Pass/Fail/Incomplete
One may think ‘Pass, Fail, Incomplete’ is just another podcast in a sea of podcasts: one more dingy helmed by two middle-aged guys grappling with our seemingly dystopian world while talking with special guests from the worlds of art, literature, comics, and the broader cultural sphere. And you might be right. It is all that, but PFI is a vessel held together by the addictive flow of banter, shocking revelations, tears, complaints, and rigorous analytic reflection.
Join hosts Peter Rostovsky and Oliver Wasow as they and their guests navigate today’s turbulent waters, reflecting on culture, politics and technology and digging deep into what makes creators tick. In a deluge of content PFI offers that sturdy, albeit kvetchy ship. Picture the Love Boat and Meet the Press in a love triangle with Car Talk. Plus, there’s banter.
Join hosts Peter Rostovsky and Oliver Wasow as they and their guests navigate today’s turbulent waters, reflecting on culture, politics and technology and digging deep into what makes creators tick. In a deluge of content PFI offers that sturdy, albeit kvetchy ship. Picture the Love Boat and Meet the Press in a love triangle with Car Talk. Plus, there’s banter.
Oliver Wasow is a fine art photographer currently living and working in Rhinebeck, NY. He received his BA from Hunter College and his Master’s Degree from the Transart Institute, In Austria
Wasow has had a number of one person exhibitions, including shows at the Josh Baer Gallery, Janet Borden Gallery, The Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA, The South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, and Galerie De Poche in Paris, France. His work has also been included in numerous national and international group shows, including such benchmark exhibitions as ‘Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Image World,’ at the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC, and ‘The Photography of Invention,’ at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
His photographs are included in a number of private collections and are also represented in various prominent public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and The Milwaukee Art Museum. Reviews of his work have been featured in most major art publications, including, among others, Art Forum, Art in America and The New York Times.
Wasow has produced two books, ‘Artist Unknown’ in 2007 and ‘Friends, Enemies and Strangers,” in 2018
In addition to his work as a visual artist, Wasow was the owner and director of the Cash/Newhouse Art Gallery in NYC from1983-87. He has been teaching art in various institutions since the mid 1990s. oliverwasow.com
Wasow has had a number of one person exhibitions, including shows at the Josh Baer Gallery, Janet Borden Gallery, The Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, LA, The South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, and Galerie De Poche in Paris, France. His work has also been included in numerous national and international group shows, including such benchmark exhibitions as ‘Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ‘Image World,’ at the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC, and ‘The Photography of Invention,’ at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
His photographs are included in a number of private collections and are also represented in various prominent public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and The Milwaukee Art Museum. Reviews of his work have been featured in most major art publications, including, among others, Art Forum, Art in America and The New York Times.
Wasow has produced two books, ‘Artist Unknown’ in 2007 and ‘Friends, Enemies and Strangers,” in 2018
In addition to his work as a visual artist, Wasow was the owner and director of the Cash/Newhouse Art Gallery in NYC from1983-87. He has been teaching art in various institutions since the mid 1990s. oliverwasow.com
Peter Rostovsky is a Brooklyn-based, Russian-born artist and writer who emigrated from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee in 1980. His paintings and fine art have been shown widely in the US and abroad and exhibited at museum venues and many private galleries.
His art criticism and essays on art, politics, and technology have appeared in a number of established art magazines under the pen name David Geers. That is until he rediscovered comics and graphic narrative, which he has pursued for the last six years with great focus. His recently released debut graphic novel, Damnation Diaries (Uncivilized Books, 2023), received a 2023 MoCCA Award of Excellence, positive reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Artforum, Hyperallergic, and other venues, and was listed by the New York Public Library as one of 2023’s Best Comics for Adults. Peter currently teaches at NYU, Parsons New School, and Clark University. You can find out more about him at: peterrostovsky.com
His art criticism and essays on art, politics, and technology have appeared in a number of established art magazines under the pen name David Geers. That is until he rediscovered comics and graphic narrative, which he has pursued for the last six years with great focus. His recently released debut graphic novel, Damnation Diaries (Uncivilized Books, 2023), received a 2023 MoCCA Award of Excellence, positive reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Artforum, Hyperallergic, and other venues, and was listed by the New York Public Library as one of 2023’s Best Comics for Adults. Peter currently teaches at NYU, Parsons New School, and Clark University. You can find out more about him at: peterrostovsky.com