MadSteez is an artist living and working in New York. Recorded at his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we talk about making up meanings for the paintings after the fact, why Mr. Ween is number 1 and how the Weeniverse got started, working at Rusty as an assistant Art Director without them knowing he was still in High School, how Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Picasso owned Wiener dogs, why you can go backside on the Ween, his thinking behind packing everything up and driving from Orange County to New York with his Wiener dogs 3.5 years ago, doing art for 20 years, proper challenges, putting on your own art shows, why New York is freestyle all-day, strange presentations of one's self, bad taste in art buying, relating the hip-hop world to the art world, longevity and staying relevant, making art as a way to immortality, leaving art on the sidewalk, hanging on to one painting every 2 years for your own collection, getting a development deal for an animated show based on his Weenimals with Erkel doing one of the voices, how paintings painting themselves, Warhol's first stencil, flooding the whole Costa Mesa basin with fluorescent green silkscreen ink while working on a massive painting that took 10,000 pounds of sand to clean up, why New York has better waves than Newport Beach, waking up at 9:44 AM every morning, and starting an OnlyFans called OnlyWeen where he's gonna paint in the nude.
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@madsteezWe are also joined by writer Anna Del Gaizo.
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