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Ted Mineo
August 12, 2025

Much like his work, artist Ted Mineo’s mixtape ranges from serious to weird, funny to terrifying, funky to sentimental. Mineo’s paintings are painfully realistic depictions of fantastic objects and spaces. His latest work, shown most recently at Harkawik in New York, combines elements of hospital operating theaters, dentists’ chairs, space ship interiors, and optical illusions. These uncanny pictures are painted intuitively without reference to observation—they are about summoning something into existence rather than recording external reality. Flesh nestles up inside metal armatures, shadows misbehave, rigid architectures bend and flex.

Mineo’s work extends beyond painting to drawings, photo collages, and even music. We discuss his love of collaboration and the projects he’s worked on with with the electronic band Matmos, the writer Sheila Heti, and his own experimental band Voider.

Mineo brings his irreverent and irrational logic to everything he does. This conversation gets at the things that make his biomechanical subjects tick.



  1. Silence; Charlie Haden with Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Sharon Freeman, Mick Goodrick, Jack Jeffers, Michael Mantler, Paul Motian, Jim Pepper, Dewey Redman; 1983
  2. The Electrician, The Walker Brothers, 1978
  3. Shipbuilding, Robert Wyatt, 1999
  4. Frame By Frame, King Crimson, 1981
  5. Zero Degree Machine, Horse Lords, 2022
  6. Super Spirit, George Clinton with Junie Morrison, 1995
  7. Letter to 0, Voider, 2017
  8. Ghosts, Japan, 1981
  9. Changes Reprise, Rafael Toral, 2024
  10. Spinning Away, Brian Eno & John Cale, 1990
  11. You've Got a Friend - Live, Donny Hathaway, 1972
  12. Berceuse, Myriam Gendron feat. Zoh Amba, 2024
  13. Late Night Shopping, David Sylvian, 2003
  14. The River, Suzanne Langille & Loren Connors, 1998
  15. That's Life, James Brown, 1969
  16. Horizontal Hold, This Heat, 1977
  17. Shutout, The Walker Brothers, 1978
  18. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, Dionne Warwick, 1967

Ted Mineo (b. 1981, New Orleans, Louisiana) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He earned his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. In 2025, he presented new work in Objects, Intuitions, Concepts at Harkawik in Tribeca and created the album cover for Matmos’s Metallic Life Review. Since 2010, Mineo has taught painting, drawing, and design in New York (and sometimes Boston and Philadelphia). He primarily works as a painter and draftsman with occasional forays into photography, digital collage and music.
Sam Cockrell 3/23/23, 2023; 9" by 10.75"; Acrylic on canvas, artist’s frame

Sam Cockrell
July 29, 2025

Painter Sam Cockrell (b. 1989, Colonial Williamsburg) joins the Selection Committee Radio Show with a sweet, Slowcore mixtape of songs he listens to in the studio.

While in grad school at Columbia University in 2014, Sam Cockrell took a trip to the Bronx Zoo. He was in the Reptile House looking at snakes and it occurred to him that this—an encounter between himself and an animal—was the subject of his work. That realization grew into a practice of painting an animal (almost) every day on a standardized 8" x 10" canvas. Every picture uses a photograph taken by Cockrell as a reference; each image is a record of a real animal or insect seen and captured by him on a daily walk.

These pictures, made exclusively using an airbrush, are soft-focused and tender, and surprisingly varied in subject matter, scale, and feeling. Cockrell discusses how he came to use the airbrush as his primary painting tool and the mechanics of his process. We also get into his unique archiving system, the relationship between his work and time, and the benefits of spending a part of one’s day in whatever kind of nature is available.

We talk practice, pixels, paint, and emotional hardcore music! Sam Cockrell’s exhibition All Creatures Great and Small is on view at Blade Study in New York from July 10 through August 10, 2025.


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

  1. Drowned World / Substitute for Love, Madonna, 1998
  2. Autumn Sweater, Yo La Tengo, 1997
  3. Title and Registration, Death Cab for Cutie, 2003
  4. Look At Miss Ohio, Gillian Welch, 2003
  5. Drunk w/ the Only Saints I Know, Carissa's Wierd, c. 1996-1999
  6. Little Star, Stina Nordenstam, 1994
  7. Little League, Cap'n Jazz, 1998
  8. Gentle Moon, Sun Kil Moon, 2003
  9. Soco Amaretto Lime, Brand New, 2001
  10. Don't Tell Me Where You're Going, Frog, 2018
  11. Lakes Of Canada; Karen Peris, Don Peris, The Innocence Mission; 1999
  12. Shoe-In, Ida, 1997
  13. It's O.K., Dead Moon, 1994
  14. When I Was Drinking, Hem, 2001
  15. Whip-poor-will, Magnolia Electric Co. & Jason Molina, 2009
  16. Some Sinatra, Secret Stars, 1998
  17. Just Like Christmas, Low, 1999
  18. Randy Quaid, Desertshore, 2011
  19. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis, 1996

Sam Cockrell (b. 1989, Colonial Williamsburg) received his BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his MFA from Columbia University in New York. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition at International Waters, New York, in 2023. Group exhibitions in New York include Mery Gates, Mrs. Gallery, Subtitled, International Objects, Below Grand, and Unclebrother, among others, as well as at Fjord, Philadelphia, PA, and Foyer-LA in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been written about in Two Coats of Paint, White Hot Magazine, Artnet News, and Hyperallergic. Residencies include Carrizozo AIR, Carrizozo, New Mexico, and Catwalk Institute in Catskill, NY. Cockrell was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant in 2022. He currently lives and works in Queens, NY.

Sad Covers
July 15, 2025

Some sad covers for a sultry summer evening...



  1. In The Air Tonight, Nora En Pure, Lika Morgan, 2020
  2. Old Man, Justus Köhncke, 2014
  3. Who Loves The Sun, The Velvet Underground, 2007
  4. Sex and Candy, Unions, 2016
  5. I Want To Know What Love Is, Ane Brun, 2017
  6. Ooh Child - Alternate Version, Beth Orton, 2003
  7. Higher Love, James Vincent McMorrow, 2012
  8. When I Come Around, Nap Eyes, 2021
  9. Let's Stay Together, Low, 2018
  10. Ellinor Rydholm, Monica Zetterlund, 1967
  11. Dear Prudence, Siouxsie and the Banshees, 1984
  12. Rock Your Baby, Emerson Kitamura, mmm, 2018
  13. Rock With You, Seu Jorge, Almaz, 2010
  14. Black Country, Tonstartssbandht, 2009
  15. 1 Thing, Ane Brun, 2013
  16. Smalltown Boy, Orville Peck, 2020
  17. Gold Digger, Vitamin String Quartet, 2017
  18. No Diggity, Chet Faker, 2012
  19. Motherless Child, Romare, 2015
  20. Hey, Nilüfer Yanya, 2016
  21. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', The Unrighteous Brothers: Paul Cauthen, Orville Peck, 2020
  22. Morning Song, Leon Lowman, 2013
  23. Sea of Love, Cat Power, 2000
  24. The Light 3000, Schneider TM, KPT.Michi.Gan, 2000
  25. Our Lips Are Sealed, Füxa, 2012
  26. Maneater, Lower Dens, 2016
  27. Is That All There Is? John Parish, PJ Harvey, 1996
  28. I Go to Sleep, The Kinks, 1965
  29. K.I.S.S.E.S, Bent, 2023
  30. Black Hole Sun - Live, Norah Jones, 2021


HAZY BEACH
July 1, 2025

A smooth, cool, mix for a hazy summer beach day.



  1. Que Sera, Wax Tailor, 2005
  2. Luv (sic.) pt3 Instrumentals, Nujabes, 2015
  3. In Mind, The Sweet Enoughs, 2020
  4. Afternoon Of A Swan, Speedy West, 1962
  5. Hare Tarot Lies, No Joy, 2013
  6. After Midnight, Skinshape, 2018
  7. Lansana's Priestess, Donald Byrd, 1973
  8. Honky Tonk, Miles Davis, 1974
  9. So Long (feat. Alice Russell), Quantic, Alice Russell, 2004
  10. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, Allman Brothers Band, 1970
  11. Terrapin, Syd Barrett, 2016
  12. April Suzanne, Robert Lester Folsom, 2014
  13. Tres Hermanos, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Dan Auerbach, 2022
  14. Resolution, Thievery Corporation, 2003
  15. Song for Brian Jones, Ultimate Painting, 2016
  16. Que Nega E Essa, Jorge Ben Jor, 2000
  17. Bom-Senso, Tim Maia, 1975
  18. (I'll Be A) Happy Man, The Latin Blues Band, Luis Aviles, 1968
  19. Valdez Off Crenshaw, Terrace Martin, 2016
  20. The Man with the Red Face, Anders Ponsaing, Claus Højensgård, 2022
  21. Sun is Shining, Füxa, 2022