ArtHaus Radio_272_an Interview Zoey Frank

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Zoey Frank and Bo Bartlett discuss how rigorous atelier training can become a trap that stifles artistic originality.

Abstract is where the morning turns. Beau Bartlett opens in Columbus, Georgia, with WCUG, WOHM, Charleston, Sho Irukawa, and summertime heat all in the room. Zoe Frank comes in warm, and the conversation lands pretty quickly on the working life of painting: schedules, notes, and the plain habit of paying attention. A studio record matters here. Frank writes down when she arrives, what she works on, and how many hours a painting gets. That turns into the episode's steady thread. Showing up every day is not treated like a slogan. It sounds more like a studio habit learned the slow way. Beau brings up Ben Kamahira and the advice he gave at the Pennsylvania Academy: go into the studio daily, even when nothing happens. The line still holds, though the room around it has changed. With doom scrolling in the background, both host and guest know attention needs guarding now. Gage enters next. Frank talks about four years of Atelier training, with its careful move from drawing into painting. Observation came first. Then Grisaille, the black-and-white painting year, before color and self-directed projects later on. The school sounds less like a credential than a way of training the eye, then returning to the work again. By the end, the answer is simple but not easy. Each painting takes what it takes. Progress comes from showing up and doing the work. Beau closes softly with the playlist, Frank's website, Instagram, and the show's familiar wish for a better world.

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A warm studio conversation about art, routine, and the discipline of showing up.

Art House Radio gives Zoe Frank space to talk through art, routine, and the discipline of getting back to the studio. The opening play on the word of the day, abstract, sets a light tone before the conversation settles into daily notes, studio habits, and the basic truth that…

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A morning radio interview about abstract painting, studio discipline, and the simple power of showing up.

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