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On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with painter Jan Razauskas and printmaker Gary Kachadourian, both based in Lanesville. We talk about chance and control in abstract painting, and get deep into the nuts and bolts of analog processes for the reproduction of photographic images. 

Jan Razauskas is a visual artist who creates paintings, drawings and mixed media work. She moved to the Catskills in 2018, from Baltimore, by way of a few years in Tulsa, Ok. Her interests in abstract painting include the invention of the image, and the possibilities in combining methods of chance and control. Razauskas has shown extensively in the Mid-Atlantic area and beyond, recent exhibition venues include Monopractice Gallery, Current Gallery and the Maryland Institute College of Art, all in Baltimore, and Twoforty Space in Brooklyn. In addition, she worked for several decades as a non-profit gallery administrator, as well as teaching in various colleges. You can view her work at https://www.janrazauskas.com/.

For the last six years Gary Kachadourian has been operating Lanesville Press where he publishes small open edition books on an engraving press in his garage. Most of the books comprise four mezzotint copies of photographs or video stills made in collaboration with artists. Before moving to Lanesville he lived in Baltimore where he worked as an art administrator for the city’s arts council for over twenty years while also working on his own art. You can view Lanesville Press projects at www.instagram.com/lanesvillepress/.

"Specific Objects" is a monthly freeform discussion hosted by Miriam Atkin that invites artists from a variety of disciplines to describe, ponder, interrogate, interpret, and celebrate their current projects. The focus is on guests who live and work in the Hudson Valley/Catskills region, though people will occasionally visit from farther afield. Tune in to learn what artists in your neighborhood are thinking and making right now.

Miriam Atkin is a Catskills-based writer whose work concerns the possibilities of poetry as a medium in conversation with avant-garde film, music, and dance. She is cofounder of Pinsapo, an international publishing collective, and teaches writing around the Hudson Valley region, at Bard College and the Otisville Correctional Facility.

Intro music: "Sing Out" by Joanna Mattrey