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From the humid chaos of Miami Art Week, Bad at Sports drops into the garden at NADA for a conversation with two artists from Western Exhibitions: Nanako Kono and Olivia Zubkov.
A loose, funny, and surprisingly thoughtful discussion about painting that isn’t painting, sculpture that remembers your body, and bathrooms as sites of intimacy, memory, and quiet surveillance. Nanako walks through her hyper-flat, acrylic-based “paintings” that live somewhere between screen, object, and comic logic. Olivia counters with slip-cast porcelain sculptures drawn from domestic life. Towels, tiles, soap dishes, and mirrors become witnesses to the private rituals of living.
The conversation drifts between material process, Chicago’s influence, comic culture, color as personality, and the strange emotional charge of everyday objects. Along the way, there are riffs on boob lights, mold-making ethics, and whether your bathroom fixtures are silently judging you.
Ryan Peter Miller — https://badatsports.com
Duncan MacKenzie — https://kurasmackenzie.com/
Western Exhibitions — https://westernexhibitions.com
Nanako Kono — https://www.nanakokono-rolly.com/
Olivia Zubkov — https://www.oliviazubko.com/
Scott Speh — https://westernexhibitions.com
NADA Art Fair — https://newartdealers.org
Lumpen Radio — https://lumpenradio.com
School of the Art Institute of Chicago — https://www.saic.edu
University of Nevada, Las Vegas — https://www.unlv.edu
Richard Rezac — https://www.richardrezac.com/
Julia Fish — https://juliafish.com/
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- Episode 941: Myra Greene - May 11, 2026
