tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76232292387095742602024-03-14T08:57:59.264-07:00(standard) INTERVIEWUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-20562254755259105712013-09-20T13:29:00.004-07:002013-09-20T13:33:10.516-07:00David Webb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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you briefly describe what you do?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Occasionally I work on panel and sometimes use pumice and charcoal with the
paint. I also draw; little notes in a small book I carry around with me, and
bigger things drawn and painted on paper.<br />
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<b>What drives you to make work?<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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Pretty standard answer: It's all I really want to do, even when it's going
badly. Most of my ideas/paintings come from something I've seen, heard or read.
Where I've been, what I've noticed, and what I make of it all. Over the past
seven years I've focused on painting about a family story of migration.<br />
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<b>Can you tell me something of your
day-to-day working practices?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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I have two part-time jobs. I teach on average two days a week and make stained
glass windows (traditional leaded lights) one day a week. I'm usually in my
studio all day on the remaining week days and as much of the weekend as
possible. I normally arrive early and stay all day/into the evening. I work on
a few paintings throughout the day and usually paint (or at least begin
paintings) from small drawings and notes, and sometimes from objects and
photographs. I often re-work paintings over months and years. Others come
together more quickly. I used to paint in oil and scrape a lot; now, in
acrylic, I wash off or layer colour, which I prefer. My studio overlooks
Deptford Creek and I like the colour of the mud and detritus. Living and
working in a city like London it feels good to still be able to witness what
the tide is doing. Occasionally I see a kingfisher.<br />
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<b>How long have you been working in that
way?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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The routine above since moving into the studio in 2003. In terms of the working
methods, longer.<br />
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<b>Which artists have had the greatest
affect on your work?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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I've been looking at Sienese painters for a long time - the Lorenzetti brothers
and Sassetta in particular. Other than that, far too many to mention, but:
Corot, Braque, Matisse, Marquet, Milton Avery, Forrest Bess... Of artists
working now, Geoff Rigden and Mali Morris are inspirations. Recently I was
asked to give three 'desert island' artworks. I chose Matisse 'Interior with
Aubergines', Sassetta 'City by the Sea' and Michelangelo's 'Pieta'.<br />
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<b>What, outside visual art, informs your
practice?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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As mentioned, my work for some time has taken as a point of departure my
family, in particular my Grandmother. I also like flags. Mid twentieth century
design and architecture. Poets, such as Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda and
Robert Lowell. Travel - and residencies in particular I've got a lot out of in
recent years. I am a serious football supporter and made some paintings about
stadiums. I like the shapes and they were also about my childhood/family - I
remembered evening games under floodlights, getting in early to see all of the
red seats and the grass, the brightest green imaginable.<br />
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<b>How would you like people to engage with
your work?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Maybe remind them of something they caught out of the corner of their eye. My
aim is not to represent a narrative (or what's informing the ideas)
emphatically, but to be a bit evasive, work on representing the sentiment,
rather than facts, simply, through colour and shape. This is challenging for me
and the viewer. Ultimately I can't control how people engage with my work, but,
given that I aim to keep recognisable things somewhat vague, perhaps to engage
with them formally.<br />
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<b>Have you seen anything recently that has
made an impression?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Van Gogh at the RA a couple of years ago was brilliant. Fairly recently, some
strange and fantastic folk art in Nova Scotia. Most recently Klee and Picasso
at the Berggruen Museum in Berlin and re-familiarising myself with Monet's
'touch' in Paris. I also thought Merlin James' survey show in the summer at
Parasol Unit was very interesting - some very good paintings.<br />
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<b>Do you have anything exciting on the
horizon?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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I'm writing this from Cyprus, where I am currently in a group show in Larnaca
with some of my ex-Professors - Stass Paraskos and Geoff Rigden. The island is
important to me for so many reasons. I have a solo show 'Fragmentarium' at
dalla Rosa Gallery, London, 11 October - 9 November. Next year (April) I'm very
excited about 'Necessary Monsters', a two-person exhibition with the excellent
sculptor Lee Grandjean at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London. </span></i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-52021496803724263332013-08-07T02:32:00.000-07:002013-08-07T02:34:53.644-07:00Dominic Beattie <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhX4TgYOHLm6GqDKfEvV-yl3m-bV3Eybta3MAg9Qhjv0_d78UUo08cEqEPhZ0MwB-KzoLXYy31uQ6c8I_efdv3_u4o_zK1IidABNXGcW_n18NlYSBX09gWPuriQTwehc9IiJR8JvOHpz6x/s1600/beattie2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhX4TgYOHLm6GqDKfEvV-yl3m-bV3Eybta3MAg9Qhjv0_d78UUo08cEqEPhZ0MwB-KzoLXYy31uQ6c8I_efdv3_u4o_zK1IidABNXGcW_n18NlYSBX09gWPuriQTwehc9IiJR8JvOHpz6x/s200/beattie2.jpg" width="143" /></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNJZgwjxw3oFMV7vCbRUW68Y3i7O0803Tqa__nNiQ14L87sosn2JGL0oKwO_VLfJypkxLBsqEs0_NL5-oliAsjTKJ42rZqvK9andzaKG1g1wjZ1L8iw1s4ovUWbRvr9gKrt-1-TCW4Msc/s1600/beattie1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNJZgwjxw3oFMV7vCbRUW68Y3i7O0803Tqa__nNiQ14L87sosn2JGL0oKwO_VLfJypkxLBsqEs0_NL5-oliAsjTKJ42rZqvK9andzaKG1g1wjZ1L8iw1s4ovUWbRvr9gKrt-1-TCW4Msc/s200/beattie1.jpg" width="142" /></a><br />
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I paint abstractly, on modestly sized pieces of board, I use unconventional
materials to quickly make works that fit somewhere between hard edge and
expressive abstraction.<br />
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<b>What drives you to make work?</b><br />
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It's the most enjoyable activity I do. It's challenging, and it's very
rewarding when people get what you are trying to do.<br />
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<b>Can you tell me something of your
day-to-day working practices?</b><br />
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I get to the studio early and begin by looking at works made at my last visit,
I start trying to make them better, maybe cutting them up and re-gluing them
back together in an alternative configuration, or just spray painting over the
whole thing and starting again.<br />
When the work interests me enough, I stop playing with it and put it away.<br />
Sometimes it's a fast process and the painting's surface will be flat, other
times they are very layered and have gone through many transformations before
they achieve any sort of quality.<br />
I generally have no idea how a painting is going to look finished when I start
it.<br />
I work on multiple pieces at the same time, so aesthetics will be shared among
a certain grouping and then fade away when I have a new idea, or get bored with
a mood.<br />
I leave the studio if I can't get into a productive mindset.<br />
About a quarter of my creative time is spent sourcing materials. I mainly use
cheap things like tape, marker pens, paper, household paints or found junk, so
I'm always on the look out for something new to work with.<br />
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<b>How long have you been working in that
way?</b><br />
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I started working with the materials I now use, about two years ago when I
didn't have a studio. I worked at home so the pieces had to be small and fairly
tidy. I made a decision to work as cheaply and as quickly as possible because I
felt pretty disillusioned with the amount of money and effort I had previously
expended, compared to the results of my labour.<br />
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<b>Which artists have had the greatest
affect on your work?</b><br />
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Patrick Caulfield, John Wesley, Nicholas Krushenick, Tomma Abts, Chris Martin,
Richard Tuttle. I'm inspired by artists who have a very singular practice and
do pretty much the same thing repeatedly for years, regardless of fashion.<br />
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<b>What, outside visual art, informs your
practice?</b><br />
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My paintings aren't really informed by visual cues, I never look at something I
find aesthetically pleasing and think I can emulate it in a work.<br />
I am inspired by certain attitudes or vibes. Music and sound is really
important to me, especially electronic music and repetitive sound or samples,
it switches me on creatively.<br />
Also reading about esoteric beliefs or discovering unusual theories about any
number of subjects seems to make me want to create, and probably informs my
stuff in ways I can't really explain yet.<br />
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<b>How would you like people to engage with
your work?</b><br />
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To look at it, and use their personal aesthetic values to enjoy it, or not.<br />
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<b>Have you seen anything recently that has
made an impression?</b><br />
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The Caulfield show at Waddingtons was surprising, I had seen most of the
paintings before but the sketches and maquette/constructed pieces were great to
see, they were scrappy and had lots of charm.<br />
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<b>Do you have anything exciting on the
horizon?</b><br />
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I have just started some formal collages that are exciting to me because they
are very quick to produce and feel fresh.<br />
I'm showing some paintings at New Order II at the Saatchi Gallery in October,
and I have a solo show at Fold Gallery next year.</span></i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-25961758614084949892012-09-03T04:57:00.003-07:002012-09-03T05:00:24.016-07:00Terry Greene <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_5cOMYZR_eKcGR3qKowXUVWuy7oERkubS6UIOU0gkbcj6jFZR248Rk170lCHv7iEzAQlliWRcUAX64YR-M3MNFml7zzLD-FpafPa-e-v0LxMNBNbUhL8CMI2PjYLAncPGVvER7LrxL2I/s1600/terry+greene+p1110641-to-cb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp_5cOMYZR_eKcGR3qKowXUVWuy7oERkubS6UIOU0gkbcj6jFZR248Rk170lCHv7iEzAQlliWRcUAX64YR-M3MNFml7zzLD-FpafPa-e-v0LxMNBNbUhL8CMI2PjYLAncPGVvER7LrxL2I/s200/terry+greene+p1110641-to-cb.jpg" width="167" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiifFqRLqf5qH2lTkkdp6Lo0ZVYHXACvoN3OKVHA0JoWb9fMCXxx5mUXgG2rXzTgMKSGR4KVmyRR6XUf5do3gcsoWf6HpXq60xCWihOb2gcivIMz92DkcbcGvQOYwaMZNis4kB7k-zZyxuV/s1600/terry+greene+1+razz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiifFqRLqf5qH2lTkkdp6Lo0ZVYHXACvoN3OKVHA0JoWb9fMCXxx5mUXgG2rXzTgMKSGR4KVmyRR6XUf5do3gcsoWf6HpXq60xCWihOb2gcivIMz92DkcbcGvQOYwaMZNis4kB7k-zZyxuV/s200/terry+greene+1+razz.jpg" width="150" /></a><br />
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occasionally on found boards). <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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that makes any sense. Just in the physical act, the decision making process,
applying paint upon a previously worked surface and I'm immediately lost in the
practice, the search and personal discovery which takes place. I think like
most artists I like to push at any parameters from time to time, to explore
some new territory and surprise myself. Each new painting seems to me to offer
always new possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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day-to-day working practices?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">I get into the studio usually after an early morning walk on the moors
with my dog. The walk is ideal preparation time, allowing for reflection. In my
studio I have stacks of (shop purchased) small ready stretched canvases and I
always have a number of pieces of canvas, paper and boards on the floor, in
various states of beginning. Other works are on the walls and these tend to be
the ones I consider are near some state of becoming. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">In the studio I attempt to begin straight away. I now work with a newly
found urgency, across any number of canvases upon the floor, adding and
obscuring stains of colour with new variously generated marks. This is the
prelude, the warm up or loosening up period, like in some sports. My thinking at
that point is, in part, that I’m engaged with drawing and allowing paint to be
paint on the taught or loose plane of the support. This is the initial attempt
to begin to open up a space for a dialogue. One piece generally captures and
holds my interest and I concentrate on that one usually for the rest of the
session. I'm not trying to resolve anything; I attempt to maintain a level of
distance and ambivalence towards the painting. The practice is one of trying to
be in the moment during the act of applying, removing and the adjustment of
liquid colour over the surface - just being present that instant when some form
of dialogue begins within each work. I spend the day in the studio until late
afternoon. In the evening I may return to continue to paint or alternatively I
might work on some drawings.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">How long have you been working in that
way?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">I guess for about 3 or 4 years now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Which artists have had the greatest
affect on your work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p>A</o:p></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"> partial list might include: Braque (the later studio series - they still
disturb and beguile me); Soutine (those claustrophobic surfaces of painted
space and matter, Circa 1921-22 - especially the Ceret landscapes); Morandi
(looking at those painted spaces in and around the objects in his still-lifes);
Guston (his world appears to be made entirely out of liquid paint); Forrest
Bess (if only I could be that direct) and Raoul de Keyser (uncompromisingly
beautifully cryptic).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">What, outside visual art, informs your
practice?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Travel, walking, streets; in short the world about me. I now realise I
really don't have to travel very far from home, I just have to be open and the
unfamiliarity of a place can be [re]discovered. That impression or experience
is then always available to me to be called upon within the confines of the
studio. Music and literature have always been close to hand, and thinking
around these subjects have, over time, informed my thinking. My sister-in-law
is a member of GIO (Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra) and she recently introduced
me to graphic scores - which just blew me away!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">How would you like people to engage
with your work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">If they take the time to look then I'm happy, however, I would prefer it
to happen in an unmediated and open way, without the aid of a statement or
explanations, just a simple meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Have you seen anything recently that
has made an impression?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Recently I have begun exchanging works with a group of artists I've meet
via the internet, including: Susan S Scott, Keith Murdoch and David T Miller.
Their paintings now hang on the walls of my home and make a wonderful
impression on me on daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Do you have anything exciting on the
horizon?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Yes! Also, I'm just about to make another exchange of work with an Australian
artist Inga Dalrymple, which I'm really pleased about!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-89513855812422243362012-08-15T00:52:00.001-07:002012-08-15T00:53:56.056-07:00Andrew Maughan <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIqNDPEjXspGbs9eTHIu3aBAuzrEd1uOFsHtByf_3JruWERTsTeM9hCwPm-UbbhGibESH62yoxSyVP4Cfy6MXlqgt_OXO70aGUZWudjQSqowXPXyJbLH3Hu_wT7EItH6_tXvS6UHus7Ty/s1600/andrew+maughan+liquid+morning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIqNDPEjXspGbs9eTHIu3aBAuzrEd1uOFsHtByf_3JruWERTsTeM9hCwPm-UbbhGibESH62yoxSyVP4Cfy6MXlqgt_OXO70aGUZWudjQSqowXPXyJbLH3Hu_wT7EItH6_tXvS6UHus7Ty/s200/andrew+maughan+liquid+morning.jpg" width="156" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIbdo7ccl2LexR925kQAf9kJD2l1rAw-nbfF0px4yzLnFU_yTQTIUvpcoIEJOQX2uuV11QC9dduYQSZRu66sV1POh2OElxSTHNLM_8_2GNABiMskgYnCBzLND5tYrAsp0Y9fNAoO7TmlG/s1600/andrew+maughan4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIbdo7ccl2LexR925kQAf9kJD2l1rAw-nbfF0px4yzLnFU_yTQTIUvpcoIEJOQX2uuV11QC9dduYQSZRu66sV1POh2OElxSTHNLM_8_2GNABiMskgYnCBzLND5tYrAsp0Y9fNAoO7TmlG/s200/andrew+maughan4.jpg" width="155" /></a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Can you
briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">I make paintings.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">What drives
you to make work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">The feeling that I haven’t done enough! I’m still a believer in paint and excited
by its possibilities. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Can you tell
me something of your day-to-day working practices?<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">I’m in the studio from mid-day
till 11.30pm. In one corner of my studio I have a stack of paintings which are
finished and have been photographed and the paintings I’m working on or not
sure about are lined up along two walls. I spend a lot of time looking at them/not
looking at them, working out if they’re even interesting. They tend to have
several layers of paint on them, I never scrape anything off, I always keep
adding more. <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">I try to create paintings with no
references to the ‘real’ world so I’m not sure they are exactly abstract, more
non-objective. I don’t keep a sketch book so all my working out and playing
around is done on the canvas. The trick is to not get attached to any of the
paintings until they feel right, then I stop. This doesn’t necessarily mean
it’s a keeper, it might be kicking around the studio for months and one day
I’ll decide it’s crap and add something more to it or obliterate it completely.
<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">How long
have you been working in that way?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">My studio practice is still
evolving but has been similar to this since I graduated from Northumbria
University in 2009. I’ve always had a tendency to play around with paint, just
to see what happens. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Which
artists have had the greatest affect on your work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Dana Schutz, Richard Aldrich, Joe
Bradley, Mary Heilmann, Philip Guston, Georg Baselitz, Martin Kippenberger,
Thomas Houseago, Aaron Curry, Chris Martin, Rachel Harrison, Franz West, Blinky
Palermo, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Edvard Munch, Howard Hodgkin,
De Kooning, Gerhard Richter and many more!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">What,
outside visual art, informs your practice?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Not much outside of art, that’s
sort of the point, although I was listening to a Paul Buchanan song called
‘Wedding Party’ recently and was struck by the economy of word. I’ve been
trying to figure out a way of translating that into my practice, being more
economical, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>leaving things unsaid, with paint. It might
creep in there soon.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">How would
you like people to engage with your work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">I don’t mind, it’s up to them.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Have you
seen anything recently that has made an impression?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Paula Rego’s drawing ‘The Wide
Sargasso Sea’ at the Laing in Newcastle is pretty sweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Do you have
anything exciting on the horizon?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"></span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Yes, lots of shows coming up and I am part CAVE art fair at the Liverpool
Biennial in September. Plus it’s always exiting to make new work!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;"><o:p></o:p></span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-14902274923331551042012-08-14T03:54:00.003-07:002012-08-14T04:03:20.436-07:00Robert Linsley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Can you briefly describe what you do?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">In my Island paintings I pour commercial polyurethane enamel paint onto
the canvas, then lift and tip it to make the paint flow into a shape. The
canvas lies flat on the floor while the shape dries, then I pour another one.
Most of the work goes on between pours. Lately been making watercolours, which
means back to brushes, but try to apply what I've learned from the pours about
letting the image produce itself.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">What drives you to make work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">As it happens, I could never have answered this question until very
recently. Because the work is ongoing, flowing and momentary, I think I'm
really trying to unify my life and my art. Strange that I never had such an
intention and normally would never think in those terms, but the evidence seems
to be there. I don't want time to pass, but to be lived through, if that makes
sense.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Can you tell me something
of your day-to-day working practices?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px 12pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">As above. Since each pour is unrepeatable, a day without painting is a painting
that will never be.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px 12pt; mso-add-space: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">How long have you been working in that way?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Since 1998<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">On a deep level my work is possessed by Jackson Pollock, but Picasso
might be below that, and what I see as the Poussin-Cézanne axis is perhaps even
more fundamental still. I look at Tiepolo a lot. Over the last few years been
looking at many great and insufficiently acknowledged abstractionists - as it
happens mostly women - Gego, Joan Mitchell, Marisa Merz, Carla Accardi, Helen
Frankenthaler, Mary Heilman, Mira Schendel, Lygia Pape, Bridget Riley,
R.H.Quaytman. None of these people are unknown, but their importance is yet
unmeasured.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">A few years ago theoretical physics had a big impact on me. There is an
important research institute in my town, and I've spent a lot of time there and
met many very interesting scientists. P.G.Wodehouse<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">How would you like people to engage with your work?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">However they feel, but not through concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Nowadays I am really in love with Frank Stella's Moby Dick series. Can't
get enough of it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 1em 0px;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #595959; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Planning a print edition.</span></i></div>
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-25240715127984516372012-02-27T10:35:00.001-08:002012-02-27T10:36:23.208-08:00Hugh Delap<div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpFirst" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I make small abstract paintings on paper and canvas. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What drives you to make work?</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Tomma Abts, Thomas Nozkowski, Phillip Allen, Tal R, Thomas Scheibitz, Robert Bordo, Raoul De Keyser, Ronnie Hughes, Paul Doran and Mark Swords come to mind initially. To me these artists speak a similar language influenced by the Bauhaus and geometric abstraction. Early on as a painter I felt an affinity for this vernacular. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What outside of visual art informs your practice?</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"> </span></i></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></strong></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">When somebody looks at my work I hope they can interpret it using their own experiences. My work has no single meaning, instead I hope the viewer will make their own associations and allow their own meaning to emerge. </span></i></strong></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I recently re-read an essay by Jan Verwoert <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">‘The Beauty and Politics of Latency: On the Work of Tomma Abts’. </span>I reckon it is a must read for abstract painters. I am also looking forward to Paul Doran next solo show in the Green on Red Gallery in Dublin, in March. I hope it will make an impression. </span></i></strong></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I am preparing for a one man show in MonsterTruck, Dublin opening on the 30<sup>th</sup> of March. </span></i></strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-55885424615502080262012-02-23T12:52:00.000-08:002012-02-27T10:38:11.968-08:00Emmanuel Ballange <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcby9AtrfvLspxKhIO9LMh5716rCSAHJfGrEY_aYrqdRGyOYDbm5n6PUNd84pmuvMEYFg4rwmrLBYv7dGod7oIhJQ0f3zHCnB6WdGxDH0PfQFnk0KLavq8oNzHyQNIqQbVYMJVweUZp65/s1600/P1380928.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" lda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKcby9AtrfvLspxKhIO9LMh5716rCSAHJfGrEY_aYrqdRGyOYDbm5n6PUNd84pmuvMEYFg4rwmrLBYv7dGod7oIhJQ0f3zHCnB6WdGxDH0PfQFnk0KLavq8oNzHyQNIqQbVYMJVweUZp65/s200/P1380928.jpg" width="148" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRky42GVcBMpcs-O7ozZvDr926n3E0zv3GOL30gJ5HU0sFHudjxcUE3Z6L85gOOK2-taLgvCA_hS4sxU7cBT1VWLjrqj8gylsgpp2JL2GbsZXIPuhoQRf2RN0GPCFMRnfLGCikWpmYXKS/s1600/P1420307.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" lda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRky42GVcBMpcs-O7ozZvDr926n3E0zv3GOL30gJ5HU0sFHudjxcUE3Z6L85gOOK2-taLgvCA_hS4sxU7cBT1VWLjrqj8gylsgpp2JL2GbsZXIPuhoQRf2RN0GPCFMRnfLGCikWpmYXKS/s200/P1420307.jpeg" width="161" /></a> <br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I am a French painter and I live in the southwest of France, in Bordeaux. I work on canvas (oil) or on paper (gouache) from preliminary, predetermined geometrical drawings (circles, triangles, trapeziums, peculiar shapes). My paintings are neither illusionistic nor demonstrative.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Shape is Thought. Pictures, paintings are the expression of Poetry which could shake the meaning of the world. An unprejudiced, and as much as possible - undetermined expression. Pissaro said: ‘my conscience became free as did my eyes.’</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I work in series. I do not work every day since I teach in an Art School to earn my living. When I am in my studio I first work systematically on my drawings and then paint accordingly. Regularity and discipline are very important to me.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></i></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-13532610301480669042011-10-26T12:16:00.000-07:002013-07-30T06:33:52.360-07:00Guy Yanai <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOVcaqjx-ikstGZjZuXUaPHhvvB5XWp2yqnc7kLwGxhuONv6aMIoG8XNCI0YG_cQ983d0dyXhYstsr_aC3AzK4pohUGn2xr89c6DOh0NLhHWN6Ee8BzrIICNcy4DBbZhnSN27ATI2egNr/s1600/nnew-salon-512.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOVcaqjx-ikstGZjZuXUaPHhvvB5XWp2yqnc7kLwGxhuONv6aMIoG8XNCI0YG_cQ983d0dyXhYstsr_aC3AzK4pohUGn2xr89c6DOh0NLhHWN6Ee8BzrIICNcy4DBbZhnSN27ATI2egNr/s200/nnew-salon-512.jpg" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-4O8PAqsEMH5kvnlnKhcAKLJB41QddQhT-rkVGwveEA4uRKy-lejnA7zCYD4YsDyvoyndUbeyI2Hs7sM4jO_JFflUI9yCD7_0E1bzBA2-OdRflmtJFozAZqqVnysbAaXjk7GeBolA_Wo/s1600/_MG_2241.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-4O8PAqsEMH5kvnlnKhcAKLJB41QddQhT-rkVGwveEA4uRKy-lejnA7zCYD4YsDyvoyndUbeyI2Hs7sM4jO_JFflUI9yCD7_0E1bzBA2-OdRflmtJFozAZqqVnysbAaXjk7GeBolA_Wo/s200/_MG_2241.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-74949612063223352012011-10-11T09:50:00.000-07:002011-10-11T09:55:50.127-07:00William Stein<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Difficult to answer, as art is an all out and all receiving practice, like when we breathe (without a dust mask), whatever comes your way you take in, even the work that I may not like will have something that may inform me on my own work. And to define which artists and paintings had a great effect on me would be long, due to the fact that my interests are in many different pictorial forms and in many different artists; so here is a small list, which should be by no means taken as definitive as there are many that I have left out, Giotto, Vermeer, Titian, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Goya, Eduard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Nicolas De Stael, Barnett Newman, Philip Guston, Agnes Martin, Eva Hess, Blinky Palermo, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Jo Baer, Donald Judd, my work is also informed by my close artist friends and my contemporaries, I have also spent long hours looking at Classical Chinese painting, Islamic art, as well as at Classical Chinese pottery such as Sung dynasty pottery.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times-Roman", "serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9CiQKS5mEnwx4VdZ_hI2kWIJCdhyaKAD50hwJ6UcIX1OuKG_ipICfqmtFCNVMxRorHFgku0ohp-pzuHFG1rgx8s0nSFOPoN5F1X9ca4c4pWhIzOyTIvRfxfSeB29N91VsJ0ukI3qhIj5/s1600/lmGW63XfUyG3vrJl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-70722554540385068322011-08-24T01:05:00.000-07:002012-02-27T10:39:31.726-08:00Emily Auchincloss<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I make paintings. Labels are unwieldy and weird. I don’t very much believe in a hard line between abstraction and representation. But I guess I am more concerned with calling attention to moments when symbols and gestures come into being, and when they fall apart.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The painful and wonderful feeling that comes when you see what you want to make, and you try to make it, and you fail partly, and something comes out that is a result of both trying very hard and giving in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps like giving your ego a series of hugs and slaps.</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I work on two or three paintings at a time, most of them are large- usually one will completely take over and then I reach a sort of plateau and then others start calling out. When it’s really good they all could perhaps be talking to each other. When I do drawings with oilstick on Duralar it is very fast work, and I have to be really conscious when I transition to the slower process of painting on canvas- I’m definitely still figuring that out. There is usually a lot of waiting, and then fast moves, and then some long slogs.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">About a year or so…I recently got a studio in Bushwick where I finally have everything where I want it to be, more or less, in terms of materials and tools, which is helping enormously.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">A selected list: Poussin, George Stubbs, Turner, Whistler, Johannes Itten, Francis Bacon for his stages, Phillip Guston, Elizabeth Murray (her early work very, very much), Charlene Von Heyl, Al Taylor, Keltie Ferris, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the amazing and under-known sculptor Phyllida Barlow, Alisha Kerlin very much, Celia Gerard, Linda Francis. My amazing fiancé, the sculptor Joshua Hart.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The ocean and the sky: how the clouds and waves stand in for things vast and unseeable in their totality. Also Navajo Blankets, Gees Bend quilts and knitted patterns. Somehow I feel they are akin to the computerized aesthetic of fractured spaces and digital readouts. There’s a connection there that is compelling to me.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I’d like them to suspend their disbelief. I’m starting to feel we live in a constant state of disbelief…that’s sad. I sure don’t want to. I’m a believer.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Being in a glider plane at 9,300 feet made an impression. That was in the California desert, where I was recently. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did what’s called a Wing Over, which is a trick where at one point you are completely upside down and the cockpit is filled with just mountains and sand, and you’re weightless for a moment… Also flying home to New York and looking out the window made a big impression too: seeing the irregular circles, lines and squares of crops and irrigation ditches and desert roads…I am sure they are going to make their way into my paintings. This country is a very beautiful thing from up above.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I have a solo show in New Jersey in September and a group show in NYC. And hopefully a lot of studio time.</span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-17610100631226303422011-08-15T12:34:00.000-07:002012-02-27T10:39:42.283-08:00Selina Foote<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I make small scale paintings on canvas and silk. I work with a rule based system to develop each painting, borrowing information from reproductions of historic paintings. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I am interested in reproductions of artworks. Living in New Zealand it can be quite isolated in terms of seeing particularly historical painting. So, much of the painting I am interested in I have encountered primarily through reproductions which have an interesting quality quite different to the art objects themselves. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I look at books a lot, and art journals and online documentation of shows.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I’m in studio after work from about 5 o’clock everyday and as much as I can on the weekend. I spend some time preparing canvases and making drawings that will then inform paintings. I usually have several paintings on the go at various stages. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I always start with a drawing of some sort first, and then apply various rules that build on these drawings to produce the final composition. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Edouard Manet, Frank Stella, Robert Ryman, Mary Heilmann, Gordon Walters.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I watch a lot of films. At the moment I’ve been watching Louis Malle and Elia Kazan films. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">My paintings are all developed through a series of rules which overlap, so they can be viewed as individual works or in pairs or groupings. I like the idea of paintings forming conversations between themselves. </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Patrick Lundberg’s shoelace works</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Richard Bryant’s works on paper</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Sriwhana Spong’s silk works at Sue Crockford Gallery</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">At the moment I’m working toward a solo show for next year. </span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-77293856882212042632011-08-09T03:47:00.000-07:002011-08-09T03:50:02.114-07:00Magalie Guerin<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_Lf7IghlNv95TxqIPcE9apG-KMmnZpp5ZyfLLf4eZJqCf3kLj0SIH8rSUbtT33-apzIetEDZl6Le2ZhRcnF5trA764AWLvdyfQVxAJp20QyIziP9JUE7FoNIBNBmTTcAi25RF-ZXVuL0/s1600/Papillion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_Lf7IghlNv95TxqIPcE9apG-KMmnZpp5ZyfLLf4eZJqCf3kLj0SIH8rSUbtT33-apzIetEDZl6Le2ZhRcnF5trA764AWLvdyfQVxAJp20QyIziP9JUE7FoNIBNBmTTcAi25RF-ZXVuL0/s200/Papillion.jpg" width="199" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAf_TZxTXf1zBUNOgO2-YZkaOXOYhSPciClFbrSqXxfmHlwB-H_SqIRgMI4BsMcpxuv5j23NPVV7HkssygS4uyu6QccPNFfclAaEkstE6mTXqDK9yNyJjBv41Dw9sn5csjYGTHNSPmIadS/s1600/HappyMeat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAf_TZxTXf1zBUNOgO2-YZkaOXOYhSPciClFbrSqXxfmHlwB-H_SqIRgMI4BsMcpxuv5j23NPVV7HkssygS4uyu6QccPNFfclAaEkstE6mTXqDK9yNyJjBv41Dw9sn5csjYGTHNSPmIadS/s200/HappyMeat.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">At the moment (08/2011) I make non-representational paintings that look like abstract art</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">What drives you to make work?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">It’s an interest/engagement in fluidity, attentive looking (visual puzzles) and spatial/social relationship as well as shape invention and in slowing down the pace </span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">My studio hours are usually 10-6PM. A lot of time is spent sitting and looking at the shapes and surfaces on the canvas. I usually build them with gesso and have to sand down multiple coats, which is time consuming. There’s a lot of removal in my process.</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Hard to say, but 2 years ago I was exclusively working with ballpoint pen on paper which was quite different.</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mary Heilmann, Thomas Scheibitz, Amy Sillman, Nicola Tyson, Charline von Heyl, Susan Frecon, Brancusi, Morandi... </span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">…Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith.</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">And closer peers such as Angela Dufresne, Dawn Clements, Jenny Vogel, Sunny Payson, Lea Schleiffenbaum, Michelle Grabner, Timothy Bergstrom and Sean Ward (to name a few) with whom I’ve had countless conversations regarding art and everything else.</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Everything. But mostly it’s the dynamics in relationships and psychology. Then there is furniture design, architecture, literature, nature…</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">With lightness, trust and humor. And with an irresistible desire to live with!</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">There was a show this summer at Harris Lieberman in NYC of influential women artists that got me very excited about painting.</span></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #444444;">Yes, I will be a fellow at the American Academy in Rome… one day.</span></span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-91944140055353893482011-08-06T02:08:00.000-07:002011-08-06T02:08:55.157-07:00Alice Browne<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32SjhG1MWWajyhjnmh4cDteezmoIVjLL9d8vE4XI7QPLL0Yo_POz7TCMuRp-AGlzyeIRruEcW65-AYb3C_W8XoY_Y2TtP1kdhvosl-RGysMbOC6Bz_jS3iaE1vO3v4cDc6H1eECBA9bDr/s1600/image2_13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32SjhG1MWWajyhjnmh4cDteezmoIVjLL9d8vE4XI7QPLL0Yo_POz7TCMuRp-AGlzyeIRruEcW65-AYb3C_W8XoY_Y2TtP1kdhvosl-RGysMbOC6Bz_jS3iaE1vO3v4cDc6H1eECBA9bDr/s200/image2_13.jpg" t$="true" width="159" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimPy5GZSAvismX_pFGS5pwc0L5UbrR8sXmKcXfGf5Hnmm9xKhntwCtin8Zgu8jX3ymst0mb6BH0JGHNxZtWbzs9YejQPZX56zJj19xDHZND48YKrjHq3Kvo9HDc0Cl1HBE9KHcUhEDIbJ5/s1600/image2_18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimPy5GZSAvismX_pFGS5pwc0L5UbrR8sXmKcXfGf5Hnmm9xKhntwCtin8Zgu8jX3ymst0mb6BH0JGHNxZtWbzs9YejQPZX56zJj19xDHZND48YKrjHq3Kvo9HDc0Cl1HBE9KHcUhEDIbJ5/s200/image2_18.jpg" t$="true" width="176" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I look, think and make paintings. The paintings are a sum of their parts: layered spaces made from colour and brushwork. They are influenced by a history of represented space (in painting, photography etc.) and my perceptions.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What drives you to make work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Curiosity</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I keep lots of things on the go and don’t plan any of them. It seems to be quite important to not care too much about any particular painting. Caring makes me too cautious. This way I’m always ready for failure. I put things away and come back to them sometimes a day later, sometimes 3 months later. My process varies – some paintings are quick and made of only 2 or 3 layers and others take 6 months. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">The hardest decisions I make are about colour. Recently I’ve been choosing from a range of dry pigments as well as ready mixed tube colours which has really changed my palette.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I aim to get to the studio for 9am and work on between 5 – 10 paintings. Or sometimes I make drawings on paper. I often fail to complete more than 3 clues on a crossword at lunchtime but persevere for an unnecessary amount of time. I leave whenever I’ve stopped being able to see and think about what I’ve made (before I get too destructive) which is anytime between 3pm and 7pm. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I’ve been making paintings the way I do since the final year of my BA at Wimbledon College of Art, in 2009.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">My routine is still forming and changing as my studio time has increased since I started working with Limoncello Gallery earlier this year.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">This is a greedily long list….Masaccio; Philip Guston; Francis Bacon; Prunella Clough; Pieter Claesz; Jeff Wall; Mary Heilmann; Max Beckmann; Mali Morris; Antoni Tapies; </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Juan Sanchez Cotan<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">; </span>Philip Allen<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Literature eg. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Cinema eg. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou by Wes Anderson; Dr Zhivago by David Lean; Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Mythology</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Music eg. Wild Beasts; The National; Pixies; Explosions in the Sky</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Architecture eg. Churches</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Mountains</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">With curiosity and acceptance of the validity of their thoughts about it.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Edward Thomasson and Lucy Beech’s video of their performance Holding It Together</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Yes! Very exciting…I’m currently working towards a show in the Jerwood Project Space in September and my first solo show at Limoncello Gallery</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"> in November</span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-76863205697126185992011-08-05T02:51:00.000-07:002011-08-05T03:21:33.906-07:00Michael Callaghan<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOPweaD6wwmvGztXF9pSyoDRHLJVV5_6NlXRZBMUPZ6ccJKBI8Uao6LLNdk59MMtMwyHPuNsmNxBYZ_fSydR_8mECzq5hyQq1rJlTZD54fwKLdPxQvByHg1SSAh2UvCfrRiJKPvSrtedN/s1600/sketch3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOPweaD6wwmvGztXF9pSyoDRHLJVV5_6NlXRZBMUPZ6ccJKBI8Uao6LLNdk59MMtMwyHPuNsmNxBYZ_fSydR_8mECzq5hyQq1rJlTZD54fwKLdPxQvByHg1SSAh2UvCfrRiJKPvSrtedN/s200/sketch3.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFAZXol-0pmlkCR7RJbmnpdQXKqS5LpPKVnJlUrE7ZJA1ybTFHWiA6o9loC6ieCUqhPTG8IcT7F-F-NpXD-eosF82DEpCZeu6qevrtKgB7ukc9NrYnciyGF9r5-Wt7sn_iLt7JA2Td0FN/s1600/sketch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFAZXol-0pmlkCR7RJbmnpdQXKqS5LpPKVnJlUrE7ZJA1ybTFHWiA6o9loC6ieCUqhPTG8IcT7F-F-NpXD-eosF82DEpCZeu6qevrtKgB7ukc9NrYnciyGF9r5-Wt7sn_iLt7JA2Td0FN/s200/sketch1.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you briefly describe what you do? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I use acrylic paint and vinyl cloth tape (aka 'gaffers' tape), and to a lesser extent, masking tape, to create non-objective images on stretched canvas (sizes varying between 6" x 8" (canvas board for sketches) through and up to 72" x 84" currently). I do not start with a pre-determined image in mind; however, I build an image in layers initially based on tape and paint sketches. I like to gesture large in the beginning. To that end, I start with either an elaborate grid of tape or paletted paint swatches. I continue with several composed - almost 'action' - layers of tape or paint. Most works have upwards of 5 layers or more. The process of layering is what excites me the most. The final textured image hopefully delays the resolve of the viewer's eye to see space in an interesting way.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What drives you to make work? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">For many years I worked in the film industry as an assistant cameraman, and we had all this tape left over. It fascinated me by its texture, color, strong adhesion quality, and flexibility. It is fairly toxic to the environment if thrown away and I wanted to find a different use for it. I actually used to 'sketch' with it during down-time at work on various media. I often recycle tape from one painting to use in others.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I'm lucky that I seem to wake up every morning with enthusiasm to do work. I'm a morning person and if I don't start something by 11 am, it will never happen. Sketching with tape and paint is important pretty much every day, and I put some of them on my website to demarcate between sections of similar images to help viewers see my progression.</span></i><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"><br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"> </span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">One year with the current full-time method. I have been taping and painting intermittently for 10 years.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I look at a lot of high-end photographic images of fashion and architecture - mostly elaborate, big, flowing clothing and vibrantly colored, yet very minimal architecture. The fashion and architecture images help generate my gestures and influence my final color choices, sometimes monochromatic. Names: Newman, Judd, Malevich, Kelly, Diebenkorn.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">My wife's drive, professionalism, and happiness in her job inspires me. Ambient music. I try to cook a lot of complex dishes, full of color, to appear simple and elegant.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">How would you like people to engage with your work? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Generally, most people see grids or maps or some kind of relief that seems familiar, something to latch onto and try to resolve. Those final images are not my intention but usually start an interesting conversation.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"> </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I just discovered Minus Space in Brooklyn which deals exclusively with Reductive Art. I also saw a show at THEODORE:Art in Soho (NY) with Andrew Seto, Damien Flood and Joy Garnett. Andrew Seto is infinitely inspiring as he tweets his daily travels with amazing photo images which clearly inform his painting process.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon? </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Hopefully a baby.</span></i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"> </span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-39776518418272375132011-08-04T10:33:00.000-07:002011-08-04T10:35:41.046-07:00Clare Price<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSYfbqGAHaB1VWKjrDCRv7hGIZE7jeKEaUmP_HTic0kZZv2AWfoersI8X_7XRosJGv_IE5xq2RGISo81lcyqEok0C8pg7iZ4Zxsce6hHE5MBrIKhv0-fqC-9TE6xnOqhxTeBG0vG9PG7h/s1600/12_Make_you_fail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSYfbqGAHaB1VWKjrDCRv7hGIZE7jeKEaUmP_HTic0kZZv2AWfoersI8X_7XRosJGv_IE5xq2RGISo81lcyqEok0C8pg7iZ4Zxsce6hHE5MBrIKhv0-fqC-9TE6xnOqhxTeBG0vG9PG7h/s200/12_Make_you_fail.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiIgWBuX-hooxDrkkf2MtKHVCEKtPTRovHpJA6D9QOzyz2s1_v4nuYZKh28jmzgl9fIIFAAS6pvr7y119j-RLd603YYPe9oya8aRGlvNefFtpRAYcd221KMO6qu2KtrxiCl-sc-_3lCSL/s1600/19_Shes_lost_control.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiIgWBuX-hooxDrkkf2MtKHVCEKtPTRovHpJA6D9QOzyz2s1_v4nuYZKh28jmzgl9fIIFAAS6pvr7y119j-RLd603YYPe9oya8aRGlvNefFtpRAYcd221KMO6qu2KtrxiCl-sc-_3lCSL/s200/19_Shes_lost_control.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">I make large scale abstract paintings, the basis for which are digital drawings created on an antiquated computer programme and projected up with transparencies and an overhead projector. This drawing becomes the skeleton or "grid" for the painting, which is either meticulously adhered to or rebelled against using spray paint acrylic gouache and household lacquers. The paintings explore the intersection between something that is very visceral and painterly, and something that is much more controlled and designed. In some parts the paintings are spare, stark and graphic; in others, the paint washes voluptuously over the tightly restrained framework exploding into action painting.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What drives you to make work?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">A gnawing, irrepressible, all consuming compulsion.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It varies from stretching and priming of canvas the drawing up of the pixelated drawings which takes a few hours; the steeling to commence battle with the canvas to make it work or hang together in some way; the spray painting of the initial marks that mirror the pixelated lines and then the complete immersion in the painting where things happen that are outside of you that you don't expect where time goes by and you don't know what happened to it, where you are outside of yourself, usually in a haze of paint fumes. That’s what I do it for, those moments (not the paint fumes, the being outside of yourself [although no doubt the paint fumes help]).</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">I have been working like this for the past five years. I came back to painting after a long absence so it still feels very new and old all at the same time as I painted when I was younger. I think a lot of the insane hunger to paint is the making up for lost time.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">Patrick Heron, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Albert Oehlen, Peter Lanyon, Blinky Palermo, Wilhelm de Kooning, Ingres, Turner, Andy Warhol.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">Music, lyrics, sound, popular culture, reading, landscape urban and rural, film and cinematography, architecture.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">Preferably in a large white space with plenty of room to stand back. </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;">I saw a room of late Picasso paintings in Barcelona. The compositions and colours were so effortless and perfect: they were delivered with such ease and almost flippancy but were so utterly serious, profound and charged. They moved me to the core.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In November I am returning to </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cortijada Los Gázquez</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, where I did a residency two years ago. I'll be in the mountains in Andalucia with nothing to think about but painting for 10 days. I also have a show at Studio 1.1 next year which I am making work towards and am very excited about. The studio is also really both exciting and overwhelming me at the moment. Things are in flux and wide open.</span></i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-28929391591957397412011-08-04T02:35:00.000-07:002011-08-04T02:43:12.715-07:00Paul Behnke<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEHiXq4OvuRCzb3DC7N0LoAZvMFLQZUn7v707hyjkQEtp3YkGDD1fQjqBY8AtlgnskVydqpuHX17nQIQs49Z6n01-L9USB9U6QJ4fnOGuRArkSPlXD4-jn2-8bUoMQ017AoG1Rz_xyKP-/s1600/paul+behnke2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEHiXq4OvuRCzb3DC7N0LoAZvMFLQZUn7v707hyjkQEtp3YkGDD1fQjqBY8AtlgnskVydqpuHX17nQIQs49Z6n01-L9USB9U6QJ4fnOGuRArkSPlXD4-jn2-8bUoMQ017AoG1Rz_xyKP-/s200/paul+behnke2.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHZYjshELihuBe8uQV3Mh2d12FywG-A3xYDAaGwY8pq4pjgtN_Jj4FsvK5YAyvMpvnXVoRPPC0crhg5PClcaMQakOMkIx8dyzbCJ7Q9MtxQwhoPkpEXhyphenhyphenCoz02sk3roVL6El0vjQg2Cfpg/s1600/paul+behnke3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHZYjshELihuBe8uQV3Mh2d12FywG-A3xYDAaGwY8pq4pjgtN_Jj4FsvK5YAyvMpvnXVoRPPC0crhg5PClcaMQakOMkIx8dyzbCJ7Q9MtxQwhoPkpEXhyphenhyphenCoz02sk3roVL6El0vjQg2Cfpg/s200/paul+behnke3.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Can you briefly describe what you do? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I make non-objective paintings and drawings.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #444444;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Through my process I arrive at a unique pictorial vocabulary in which high key color plays a significant role.</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There is a suggestion of flux, in my work, and a strong sense of arriving at an image rather</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">than the creation of a fixed representation.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What drives you to make work?</b></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The feeling I get when I look at great works of art---part envy, part pride and a desire to compete with my heroes.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I paint everyday, usually starting around noon and stopping at six. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I never begin with a preconceived idea or image. I choose a color and begin. When a few forms begin to present themselves I scrape a layer of semi-transparent paint over the composition. This allows forms and spatial relationships to be seen in a different way. The process is repeated until I arrive at a nearly final state. Often at this point I begin to edit forms and make color changes until the painting feels complete.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">With a few minor variations, for about two years. Before then there was not much paring down involved and the final painting was much more busy and frenetic.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Morandi and the New York School in the beginning. For the last six years I've paid a great deal of attention to the work of the British abstract painters: John Hoyland, Gillian Ayres, Albert Irvin, and Patrick Heron.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I think literature influences how I see myself as a painter and the romantic way I view art in general and this in turn informs my practice. I'm thinking of books like The Masterpiece by Zola, The Horse's Mouth, and the Sound of Sleat by Jon Schueler. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ideally, I would like an educated viewer. With that as a given, I hope there would be many ways to approach my work. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Yes, recent shows by Thornton Willis, Kimber Smith, and Norman Bluhm. And John Hoyland's work in the Independent Eye exhibition at Flowers gallery. There was also a terrific abstraction by Alfred Leslie in the Ab-Ex show at MoMA that I'm still thinking about.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This October I'll have work in a group show curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones at the University of Dayton in Ohio. And on the distant horizon I'll have a one person show at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia in 2012.</span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-58965718471948537812011-08-03T03:09:00.000-07:002011-08-04T02:52:01.605-07:00Louise Belcourt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfnLLE7xzcZAPw8addyMNh2KOu_dGN2hP7MxM2Woh3AybzYngf_g6Ltt4AxIHi5dItMrO35uLX4T8Yre8c3XabFWwgAcpuBAozVHQt35w1fIRXjwZY_h6WgMtX4knZJ9vo5WTfiO7KfvgG/s1600/hlp14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfnLLE7xzcZAPw8addyMNh2KOu_dGN2hP7MxM2Woh3AybzYngf_g6Ltt4AxIHi5dItMrO35uLX4T8Yre8c3XabFWwgAcpuBAozVHQt35w1fIRXjwZY_h6WgMtX4knZJ9vo5WTfiO7KfvgG/s200/hlp14.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFK6Zma_6Xno0pqWtSxwGVagsvAx_ctjaWED1zr5ZA1RvLd3h9ISb2GcL7yoKI9dYE4vnE94B-MSO-Ae5pIhhwcr2f94C19llCtOHIT4MNI8yMgX5oejYyN4fYuo-1heQyyfbr0R1MroqM/s1600/hlp16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFK6Zma_6Xno0pqWtSxwGVagsvAx_ctjaWED1zr5ZA1RvLd3h9ISb2GcL7yoKI9dYE4vnE94B-MSO-Ae5pIhhwcr2f94C19llCtOHIT4MNI8yMgX5oejYyN4fYuo-1heQyyfbr0R1MroqM/s200/hlp16.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I am a painter.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">What drives you to make work?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The need to feel centered and the need to find joy.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">In the studio by 10 am, lunch at 2 ish, leave at 6pm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Six days a week, minimum.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">A long time. 12 years ago I had a part time job on the weekends but otherwise it was 5 days like that.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Phillip Guston, Matisse, Van Gogh.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Gardening, garden building, mornings and long walks.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I want them to feel desire and love looking at them. It would be nice to think that they would want to touch them too.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Greens that are so far away they appear blue. My black dog running thru fog.</span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpLast" style="line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Fall is coming.</span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-70131439953976336392011-07-11T09:19:00.000-07:002011-07-11T09:29:34.857-07:00Don West<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjid3iJaoS_ZyCdOeJlZfErxPLNLE_JWgCEskVFL8Eyh6X3jNe2an0mHvR0F2shQwCgHl0ANgBC1oVOio_UKfGv-XVhR-ToefVdh2qjiVC1uEINP1XVVl1Zh8zU6Z0I_VLvOVdguoCi014/s1600/Ares150_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjid3iJaoS_ZyCdOeJlZfErxPLNLE_JWgCEskVFL8Eyh6X3jNe2an0mHvR0F2shQwCgHl0ANgBC1oVOio_UKfGv-XVhR-ToefVdh2qjiVC1uEINP1XVVl1Zh8zU6Z0I_VLvOVdguoCi014/s200/Ares150_2.jpg" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEbAV1OIG0tVF0XiRbWGo93Jx8Y50kUuDrRk1-86ME9d4re-snMmNzjvAsNmOSO5bBMTLfGcKGNEBfNxhM8K7nOuXettZXY-_2xUP3n9u8Nd6ix0rsxNLZlrzq_UUpeClWo4rD_AA6NAI/s1600/IMG_1640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEbAV1OIG0tVF0XiRbWGo93Jx8Y50kUuDrRk1-86ME9d4re-snMmNzjvAsNmOSO5bBMTLfGcKGNEBfNxhM8K7nOuXettZXY-_2xUP3n9u8Nd6ix0rsxNLZlrzq_UUpeClWo4rD_AA6NAI/s200/IMG_1640.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I paint. I use a number of different mediums and approaches to paint. I struggle for mastery.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I fail a lot. </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What drives you to make work?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The satisfaction I get from doing it, although I abhor failing.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Painting often entails making the support or finding the support or stretching canvas or a combination of all these while conceiving of the work. Making drawings or studies where necessary. Assembling materials. Scraping palettes, cleaning brushes. Mixing colors. Often I make or stretch a group of things or supports on which to paint conceiving of a full series of work, the individual pieces of which inform and relate to one another, one a continuation or a contradiction of the next. These may take different shapes and forms and various dimensions. Nothing is off the table. I work with all sorts of materials. I recycle a lot and have done for years. I’ll use anything and everything that comes to hand or mind, whatever the piece dictates. If I don’t know how to do it, I learn how. Anything that will contribute to the piece is fair game. I also contemplate and consider making frames where applicable. Some works are about line, color, composition, gesture, etc.; some are about process, some are about challenge, some about image or surface or space. Whatever presents itself to me gets a hearing. Each work finds its own way into existence with its own set of rules and demands. When actually painting, I do more looking and thinking than painting. But wherever it begins and wherever it ends, it is always and ultimately about illusion. I play mostly. Watch hummers at the window feeder. Burn incense. Listen to music, make and drink coffee. Run the vac, do some calisthenics, lift some weight, write in the studio journal. I’m always working to put myself into the receptive state through which the artwork appears, engaging the painting dialogue that is ongoing and evolving when the work is coming.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I present myself for work in the studio everyday. Studio life is solitary. I put in 6 solid hours at my job, sometimes 7 or more. It used to be 8 or better, every day, until I turned 60. But now, at 65 years of age, I’m usually only good for about 6 hours; after that, it’s non-productive. I’ve been working this way, for 35 years. </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The only artist who hasn’t been a profound influence in my work I haven’t discovered yet. I’m constantly on the prowl for another great artist’s work to see. I learn something even from the bad ones. It doesn’t matter what type of art it is. I copy to learn the most interesting and applicable techniques and processes from the greatest artists I can find. I try things out and practice to make them mine.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The world, the universe, other people, museums, galleries, beauty, truth, honor, love, existing. You could take every other interviewed artist’s response you have on this website to this question and insert it here in my interview. It would be applicable.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">However they want. I try to create something that is drop-dead beautiful to me. Remembering that beauty comes in many many forms. My work is not about expressing something to the viewers. I’ve no agenda, social, political or otherwise. I’ve got nothing to tell or express to them. My work gets me through my day. That’s it. It’s all about making it for me. It would be good, of course, for them to love it enough to buy it, as that’s I how I make my living. But they will get out of it what they are willing to bring to it. Only art made that way will grow more profound over time for those who have made the commitment to live with it.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Aside from terrific difficulty or top-notch craftsmanship apparent in a certain work, not a whole lot of stuff impresses me anymore. I’m absolutely worn out with the tons of “important” mediocre conceptual flotsam/jetsam that is stuffing the galleries. I will say that many of those great paintings, traditional and/or contemporary, that I’ve seen over the years, the best ones, continue to impress me. And I just saw a small, very traditional seascape by DeAnn Melton here in Tucson that was extremely pleasurable to view.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Two new galleries and a one man show of new work coming before the end of this year.</span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-73768441439529863222011-06-28T09:19:00.000-07:002011-06-28T09:20:59.957-07:00Sarah McNulty<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlAinUjva1pdVr8Nnq5rLyNa9ueGej6pru8jiDVCK6T-6ezyirGAcPz4MP9y6xQtd18v-jMLQ49BUsMoGdNzEsAVcFC-RGRlfUtl6LkAXMSYmBo5Az5gkMbLY8AS20l_vVOXB8FV5crnJ/s1600/mcnulty1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlAinUjva1pdVr8Nnq5rLyNa9ueGej6pru8jiDVCK6T-6ezyirGAcPz4MP9y6xQtd18v-jMLQ49BUsMoGdNzEsAVcFC-RGRlfUtl6LkAXMSYmBo5Az5gkMbLY8AS20l_vVOXB8FV5crnJ/s200/mcnulty1.jpg" width="193" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9LaB32m1i56Rx3UMU_ytLl_t_lm8qdPWbNTZ2IGz1CPhWQhKKt_WVpPJ4Jy95bZYfHyW9YBs2nSoUWhBsifOkSElK2gkrSuvVQZw5kXdKNH9w73743gzQDriRtJ4Y_l-yOa3qzzDdREVs/s1600/mcnulty2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9LaB32m1i56Rx3UMU_ytLl_t_lm8qdPWbNTZ2IGz1CPhWQhKKt_WVpPJ4Jy95bZYfHyW9YBs2nSoUWhBsifOkSElK2gkrSuvVQZw5kXdKNH9w73743gzQDriRtJ4Y_l-yOa3qzzDdREVs/s200/mcnulty2.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpFirst" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I make paintings. I also make drawings, objects and projections in relationship to the paintings. They are primarily abstractions, often with ties to the physical world and destructive elements of it, though ultimately I’m far more concerned with the materiality than any subject. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What drives you to make work?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">The possibility of immediate, physical images that may alter experience and reveal greater truths. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"><br />
I spend a lot of time in the studio surrounded by my paintings, maybe 15 or so on varying surfaces, as well as images, drawings and found/made scraps. I go back and forth between surfaces and scales, which vary between human and handheld. The surfaces of the paintings (their solidity, depth, edge and detail) play a strong role in the development of the images. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">A good deal of the time is spent looking and rearranging various constellations, making dumb work, photographing them to view them differently, reading, listening to music. The paintings are often worked over, layer after layer, built up and scratched back. Sometimes they form out of the remains of previous paintings, by re-use of materials or refinement of certain elements of imagery.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Action comes in frenetic bursts after long periods of stillness. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I am interested in materiality taking over, when images and objects turn and deceive, suddenly becoming foreign. This happens when they writhe and jerk, as though outside my own physicality. Braced by the tension of making and ruining, they frequently become something not foreseen as an end-point, where a linear route of actions recedes.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">For about the last 5 years the work has become more focused in the particular direction it seems to be heading.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Guston never ceases to have a wild impact upon viewing. Also Mary Heilmann, Raoul de Keyser, Richard Tuttle, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Manet, and Velazquez have been important recently. I think the other artists that I spend time in conversation with on a regular basis have the greatest affect.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Natural and manmade disasters, uninhabitable landscapes, decay, absence. I’m also quite fascinated with the idea of beasts. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I watch a lot of film, and am partial to the uncynical beauty and awkwardness of Herzog’s, and Villi Knudsen’s volcano films are some of my favorite footage. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I’m also interested in linguistics and translation, whether words or images, and usually studying a foreign language. It’s been Danish for the last couple of years.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I think that looking at work should be an active process. Ideally, I would like it to really take over when viewed.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I keep thinking about the scene in Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Doulos’ where Maurice digs out a hole in the earth under the lamplight to hide the stash. It’s a beautiful scene, so tactile, <span class="ecxapple-style-span">all thrashing hands and flying dirt under the glow.</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Also some interesting work by Phil Root, Paul Housley and Lydia Gifford in recent shows.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;"></span></i></b></div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="ecxmsonormalCxSpLast" style="background: white; line-height: 13pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">I’ve moved into a new, bright studio not long ago so am looking forward to getting to work in it now that it finally feels like a space I understand. </span></i><span class="ecxapple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 191;">Also the second half of a recent show I was in in Munich will take place here in London early next year.</span></i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-18211540012102154152011-06-25T03:04:00.000-07:002011-06-25T03:10:33.147-07:00Trevor Sutton<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">I make paintings, prints and other works on paper.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What drives you to make work?</b></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">It’s the activity that feels most real to me.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">In recent years I have once again returned to working with grids, after a long period of making glazed, atmospheric paintings that often employed a square or circular format. My latest paintings are constructed and painted with oil and paper collage on board. They refer to solid architectural surfaces – facades and interiors in preference to the skies and smoke of work made in the 90’s and for most of the last decade.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">I go to my London studio most days, where alongside making work I read, think and listen to a lot of music.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Since I gave up teaching at Chelsea School of Art in 2000.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Roger Ackling, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Jeremy Moon, Mark Rothko.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Being in the landscape, being by the sea, being alone, being in Ireland, being in Japan. Music.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</b></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Slowly, seriously and enthusiastically<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have you seen anything recently that has made an impression?</b></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Giant’s Causeway, County Antrim.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?</b></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">An exhibition has just opened in Austria. </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">DOUBLE VISION: Carol Robertson + Trevor Sutton</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Ritter Gallery, Klagenfurt, Austria</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">16 June – 30 July 2011</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span></i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623229238709574260.post-57355737021555075772011-06-18T02:36:00.000-07:002011-06-18T02:36:26.102-07:00Peter Blundell<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_APgB_S_QHyaKU3FoanupuTKqUfqakIKh3z7wmzISoK4t31cH1j2lEYAe4ueKpVvG-tFee1RNI64NcY_Y559FbM4-D2tr6ucMCVjw6YTKTiHU2JFIS8Lyp2V9iZxJHta2RqbmY1_vK4w/s1600/Peter-Blundell-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_APgB_S_QHyaKU3FoanupuTKqUfqakIKh3z7wmzISoK4t31cH1j2lEYAe4ueKpVvG-tFee1RNI64NcY_Y559FbM4-D2tr6ucMCVjw6YTKTiHU2JFIS8Lyp2V9iZxJHta2RqbmY1_vK4w/s200/Peter-Blundell-1.jpg" width="168" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG43A0oc0OEAPcpam1aWiAYt9FyPguU9_j-iYU0naDUPjv0oSWg9Hj2rQvSesmgZsx9y8ip9hDfsbX-QMORV9P6ExGHFFCTc8YO_ZRQqqt0cIDyCJ3d9SZ9NmUq_hUEUVhbESPK3UMl_2b/s1600/Peter-Blundell-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG43A0oc0OEAPcpam1aWiAYt9FyPguU9_j-iYU0naDUPjv0oSWg9Hj2rQvSesmgZsx9y8ip9hDfsbX-QMORV9P6ExGHFFCTc8YO_ZRQqqt0cIDyCJ3d9SZ9NmUq_hUEUVhbESPK3UMl_2b/s200/Peter-Blundell-5.jpg" width="151" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Can you briefly describe what you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I make paintings in oil on canvas on a domestic scale. I use handmade stencils cut from card to create compositions that I cannot fully anticipate. The paintings are built up in layers over time, sometimes I try to ignore what is on the surface at other times I will re-trace the forms onto a new layer. The intention is resolve the painting into a concrete pictorial form. It is very open to begin with and goes through many changes but after a time the painting determines itself.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">What drives you to make work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Painting for me is an outlet, a release that helps me channel thought, experience and allows for an element of risk to be taken into an on-going activity. I enjoy the feeling of being immersed in a prolonged exploration of my own making where I don’t know the outcome.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Can you tell me something of your day-to-day working practices?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I work on around fifteen paintings in the studio at any one time. I select a painting to work on for the session. Sometimes I begin painting immediately, at other times I may loosen up by drawing or cutting out a stencil to use. I most often paint flat on a table and begin by wiping down or painting over a previous layer.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">How long have you been working in that way?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I have worked in this way since studying at Central St. Martins in 2006. Prior to this, I made more systems-based paintings that were completed in a single session. I used grids and structural motifs worked out beforehand in studies to regulate the flow of paint. My current work is a reaction to that way of working in that it evolves organically and is resolved over a longer period.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Which artists have had the greatest affect on your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I don’t feel directly influenced by any one artist when I am making the work in the studio, however after a while I see aspects of other artists work emerge in mine. Recently I might have recognised Jean Fautrier, El Greco and Jessica Stockholder, although maybe not all in one painting!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">What, outside visual art, informs your practice?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I guess playing bass guitar and vocalising in Temperatures informs the painting practice in some way. We fall in and out of grooves and patterns in the music which is all improvised so there is a clear element of risk added to a real-time live performance.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">How would you like people to engage with your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I’d be just happy if they engaged with it at all, but I guess equal measures of puzzlement and joy would be good.</span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0