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mercoledì 30 gennaio 2008

Interview with Michael Alvarez

q)Name?

a)Michael Alvarez

q)Location?

a)Los Angeles, Ca

q)Contact info...?

a)
www.michaelalvarezart.com

q)How did you get started making art?

a) I've been drawing far back as I can remember. As a baby I would watch popeye, he-man, a couple other cartoons, and look at the drawings in Mad magazine. I would try to copy those characters and draw on whatever I could find, and also the walls of my house all day long.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)Aesthetically, I guess it would be painterly, part accademic, part intuitive, dirty and grimey. As far as subject matter my pieces are socialogical, both postive and negative. It all depends on how I'm feeling. I use pictures I collect for reference, but somehow they end up resembling me somehow. I guess it is the big nose. My pieces are self-portraits though, in the sense that they come from personal experience. I like making awkward looking imagery, because I'm an awkward dude. I also like to add my wierd sense of humor into things.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)From everything. Good/Bad, Win/Lose.


q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Ekundayo, Andrew Hem, Barry Mcgee, Os Gemeos, Datefarmers, Gee Vaucher, Song Kun, Nikolai Fechin, Charles Bragg, schoolmates of mine and teachers, many graffiti writers, too many to name, freight monikers, the music of Roky Erickson, the 13th Floor Elevators, and Ween. There are definitely way more artists I am forgetting. I also grew up being inspired by hand painted signs, murals, and advertisements from where I grew up in El Sereno, Ca. There nothing cooler then seeing a giant fully rendered out painting of some cool ranch Doritos.

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a) They can contact me at my website, or phone number which is posted on the site. Whenever I have something going on I will post it on my website. Now that I am out of school I am starting to show around a little. I have shown at galleries around Los Angeles like Crewest, Thinkspace, and the Hive.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)If it is a 2-dimensional piece, then I will most likely use oil paint. I love how thick it is, and it is fun to get messy and grimey. The surface I like to paint on is wood panel. As far as making a 3-dimensional piece, or a scupture, I use whatever I can find. I am a pack rat and usually collect random scraps or artifacts wherever I go. Wood also comes in handy, for just about anything. If I am going to make a little character sculpture, then I will paint him with acrylic. If it is big, then I'll use spray paint.

q)What are you working on now?

a)Some portraits of friends. I'm really just trying to get back in to the cycle of making things again. I finished school in December, and took a month off. So now I'm trying to shake off the rust and get back into a productive mindset.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)It's hard for me to say, because I just finished school, and am still kinda getting my feet wet in the big art pool. My advise would be to be yourself, and let that reflect in your art. Also to stay humble and loyal to your family. To accept constructive criticism, and pay no mind to the haters. I've still got more to learn.


q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Hanging out with my girlfriend, friends and family, and skateboarding. I enjoy taking pictures of art on trains, painting, exploring, trying to learn stuff, and of course sleeping. Also watching my dvds or skate videos.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a) Music rocks!

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Art is everything, there is an art to everything, and they are all being excersized all the time. Thats what keeps me inspired, and motivates me to not stay indoors watching TV all day. And television can be a viable medium as well, but I hate to overindulge in things and get lazy, which I tend to do.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)Most of the ones I go to, I'm sure most people know already, but fecal face is the one I check out most often. I go on flickr quite often to check out pictures and an artist named Troy Lovegates has amazing artwork on there.
www.andrewhem.com, www.ekundayo.com, www.hardsponge.com - These are some good websites, the last one is one of my former classmates, Vincent Hui.

martedì 29 gennaio 2008

Interview with Ken Vallario

q)Name?

a)Ken Vallario

q)Location?

a)New Paltz, New York - United States

q)Contact info...?

a)Email:
kenvallario@hotmail.com

phone: 973-960-2737

website:
http://www.kenvallario.com/

q)How did you get started making art?

a)When I was a boy I started drawing comic book heroes, Batman, Daredevil, Spiderman, etc. I was fascinated by the human body. When I was a teenager I started using paints, but I became more interested in fine art, Salvador Dali and Michelangelo and fantasy artists like Frank Frazetta. I believed as a child that I could be a famous artist so I committed myself to studying the great artists in history and fashioning my life after them.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)My art is an attempt at synthesis, a reorganizing of the fractured parts of 20th century art-making. It is both a celebration of the great traditions as it is an enthusiasm for this great age of human history. Just as scientists seek a unified theory to explain both the macrocosm and the microcosm I am attempting in my art to find bridges between the pre-modern romanticism and the modern fixation with the picture plane and the post-modern idealisation of personal perspective.
In my work there is almost always a figure, a person seeking self awareness or realization, a coming together of threads, strings, globs, cubes, or symbols. Whereas the figure of the 20th century was an outward explosive movement, the figures in a Vallario painting are a unifying manifestation of awareness, a gravity is sought, weight, real and resurrected form.
q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)I am inspired by greatness, that greatness that defines itself and remains alive in history. Great artists, great teachers, great leaders, human beings that seek to transcend the limits imposed on them, this is the role of the artists, to look at a blank canvas, a limited plane and to create something new, a miraculous thing, and when I see the miraculous around me I hunger to experience it myself.
q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Rembrandt is my Rabbi.
Dali is my priest.
Picasso is my devil.


q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)Please contact me via email or telephone if you would like to purchase a painting. All the necessary information is on my website;
http://www.kenvallario.com

I have various shows throughout the year at galleries in New York and Philadelphia. Email me if you would like to be placed on my mailing list.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)All of my paintings are hi-pigmented liquid acrylic paints on canvas.

q)What are you working on now?

a)I am finishing up a painting that features the greek serpent goddess Medusa, but it is an attempt to depict her in sympathetic form, as though she is transforming into goodness. It’s not done, so it is still difficult to describe the idea.
q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)Carry your sketchbook with you at all times.
Being an artist is a life-journey, not a destination, expect sacrifice.
Study greatness and avoid the obscure.
Sobriety is helpful. The self-destructive artist myth destroys great talents.


q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)I love movies. I am writing a novel. I play with my dog and take care of my pregnant wife.
I also shovel snow and work on my house.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Music, art and philosophy, are interchangeable words. Great art is musical and great music is artful, and all of it is driven by deep and poetic philosophy. But music as an art-form is for me a rhythmic thing. All of my favourite musicians, Led Zeppelin, Eminem, Pearl Jam, Wyclef Jean, they work to create climactic dramatic songs, that explode, that almost fall completely apart, out of control, but their talents are so deep that they manage to maintain high levels of complexity and weave within it raw and vulnerable emotions. We like those things that we would make ourselves if we could. All artistic appreciation is really an appreciation of self, and in these musicians I see what I would have been if I had been born with a musical talent.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Art is celebration, a ceremony that one performs in gratitude for our opportunity to exist. Art connects people rather than divides, art uplifts rather than debases, art is what gives us hope in our darkest times.


q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)How about books:

Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
Martin Buber -- I and Thou
Salvador Dali - 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
Alduous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy

lunedì 28 gennaio 2008

Interview with Gemma Correll

q)Name?

a) Gemma Correll

q)Location?

a)Norwich, UK

q)Contact info.?



q)How did you get started making art?

a)I was always most interested in a project at school when it involved drawing. I loved making posters and my own comics. I got to get out of lessons sometimes to make posters and drawings for school events, and I would make little story books to give to my friends. This love of drawing and narrative continued all the way through high school, where it often got me out of P.E. lessons, which I loathed. So, it was obvious that I should go to art school and study illustration.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)Other people have described it as “naïve” and childlike. I would agree with that, I think. I’d also say that it’s simple and usually narrative based.
q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)I am an obsessive collector of magazines, books and papers, I love anything from the 1940’s-60’s, like children’s annuals, tickets, postcards and wrapping papers. These things provide me with a lot of inspiration. Also, just looking at other illustrators’ work inspires me.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)I love the work of Sara Fanelli, her collages are just beautiful. I also like the simplicity of Tom Gauld’s cartoons and Simone Lia’s characters. I love Beatrice Alemagna’s children’s books. I like the way she can vary her style to suit the nature of the particular book.


q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)I sell work on my website as well as through several UK retail outlets, including Edinburgh’s Red Door gallery and Frank in Whistable. I also organise craft fairs in Norwich, where I sell my own work alongside other’s.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)I like the simplicity of drawing, using pen and ink and coloured pencil. For more colour and pattern, I like to add collage.

q)What are you working on now?

a)I am working on a book. It is about my cat Olli, who died a few years ago and the love I felt for him. I am also constantly producing personal work for my website and to sell.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)Don’t give up! It can be very hard at times to believe in yourself when you are not getting any work and you have no money. You never know what might happen tomorrow.


q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Reading books and magazines, rearranging my desk, dancing around my studio to the Hairspray soundtrack, hanging out with my boyfriend, drinking coffee, browsing in charity shops, kidnapping the next door neighbour’s cat…

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Music means a lot to me. It is an essential background for my studio work. I share a studio with my boyfriend- sometimes I will force him to listen to musicals, but I think it’s good for him really. Music can create an atmosphere, I love listening to swing music and bands like the Puppini sisters because they really influence my style of work.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)It means everything. If I didn’t have art, I would be lost.


q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)
www.itsnicethat.com

domenica 27 gennaio 2008

Interview with Greg Gossel

q)Name?

a)Greg Gossel

q)Location?

a)Minneapolis, MinnesotaUSA

q)Contact info.?


q)How did you get started making art?

a)I began drawing when I was very young, and just always knew art in some form is what I would do.I then studied graphic design in college, and have continued painting,and working as a graphic designer since.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)The combination of numerous different words and images layered upon one another creating an entirely new composition.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)Life, decay, old billboards, pasted posters, hand painted signs, the city, alleys, music, other artists.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Rauschenberg,Basquiat, Twombly, Warhol, Lichtenstein,and many other contemporary artists, too many to name...

q)Where can someone purchase your works?




q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Acrylic
Spray paint
Paint markers
Screen printing
Graphite

q)What are you working on now?
a)Preparing new work for an online solo show in February with dirtypilot.com and then creating a new body of work for my upcoming solo show with the shooting gallery in San Francisco, CA this June.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?
a)Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Working as a graphic designer
Cooking
Chilling out at home

q)What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)For me art and music are a reflection of life...Expression and creativity...One in the same, just different mediums.Music is very important to me for my work...

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)See above

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?


giovedì 24 gennaio 2008

Interview with Júlio Dolbeth

q)Name?

a)Júlio Dolbeth

q)Location?

a)Porto, Portugal

q)Contact info.?

a)dolbeth@gmail.com


julioguestlist.blogspot.com

q)How did you get started making art?

a)I was graduated in graphic design, but always used drawing and illustration as a process. From one moment I realized that Illustration as way of expression was what I really wanted to do, and started to create opportunities to develope my work. My first public exhibition was an invitation to illustrate the "little prince" book, from S. Exupèry, wich was quite ok as acceptance, from that I lost the frighten to show my work.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)I do illustration, even when there´s nothing to illustrate. I like to create symbolic images, most of them come out from my personal and intimate experience, and build metaphoric narratives.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)From my everyday life, from my friends, from most everything that surrounds me. My motivation is to create the ordinary intense.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)A lot, this is a tricky question, I´m sure I´ll regret not to mention someone I forgot. For the moment I love the work of Gary Baseman, Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirscht, Ray Caeser, Eduardo Recife, David Shrigley, Mark Ryden, John Slade, Sergio Mora...

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)By my email, dolbeth@gmail.com. We can meet or send by mail.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)I prefer graphite and indian ink. Sometimes I use the computer for collage.


q)What are you working on now?

a)At the moment I´m doing research for my PHD, about territories of Illustration, and I´m very enthusiastic with the drawing for a friend's tatoo.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to 
be an artist?

a)Keep on working even if there´s no feed-back.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Probably sleeping... Ok, this is a cliché, the "art is my life" issue, what I mean is that I´m always aware about all that surrounds me.


q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Of course is very important, and I´m not going to quote the major cliché "music is my life" either.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Another tricky question... It´s more than a way of expression, is someway to communicate with others. It´s very important for me that people react to my things, not wanting to sound egocentric, it cheers my life to know that someone liked what I did.


q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)I check everyday:
http://www.bedeteca.com/



mercoledì 23 gennaio 2008

Interview with Flavio Morais

q)Name?

a)Flavio Morais

q)Location?

a)Barcelona

q)Contact info...?



q)How did you get started making art?

a)Spontaneously,…without any plans.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)That of a self made illiterate.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)From the shop signs of the favelas, the art made by those who have no idea what art means, popular graphics made in Bahia,Africa, outsiders and art brut.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Minelvino, Dila, Chris Hipkiss, Taxali, Bispo do Rosário.

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)Through my website, at my studio or in the gallery where I sometime make an exhibition.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Black felt pen, pencils and acrilics.

q)What are you working on now?

a)Now I’m working in a big mural painting for a company that rents illumination material for TV, Cine and Photos.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)Be yourself.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Sharing life with Carole, watching films, reading, playing with Pishu and Pixel, MacCintoshing, etc

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Turn the music off and there will be no Flavio Morais anymore.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)It’s the air I breath.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?




Bispo do Rosário,

martedì 22 gennaio 2008

Interview with Tom Durham

q)Name?

a)Tom Durham

q)Location?

a)Philadelphia,
2472 Frankford Ave.

Philadelphia,
PA. 19125

q)Contact info.?

a)website:
www.tomdurhamsculpture.com


phone 843-860-0267

q)How did you get started making art?

a)Comic books I loved copying the pictures and then... seeing Michelangelo's Florentine Pieta' at the 1964 World's Fair, I was 9 at the time. I had never seen art before that and the experience has stayed with me to this day.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)It is the metamorphosis of life experiences always merging more than one idea into another and combining more than one visual form together. It is a personal mythology that continues to grow.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)Love of literature from classical mythology to contemporary novels the likes of Umberto Eco. The visual sources of inspiration come from love of renaissance art, surrealism, and the symbolists. However the most personal source of inspiration comes from depths of depression, something I have faced off and on for most of my life, art is my way of coping with life's misfortunes.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Michelangelo, Hellenistic Greek sculptors, Rodin, Goya, Dali. Many contemporary artists do great work I just don't get a chance to see enough of it.

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)The galleries seem to come and go and in America they only remember you when you have a show, so the best way is to contact me through my website and studio.


q)What is your main medium of choice? That is a hard question for me to answer, I am a

a)Sculptor who loves to draw as much as sculpt and at the same time draw with the computer, it is all the same to me yet all the work comes from the perspective of a sculptor.

q)What are you working on now?

a)I most recently started archiving older work from when I was in my 20's, some nice ideas but mostly unfulfilled, so I started reworking them in the computer. I mean reworking them to realize what I had only imagined them to be back then bringing a new more mature experience and outlook to them. The most current one is "Life of a Moth".

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)Work from your heart and stay with your convictions, you don't have to make work just to sell. Create a narrative that can grow as you grow and mature, too many young artists technique with style and lock themselves into a myopic view of art.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Watching movies, playing games on the computer, reading, and reading. I wish I could say sex too but life has taken an hiatus from me at the moment.


q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)A soundtrack to life's experiences.Don't get me wrong sometimes it does move me and it is on all the time, but I am always doing something else with it playing in the background.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Life, love, soul, home, escape, hope, what else is there. Like most artists I have given up a lot to work full time as an artist, and yet I would never change my choices art is always first.


q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recommend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)Yes I am always searching the web for art and good art groups.

Here are a few sites I would recommend.








domenica 20 gennaio 2008

Interview with Nikki McClure

q)Name?

a)Nikki McClure

q)Location?

a)Olympia, Washington- USA

q)Contact info...?


q)How did you get started making art?
a)I have always been making art ever since I was little. I would dress up in crazy outfits and draw all day long. Now I just dress somewhat normal and draw a little.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)I make papercuts primarily. I take a sheet of black paper and cut an image with an x-acto knife so the paper stays connected and becomes like lace. I make pictures about my world. I also make pictures to hope to change the world ever so slightly by focusing on the positive attributes of being a human animal as a means of finding creative solutions to environmental collapse.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)The world. My world. My ecosystem. Mosses, honeybees, crows, beach treasures, good food, work that requires gloves, mushrooms, hot baths, rain, water.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)My friends: Mecca Normal, Calvin Johnson, Stella Marrs, Beatrice Coron, Jad Fair, Khaela Maricich, Amber Bell, Tender Forever, smart people, people who bicycle everywhere.

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)buyolympia.com- I don't show at galleries much.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Black paper.

q)What are you working on now?

a)A children's book called "All in a Day" due out in Spring of 2009.Printing with my son. Thinking up the 2009 calendar . Building a sauna and outdoor shower.Oh and it is time to make lunch too!

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants tobe an artist?

a)Make art, share your art, put it up where ever yo can: alley, coffee shop, school, non-profit hallways- anywhere where PEOPLE see it.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Making food, building forts, digging, hiding, pretending I am a character in a book with my 3 year old son.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Mecca Normal, the band. It is 2 people who are friends, making music for many many years. Exploring sound and story.I am most affected by live music.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)This is harder to answer. I find art in natural forms.Art is noticing, awareness.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)I don't do much online looking. I am busy with fort building or making soup or washing clothes or looking out the window at the winter birds.

sabato 19 gennaio 2008

Interview with Helenbar

q)Name?

a)Helena de Barros or just ‘Helenbar’

q)Location?

a)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

q)Contact info...?
a)
http://www.helenbar.com
helenbar@helenbar.com

q)How did you get started making art?

a)Ever, since I can remember. I used to go to art schools when I was a child.
I loved to draw then. When I grew up I went to study graphic design.
Before graduating I started to work with computers. I used to do my own things once in a while, but it always got lost inside my drawers. The internet was a great challenge. It gave me the opportunity to show and share what I was doing for myself. I knew some wonderful artists too, and it’s great to exchange information and make friends all around the world with something in common.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)Intimate and personal. I try to do things to satisfy myself.
q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?
a)It comes by things that happen in my life, things that I like in other’s people work and things I find inside myself. Images appear in mind all the time, like awakening dreams. It is just a matter of doing it in the right way. When it’s ready I have the sensation it has always been there.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Making a salad of a lot of people: Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Albert Camus, David Cronemberg, Roman Polanski, Neil Jordan, Owen Jones, Joel Peter Witkin, Serge Lutens, Pierre et Gilles,
Jeff Koons, Frida Kahlo, Ray Caesar, Jessica Joslin, Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia… just to name a few.


q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)e-mail me. I hope to produce some digital art prints this year with special cotton rag paper and pigment ink. By now there is possible to buy only photographic prints.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Digital photomontage is the perfect medium for me. I work basically with a digital camera, a tablet and Photoshop.

q)What are you working on now?

a)I don’t have much time cause I am working on my mastership thesis right now. Hope to finish it next month. I couldn’t resist and had just make a new image too. It’s about the child inside us (there’s one inside me right now, which is a pretty crazy thing).
q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)What do I know about being an artist?! Go ask the caterpillar…
I think if you can’t avoid it, maybe it’s a thing you have to face, no matter if it will be nice or not.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)I work as a graphic designer (which is my main activity), besides that I’ll probably be researching, reading, writing or teaching design at the university. In my free time, I love to sew my own clothes and to go to antiques fair and flea markets. Of course I like to be with my friends and to stay home with my husband, he is a collector of movies, and we are always seeing DVDs on TV.


q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)A way to have fun and enjoy life, to recover energy.
It used to be more important when I was younger, but I still love music, nightclubbing, and music shows.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)A way to take a deep breathe and go on. A way to communicate and understand the world, understand who I am. A thing that real matter to do in life.


q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recommend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)Oh, there are a lot of them, take a visit at the links session on my site, I am always uploading new links of my favourite artists, communities’ etc.:
http://www.helenbar.com/link.htm
(Btw, I had just put “the extra finger” on it, and new artists I discovered here!)
;-)

martedì 15 gennaio 2008

Interview with Mike Bertino

q)Name?

a)Mike Bertino

q)Location?

a)Los Angeles, CA

q)Contact info...?

a)
mikebertino.com
mikebertino.wordpress.com

q)How did you get started making art?

a)As long as I can remember I've been drawing and making art, so it's hard to say what got me started... I guess most of my earliest memories involved tracing newspaper comics like Peanuts and Garfield.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)My work is about exploration and therapy basically.I generally find myself attracted to ideas that I feel puzzled, uncomfortable, or confused about, and then I try to figure out why I feel the way I do about the given topic by looking at the issue from as many different angles as possible. In the end, what comes from the process are images that kind of mash those different angles together and force them to talk to each other.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)From everywhere. I like to try to keep that door open, and use art as a way of basically exploring and digesting the world. Also, I should admit that aesthetically my roots come from growing up drawing and reading comics.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Pavement, Henry Darger, Peter Doig, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Hockney, Herzog, Will Oldhamn, C.F., John Kennedy Toole, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Degas, Gauguin, Bill Callahan, Chester Brown, Hal Hartley, Daniel Clowes, Chan Marshal, Goddard, I could go on for ever...

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)Paintings and drawings can be purchased through art shows, when I have them, or through me directly via email. I also have a comic out at the moment called Pinwheel, and that can be purchased as
tenderlovingempire.com in the art section.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Ink and/or gouache on paper.

q)What are you working on now?

a)A series for a show at The Drawing Club here in LA on Jan 26. The show is essentially about people who view themselves as protagonists in society, rather than members of the culture. Something that I think everyone is guilty of to some extent.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)The best advice I can give at this point is probably just: get to work and don't be in a hurry to be a great artist. The biggest obstacle for any artists is laziness, neglect, and impatience. I think everyone suffers over this issue from time to time, but the only cure is time and hard work.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Playing video games, camping, going to shows, eating, walking, sleeping... I watch a lot of movies, and spend a lot of time horsing around with my girlfriend. I love not working. It's actually a really important part of my creative process.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Music is the sound of never being alone, even when you are.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)I'm not exactly sure how to answer that question. Art seems to me to be part journey, part hard work, and part searching for question rather than answers.

Interview with Marie Brianso

q)Something on you ..

a)I'm a graphic designer working freelance in Paris and trying to make art on my own.

q) When did you start to make art?

a)I always drew since I was a kid. Then I studied art in school but I made my own way because I didn't like the"conceptual" commitment of the teachers.

q)Explain your inspiration?

a)It always starts with fascination, in a good or bad way. I stare around and try to make a picture which synthetise the things I see or feel.

q)In what way does your inspiration transform into ideas?

a)It's quite instinctive, I don't intellectualise that.

q) Could your ideas be portrayed in any other medium?If so which?

a)In every kind of medium, photo, film, music, painting. I'd like to experience everything!

q) What does being an artists mean to you?

a)I think it's a way of seeing. People with sensibility who express themselves are artists for me.
q) When does your art become successful?

a)I'm a beginner, I would like to show my work more.

q)Who prices your work? And how is the price decidedupon?

a)I do it myself. It's an estimation of the time and involvement I spent on it.

q)What is your next; move,project,show etc?

a)I would like to make a small serie of portraits and show it in a place with music. Any rock and roll bar or concert place. Music is important for me

q) What are the pros and cons of the art market?

a)I still don't know it well enough to judge it.

q) Which pieces would you like to be remembered for?

a)Any one, it's a cool think to be remembered for what we did!

q) Who has been the biggest influence on you?

a)Rock and roll music, and artist from the XIXth century symbolists painters (Aubrey Beardsley, Rops, Lewis Caroll, Odilon Redon, Kubin, Margaret Cameron) and twentieth century artists ( Warhol, Rauchenberg, Diane Arbus.) and filmakers (David Lynch, Cronenberg)

q)Other visual artists that you like…

a)Japanese artists (Junko Mizuno, Suehiro Maruo)And many more!!

q) How much do you think hype affects the public perception of what good art is?

a)Hype influence people a lot but only in big cities, in my opinion.

q) Last CD you downloaded ?

a)Ringleader of the tormentors by Morrissey

q) What makes you happy?

a)Be with my boyfriend

q) What makes you sad?

a)The way the world is turning

q) Last book you read?

a)Play it as it lays by Joan Didion

q) What else do like other than art?

a)Make clothes and dolls

q) Final thoughts...

a)I'm just trying to make something emotional.

q)Your contacts...


Interview with Elizabeth Frank

q)Name?

a)Elizabeth Frank

q)Location?

a)Tucson, Arizona, USA

q)Contact info.?

a)efrank11@earthlink.net


q)How did you get started making art?

a)I think I started making art before I could talk. It was my first form of communication.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)Wood and mixed media sculpture. Icons for the current times.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)Nature, ancient civilizations, current civilization, the conflicts between those things, the grace within all animals... including humans...

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Francesco Clemente, Frida Kahlo, Jonathan Borofsky, Ancient Egyptian Art, Tribal art of the world, and a bunch more

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)There is a partial listing of galleries that carry my work on my website or I can be contacted directly for more information.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)I am a mixed media artist. I usually start with fallen aspen branches or reclaimed wood. Then I carve and paint it. That is combined with various materials, such as metal, mica, collage and antique photos.

q)What are you working on now?

a)Right now I'm working on a donation for a children's shelter. It's a mixed media box.
q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?
a)Follow your heart.
q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Yoga, spending time with my family, hiking in the desert. cooking, movies, the usual fun...

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Wow. That's a big question. I look at music as a manifestation of the harmonics of the universe put into formulations that touch our ears and minds and hearts simultaneously.


q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Personally...It's a vocation, a calling which probably began while I was still in the womb. Generally... It is a physical manifestation of the human spirit.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)There are many but here are a few:
www.outsiderart.info/