Episode No. 52 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features Jonathan Lasker and Shirley Kaneda.

Both Lasker and Kaneda are featured in the exhibition “Conceptual Abstraction” at the Hunter College Art Galleries in New York. The exhibition takes as its jumping-off point a 1991 show of the same title at Sidney Janis Gallery, a show that aimed to introduce a new generation of abstract painters to New York. The show at Hunter reunites the same 20 painters and includes one work from around 1991 with one recent painting. The show was organized by Pepe Karmel and Joachim Pissarro and will remain on view through November 10th. (Painter Valerie Jaudon has posted the catalogue for the exhibition on her website.)

Lasker exhibits regularly in the United States in Europe and in 1999 curator David Moos organized a survey of his work titled “Selective Identity.” Lasker’s work is in the collection of numerous museums including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Ludwig and the Whitney.

On the second segment, Shirley Kaneda talks about the tension between flatness and depth in her work, a tension that has increased in recent years. Kaneda also lives in New York. She’s had over 20 solo shows all over the world. In addition to her painting practice, she is a professor at the Pratt Institute and regularly interviews artists for Bomb Magazine. Don’t miss her Q&As with Charline von Heyl, Robert Mangold, Fabian Marcaccio and Philip Taaffe. (Or with Jonathan Lasker!)

Air date: Nov. 1, 2012.