Tarik Talk

by Tarik Mendes

Season 7

John Dennehy, Testudo (Kelsey Tynik & Sidney Mullis) at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC (Season 7, Episode 4)

Testudo believes in an art world where everyone has the ability to participate. They created their company to support a healthy ecosystem for studio artists at a critical juncture in their career. Inspired by the passion of our own journey as art collectors, Testudo was created to allow new and experienced collectors to connect with a survey of artists working today. Through extensive content and a digital model that favors transparency and accessibility, they seek to overcome traditional barriers of exclusivity.

Mimi O Chun at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC (Season 7, Episode 3)

Mimi O Chun is an artist whose soft sculptures reveal the ironies and inequities inherent to a late-capitalist economy. She recasts and re-contextualizes iconography borrowed from consumerist culture to create works that vacillate between parody and pastiche. Mimi works primarily in fabric, incorporating finishing techniques such as appliqué and embroidery to render objects in painstaking detail. Mimi earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University and her Master of Fine Art from Yale School of Art. Her work has been published by Fast Company, Bon Appétit, White Zinfandel, Gather Journal, Makeshift magazine, and Princeton Architectural Press. Her first solo museum exhibition, Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake, was held at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from 2021-2022. Mimi lives and works in New York City.

Anna Krieps at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC (Season 7, Episode 2)

Anna Krieps at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC Booth 53 (Season 7, Episode 2)

Vincent Arcilesi + India Evans AHA Fine Art Gallery at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC (Season 7, Episode 1)

Vincent Arcilesi + India Evans AHA Fine Art Gallery at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC

Season 6

Yoshie Sakai at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC (Season 6, Episode 6)

Yoshie Sakai at Spring Break Art Show 2024 NYC Booth 72 @yoshie_saki_studio

Sophocles Plokamakis (Season 6, Episode 5)

Sophocles Plokamakis an NYC artist, published illustrator and author, one of the founders of Start Shows Art exhibition at One Art Space Gallery, in TriBeca NYC founded in 2018. After 5 more shows at One Art Space, Thais and Sophocles formed Start Shows, a company that creates art exhibitions for artists from around the World in NYC Galleries. Since then, co-founders Thais Coelho Plokamakis and Sophocles Plokamakis have helped 400+ artists exhibit and sell their art in New York Galleries and network with collectors, curators, gallerists and fellow artists of many disciplines and backgrounds. Thais and Sophocles are Art teachers having taught artists of all ages how to draw and paint for many years. They are also Art Coaches and can help you become a full time artist and take your art game to the next level.

Roger Costa Jr. (Season 6, Episode 4) (Portuguese)

Roger Costa Jr is the founder of the New York Brazilian Film Series, an events Curator at the Newark Museum of Art and Associate Director at the Brazilian Press Newspaper. We talked about his approach to curating art and the New York Brazilian Film Series, as well as his enthusiasm for films and his deep appreciation for Brazilian culture.

Roger Costa Jr. (Season 6, Episode 3) (English)

Roger Costa Jr is the founder of the New York Brazilian Film Series, an events Curator at the Newark Museum of Art and Associate Director at the Brazilian Press Newspaper. We talked about his approach to curating art and the New York Brazilian Film Series, as well as his enthusiasm for films and his deep appreciation for Brazilian culture.

Malik Tricoche (Season 6, Episode 2)

Malik Muhammad Tricoche b.(1996) is a Puerto Rican-American artist raised in New York. In 2016 he studied painting and sculpture at the Academia Di Belle Arte in Venice, Italy and in 2018 graduated from the Boston University School of Visual Arts inspiring the very first SVA Character Award representing the values and ideals of the school. In 2019 he founded Guayaba Gallery in Union City, NJ— going on to curate and exhibit shows like “Guayaba01” and “6FT FROM YOU” while working with the Themendous sculpture team on installations for the 2019 MET Gala, NYC fashion week and the Museum of Sex. In 2022 he featured his first solo exhibition with Chashama in Chelsea, New York.

Raissa Mendes (Season 6, Episode 1)

As you may have guessed it, Raissa Mendes is Tarik's sister. Originally from Brazil, she has lived and traveled around the world and today calls Shenzhen, China her home, with her french husband, two cats and a house full of plants. Raissa is a marketing professional, entrepreneur, RTY200 yoga teacher. In this episode, Raissa and Tarik talk about their bond as siblings, upbringings in Brazil, moving to America in the early 2000s, and what it is like to live in China.

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