Art Speak

Art Speak gives a behind-the-scenes look at an artist’s working process, going into their studio and home to catch the what, where, and why of an artwork’s creation, in their own words.

In this studio visit, artist Bosco Sodi discusses his methods, career beginnings, and influences. Released in conjunction with his exhibition at Pioneer Works, "Perfect Bodies," this visit offers an intimate view of Sodi’s ongoing dialogue with nature and landscape, theory and practice. Focusing on material exploration, the creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work, Sodi seeks to transcend conceptual barriers. His works become memories and relics symbolic of the artist’s conversation with the raw material that brought them into creation.

Lucien Samaha and His Crying Photographs

This studio visit with the artist Lucien Samaha follows his exhibition at Pioneer Works, A History of Digital Photography. Samaha’s work brings together three decades of the artist’s work—a time period that corresponds with the rise of digital photography; in 1990, Samaha was the inaugural recipient of Kodak’s Professional Photography Division scholarship, becoming the first person to use Kodak’s DCS 100 Professional Digital Camera System outside the factory floor. Since then, the artist’s pioneering experiments with the form have reflected this radical new era of image-making. This studio visit gives us a deeply intimate account of this history, through Samaha’s obsessive chronicling of the people and places around him.