Eileen Quinlan
November 18, 2025

Appropriately enough for her gritty, challenging, yet lyrical work, the great photographer Eileen Quinlan joins me with a playlist about heartbreak.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Quinlan discusses the arc of her career, from her breakout body of work in grad school to her most recent experiments. Consistent throughout her explorations in photography is a focus on process, mortality, and the haptic.

Quinlan goes into the long-established relationship between photography and mortality and how moments of flux and change are central to her project. For her, this focus on transformation includes both the subject(s) of the photographs as well as the photographic medium itself.

Working in a “wrong and slightly backwards way,” Quinlan has always used experimentation as a key modality in her process; her failures become a kind of language, the focus of the work, the evidence of her struggle or hand. We discuss how she came to work in this way—her background in advertising and commercial photography and her early fascination with spirit photography—and how the process has informed her development as an artist.

With a great sense of humor Eileen Quinlan tackles big questions of photography and life—listen in!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. Bring It On Home to Me, Sam Cooke
   
2. Everything She Wants, Wham!
   
3. Ex-Factor, Ms. Lauryn Hill
   
4. Grapevine, Weyes Blood
   
5. Happiness is a butterfly, Lana Del Rey
   
6. Heartbreak Anniversary, GIVĒON
   
7. Idiot Wind, Bob Dylan
   
8. I Know It's Over, Jeff Buckley
   
9. I'm So Tired, The Beatles
10. Isn't It A Pity, Galaxie 500
    
11. Never Let Me Down Again, Depeche Mode
    
12. Pissing In a River, Patti Smith
13. Shivers, The Boys Next Door
    
14. Sour Times, Portishead
15. Trouble, Yusuf / Cat Stevens
16. The Wedding List, Kate Bush
17. You Don't Know What Love Is, Chet Baker

Eileen Quinlan (b. 1972, Boston) earned her MFA from Columbia University in 2005 and had her first solo museum exhibition, My Eyes Can Only Look at You, at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2009. Her first survey show, Wait For It, at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, was held in 2019. In the spring of 2023, Quinlan’s seventh solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery, The Waves, was presented.

Quinlan’s work was included in New Directions at the Eastman Museum in Rochester (2024); Changes, mumok, Vienna (2022–23); Warhol, People and Things, Casa São Roque, Porto, Portugal (2022–23); Invitational Exhibition of Visual Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2022); Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020), Objects Recognized in Flashes, a major group exhibition curated by Matthias Michalka, at mumok, Vienna, alongside Michele Abeles, Annette Kelm, and Josephine Pryde (2019); Passer-by, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018, LUMA Foundation,
Arles (2018); VIVA ARTE VIVA, the 57th International Art Exhibition, curated by Christine Macel, Venice Biennale(2017); and Always starts with an encounter: Wols/Eileen Quinlan, organizedby Radio Athènes and curated by Helena Papadopoulos, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2016).

Previously, Quinlan participated in Image Support at the Bergen Kunsthall, What Is a Photograph? at the International Center for Photography, New York, and New Photography 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art, and in other group and solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, White Columns, the White Cube Bermondsey, the Langen Foundation, Mai 36, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, and Paula Cooper Gallery, and Emanuela Campoli Gallery, among others.

Patrick Carlin Mohundro
November 4, 2025

Patrick Carlin Mohundro is an artist, educator, and rogue gallerist who lives and works in New York City. He joins me to discuss his two-person exhibition (with Nathaniel de Large), “Magnolium,” on view at International Waters from September 27 through December 14, 2025. In honor of the exhibition, which features 14 sculptures composed of a stained-glass flower radiating from the business end of a hammer, Patrick brings us a botanical playlist.

We talk about Mohundro’s journey into the world of stained glass and how he came to find the form of the flower in his work. (It started with an Oscar Mayer hot dog…!) He speaks movingly about his collaboration with Nathaniel de Large and how important working with other people has been in his life and work.

A big part of that collective action has been his long-running Project Art Distribution (P.A.D.). Started when he was in grad school, P.A.D. is an intermittent exhibition program that happens mostly in SoHo on a moving blanket/furniture pad with artwork priced mostly at $75 or less. Every iteration of P.A.D. is different, and includes a press release and checklist of works. Hundreds of artists have participated in the project over the years: a group of artists hanging out for the better part of a day interacting with the public on the street. P.A.D. has now grown to include participation in art fairs and more traditional gallery exhibitions, but the project continues in its original form.

Mohundro’s entire artistic project involves risk and work, force and fragility, conversation and community. His warmth, humility, and earnest sense of humor come through clearly in this delightful episode!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1, Neutral Milk Hotel
   
2. King of Carrot Flowers - Pts. 2 & 3, Neutral Milk Hotel
   
3. Sakura, Steven Halpern 
   
4. Lotus Collage, Laraaji
   
5. Treetops, Black Dice
   
6. SAKURA, ROSALÍA
   
7. Les Fleurs, Minnie Riperton
   
8. Dead Flowers, Townes Van Zandt
   
9. Cosmia, Joanna Newsom
   
10. Tape Hiss Orchid, Deerhunter
11. Vos flores rosarum; Hildegard von Bingen, Matelda Viola, Stefano Sabene, Schola Romana Ensemble
12. Coming Up Roses, Elliott Smith
13. Flor (feat. Benito Martínez), Los Rivera Destino & Benito Martinez
    
14. Willow Tree, Alton Ellis
15. Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods; Black Moth Super Rainbow
    
16. In The Flowers, Animal Collective
17. Lily (My One And Only), The Smashing Pumpkins
18. Tree Aliens, Eric Copeland
19. KEEP THE FLOWERS; DONDA, Kanye West, Ye
20. La jardinera, Violeta Parra
    
21. Broccoli, DRAM & Lil Yachty
    
22. Flower, Deerhoof 

Ethan Greenbaum & Sun You
October 21st, 2025

Soundtracks both real and imagined were the inspiration for the playlist of the great artists, educators, curators, and longtime couple Sun You and Ethan Greenbaum.

Ethan engages with the iconography of public urban spaces, from signage to advertisements to the plywood barriers around building sites. His complex process incorporates printing, painting, and sculpting to create ambiguous yet compelling objects.

Sun’s work brings together baked polymer clay, cut and manipulated canvas, and paint to create intricate abstractions. Concentrating on play, intuition, and self-imposed constraints, Sun works a kind of alchemy of improvisation on humble materials.

The focus of our conversation was their two-person show “Fun,” full of new works on view at Geary in Millerton, NY from October 11 to December 7, 2025. The juxtaposition of the two artists’ work and practices finds form in a photo mural on either side of the central wall dividing the exhibition space. This mural is composed of an index of images of Ethan’s and Sun’s work in progress and life together.

Like the mural, our discussion roams topics from process and materials to ideas and politics to the challenges and benefits of being a creative couple!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. Green Arrow, Yo La Tengo
   
2. Mist, Jung Hoon Hee
   
3. The Stranger Song, Leonard Cohen
   
4. Little Room, The White Stripes
   
5. Beautiful Woman, Shin Joong Hyun
   
6. Ivy, Frank Ocean
   
7. 빗속의 여인, Jang Hyeon
   
8. Haenim, Kim Jung Mi
   
9. Speeding Motorcycle, Daniel Johnston
   
10. I Don't Blame You, Cat Power
11. The Belt of Faith, jung jaeil
12. Atlantic City, Bruce Springsteen
13. I Won’t Complain, Benjamin Clementine
14. Cries And Whispers, Cho Young-Wuk
15. Papa Was a Rodeo, The Magnetic Fields
16. We Can't Be Beat, The Walkmen
17. Sleepwalking (Couples Only Dance Prom Night), Modest Mouse
18. I Put a Spell On You, Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist.

Selected exhibition venues include Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser & Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New York; Higher Pictures, New York; Marianne Boesky, New York; Lyles & King, New York; KANSAS, New York; Circus Gallery, Los Angeles; Steve Turner, Los Angeles; The Suburban, Chicago; Galerie Pact, Paris; Super Dakota, Brussels; The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut and Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City.

His work has been discussed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, ArtReview and Interview Magazine, among others.

Ethan is a cofounder and editor of thehighlights.org and his writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Wax Magazine, BOMB, Paper Monument and others. He has also curated and co-curated multiple exhibitions at venues including The Suburban, Chicago; Lyles & King, New York and Super Dakota, Brussels.

Greenbaum is the recipient of the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, the Silver Art Residency, The Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne’s Workspace Residency, LMCC’s Workspace Program, The Robert Blackburn SIP Fellowship, The Socrates EAF Fellowship, The Edward Albee Foundation Residency and The Barry Schactman Painting Prize. He received an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art.

Sun You is a Seoul born, New York based artist. You has exhibited her work in galleries and museums internationally. Selected exhibition venues include Geary, New York, The Pit, Los Angeles, Queens Museum, New York, The Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Scotty Enterprise, Berlin, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and The Suburban, Chicago. You was an artist in residence at Hunter College, Ace Hotel, Marble House Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Triangle Arts Association, Silver Art Projects, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and the Sharpe and Walentas Studio Program. She was a recipient of Contemporary Visual Art Award 2023 from AHL Foundation, the Korean Art Foundation.

You’s work has been featured in many publications including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Korea Times, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters and Widewalls.

You’s artist book, ‘please enjoy!’ was published by Small Editions and acquired by the Whitney Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and New York Public Library.

You heads President Clinton Projects, a curatorial project and co-runs a non-profit gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York. She teaches as an assistant professor at Lafayette College.

Current exhibition: Fun, a two person with Ethan Greenbaum, Geary, Millerton NY
Upcoming Exhibitions 2025-2026
G Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Korea Gallery, Korean Cultural Center New York, New York, NY
Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, NY

Happy 
October 7, 2025

We’re in the midst of a government shutdown and the National Guard has invaded Chicago. So I dusted off an old mixtape from the fall of 2008 for this music-only show. A little bit of grimy hopefulness in a grim time. 

1. How You Satisfy Me, Spectrum
   
2. Human Fly,  The Cramps
   
3. The Time of My Life, Pulp
   
4. Vamos, The Pixies
   
5. ニッポンのヒール, Southern All Stars
   
6. They Don't Call Them Chihuahuas Anymore, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
   
7. up with people, Lambchop
   
8. 10,000 Watts, The Human League
   
9. Nightshift, The Names
   
10. drivin' on 9, The Breeders
    
11. Kaze Wo Atsumete, Happy End
    
12. Linus And Lucy, Vince Guaraldi
    
13. End of the Affair, Marine Research
    
14. Organs, Comets On Fire
    
15. Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man, Sparklehorse
    
16. 22nd Century, Simone, Nina