Hide the Brushstrokes
By Liv Steinhardt
Categories: Arts, Visual Arts, Business, Careers
Hide the Brushstrokes features interviews with young visual artists living in New York City about what it is like to be developing, emerging, and surviving in the global art capital during this unstable time in politics and the art world. Through a series of conversations, host Liv Steinhardt encourages emerging painters, sculptors, ceramists, and designers aged 18-25 not to hide the brushstrokes as they're painting their masterpieces, both figuratively and literally.
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Recent episodes
- A Conversation with Lillian Smith - Hide the Brushstrokes, S3 Ep4
Liv sits down with 26-year-old Lillian Smith, originally from Oklahoma City and now based in Brooklyn, although she will soon be off to a residency at the Sonoma Community Center in Northern California. Before she leaves, Lillian discusses the evolution of her biomorphic sculptures, which take the…
- A Conversation with Dylan Teaford - Hide the Brushstrokes, S3 Ep3
Liv sits down with Dylan Teaford, a 24 year-old painter sculptor who questions the familiarity and authenticity of the historical and contemporary symbols that we take for granted. Originally from Narbeth, Pennsylvania, Dylan has found himself entangled in New York's alternative art scene after…
- A Conversation With Stephanie Yú - Hide the Brushstrokes, S3 Ep2
Liv sits down with Stephanie Yú, a 24-year-old painter working primarily in watercolor, to discuss why "happy" paintings are worthwhile in urban art scenes. Stephanie, originally from Shanghai, began her full-time practice earlier this year. She focuses on bright, opulent interiors and cityscapes…
- A Conversation with Marco Passalacqua - S3 Ep1
Liv sits down with Marco Passalacqua, a 25-year-old Brooklynite by way of Hillsborough, New Jersey. Marco is a painter and collagist who graduated from Pratt in 2024 with a degree in Fine Arts. For Marco, almost nothing is more real than the imagined, and he sits down to discuss how simplification…
- A Conversation With Carlos Sánchez-Tatá - Hide the Brushstrokes, S2 Ep 8
For the Season 2 finale, Liv sits down with 24-year old painter Carlos Sánchez-Tatá, who graduated from Columbia's MFA program in 2024, to discuss their shared Miami upbringing, how Carlos turns loneliness into art, and how his professional development experiences in residency programs have shaped…
- A Conversation With Baker - Hide the Brushstrokes, S2 Ep. 7
Liv sits down with 25 year-old Drew Baker, known by the artist name "Baker," both a painter who draws from the modernists to paint rural scenes evocative of the death of the American mythos, and a sculptor who draws from the unseen laborers and technicians that craft the technology we find…
- A Conversation With Selin Sel - Hide the Brushstrokes, S2 Ep6
Liv sits down with Selin Sel, a 23-year-old sculptor and painter from Turkey who earned her BFA from Pratt last year. Selin discusses how her mother and her Turkish upbringing influence her very unique practice, why she created monumental sculptures while in school, and how she made the difficult…
- A Conversation with Deni Artemisa Espinoza -- Hide the Brushstrokes, S2 Ep5
Liv sits down with Deni Artemisa Espinoza, a 26 year-old native New Yorker, sculptor, and multidisciplinary artist who graduated from Hunter College's BFA program last year. Deni discusses how their love of history, the gentrification of their city, and their neurodivergence have shaped their…
- Tierney Smith and Elleah Gipson - NYU's Photography and Imaging 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Pt. 2 - Hide the Brushstrokes
On February 6th, NYU's Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) celebrated the opening night of their Senior Thesis Exhibition, featuring 48 photographers from the graduating class of 2026. Four of these emerging photographers responded to my interview request, so this episode will be the first…
- A Conversation with Noah Boulton - Hide the Brushstrokes, S2 Ep3
Liv sits down with Noah, a 25 year-old Brooklyn native, to discuss his practices of abstract painting and tattoo art. Noah discusses how his abstraction has emerged from his formal atelier-style education, how his work might coincide with art market trends, and what artistic honesty looks like in…
- Raj Hariharan and Gabrielle Thandiwe Bates - NYU's Photography and Imaging 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition, Pt. 1 - Hide the Brushstrokes
On February 6, NYU's Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) celebrated the opening night of their Senior Thesis Exhibition, featuring 48 photographers from the graduating class of 2026. Four of these emerging photographers responded to my interview request, so this episode will be the first…
- A Conversation with Hanzade Barutçu - Hide the Brushstrokes, S2 Ep1
Liv sits down with Hanzade, a 19 year-old artist from Turkey to discuss her multimedia practice, from her fashion designs, to her paintings, and to why she often depicts herself as a fish. You can find Hanzade's work at @hanzadestudios on Instagram, and follow us (@hidethebrushstrokes) to see…
- A Conversation With Emma Maurer - Hide the Brushstrokes, Ep. 6
Liv sits down with Emma Maurer, WNYU's Music Director, a Studio Art major at NYU Steinhardt, and a multimedia creative. Emma's been described as "chronically interested," and, having turned 20 last week, she expresses that she never wants to stop experimenting with new mediums and ideas at any…
- A Conversation With Owen Roberts - Hide the Brushstrokes, Ep. 5
Liv sits down with Owen, a 21 year-old painter from Los Angeles who paints interiors from memory in his exploration of truth, fiction, and echoing emotions. Owen discusses how his painterly skills and independence have developed since moving to New York for college, and the institutional path he…
- A Conversation With Keya Sanghavi - Hide the Brushstrokes, Ep. 4
Liv sits down with Keya, a 22 year-old artist from Mumbai to discuss the beauty of shock factor, both in response to viewing art and living in New York City. You can find Keya's work at keyasanghavi.com, and follow @hidethebrushstrokes on Instagram to see visual logs of all of our guests' work.
- A Conversation With Santiago Pinzon - Hide the Brushstrokes, Ep. 3
Liv sits down with Santiago, a 21 year-old painter from Queens to discuss his love of photojournalism and his mission to document the diversity of thought throughout New York City and the United States at large. You can access his work at https://www.santiagopinzon.com/ or on @hidethebrushstrokes…
- A Conversation With Cecilia Winters - Hide the Brushstrokes, Ep. 2
Liv sits down with Cecilia Winters, a 25 year-old painter from Pleasureville, Kentucky, to discuss their paintings of Sonny Angels, which explore both the joys and dangers of mass consumerism. They talk Labubus, low art, and whether New York City constitutes a Pleasureville of its own. You can…
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