This interview was recorded on May 2, 2025. Mary Jo Karimnia is an artist, curator, artspace owner and former arts administrator based in Memphis, Tennessee. She builds rich, highly crafted surface patinas with glass beads, foil and velvety flocking on vintage and contemporary imagery, using these non-traditional art materials to produce an altered view. Her […]
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Maysey Craddock has long been fascinated by ruin. The ephemeral quality so richly sewn into her paintings began with her childhood interest in searching for fossils at the edge of rivers or uncovering contents of forgotten drawers, always intent on discovering what came before – what once was. Craddock’s large-scale gouache paintings reference spaces in […]
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Fredric Koeppel was the art writer and reviewer for The Commercial Appeal newspaper from 1987 to 2017. He also wrote about restaurants, books and classical music recordings. He has had poems, stories and novel excerpts published in a variety of literary journals. He writes the wine review website biggerthanyourhead.substack.com.
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Pinkney Herbert is an abstract painter who maintains studios in Memphis and New York. This is the second of two interviews.
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