This week’s guest on the Voices on Art podcast is the artist Brad Kahlhamer, whose early paintings and drawings from the 1990s will be shown at Independent 20th Century by Venus Over Manhattan. Born to Native parents and adopted by a German-American family, Kahlhamer uniquely fuses his personal history with a wide array of cultural influences, drawing inspiration from cartoons, Pop art, graphic novels, Indigenous art, and his prolific sketchbooks. His multidisciplinary work often incorporates themes and imagery from the Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, aiming to modernize traditional forms and present them in a contemporary context.