Episode 5 – How Joana Avillez sees and draws the world

Redundancy Radio

Joana Avillez is a very wonderful artist who has spent her life in New York City – often portraying its quintessential inhabitants like old woman at the deli, or dog walkers – in her instantly recognisable black line drawings. Joana finds delight and humour in people watching, be that in her home of New York, or in her second home of Lisbon and now, I hope, in her very very new home of LA. We spoke in her kitchen about her growing up in a warehouse in New York’s fish market as a child, how she manages to combine the written word and cartoons, the characters she spies around town and then includes in her work, and other things.