Interviews by Brainard Carey

Ana Segovia produces images through paintings that subvert the heteronormativity of popular imaginaries. The artist revisits mythical scenes and figures from industries like film and sports, reconfiguring their hegemonic role as idealized models of masculinity. An intimate connection to cinema constantly inspires and drives him to transgress norms. Segovia takes familiar images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre, intervening in their forms, altering their tonalities, and dislocating them. It’s in this disruption where he reveals the montage, artifice, and the performativity in constructing gender and national identities.

Segovia’s paintings confront viewers with undefined faces, strident color palettes, and scenes infused with humor that juxtaposes the serious. His work positions playfulness as a political tool, challenging and creating tensions in a dialogue between the norm and the unconventional. Segovia rewrites our visual models, inviting us to reconsider them, and offers the possibility of encountering the familiar from a perspective that questions and blurs its contours.

Ana Segovia received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), specializing in painting and drawing. In spring 2020, he participated in the Casa Wabi Residency, Puerto Escondido, Mexico.

Segovia lives and works in Mexico City.

Ana Segovia 1991 “apparently the iron doesn’t burn more than the surface III”, 2026 Oil on linen canvas 110 x 90 cm (43 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
Ana Segovia 1991 Noche Americana I, 2023 Oil on canvas 140 x 200 cm (55.12 x 78.74 in.)
Ana Segovia 1991 (sin título aún), 2023 Oil on canvas 30 x 20 cm (11.81 x 7.87 in.)

credit Ryan Warner-2026
Erin Milez (b. 1994, Pittsburgh, PA) received a MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY and a BA from Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Studio E, Seattle; Seattle Pacific University, Seattle Pacific Art Center, Seattle; Cob Gallery, London; Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.

Milez’s work is included in an upcoming group exhibition at Lazy Mike, Seoul in November 2026. The artist was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2021 and 2024. Milez lives and works in Seattle, WA and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.

She was interviewed previously in 2023, that interview can be found here.

ERIN MILEZ Inside Flower, 2026 oil, acrylic and flashe on canvas 14 by 10 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY
ERIN MILEZ, A Giving Tree, 2026 oil, acrylic and flashe on canvas 20 by 16 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY
ERIN MILEZ Harvest, 2026 oil, acrylic and flashe on canvas 18 by 12 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY

Photo of the artist filming in Antarctica. Photo credit: Robert Cmar
Janet Biggs’s work focuses on extreme landscapes and situations, drawing connections between physical terrains and psychological, societal, or political dynamics. She has had solo exhibitions, film screenings, and performances at the SCAD Museum of Art, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Jeu de Paume, Taubman Museum of Art, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Blaffer Museum of Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Tampa Museum of Art, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, among many others.

Biggs is the recipient of numerous grants, including the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, Moore College of Art & Design 2022 Visionary Woman Award, Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts Award, Media Arts Assistant Fund Grant, Arctic Circle Fellowship/Residency, Art Matters, Inc., Wexner Center Media Arts Program Residency, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the NEA Fellowship Award. Her works are in the collections of the SCAD Museum of Art, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Ruhr Kunst Museen), Tampa Museum of Art, High Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, and the New Britain Museum of Art. Biggs lives and works in New York.

She was interviewed previously on Yale University radio in 2021.

Janet Biggs, Eclipse (Antarctica, December 4, 2021), 2022-24 Single-channel 4K video with spatial sound Running time – 6:12 minutes Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC
Janet Biggs, Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858), 2025 Three-channel 4K video with spatial sound 10:14 minutes Photo credit: Mikhail Mishin Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC
Janet Biggs, Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858), 2025 Three-channel 4K video with spatial sound 10:14 minutes Photo credit: Mikhail Mishin Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC

Wade Schaming (b. 1984; Pittsburgh, PA) lives and works in New York City.  He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (BA 2006) and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA 2010).

Residency awards include the Bronx Museum’s AIM program, Bronx, NY (2012), the Lower East Side Printshop’s Keyholder Residency, New York, NY (2015), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2016), Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2017), The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY (2017), Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY (2018) and Art & History Museums – Maitland, Maitland, FL (2020).

“EASY FEELINGS,” a solo exhibition of new work opens September 10, 2026, at Equity Gallery, New York, NY, and is on view through October 10, 2026.

Yu-Wen Wu has exhibited at institutions such as the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.; Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece; Center for Border Studies, Cucuta, Colombia; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Perlman Museum at Carleton College, Northfield, MN; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; and Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA. 

She was the 2024 Artist in Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and her work is held in public collections including the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; the Haslla Museum of Art, Gangneung, Korea; the Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; and the Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley, MA; among others.   

Yu-Wen Wu, Artifact XIV, 2026, gilded stone on wooden base, 11.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 in; 29.2 x 16.5 x 14 cm

Yu-Wen Wu, Artifact XI, 2026, ceramic, concrete, and porcelain on wooden base, 12 x 5.5 x 5 in; 30.5 x 14 x 12.7 cm

Yu-Wen Wu, Accumulation of Dreams (Flight II) [detail], 2026, graphite, gold ink, and 18 carat gold leaf on Arches paper, 34 x 59 in; 86.4 x 149.9 cm, framed