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Artists Talk on Art is the art world's longest running and most prolific independent discussion forum. Our mission as a 501(c)3 organization is to be a platform for artists to engage in critical dialogue about contemporary and historical perspectives in the arts. Founded in 1974, ATOA has hosted over 1,200 talks featuring over 9,000 artists, critics, historians, gallery directors and curators, reaching an audience of hundreds of thousands.
Fall 2026 Forecast of Dialogues and Panels
All events are broadcast via Zoom at 7pm EST except two noted at 1pm EST
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September 28th Guston Foundation President Musa Mayer in dialogue with ATOA's President Douglas I. Sheer on the new Musa McKim Guston book "Life With P. Journals, 1966 - 1976" Edited by Musa Mayer who was also author of "Night Studio," a Memoir of her father, Philip Guston.
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Musa Guston Mayer is a writer, curator, breast cancer advocate and President of The Guston Foundation, living in Woodstock, NY. She is the daughter of the formidable painter, Philip Guston (1913-1980) and her Mother is, painter and poet Musa McKim Guston (1908-1992). Since his passing in 1980, alongside a team of committed champions of Guston’s work, Musa has been involved in shaping her Father’s legacy, who is recognized today as a Modern Master.
Douglas I. Sheer, President of ATOA, and a founder in 1974, he is native of New York City born to two artist parents, Benjamin Sheer and Marcia C. Sheer. A painter, he grew up in Greenwich Village and attended P. S. 41 where his classmates included future photography critic A. D. Coleman and actor Robert De Niro. Both his parents had been a part of the WPA and Artists Union in the 1930s and spent time in Woodstock, NY and summers in Provincetown, MA. They were Hans Hofmann students.
October 5th Independent curator Michael Klein in dialogue with British artist Sam Lock, 1:00pm EST
Born in 1973 in London, Sam Lock now lives and works near Brighton with his spacious studio in a converted industrial unit further up the coast. Lock studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1997 with MA’s in both Fine Art and Art History. During his training, he won a scholarship to travel to Rome, to explore the relationship between history, archaeology and the processes of painting, a preoccupation which still forms the conceptual basis that underpins his practice.
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Michael Klein's expertise is as a private art dealer and freelance, independent curator for individuals, institutions and arts organizations. Today Michael Klein Arts works with a diverse group of artists, estates, galleries and non-profit institutions providing management, curatorial and other consulting services. At the same time the company services institutional as well as private collectors with an eye to developing collections of emerging, mid-career and established artists. The company also organizes traveling exhibitions both in the United States and abroad.
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October 12th Geometric abstract artist Gloria Tanchelev in dialogue with Patterson Sims 7:00pm EST
I have a 46 year painting practice; following a 10 year photography practice. It has been an adventure. I follow the paintings where they take my mind. My mind has been trained by Zen practice. I was a photographer of people. In 1979, when I returned to painting, I painted the figure. I then quickly turned to gestural abstraction which led me to Radical Color painting. Since 2018, I have been working within and against the ancient and modernist traditions of geometric abstraction.
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Patterson Sims is co-chair of the Board of ICI (Independent Curators International). He has worked in the arts since 1969, and was Director at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey from 2001-2009. His distinguished career as a museum professional includes serving as Deputy Director for Education and Research Support at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Prior to this, he was Associate Director for Art and Exhibitions and Curator of Modern Art at the Seattle Art Museum between 1987 and 1996, and was the first curator designated to oversee the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he worked from 1976 to 1987. He began his career as Assistant Director of O.K. Harris Works of Art, in the then newly-developing arts district of Soho, in 1969. Sims has organized one-artist exhibitions of numerous artists including Ellsworth Kelly, John Storrs, Jan Matulka, Viola Frey, Fred Wilson, Claire Zeisler, Willie Cole, and Hedda Sterne. He was a co-curator of four Whitney Biennial exhibitions.
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October 19th Norwegian artist Oda Sonderland in dialogue with Erin Alles 1:00pm EST
Oda Sønderland (b. 1996, Oslo) is a Norwegian-Irish artist. Sønderland holds a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration from The National Academy of Art in Oslo and graduated with an MA in Painting from The Royal College of Art in London in 2022. Her recent solo exhibitions include The Matrician (2026) with GATHERING in London, Elsker (2024) with NEVVEN in Bologna, Breaking the Waves (2023) with Galerie Pangée in Montreal.
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Erin Alles is a painter, performance artist, choreographer, film maker and DJ from the Coachella Valley of Southern California. They received their BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University of London and graduated from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet training program in San Francisco. They paint records of alchemical anatomical transformation, utilising choreographed divination rituals and a palette of extracted body fluids, pigmented chemicals, and organic matter.
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October 26th Artist Jamea Richmonds Edwards Dialogue with TBD 7:00pm EST
Jamea Richmond-Edwards (b. 1982, Detroit, MI) is an interdisciplinary artist who creates monumental scale assemblages and immersive installations. Invested in exploring the materiality of collage and improvisational gestures, her recent works include self-portraiture that dwells within the realm of imagination and mythos. Born and raised in Detroit, she draws inspiration from her childhood growing up during the crack and AIDS epidemic that created devastating and lasting effects in Black and Indigenous American communities across the US.
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November 2nd Babs Reingold discusses her Leepa Rattner Museum show dialogue about Reingold exhibition 7:00pm EST
Babs Reingold has an extensive showing history with solo and group exhibits in galleries and museums from New York to Los Angeles and internationally. Current 2026 solo Exhibits include After Venus at the MFA St. Petersburg and “Forest Bathing” at the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Reingold's recent exhibits include “Under My Skin”, A Solo Exhibition, SPAACES Art Gallery, Sarasota FL 2024, Lost Trees – solo exhibit at HCC Gallery 221 Tampa FL Address: Earth – Hudson Valley MOCA Peekskill NY
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November 9th Lori Horowitz NY Society of Women Artists Panel with artist-panelists including: Anna Kuchel Rabinowitz, Natalie Giugni and Sandra Cavanagh 7:00pm EST
Lori Horowitz is a New York area native runs the NY Society of Women Artists. In addition to her studio art, Horowitz has worked as an arts educator, scenic designer, scenic artist for film, theater and television, and as a curator and gallery owner. Each role has brought new perspectives and informed the development of her artwork and career.
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November 16th Author Avis Berman with Douglas I. Sheer in dialogue on her new biography of the legendary Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein called "Becoming Roy Lichtenstein" 7:00pm EST
An independent writer and art historian, Avis Berman is the author of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art; James McNeill Whistler; and Edward Hopper’s New York; and Roy Lichtenstein: The Impossible Collection, and co-author and editor of Katharine Kuh’s memoir My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, ARTnews, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Antiques, and Architectural Digest, and she has contributed essays to encyclopedias, anthologies, and catalogues.
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When Roy Lichtenstein painted his breakthrough canvas Look Mickey in 1961—an image of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse adapted from a storybook belonging to his young sons—he was an obscure thirty-seven-year-old assistant professor at Rutgers who had labored for years on the periphery of the art world. Within a few years, Pop paintings like this one, in which he transformed the crude imagery and graphic techniques of the funny pages into carefully ordered compositions, would make Lichtenstein rich and famous like few artists before. His art, instantly recognizable yet cool and impersonal, had the curious effect of obscuring its own history and the man behind it. But who was Roy Lichtenstein? And how had he, at the moment of painting Look Mickey, finally been able to transcend the boundaries of his own good taste and elevate comics to high art?
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Douglas I. Sheer, President of ATOA, and a co-founder in 1974, is native of New York City born to two artist parents, Benjamin Sheer and Marcia C. Sheer. A painter, he grew up in Greenwich Village and attended P. S. 41 where his classmates included future photography critic A. D. Coleman and actor Robert De Niro. Both his parents had been a part of the WPA and Artists Union in the 1930s and spent time in Woodstock, NY and summers in Provincetown, MA. They were Hans Hofmann students.
November 23rd ‘Open Studio’ panel with up to eight artists showing and discussing their work moderated by ATOA's Jacqueline Rada 7:00pm EST
Yvonne Lamar-Rogers is a mixed media artist, jewelry designer, and retired teaching artist living in New York City. Her work delves into memory, place, and storytelling through collage, monotype printmaking, and sculptural artist books, while always experimenting with mixed media techniques. Her recent works combine monotype printmaking with the layering of collage and hand stitching where she creates richly textured works that balance abstraction and
narrative.
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Larry Rushing is a New York City-based artist working in oil- and water-based media. His roots are both rural and urban. Born on a farm in rural Georgia, he was delivered by his great-grandmother, the local midwife and matriarch. He spent his adolescence in the inner city of Miami, Florida and ultimately received a B.F.A. from the University of Miami and an M.F.A. from Temple University (Tyler School of Art) before moving to New York City. Solo exhibitions: “Improvised Entanglement,” Lagstein Gallery, Nyack, NY (2026); in NYC “The Feminine Divine in Tanged Transparency,” El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 and “Improvised
Rhythms of an Urban Setting,” Rio II Gallery (2022).
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Johanna Invrea is a visual artist, currently based in Italy. She holds a degree in Industrial Design, received in 2012. Since then, she has created work that blends video and digital art, computer graphic, photography, and sculpture. With these media and through a specific interest in the human body, she has been exploring the connection between real and virtual worlds and their points of collapse. In 2023, she created Strata Trip, an experimental film investigating the Italian landscape and narrating, through oneiric eyes, a truth about the exotic character of one’s own country, setting of great naturalistic and chthonic events. In 2021 she created The Armor, a performance with a wearable ceramic armor.
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November 30th Etty Yaniv and her panel 7:00pm EST
Etty Yaniv works on her art, art writing, and curatorial projects in Brooklyn. She exhibited in solo and group shows at galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, Newark Museum of Art, NJ, Monmouth Museum of Art, NJ, Torrance Art Museum, CA, AIR gallery, Brooklyn, Sheen Cultural Center, NYC, Long Island University, Brooklyn, Kean University, MJ, Purdue University, IN, UCONN University, Stamford, CT, Musée Héritage Museum, St. Albert, CA, Zero1 Biennial in San Francisco, and Leipziger Baumwollspinnerie, Leipzig Germany.
Panelists to include: Alice Pixley Young, Babs Reingold, Bonny Leibowitz, & Deborah Wasserman
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December 7th Join visual artists from the 9/11 Memorial Museum Collection on the occasion of the 25th anniversary commemoration 7:00pm EST
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993. Respecting this site made sacred through loss, the Memorial and Museum remembers and honors the nearly 3,000 victims of these attacks and all those who risked their lives to save others. It further recognizes the thousands who survived and all who manifested extraordinary compassion and leadership in the wake of the attacks. Demonstrating the consequences of terrorism on individual lives and its impact on communities at the local, national, and international levels, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum attests to the triumph of human dignity over human depravity and affirms an unwavering commitment to the fundamental value of human life.
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December 14th “When Two Team Up” Artists Patricia Cazoria & Nancy Salema in dialogue 7:00pm EST
Cazorla is an award-winning queer Venezuelan-American interdisciplinary visual artist. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from SUNY/Empire State University and an MFA from Lehman College/CUNY. She serves as a Lecturer at Bronx Community College/CUNY and is the Hall of Fame Art Gallery director at the same institution.
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Cazoria's Website
Nancy Saleme is a Venezuelan-American visual artist living in New York City since 1995. Saleme has earned degrees from various schools worldwide, such as the University of Fine Arts in Poland, the National School of Fine Arts of Peru, Cristóbal Rojas School of Visual Arts in Caracas, Venezuela, and The Arts Students League of New York.
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December 21st Artist Furong Zhang lecturing on his own work 7:00pm EST
Furong Zhang was born and raised in Shanghai, China. He received his BFA from Shanghai Normal University in 1982, and his MFA from Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA), Beijing, in 1987. In 1989, Zhang was part of the groundbreaking first ‘China Avant-Garde’ exhibition at Beijing's National Fine Art Museum.
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(C) ATOA Christo & Jeanne-Claude (1975) first ATOA talk
(C) ATOA Amy Ernst (farthest left) Diane Arndt (closer left) Vernita Nemec (closest left) Lori Antonacci (closest right) Donna Marxer (farther right) Sara Kay (farthest right)
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(C) ATOA Donna Marxer
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