featured in select publications and radio interviews including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Magazine, CBS News, KPCC, Laist, LA Weekly, Artillery, Eastsider LA and KPFK. Williams exhibited in several solo and group shows at the Armory Center for the Arts, 18th Street Art Center, Muzeo, Human Resources, Official Welcome, Museum of Art and History, California State University Northridge, College of the Canyons, Cerritos College Gallery, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University San Diego, Children's Museum of the Arts New York, Berkeley Art Center, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries and Grafiska Sällskapet Stockholm, Sweden among others. She has works in private and public collections at National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles and Washington DC, Glendale Community College and Azusa Pacific University. Williams earned her MFA at University of Southern California (USC) in 2021 and BFA at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 2013. If you're in New York this May, check out Future Fair, the forward-thinking contemporary art fair returning to Chelsea for its sixth edition, May 13 to 16. We’re proud to be a media partner of this year’s fair, which brings together 68 exhibitors from around the world, with a strong focus on curatorial vision, emerging and under-recognized voices, and a community-driven approach.Sound & Vision listeners can get 30% off tickets with the code SOUNDANDVISION, all one word, at futurefairs.com [http://futurefairs.com/].

Claudia Doring Baez

Episode 523 / Claudia Doring Baez Claudia Doring Baez is and artist born and raised in Mexico City who is based in New York City. She received her B.A. from Columbia University, New York, NY (1982) and her M.F.A. in Fine Art from the New York Studio School, New York, NY (2012). Claudia’s paintings are animated by a reverence for art history and literature and is steeped with references that range from German Expressionism to Marcel Proust to Cindy Sherman.  Her exhibitions include shows in NYC, Mexico City, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, ZonaMaco Art Fair, Mexico City, Scope Basel Switzerland, Lehman College NY, La MaMa Galleria NY, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Galeria Emma Molina, and she’s featured in publications such as Art News Magazine. She has a curretn solo show at Jane Lombard Gallery at 58 White Street in NYC and an upcoming show at Bookstein Projects on 39 E. 78th street opening April 23rd.  She is also a co-host of the HOW DOES THE ART WORLD WORK? podcast.