I wrote here last week about Brad Biancardi, the most promising young painter in Seattle—and the one who’s leaving for Chicago later this month.

Now you can hear him talk for himself, on In/Visible, my weekly conversation with people in art.

I never know exactly what’s going to happen when I turn on the tape. Some artists don’t seem to notice it; for others, it freezes their blood. Biancardi treated it like an old friend he hadn’t seen for a while, making confessions and sharing observations about his work and his doubts. He opened up.

This is one you shouldn’t miss.

Here are a couple of teasers:

The Millennium Falcon (doubling, unintentionally, as a Marsden Hartley soldier painting):

1983 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue “Made in
America” (his first car):