Mike Picos is a Queens-based artist who’s coming off a two-person show at NYC artist-run gallery, The Catskills. Mike got his BFA at Cornell University and currently has one foot out the door — as he’ll be attending Yale University for his MFA this fall. Congrats Mike!Together Mike and I discuss his decision to apply to graduate school, leaving New York, his definition of success, his ongoing project the Rad Group (a NYC art literature platform) and the slippery definitions of painting abstraction versus representation.If you're enjoying the podcast so far, please leave a review or a star rating, and tell your friends!    If you have an art question you want answered, write in to artmatterspodcast@gmail.com   - About the Podcast -     Host: Isaac Wexler-Mann  www.isaacmann.cominsta: @isaac.mann  Guest: Mike Picos www.mikepicos.com insta: @mikepicos  @rad.group.nyc