Hello there it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter

podcast. I am really excited to share with you today's episode. My guest today is John Seed.

John is a professor of art and art history. His specialties include contemporary

representational art, Bay Area Figurative Art, and

19th and 20th century South Asian and Hawaiian art.

In this episode, John describes his it was like hanging

Nathan Olivera at Stanford University.

John and I talk about his experiences working in galleries and handling art at

the Gogosian Gallery. He describes what it was like hanging paintings by

renowned artists like Jean-Michel Biscuit and Eric Fisher. Since 2010, John has been writing about art on the Huffington Post. His articles have also appeared in hyper-allergic.com and he has curated issues of poets and artists.

John and I discuss the evolution of John the painter to John the writer and art teacher, plus how artists might learn to share

their own stories. So without further ado, here is John Seed. John, welcome to the Sabine Painter Podcast and thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me.

I'm really excited to have you on.

Oh, thank you entries.

Can you talk a little bit about your early exposure to Bay Area Figuative Painting when you were in college?

Absolutely.

You know, I got to college not especially knowing what I wanted to do with my life and I

certainly had lots of adults rooting for me maybe telling me what I should be

doing but I'd been a creative kid who worked on model airplanes, did

puppetry, made cartoons, but it just never occurred to me that I was going to go

into the art field. That didn't seem to be something that anyone I knew actually did.

And what happened to me is my second semester I took a printmaking class. I took a monotype class with Nathan Olivera.

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