tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28465542981709369352024-03-13T12:51:27.179-07:00Industrial SquidIndustrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-79122272689111981162011-01-18T11:16:00.000-08:002011-01-18T12:10:12.389-08:00Under the Fuzz: With Edward Robin Coronel<span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">There is a vast difference between someone who paints adorable, fuzzy little creatures that you glance at once, think "Oh, how cute," then never think of again, and an artist who creates adorable, fuzzy little creatures that actually have a character to them, a personality that exudes from the work and lingers with you long after you've stopped staring at them. Edward Robin Coronel is the latter of these two examples and his latest gaggle of characters, created for the upcoming SuperKickAss, is full of diverse and unique personalities, but they are all tied together by a subtle sweetness that the world desperately seems to need right now. I got a chance to ask Mr Coronel a few questions, of course, for the most part, I squandered it with my usual silliness, but in all his answers you can see that same sweetness and you know all his characters originate from a very honest, real place.<br /><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_D831D67Gda9h84KRAoeQs4XbLa-NefIHTVyCef7f1a1xYoNb9DerjoHCmhJHHLRf77zrkLaFCIB814NQeofVGi7L_aJR5rVWAfe__2SUkjiXLNi8gVXMB4hPunc0NvAc_NsBVQIiZcG/s1600/coronel_digby.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_D831D67Gda9h84KRAoeQs4XbLa-NefIHTVyCef7f1a1xYoNb9DerjoHCmhJHHLRf77zrkLaFCIB814NQeofVGi7L_aJR5rVWAfe__2SUkjiXLNi8gVXMB4hPunc0NvAc_NsBVQIiZcG/s400/coronel_digby.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563616440940433554" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Radford: The characters in your paintings are redunkulously adorable. What bitter pain are you hiding behind their sweet faces Edward Robin Coronel? What bitter pain indeed?<br /><br />Coronel: Thank you for the kind words. I find myself transported to my happy place when I paint or draw my "fuzzy/furry" creatures. Although I have only been painting for a couple of years now, art has always been an escape for me -- even at an early age.<br /><br /></span><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""></possibly></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gj__cTIwm3f5jwnf9IXB6OcZ5DbA2IyP_DHz3Z1xbL4SOffQ2ziSRvd9Jr03Kczxl15GfThtGR3dHheWVxyBG0RKcZVmydLKOJF3k5_uWGPEO4O77s7woU0z_6gHPSU3-cSz7kIuPcVs/s1600/coronel_ZaZa.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gj__cTIwm3f5jwnf9IXB6OcZ5DbA2IyP_DHz3Z1xbL4SOffQ2ziSRvd9Jr03Kczxl15GfThtGR3dHheWVxyBG0RKcZVmydLKOJF3k5_uWGPEO4O77s7woU0z_6gHPSU3-cSz7kIuPcVs/s400/coronel_ZaZa.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563616714478689266" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />R: What is your earliest artmaking memory?<br /><br />C: My earliest art making memories are from grade school, when my younger sister and I would spend hours together, drawing our own cartoons. After school we would spread out scrap paper and pens on the living room floor and draw up our own cast of characters. Then we would cut them out. We called them our "paper people". Much of the time my sister wouldn't draw, rather she would tell me what to draw -- mainly family members, friends (including Captain Caveman, Merle Stubbing from the Love Boat and Mrs Garrett from the Facts of Life, etc.) and personified animals wearing snappy outfits.<br /><br /></span><possibly insert="" childhood="" photo="" of="" robin="" and="" his="" sister=""></possibly></possibly></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8KiZw2TYh5zCq__LXHT1L5xibVz95eyweQfjHIRlmrSJqYOPoze4gr7Z0gqBgQb9XPN0ytuC-oeC-4RBw7lUGaySSPP3j5Ek5cSBvNnGlovFKyY2NH5eWlXVpbMu71Ip6vBpGeqQEmgQ/s1600/robin+and+april.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS8KiZw2TYh5zCq__LXHT1L5xibVz95eyweQfjHIRlmrSJqYOPoze4gr7Z0gqBgQb9XPN0ytuC-oeC-4RBw7lUGaySSPP3j5Ek5cSBvNnGlovFKyY2NH5eWlXVpbMu71Ip6vBpGeqQEmgQ/s400/robin+and+april.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563618524635916162" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""><possibly insert="" childhood="" photo="" of="" robin="" and="" his="" sister=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />We also created elaborate environments for our "paper people" to inhabit and have adventures within. Eventually, my sister and I created an entire "paper people" neighborhood comprised of single family homes, apartments, cars, spaceships and pets. Each afternoon our adventures would come to an abrupt conclusion though, when my Lola (Grandma) would give us a 30 minute warning, allowing us enough time to clean up our "paper people world", before our Mom would get home from work -- as she preferred the living room to be neat and tidy, "Just in case the Pope should happen to drop by...".<br /><br /><br />R: Do you get bacon or sausage as the side with your breakfast platter or are you both sides of the pig kind of guy?<br /><br />C: I really enjoy both -- they make the world a better and tastier place to live. For the most part, I am a sweet and savory type of guy, so I like to have bacon with pancakes or sausage with waffles.<br /><br /></span></possibly></possibly></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAlLWixP9vPTjFGZ_4RaRlRcF56QlYKHTjUjI_0WPa1pMRxeLKoh_8hI_XPUKVMwUZlUAWksEVT9NoK0sThdjjSgNdNcW7E5vtgyrPSu-cXB1zLzfCr8ABGi-G2Q9BVUQnsrWy17UlvMs/s1600/coronel_sugar.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAlLWixP9vPTjFGZ_4RaRlRcF56QlYKHTjUjI_0WPa1pMRxeLKoh_8hI_XPUKVMwUZlUAWksEVT9NoK0sThdjjSgNdNcW7E5vtgyrPSu-cXB1zLzfCr8ABGi-G2Q9BVUQnsrWy17UlvMs/s400/coronel_sugar.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563618214464705106" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZ3XBfAgXe2hCcGygBQRpKMksg75JMoOGMUR3suUCxVjhmZWHxY7LYZS9M1CcH5ot97iV167JVA93kunpv-1GjYIyUpaIpWAk4HC7zTwJqW1-8Sywya1dVZe7Kfl6miye71SwKJ8e7hOs/s1600/ValentineCollection.jpg"><br /></a><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""><possibly insert="" childhood="" photo="" of="" robin="" and="" his="" sister=""><span style="font-size:100%;">D: Since you have no formal art training, why don’t you tell the kiddies at home how you got so good at doing what it is you do?<br /><br />C: Once again, thank you for the kind words.<br /><br />As far as influences go, from an early age, I have always been attracted to drawn and illustrated works -- from children’s books to comic books to cartoons. I also appreciated photo books of baby animals, sticker collecting and the cute imagery and sentiments found within children's Valentines. As a child I often tried to emulate and reproduce the images that filled by brain.<br /><br /></span></possibly></possibly></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZ3XBfAgXe2hCcGygBQRpKMksg75JMoOGMUR3suUCxVjhmZWHxY7LYZS9M1CcH5ot97iV167JVA93kunpv-1GjYIyUpaIpWAk4HC7zTwJqW1-8Sywya1dVZe7Kfl6miye71SwKJ8e7hOs/s1600/ValentineCollection.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZ3XBfAgXe2hCcGygBQRpKMksg75JMoOGMUR3suUCxVjhmZWHxY7LYZS9M1CcH5ot97iV167JVA93kunpv-1GjYIyUpaIpWAk4HC7zTwJqW1-8Sywya1dVZe7Kfl6miye71SwKJ8e7hOs/s400/ValentineCollection.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563617206144214866" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""><possibly insert="" childhood="" photo="" of="" robin="" and="" his="" sister=""><possibly insert="" valentine="" collection="" baby="" animal="" pet="" book="" cover="" and="" or="" childhood="" casper="" drawing=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />More recently, I am fortunate to have artist friends who have shared some tips and tricks with me. But more than anything, I think it is a combination of having fun, lots of practice, experimentation, and patience.<br /><br /><br />R: Say the world falls into some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland of chaos, a la Mad Max, what would you make your warrior name in order to strike fear into the hearts of those who might dare to mean you harm?<br /><br />C: Gosh, I really can’t think of anything at the moment…<br /><br /></span></possibly></possibly></possibly></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlHO0PeHUJb7mzrCZVwim02QvMeMUxtMueiDstozkWO6eY7rYOUckkV0vNoCQO-cSC4DhmpiRM_g_tDfYhZjzsjxn_Xq7Ih7LvN6o1bKVuEiXzGQrtKnrpRZ94_FmL08xgPKHrpHKNfpp/s1600/edwardrobincoronelunexpectedkindness.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlHO0PeHUJb7mzrCZVwim02QvMeMUxtMueiDstozkWO6eY7rYOUckkV0vNoCQO-cSC4DhmpiRM_g_tDfYhZjzsjxn_Xq7Ih7LvN6o1bKVuEiXzGQrtKnrpRZ94_FmL08xgPKHrpHKNfpp/s400/edwardrobincoronelunexpectedkindness.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563619071087949714" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""><possibly insert="" childhood="" photo="" of="" robin="" and="" his="" sister=""><possibly insert="" valentine="" collection="" baby="" animal="" pet="" book="" cover="" and="" or="" childhood="" casper="" drawing=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />R: Ok then, next question -- Are you more of a Fresh Price of Bel Air, an Independence Day, or a Pursuit of Happiness Will Smith fan? Explain.<br /><br />C: Haha… let’s see: I am not street smart like The Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff, and I wasn’t born and raised on the mean streets of West Philly; I’m not a self-assured Marine gun toting F/A-18 pilot living in an alien invading world. So I guess that I am kinda more of a Pursuit of Happiness type of guy. I am a big fan of happiness. Who doesn't like to be happy, right?<br /><br /><br />R: Your husband, Dan Barry, is a part of another Industrial Squid show later this year, called "All the Sordid Little Details". Do you guys often work on your art at the same time? How much influence would you say you have over each other’s decisions regarding your work?<br /><br />C: For the most part, we work independently of one another. We do share a studio in which we spend a lot of time together. At times we give each other solicited and unsolicited feedback, ideas and/or suggestions. However, I do think it is important for us to nurture and develop our work individually. With that said, we were in a show this past December in Miami that allowed us to exhibit a collaborative piece. It was a fun challenge. I am looking forward to creating and showing future collaborations with Dan.<br /><br /></span><possibly insert="" dan="" robin="" colab="" piece="" image="" titled="" miso="" s="" journey="" here=""></possibly></possibly></possibly></possibly></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSD1L6VwGPb-EeSCz2gNCBLtz97OR333DeEd6Z3BsvBbccC1qnl7WX39kVzYwotbuR-do_hTXAH4J8Sg3YAK3aLnPOFg7T_xFjvmlbZJQxHraYx8RTMtprwWtNyUp6z-3d3tFWt574D8I/s1600/Miso%2527s+Journey.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSD1L6VwGPb-EeSCz2gNCBLtz97OR333DeEd6Z3BsvBbccC1qnl7WX39kVzYwotbuR-do_hTXAH4J8Sg3YAK3aLnPOFg7T_xFjvmlbZJQxHraYx8RTMtprwWtNyUp6z-3d3tFWt574D8I/s400/Miso%2527s+Journey.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563619892894273730" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""><possibly insert="" childhood="" photo="" of="" robin="" and="" his="" sister=""><possibly insert="" valentine="" collection="" baby="" animal="" pet="" book="" cover="" and="" or="" childhood="" casper="" drawing=""><possibly insert="" dan="" robin="" colab="" piece="" image="" titled="" miso="" s="" journey="" here=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> Miso's Journey: Colab between Robin and Dan</span><br /><br />R: We all have plans for global domination. Please describe yours in three words.<br /><br />C: Buy my artwork.<br /><br /><br />R: How did it feel to transition into doing your art fulltime?<br /><br />C: It was definitely a big transition from what I knew and had been successful at for 14 years -- making drugs (legally, working for major pharmaceutical companies in the lab and in QA). The shift was tough and challenging -- initially I had moments of doubt and uncertainty in regards to my artwork. But then I managed to overcome these feelings through discipline and just spending lots of time working in the studio, listening to music and getting lost in the process of creating.<br /><br /><br />R: I hear tell that you can bust a mean set a moves in some Dance Dance Revolution. Are there any other hidden talents lurking under that reserved disposition of yours Mr. Coronel?<br /><br />C: Honestly it is Dan Barry who’s got the major ninja moves for Dance Dance Revolution. No worries though! Sometimes folks do get us mixed up. To be honest, I am easily overwhelmed with video games that involve major multitasking i.e. loads of flashing lights, loud dance music, multiple quarter insertion, etc.<br /><br />I am skilled at and enjoy working with animals. I volunteer at the Austin Humane Society, where I help train and socialize dogs so they are more readily adoptable. I also help train new volunteers on how to train the dogs -- so everyone is uniform and trains the dogs the same way.<br /><br />At home we have two Italian greyhounds, Max and Frankie. I love those little guys. At times they are my muse and they can be found in some of my artworks.<br /><br /></span><possibly insert="" your="" choice="" of="" cute="" max="" frankie="" photo="" here=""></possibly></possibly></possibly></possibly></possibly></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtOaQMLOr0AZBmT0DK8C43I2PuhZmo2y6Dm6YS5vTtI02pUZkzNjBUXlUTkXjqybwK-_x6-Q31b7iabz30jOcYhaSB1CfAGMeLHwX28DvTy18lKh-Zb3X9ZPZdxBhkib0aUihWfscLKj8/s1600/max+and+frankie+3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtOaQMLOr0AZBmT0DK8C43I2PuhZmo2y6Dm6YS5vTtI02pUZkzNjBUXlUTkXjqybwK-_x6-Q31b7iabz30jOcYhaSB1CfAGMeLHwX28DvTy18lKh-Zb3X9ZPZdxBhkib0aUihWfscLKj8/s400/max+and+frankie+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563620304617982258" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><possibly insert="" another="" painting="" here=""><possibly insert="" childhood="" photo="" of="" robin="" and="" his="" sister=""><possibly insert="" valentine="" collection="" baby="" animal="" pet="" book="" cover="" and="" or="" childhood="" casper="" drawing=""><possibly insert="" dan="" robin="" colab="" piece="" image="" titled="" miso="" s="" journey="" here=""><possibly insert="" your="" choice="" of="" cute="" max="" frankie="" photo="" here=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />R: Since the title of the show is SuperKickAss, give me an example of a time in which you kicked ass in super fashion.<br /><br />C: My favorite and best SuperKickAss moment was finishing my first marathon side by side with my husband. He is my best friend and I wouldn’t have it any other way.<br /><br /><br /></span></possibly></possibly></possibly></possibly></possibly></span>Robin’s work will be part of the 5 person show, SuperKickAss, on view at WWA gallery curated by Industrial Squid, from January 21st until February 19th, 2011. For a preview of the show, go to <a href="http://http//www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html">http://www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html</a> and click on the link.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-53399308578386184162011-01-15T09:53:00.000-08:002011-01-15T11:37:48.412-08:00Chung V Radford: Round 2 (The SuperKickAss Edition)Last February, Industrial Squid put together its first show called <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/devil/thedevilmademedoitartshow.html">The Devil Made Me Do It</a>. We invited this scrappy, young spitball of a dude known ominously as The Chung to contribute and he did so in skull crackin' fashion with this little doozy of a number:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3JNeq2C8PYnbu57T81GFfxOoG0fICztyPQh4yqq6pkFkW9hVkDFGxha2bbxmqUUNJios0Iw9EdR1pN606vJrZht3j2YDpohurMXa3ault7En09JYHho27_javhAHp4g5f6zIA8MB7Hqz/s1600/davidchungdmd35.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3JNeq2C8PYnbu57T81GFfxOoG0fICztyPQh4yqq6pkFkW9hVkDFGxha2bbxmqUUNJios0Iw9EdR1pN606vJrZht3j2YDpohurMXa3ault7En09JYHho27_javhAHp4g5f6zIA8MB7Hqz/s400/davidchungdmd35.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562481510294172818" border="0" /></a>Now Chung is back in action, whipping out some sick nasty new paintings for <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html">SuperKickAss</a>, opening Friday, January 21st. Chung also just happened to be my first <a href="http://industrialsquid.blogspot.com/2010/02/chung-made-me-do-it.html">interview</a> on this here blog, and now almost an entire year later we're at it again, and this time we're serious. Actually, we aren't serious at all. I don't know if we're even capable of being serious. Honestly, I know for myself its starting to take a real toll on my personal relationships because I never let anyone in, you know, to get to know the <span style="font-style: italic;">real</span> me and...um...uh...but that is a discussion to be had with my therapist and not you good people. Wow I feel awkward. Enjoy the interview.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVYjsAjeqXuVYFV8tibCusNWm67BBckrm49vWQjtewxb6jL8tKTFfNp-5KxNVi1-oFxuIUiBWu8ap9IobxzWyVPCevJ2maDSs0zOGUhY_3SYitvNWsUGksGpNRFCHkzlxXi2psjX14ou3/s1600/davechungbigfoot.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVYjsAjeqXuVYFV8tibCusNWm67BBckrm49vWQjtewxb6jL8tKTFfNp-5KxNVi1-oFxuIUiBWu8ap9IobxzWyVPCevJ2maDSs0zOGUhY_3SYitvNWsUGksGpNRFCHkzlxXi2psjX14ou3/s400/davechungbigfoot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562484002577603810" border="0" /></a><br />Radford: So we meet again Mr. Chung. What matter of trickery do you have up your sleeves this time?<br /><br />Chung: There are no tricks, Squid. only ILLUSIONS!<br /><br /><br />R: After our first interview you swore you’d call and we’d do it again sometime, and I waited by the phone, day and night, I kept checking for a dial tone like a crazy person, thinking maybe, just maybe it was the phone that was broken, but it wasn’t, it was my heart. What do you have to say for yourself, sir?<br /><br />C: WTF are you talking about!? The last time you interviewed me, you put a roofie in my drink and said you needed me as your lead for your version of the Human Centipede! Would you call you back if you knew what kind of sick pervo you were!?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAT3oBwkpeFfWfPb7QKAb47WcLtnCm4UuYE_SgL1rzlRANS6G80sghxATGsrh3h71g5wP78ZVZdHQjhecdwJuEhHZofZBW59FXRgPWcxBYaZRG7Hw1GKTcZZ2NQV4BgAa90oWouyUP8Nf/s1600/davechungfuckyeah.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAT3oBwkpeFfWfPb7QKAb47WcLtnCm4UuYE_SgL1rzlRANS6G80sghxATGsrh3h71g5wP78ZVZdHQjhecdwJuEhHZofZBW59FXRgPWcxBYaZRG7Hw1GKTcZZ2NQV4BgAa90oWouyUP8Nf/s400/davechungfuckyeah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562484268818215474" border="0" /></a>R: I know exactly what kind of sick pervo I am thank you very much. Anyways. So how would you say your art work for SuperKickAss has evolved from your previous work? Is it even dick and fart jokier then ever before?<br /><br />C: I've matured greatly and have evolved far beyond the dick and fart genre. I've put the baby jokes aside for now as I'm currently tackling more serious issues, like boobies and doodie.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDZ-ie7dOGQnu1GfcsNsvwmUD-F8B-0V9cBvOYT745bbE7q4ss87bpgPZijtQQ3hqriTUDUMeih4EJrRh3TPregaZM49YpAlCj41WLDu3PVKvdXdHkjuiIuhth4vtqJhsrjIzGkWheSFQ/s1600/boobs.jpeg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDZ-ie7dOGQnu1GfcsNsvwmUD-F8B-0V9cBvOYT745bbE7q4ss87bpgPZijtQQ3hqriTUDUMeih4EJrRh3TPregaZM49YpAlCj41WLDu3PVKvdXdHkjuiIuhth4vtqJhsrjIzGkWheSFQ/s320/boobs.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562486270035169394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">(I was going to put up a picture of doodie but this seemed nicer)<br /></span></div><br />R: Last time we did this we found out you have a huge crush on Edward from Twilight (might not have actually been said) and that you like to regularly visit Fredericks of Hollywood to “test the merch,” (definitely wasn’t said and is bordering on libel) Are there any other deep, dark secrets you’d like to share with us this time?<br /><br />C: Okay, first of all, get your facts straight. I've always been team Jacob and everybody knows that. And it was Pandora's Boxxx, not Fredericks. And for your information, that "testing" that I'm doing is for quality assurance. Do you have any idea how many times people call in complaining about ass beads breaking off of their strings? By the way, your order of industrial strength ass beads and fig scented lube just arrived in the store. You can come pick them up during store hours.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2d1zqaFmKbdnsHK1j0ysDbpeTXfvfLgFAEAPWDMihx2ioBs_mgC5650YQ0FHrr7ZOMzlK-Y-g0Y5SuPOtfo5VPPLJcd33bJXzVoNwlC0Ogj287CPwv89VVYofy-3O0Dk9dZRKE1BLKk0/s1600/chung+team+jacob.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 349px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy2d1zqaFmKbdnsHK1j0ysDbpeTXfvfLgFAEAPWDMihx2ioBs_mgC5650YQ0FHrr7ZOMzlK-Y-g0Y5SuPOtfo5VPPLJcd33bJXzVoNwlC0Ogj287CPwv89VVYofy-3O0Dk9dZRKE1BLKk0/s400/chung+team+jacob.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562492092924068738" border="0" /></a>R: Oh goodie. I love the smell of figs in the morning. Has anyone ever strummed your pain with their fingers? What is that like?<br /><br />C: Yes. It tingles and gives you the sensation of needing to pee.<br /><br /><br />R: Indeed. Did you have any cool resolutions for 2011? Like to stop wasting money on your little ceramic kitten collection no matter how goddam adorable those little kitties might be. (That was a random example and definitely not from my own list)<br /><br />C: To get addicted to meth, quit, then turn my life around, so i can get my kids back and become an inspiration to all by writing a book about it with a "soon to be a major motion picture" sticker on the cover.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtk1lLcP0JwDJlsj77uj7Q8K8QUGuU09TM4BcZXwmgXCUhh_UhI5vPE-VuCJ9DnWT1ASSyD9LpnwWm1mbOnmFSy9Cnr-U1ExkPyRtUfFL7B-tGUCcp1XLl61_XVqsaEt_FAixqWrU6_lAu/s1600/Gizmowtf.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtk1lLcP0JwDJlsj77uj7Q8K8QUGuU09TM4BcZXwmgXCUhh_UhI5vPE-VuCJ9DnWT1ASSyD9LpnwWm1mbOnmFSy9Cnr-U1ExkPyRtUfFL7B-tGUCcp1XLl61_XVqsaEt_FAixqWrU6_lAu/s400/Gizmowtf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562492709682679026" border="0" /></a><br />R: If you were trapped on a deserted island, name three people you’d want with you and then put them in order of who you would eat first as food inevitably became scarce.<br /><br />C: Mayor McCheese, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and Superman. Then Superman would fly all 4 of us to where the cast of Jersey Shore are and then we'd eat them starting with The Situation first.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3US-3pfRCVH5ghbisvTeeDBDrSVSXsADW8Mr03_vumgF9_qPU_mUzHil_b252rPXM1-QMHB5uN1XGZ1Zt4rCp_J7Imp0U5AOiyANeWue2Ckcu13iBjtg2hPu_ZxmV5GfzScyd_3Xu0dgT/s1600/jersey-shore-cast.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 379px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3US-3pfRCVH5ghbisvTeeDBDrSVSXsADW8Mr03_vumgF9_qPU_mUzHil_b252rPXM1-QMHB5uN1XGZ1Zt4rCp_J7Imp0U5AOiyANeWue2Ckcu13iBjtg2hPu_ZxmV5GfzScyd_3Xu0dgT/s400/jersey-shore-cast.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562492989058686866" border="0" /></a><br />R: Well make sure you have a napkin to wipe all the spray tan off your face when you're done. Say you were just named Emperor of Everything. It’s a thing. Trust me. First law enacted would be…<br /><br />C: To make me Emperor of Everything again...but this time we rented a bouncy castle for the ceremony.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6Zy8RD7CSVFrQFodmDWcs3UaUwBoqRiK-hmJVGlayShCV-zway2LwI_S1V-rpiPFNcTAM0mrxvMN4ISqWSAy84-m5jcUBEIhl1dBjnrTcqj2_FYnYyu252zootrIj6ItO7PciPxp4Yoq/s1600/npr.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6Zy8RD7CSVFrQFodmDWcs3UaUwBoqRiK-hmJVGlayShCV-zway2LwI_S1V-rpiPFNcTAM0mrxvMN4ISqWSAy84-m5jcUBEIhl1dBjnrTcqj2_FYnYyu252zootrIj6ItO7PciPxp4Yoq/s400/npr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562493804613041618" border="0" /></a>R: We are six beers in and it’s our turn on Karaoke. What are we singing?<br /><br />C: We're not, we're outside by the curb fighting over the last pizza bagel.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VnM20nu22THnzKUDhlHc2wfEgaiYOA_Lwv3zPWXQ0O7QrDNsd4KkmA2cm5XHY2Pi1SdjZoW6CvkDTfmrA9LS8weTnwukhXucXE8JCtUONcWPl8NNqIy3MA0wdN7p0T4f843uFje_CJeL/s1600/pizza_bagels_hxpm.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9VnM20nu22THnzKUDhlHc2wfEgaiYOA_Lwv3zPWXQ0O7QrDNsd4KkmA2cm5XHY2Pi1SdjZoW6CvkDTfmrA9LS8weTnwukhXucXE8JCtUONcWPl8NNqIy3MA0wdN7p0T4f843uFje_CJeL/s400/pizza_bagels_hxpm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562494530746481010" border="0" /></a><br />R: Mmmm, pizza bagels. Since the title of the show is SuperKickAss, give me an example of a time in which you kicked ass in super fashion.<br /><br />C: See response to your last question.<br /><br /><br />Chung’s work will be part of the 5 person show, SuperKickAss, on view at WWA gallery curated by Industrial Squid, from January 21st until February 19th, 2011. For a preview of the show, go to <a href="http://http//www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html">http://www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html</a> and click on the link.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-78312700060482052172011-01-13T15:04:00.000-08:002011-01-13T16:01:22.114-08:00Tracy Tomko is SuperKickAss!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TSTMdrXabg7K9edJrnJSZiko_3kP1sqAlvkQ5Ky8R2agy9kua6khD9MHN8Ur-c68IUsx22MHCxC-_HBaxwvDIaNlUrN1cZxD7Juw464X7JkYC_PENyngVSPp0atNq04EjxbPsTQmtjvj/s1600/Tomko_SuperKickAss_Grow+Tones%252818x24%2529.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 298px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561817624578428786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TSTMdrXabg7K9edJrnJSZiko_3kP1sqAlvkQ5Ky8R2agy9kua6khD9MHN8Ur-c68IUsx22MHCxC-_HBaxwvDIaNlUrN1cZxD7Juw464X7JkYC_PENyngVSPp0atNq04EjxbPsTQmtjvj/s400/Tomko_SuperKickAss_Grow+Tones%252818x24%2529.jpg" /></a><br /><br />It is a mysteriously wonderful treat to gaze upon a grouping of Tracy Tomko paintings. Each painting is an open field, dreamscapes with characters, biological beings, color, music, and the inquisitive and adventuresome child taking a part in these landscapes.<br /><br />Tracy and I recently had a conversation covering themes in her work like memory and music, as well as goats, seeing-eye ponies, and reincarnation.<br /><br /><i>Rob Faucette: What is a favorite artist/painting that has influenced you? </i><br /><br />Tracy Tomko: Hieronymus Bosch is my all-time favorite.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2SNdCtTjP_BlBGvLHLw8Jvp7Du7S2mzKJ9JzrT6Vy0f68oFfisFkIo1MsENLsi4VeWhBU4SL1JY3wynwMtR-GkCRLPlekJHFtlCOwmsx9_1aE2iwyWwUsyPEI3a69UeTkPKyVZsVUfopa/s1600/bosch_earthly+delights.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 368px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561817336349369010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2SNdCtTjP_BlBGvLHLw8Jvp7Du7S2mzKJ9JzrT6Vy0f68oFfisFkIo1MsENLsi4VeWhBU4SL1JY3wynwMtR-GkCRLPlekJHFtlCOwmsx9_1aE2iwyWwUsyPEI3a69UeTkPKyVZsVUfopa/s400/bosch_earthly+delights.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>RF: Do you make sketches for a painting, or do you just start painting?</i><br /><br />TT: My paintings are pretty planned out. I do sketches and some collage to layout images. There are surprises that happen along the way, if I set one aside for a while before it’s finished.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6nUSRdHcBVn0KMkXARZNgjFpBsAA4HrfVfC87oN2PuN85HPoKXfktjNv3wDzEXZmeDx3XhpNIOOHJPGnTsEE9Q1gHscA78NuEVGuxxahlLba640IIUVirxPV9Abx2MztYfpwrktymmmT3/s1600/Idyl.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 216px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561817098474729474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6nUSRdHcBVn0KMkXARZNgjFpBsAA4HrfVfC87oN2PuN85HPoKXfktjNv3wDzEXZmeDx3XhpNIOOHJPGnTsEE9Q1gHscA78NuEVGuxxahlLba640IIUVirxPV9Abx2MztYfpwrktymmmT3/s400/Idyl.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>RF: You’ve spoken before about memory. What is the difference, to you, between a memory and a dream? Meaning: when you remember a dream, and when you have a memory of something that actually happened to you, do you think there’s a difference?</i><br /><br />TT: That makes me feel a little dizzy! You’re right. “Life IS but a dream.” In my art, I’m fascinated with the idea of how memories, of waking or sleeping moments, become so laced with passing time and nostalgia that they are forever altered without you knowing. I have spoken with friends and family that remember things entirely differently than I do. Someone may even have a photo proving the morphing that has happened and become my reality of the dream. Sometimes I will take a photo and let the nostalgia wash over me. Then, I work at altering the image to help the viewer to feel what that moment has become for me. I spend so much time doing that, that I wonder what my memories will look like in the future.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSTbnUaqUgtklWBbtYOyrXn1uBuAYVGciNRRaTAxbtnK3gibicCiMAA0C6K6ahEQ04XT-6h842qnwghguZ_OKqwCfpMVLQbEd0BUHWhSf0Rg7myuP23hALVjpSGNfJyqdc7kjlejvs_cY/s1600/memory_brain.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 394px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561816485511349858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSTbnUaqUgtklWBbtYOyrXn1uBuAYVGciNRRaTAxbtnK3gibicCiMAA0C6K6ahEQ04XT-6h842qnwghguZ_OKqwCfpMVLQbEd0BUHWhSf0Rg7myuP23hALVjpSGNfJyqdc7kjlejvs_cY/s400/memory_brain.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>RF: I think that is the root of a memory, actually: it’s not a fact, but the story as you remember it through time, and with each retelling (or remembrance) details are lost or embellished to suit your own needs: nostalgia, storytelling, etc, so in a way you are preserving memory like a scientist by marking it down?</i><br /><br />TT: Yes! That’s fun. A mad scientist embellishing events, like a magic show across time.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPWgfu0gO3q7PNyEaKQ6WQjMQCaLiJC-v-qto4kVtRyCvHH0R3OOeJvJl4LYZzneqM6AZkthhbFUaIPXvqmkoPVulRnheLf44ApZHs3OEgRbcvCY5OMQzFPJdBzWkPY_ENz4faZyLfc8i/s1600/Science-Magic-4M-N15925_XL%255B1%255D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561820449221127602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPWgfu0gO3q7PNyEaKQ6WQjMQCaLiJC-v-qto4kVtRyCvHH0R3OOeJvJl4LYZzneqM6AZkthhbFUaIPXvqmkoPVulRnheLf44ApZHs3OEgRbcvCY5OMQzFPJdBzWkPY_ENz4faZyLfc8i/s400/Science-Magic-4M-N15925_XL%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>RF: What is your favorite memory, or one of them? I have one that is like a snapshot video in my mind that I witnessed when I lived in Vermont. There was a pond and during the winter, we blew off all the snow and put fresh water on it for a smooth skating surface. We had a winter party one night and got a bunch of hockey sticks and pucks, but we all learned pretty quickly how dangerous it was to be whacking pucks around in the dark.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB9TZCIOjk5AUynZD65Ct6haLCqiCBtN2A4qDM_jgi6dKc6qnq-77zdMUg6fafvU-xDGTNwNsQ1sz6is3tKx69p3mIgKWnt8DNcMti-aCZI240y3GmarirSdqovHA7Ox8R-moAdY-O3R8t/s1600/whiskey%255B1%255D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 285px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561816205435712114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB9TZCIOjk5AUynZD65Ct6haLCqiCBtN2A4qDM_jgi6dKc6qnq-77zdMUg6fafvU-xDGTNwNsQ1sz6is3tKx69p3mIgKWnt8DNcMti-aCZI240y3GmarirSdqovHA7Ox8R-moAdY-O3R8t/s400/whiskey%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a><br /><br />I had gone up to the house to fetch a fresh bottle of whiskey for everyone, and when I came back outside, I saw that everyone had fetched their Mag Light (those big metal flash lights) from their cars and trucks, and they were just whacking them around on the ice, so all these beams of light were shooting everywhere. From the distance, in the dark, looking on that scene and hearing the laughter and the lights through the moonless trees and star-filled night, it was just kind of perfect.</i><br /><br />TT: That’s a great one! I lived in Maine when I was young. My dad would turn our backyard into a rink for us. Spray some water – instant rink!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRuvT-fvtiGPxTQPsx5hDlczQC2KEPjd9e-KgMrS8JBH1LpIn4qbkdXXRBEo4-7GMwSpeQTwVaPQtkaAp9Vp19bt5KQqa2ND7FzW11ILOaGRPyCsDxgNm4HGDJE9HlslTWRY8MGm6jIiA/s1600/old-fashion-outdoor-rink-1%255B1%255D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 283px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561815972730590866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRuvT-fvtiGPxTQPsx5hDlczQC2KEPjd9e-KgMrS8JBH1LpIn4qbkdXXRBEo4-7GMwSpeQTwVaPQtkaAp9Vp19bt5KQqa2ND7FzW11ILOaGRPyCsDxgNm4HGDJE9HlslTWRY8MGm6jIiA/s400/old-fashion-outdoor-rink-1%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a><br /><br />I have one of getting to know a co-worker on the job. She would talk all day, while we were working, about really weird nonsense. I thought she was crazy for months because of the things she would say. One day she’s telling me all about seeing-eye ponies. (like the dogs that lead the blind, only little ponies) She goes so far as to tell me someone in her family breeds and trains them, and all day I’m having these crazy visuals of how nuts her family might be. I leave work and am telling friends about this girl’s “story of the day”, and we are rolling in laughter. Then, later something prompts me to Google it. Turns out, seeing-eye ponies are REAL! Much more laughter! We worked that job together for a little over a year and every day was an adventure. That’s the stuff that life-long friendships are built on. I need to paint those ponies leading everyone around.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB09iH6z_KhXRkqqPfCoDYOZr3-HaeGOIBZ07g1KIdmTT4FrfAkBAOhgbOzWR-bTkyf3n3jdM_zJKDslS7OXZ9RABLbZATEiNC6z8qzqKQ_Xtax3cv_qpQLjyMGwKQm8A9MURHVWzpKA65/s1600/seeing+eye+pony.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561814327503219458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB09iH6z_KhXRkqqPfCoDYOZr3-HaeGOIBZ07g1KIdmTT4FrfAkBAOhgbOzWR-bTkyf3n3jdM_zJKDslS7OXZ9RABLbZATEiNC6z8qzqKQ_Xtax3cv_qpQLjyMGwKQm8A9MURHVWzpKA65/s400/seeing+eye+pony.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>RF: What is it about music that is important to you?</i><br /><br />TT: Music is such a perfect art form. I wish people could be driving in their car and my art would move them to spontaneously feel as if they are in love, or energized in a way that makes them want to seize the day, or be moved to tears at the thought of someone they are missing, the way that a song can. Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me To the End of Love” lyrics are how I started to paint violins:<br /><br /><i>“Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin<br />Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in…”</i><br /><br />These lyrics are one of the most beautiful things ever written, in my opinion. I feel like painting musical instruments encourages the viewer to strain to hear the music in the painting. It’s a visual song I’d play to them and to the environment.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd7YxnbbkENSrDIFM8UiX_LHBNcDVAuvVQWDorGpBcb345I_DbaLfmcXBFhIbNdvJhxyRX5yeB5xe7Rv1XfrDdYfk0TBo5edZKsrcgCIwNfnqPlWj7PoeULoTAX4SyKyRTYd2k3WLZt3iq/s1600/LeonardCohen-03-big%255B1%255D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 311px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561814098409603266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd7YxnbbkENSrDIFM8UiX_LHBNcDVAuvVQWDorGpBcb345I_DbaLfmcXBFhIbNdvJhxyRX5yeB5xe7Rv1XfrDdYfk0TBo5edZKsrcgCIwNfnqPlWj7PoeULoTAX4SyKyRTYd2k3WLZt3iq/s400/LeonardCohen-03-big%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><i>RF: I see that as well in the headphones in a literal sense, but also the strong colors in each of your paintings remind me of notes and major or minor keys…like other-worldly pop songs or what one sees on hallucinogens while listening to music, the way a certain song or note can not only call up a color but also a memory, to bring it back around…</i><br /><br />TT: Or a smell! Scratch and sniff music! I hope the colors ARE singing to people.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO76vVFKYuMtKTGWtx-hHHCIT3aA2GwbzOfnHcISt1LIydzBcwVUw4yzSXd1a7abSbmTzfoFb23A3SmrR3GuErhqGl_mNLA4TO0IRHncfV-3_FLdbox4s_3O4xiW_4E-eAlzOkJL5MfvPV/s1600/grow+tones+detail.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 361px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561813341243149170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO76vVFKYuMtKTGWtx-hHHCIT3aA2GwbzOfnHcISt1LIydzBcwVUw4yzSXd1a7abSbmTzfoFb23A3SmrR3GuErhqGl_mNLA4TO0IRHncfV-3_FLdbox4s_3O4xiW_4E-eAlzOkJL5MfvPV/s400/grow+tones+detail.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The painting with the headphones, is called “Grow Tones”. Those are actually protective ear gear blocking the sound out. The song in that story is transforming the growth of the plant life, and I didn’t want it to mutate the little girl. I love thinking about music mutating life into new forms.<br /><br />I like to paint in bright colors and playful images that feel like the wonder of a child. <br /><br /><i>RF: I see goats pop up from time to time in your paintings...</i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQUH1-Al1kyLKCgfH8ZthbbFoeKVQg9Zb1qTTjC4QPC63dUXmUYtTC7vsgeC0LP21mFEdD5PYGU1RmLk3wefR513U85cqUHtMGyIXrgmFKx9O76gjvuJ5qD85EtYFtxKWtnfem7MGHy0J/s1600/Tomko_SuKiAss_Youth+and+Folly%252816x20%2529.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQUH1-Al1kyLKCgfH8ZthbbFoeKVQg9Zb1qTTjC4QPC63dUXmUYtTC7vsgeC0LP21mFEdD5PYGU1RmLk3wefR513U85cqUHtMGyIXrgmFKx9O76gjvuJ5qD85EtYFtxKWtnfem7MGHy0J/s400/Tomko_SuKiAss_Youth+and+Folly%252816x20%2529.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561822259909115682" /></a><br /><br />TT: The goat might be my spirit animal. If I see one, I think something crazy and surprising is going to happen. I may have been a goat in my last life and there are pieces of my goat soul that carried over. Frolicking is one of my favorite hobbies.<br /><br /><i>RF: Do you believe in reincarnation? What is your aim for the next life?</i><br /><br />TT: I’m not ruling any possibilities out, yet. If I get to choose, I would live on another planet in a less concrete form – some sort of alien shape shifter would be awesome.<br /><br /><i>--Tracy Tomko in conversation with Rob Faucette, January 13, 2011.</i><br /><br /><br />Tracy’s work will be part of the 5 person show, SuperKickAss, on view at WWA gallery curated by Industrial Squid, from January 21st until February 19th, 2011. For a preview of the show, go to http://www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html and click on the link.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-36207991328571734562011-01-07T11:29:00.000-08:002011-01-07T11:46:39.504-08:002011: A Squid OdysseyWhat it is, Bitches and Bitchettes?<p class="MsoNormal">The year 2011 has come upon us, like a voracious hawk swooping down and sinking its razor sharp talons into the fluffy fur of some adorable, defenseless woodland creature, and we are f-ing stoked about it!<span style=""> </span>Reason being, we at Industrial Squid have some serious plans to bring the dopeness into this here new year, and we’re just aching to get started.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">But before I go on about all our future plans for global domination in the awesomeness market, I’d like to give those of you who missed our handy work in 2010 an opportunity to take a look back at our past hijinks.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/devil/thedevilmademedoitartshow.html"><b style="">The Devil Made Me Do It</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxJnHDdA5qd37mxb4qBfsRQGAT3SbiLyFCyMxMrmrJuUYcQDVqU2-580xDE55jFSIs4PyFFTsEPE8u_B0s7SoIYCnGYjH5a-EQgZXU00cX9YkL4bxmfXR98OsDUl-bSjTSxI24AcioNyQ/s1600/DMMDI+Postcard+Front.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxJnHDdA5qd37mxb4qBfsRQGAT3SbiLyFCyMxMrmrJuUYcQDVqU2-580xDE55jFSIs4PyFFTsEPE8u_B0s7SoIYCnGYjH5a-EQgZXU00cX9YkL4bxmfXR98OsDUl-bSjTSxI24AcioNyQ/s400/DMMDI+Postcard+Front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559529371323446066" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">On February 12<sup>th</sup>, we popped our curatorial cherry with <b style="">The Devil Made Me Do It</b>; in which 30 artists let us take a peek into the darker corners of their psyches.<span style=""> </span>For a show with such a dark theme, it ended up being a ton of fun to put together.<span style=""> </span>Friendships were formed, only a few people were maimed, and Industrial Squid got its first taste of awesome.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/la3010/la3010artshow.html"><b style="">LA3010</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlsKn1HBY0K3-YQUComD07H8ZF95KST7OgFotSvQPJI90-R0JztPnAt9qCjNv1ig2loLJdwv6YGY2RJ4DnNn2qFNZVcLVGsl-rjanvwrDhNWyq6xM2ydu-WtgbmTXz-uiZl6QYl50bMMz/s1600/LA+3010+Postcard+Front.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlsKn1HBY0K3-YQUComD07H8ZF95KST7OgFotSvQPJI90-R0JztPnAt9qCjNv1ig2loLJdwv6YGY2RJ4DnNn2qFNZVcLVGsl-rjanvwrDhNWyq6xM2ydu-WtgbmTXz-uiZl6QYl50bMMz/s400/LA+3010+Postcard+Front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559529683259707698" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">But a month later, the Squids were back in action with<b style=""> LA3010</b>, where we asked local, national and international artists to take a guess at what the City of Angels would be like in another 1000 years.<span style=""> </span>The result was an eclectic mix of paintings, collages, etchings and woodcuts that gave life to a world yet unknown.<span style=""> </span>As an added bonus, only one person was maimed in the production of this show. (And he had it coming)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/unicorns/ibelieveinunicornsartshow.html"><b style="">i believe in unicorns</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBxgNWiyDxEyHrUNZ9836d8e2k0dOhJTEhKcHG5n1XQLLU9NxQSReqN_yaafe6jyZR1MsmxoawmkrrG1JDPIFezziPdUihLzZj1NEgJpJTVjqG6sNiS5wPQqaq5rnBSuAnX2nif3Tu-_C/s1600/Unicorns+Showcard+Front.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBxgNWiyDxEyHrUNZ9836d8e2k0dOhJTEhKcHG5n1XQLLU9NxQSReqN_yaafe6jyZR1MsmxoawmkrrG1JDPIFezziPdUihLzZj1NEgJpJTVjqG6sNiS5wPQqaq5rnBSuAnX2nif3Tu-_C/s400/Unicorns+Showcard+Front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559530276974559954" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">With two shows under our belt, Industrial Squid decided to let loose with the fun and the rainbows, so we threw a little art party we like to call <b style="">i believe in unicorns</b>.<span style=""> </span>With 33 artists contributing, an actual Unicorn on the premises for the opening, and nothing but bright beams of sunshine coming out of everyone in attendance we dare say that more fun has ever been had. Ever. Anywhere.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/offthestrip/offthestripartshow.html"><b style="">Off the Strip</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMP6XHqVNZojZw-b3PFJPIVmfd5VT-bvY_hKdwSbvKvuCuJ4e8DBUMC2x2tPYUSwBS0nlc3GXhg6WMdnw_a7VnzxYtbpad65vAXOA4X9XI9Ubdtgbt8xJTo09vNOxazZYjnDYdRXJIUmSW/s1600/Off+the+Strip+Showcard+Front.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMP6XHqVNZojZw-b3PFJPIVmfd5VT-bvY_hKdwSbvKvuCuJ4e8DBUMC2x2tPYUSwBS0nlc3GXhg6WMdnw_a7VnzxYtbpad65vAXOA4X9XI9Ubdtgbt8xJTo09vNOxazZYjnDYdRXJIUmSW/s400/Off+the+Strip+Showcard+Front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559530894344581074" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It was on a mid-summer day that Industrial Squid unleashed the more devious side of the Sunday funny pages on the world.<span style=""> </span>We asked some of the art world’s more twisted minds to remix the wholesome characters of famous comic strips and the show ended up being, in a word, scandalous.<span style=""> </span>Enough so that it even got a mention in Juxtapoz magazine’s Showstoppers section.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/horrorwood/horrorwoodartshow.html"><b style="">Horrorwood</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXEoUSBqSJmhrZ3eXjhzqfC5n6pf4PFDN_wMjeJ12noUyZn2WRbcMbUG-HRDKOptluOVHRyH8cWEB-WDT1-ugTznarHdMrU4YjIOXxAZO2WUOcO2uPmyIQAAnRLw6faWM93EMbt-Vr4GrZ/s1600/Horrorwood+Showcard+Front.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXEoUSBqSJmhrZ3eXjhzqfC5n6pf4PFDN_wMjeJ12noUyZn2WRbcMbUG-HRDKOptluOVHRyH8cWEB-WDT1-ugTznarHdMrU4YjIOXxAZO2WUOcO2uPmyIQAAnRLw6faWM93EMbt-Vr4GrZ/s400/Horrorwood+Showcard+Front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559531999233397074" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">As our grand finale for 2010 we hosted an homage to Horror, and it proved to be our biggest show yet with 43 different artists contributing from all over the globe.<span style=""> </span>The art work ranged from the sickly disturbing to the sickly hilarious, but one thing was for sure, if you were a fan of either horror or good art you were losing your mother lovin’ mind.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now as we leave 2010, with fond memories and minor concussions, it is time to get excited about what Industrial Squid is about to do to you in 2011.<span style=""> </span>That’s right. I said <i style="">to you</i>. This year, we are scaling back the sizes of our shows, getting things a little more intimate and romantical, and opening up the boundaries so our favorite artists can express themselves in any damn way they please.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSdYHcawnrHWpgHbzE8mCpGVgmUiCWTZ3y7pEHiowBxJRrduN5Xsm7JyELODcdGfUqHLpb2Aoz8BamFpu4jp2k5p7cBEeBjRLKp8zFph3LI7-2-uYAN-R6DhR6i696tnjUiGgyI8ZbSfp-/s1600/SuperKickAss+Showcard+Front+2+copy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSdYHcawnrHWpgHbzE8mCpGVgmUiCWTZ3y7pEHiowBxJRrduN5Xsm7JyELODcdGfUqHLpb2Aoz8BamFpu4jp2k5p7cBEeBjRLKp8zFph3LI7-2-uYAN-R6DhR6i696tnjUiGgyI8ZbSfp-/s400/SuperKickAss+Showcard+Front+2+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559532342290765762" border="0" /></a><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We are starting this January 21<sup>st</sup>, at the <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/">WWA gallery</a>, with a nice little 5 person shows called <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html"><b style="">SuperKickAss</b></a>.<span style=""> </span>A show that is sure to be an exercise in merrymaking, <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html"><b style="">SuperKickAss</b></a> features new works by Dee Chavez, David Chung, Edward Robin Coronel, Tracy Tomko and Jeni Yang.<span style=""> </span>Each of these artists is an experienced explorer of the fantastic and we are peeing our collective pants to see what they’ve brought back from their latest expeditions.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After we’ve all settled down from the kickassery, we have <b style="">Lilacs out of the Dead Ground</b> set to open on April Fools’ Day, but with a line up including Casey Weldon, Paul Torres, Richard J Frost, Sinae Park, Lily Mae Martin and Dylan Sisson this show is absolutely no joke.<span style=""> </span>These artists are all growing with diverse and inventive styles in what is becoming a more and more homogeneous and uninspired world, but they are breaking through and lending glimpses of beauty to anyone smart enough to pay attention. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Right on the heels of <b style="">Lilacs</b> we have <b style="">All the Sordid Little Details</b>, which will highlight the meticulous craftsmanship of six extremely detail oriented artists.<span style=""> </span>With new works from David Ball, Dan Barry, William Buzzell, Ken Garduno, Jesse Hotchkiss, and Jacob Livengood this show will give everyone a nice, tasty little glimpse into the twin worlds of obsession and compulsion.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Also in store for later in 2011, are a couple of large group shows, one a collaboration with the fellas over at Color Ink Book and the other being a study of the modern portrait called <b style="">About Face.<span style=""> </span></b>Each of these shows is going to include a large, diverse line up of artists, highlighting some of the names you already know and love and also introducing you to some peeps you never heard of before.<span style=""> </span>So prepare thyself.<span style=""> </span>The year has begun.<span style=""> </span>The Squids have their tentacles out and they are snatching yo people up.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Be well. Best wishes to all you bitches in the new year.</p>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-87509263849307274812010-10-23T15:57:00.000-07:002010-11-12T10:46:03.169-08:00Things That Go Bump in the NightThe Art of Annie Owens<br />by Stephanie Chefas<br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAB56urcOfF29ZDdMkrzJ8_UIRoR7bbO-DJOtgzS5yPuNgS18cYQKuNs84KHyawDvM2FlfvxgSNtBWY-yk5J8c2DeYkQILAYxJsuw9-UZ7fUbp7nKbTD2nPhsTJl5zSslxAs5f5daFXLUh/s1600/Class-IV-Offence.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 346px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538730958770608642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAB56urcOfF29ZDdMkrzJ8_UIRoR7bbO-DJOtgzS5yPuNgS18cYQKuNs84KHyawDvM2FlfvxgSNtBWY-yk5J8c2DeYkQILAYxJsuw9-UZ7fUbp7nKbTD2nPhsTJl5zSslxAs5f5daFXLUh/s400/Class-IV-Offence.jpg" /></a></p><p>Stunning artist and irrepressible horror fan Annie Owens has a flair for the macabre that dates all the way back to early childhood. Finding her muse in things that “go bump in the night” along with the classic horror films that captured her imagination as early as age five, Annie’s figurative paintings most often depict other-wordly characters of ink and watercolor whose dark backstories lurk just beneath the surface of tattoos, gas-masks and blood-spattered uniforms. The threatening (and sometimes nearly hollow) gaze of her subjects, who inhabit an eerie cinematic world of foggy forests and crooked houses, packs the same bone-chilling punch as some of her favorite films like Night of the Living Dead. It’s these deeply compelling and unique images that have seduced her audience and made us fall in love with not only the artwork but the equally compelling and unique Annie Owens herself. To quote her partner in crime at Hi-Fructose Magazine and fellow artist, Attaboy, “There are a lot of people who like my work, but there are a lot, and I mean A LOT of people who LOVE Annie’s work.”<br /><br />As she continues to evolve in one medium, Annie has her sites on another, and she’s now exploring the possibilities of a film project that’s been on the back burner for years. Inspired by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Kubrick and Terry Gilliam, the chilling tales of psychological terror milling about in Annie’s mind would undoubtedly entice myself and many others to the front of the line with money in hand. Here Annie expands on her love for horror, the still budding inspiration that started Hi-Fructose and why we should be psyched for an Annie Owens film.<br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1soc7t2ItdeHphaeMcBbxOEM5TQz82T77Zy64e26gBDywqoBeVWELVErgkr5UMqV2vnhLB-ysU2j84ABf8X09MSbeMNnZ1dEt7OS5UHhoIdxDo8_HYSaB8Z8ysIyoYlDoNNKIY44ldTl/s1600/Crooked-Girl.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538731634586922818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1soc7t2ItdeHphaeMcBbxOEM5TQz82T77Zy64e26gBDywqoBeVWELVErgkr5UMqV2vnhLB-ysU2j84ABf8X09MSbeMNnZ1dEt7OS5UHhoIdxDo8_HYSaB8Z8ysIyoYlDoNNKIY44ldTl/s400/Crooked-Girl.jpg" /></a><br /><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): For starters, what's your favorite Horror film and why?</strong><br /><br />Annie Owens (AO): I have about 10 top favorites but the one that comes to mind first is The Shining. It’s as fundamentally scary to me to watch it is as it is for the characters experiencing it. Jack becomes his own worst enemy and he has nowhere to run from himself. The combination of psychological deviance, isolation and a good ghost story to bolster it all, creates an internal gothic horror inside the characters. [Yes I am a goober you should see my Netflix reviews.] Rather than them reacting to something external like monsters or deranged killers on the loose – the fear is created by things that are less able to be demystified, like fear of the dark or empty spaces, or buried personal deviances for example. Not that deranged-killer movies can’t be good too but generally blood and gore to me are not scary and very boring unless you make it fun like Texas Chainsaw II did, a classic! Violence in horror is also annoying to me unless it’s integral to the story like in Martyrs – the most disturbing movie I have ever watched.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What was the first Horror film you saw?</strong><br /><br />AO: Beyond the Door. I was 6. It scared me so badly I cried. But the real gateway horror movie was my second one, Night of the Living Dead which is still in my top 5.<br /><br /><strong>SC: Were you a lover of horror movies growing up?</strong><br /><br />AO: Absolutely. As really little kids my brother Barry and I got to camp out in the living room and watch Creature Features from our little blanket tents on weekend nights. Awesomeness!<br /></p><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqh91pWS_CqG-KyJr6bKsXpGnDY_xJ06SL0HNirBHbEZEY1Eaat1UWm-oSZWyDlJeURYeskYF4-9MYyGdzjRBbBCfRCKK4W3gV1qsPKJ-LlySI7WLMCRGmFFGU6HpSysKZyhaN_0yJ8-T/s1600/Over-the-Hills-and-Far-Away.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 293px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538732151419736290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqh91pWS_CqG-KyJr6bKsXpGnDY_xJ06SL0HNirBHbEZEY1Eaat1UWm-oSZWyDlJeURYeskYF4-9MYyGdzjRBbBCfRCKK4W3gV1qsPKJ-LlySI7WLMCRGmFFGU6HpSysKZyhaN_0yJ8-T/s400/Over-the-Hills-and-Far-Away.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: With a degree in film, have you ever considered making a movie?</strong><br /><br />AO: Totally. After getting my degree [I think a degree in film is kind of silly unless you want to be an exec.,] I was still pretty wayward and a single mom too so for a long time I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Anyway, I shelved the idea of making movies and decided I would revisit it when my daughter was grown. So she’s grown now and the ideas are a-spinning.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What do you imagine an Annie Owens film would look like?</strong><br /><br />AO: It will be atmospherically scary in the way Lovecraft used to spin his written tales. Moments in movies like Psycho, [not the shower scene but the scene on the stairs], The Sentinel [dead dad in his underwear] The Other [not The Others] and Let’s Scare Jessica to Death really inspire me.<br /><br /><strong>SC: Could you tell us about your process?</strong><br /><br />AO: Usually it starts by flipping through my sketchbooks and doodles until something grabs me enough to want to elaborate on it as a finished thing. Then I’ll scan it, print it out to whatever size I want it, stick it on a light-box it to transfer to the final piece of paper and begin painting.<br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXDmofav1TLuBs0Oe4jFS9B2sgcq-hcfs6QX_ZoXMwn31-3dmlR-hs7gbOfASzFPuUCoW2zAqQW9xT2Rb8xIN8sCCDCef5y2A1Izy7wSqSPpi48ZJV4KTip6XuuR8jrxNbhy3vEZeMm6I/s1600/fishbowl.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 242px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538732628507491602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXDmofav1TLuBs0Oe4jFS9B2sgcq-hcfs6QX_ZoXMwn31-3dmlR-hs7gbOfASzFPuUCoW2zAqQW9xT2Rb8xIN8sCCDCef5y2A1Izy7wSqSPpi48ZJV4KTip6XuuR8jrxNbhy3vEZeMm6I/s400/fishbowl.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>SC: What message do you carry as an artist?</strong><br /><br />AO: I don’t have a message. Everything I paint is for myself. I’m selfish that way - it’s my therapy. That I’m asked to show it now and then is an honor. If a piece of work does connect with someone else I would imagine that it’s because what goes on in my head isn’t much different from what goes on with a lot of people internally. That’s awesome for me. If someone doesn’t connect with it or doesn’t like it, that’s fine too. You gotta roll with it!<br /><br /><strong>SC: The majority (if not all) of your work seems reminiscent of childhood memories and experiences. How much of a personal narrative is at play?</strong><br /><br />AO: Well, my output so far is terribly slow so most of what’s been seen of mine is rather old except for a few like that Samara piece I did for Horrorwood. There will probably always be a lot of personal meanderings in my work since I tend to live in my head but thank Tarzan I’ve evolved from the childhood stuff! [I think.]<br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_eRZSDjD6tomgBayyf7g_4Vi5VuRjfuM42KxNsGm5nEZ1HKS9uVggsyP6uq1biIT7Ga6F-nKkI7yj5B6VxKzznfdTvmakFLW5sOFvJLX-JSivftzlXLwmzdDbY-4MZQHRzq-LXvoQSKy/s1600/Samara-Rises.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538733177955938834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_eRZSDjD6tomgBayyf7g_4Vi5VuRjfuM42KxNsGm5nEZ1HKS9uVggsyP6uq1biIT7Ga6F-nKkI7yj5B6VxKzznfdTvmakFLW5sOFvJLX-JSivftzlXLwmzdDbY-4MZQHRzq-LXvoQSKy/s400/Samara-Rises.jpg" /></a><br /><strong>SC: Many people may know you co-founded the contemporary art publication Hi-Fructose along with Attaboy. How did starting Hi-Fructose come about and did you envision it evolving into one of the most highly respected art magazines today?</strong><br /><br />AO: Thanks for saying that last part. I dunno, I think Attaboy and I were both searching for something that wasn’t really out there for us at the time so we decided to create it for ourselves. Anyway, we didn’t know really what to expect or how it would all pan out. We just knew people responded to what and how we chose to publish and over time, we began to put more thought into what we were doing. We are still a young publication so it’s still evolving… which means it can only get better.<br /><br /><strong>SC: Was anyone else in your family an artist and did they encourage your artistic talent?</strong><br /><br />AO: Several people in my family are artistic and musical. When I was very young my mom and grandmother encouraged me to get work as a secretary. I understand the reasoning since they both came from incredibly difficult means. When I got older my mom seemed to understand me better and put me through film school. That’s part of the reason I feel like I have to make at least one movie! I owe it to her.<br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqj3gZUwevLc_ju2A85Afrw-j6zubEp0zp2avdRBpfzwzmmgpclSRV_MEQFx-7T-2POez6y8Zn7K-2mcUhuXMxyEoUpA5FQtA9C0GCHKlZAb4Ms44-rLWwCkXK3brpMXQORTl_CwvFXix/s1600/premburial.gif"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 304px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538733520847310306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqj3gZUwevLc_ju2A85Afrw-j6zubEp0zp2avdRBpfzwzmmgpclSRV_MEQFx-7T-2POez6y8Zn7K-2mcUhuXMxyEoUpA5FQtA9C0GCHKlZAb4Ms44-rLWwCkXK3brpMXQORTl_CwvFXix/s400/premburial.gif" /></a><br /><strong>SC: Which contemporary artists do you most admire and/or are inspired by?</strong><br /><br />AO: Funny, the first people who come to mind are all photographers. Sally Mann, Joel-Peter Witkin, Diane Arbus and Eugene Atget though his days were back around the turn of the 20th Century. More currently I’m still obsessing over Al Columbia’s work, James Jean, Korin Faught, Michael Page, James Marshall, Chris Mars, Barry McGee... There are quite a few. It’s not necessarily always the art itself, but the approach and why and how they do what they do is also what I admire.<br /><br /><strong>SC: If I were to spend the day with Annie, what could I expect?</strong><br /><br />AO: You’d be bored. It’s like this: a.m., drop and roll out of bed into office chair followed by 3-4 hours of administrative HF stuff with a break to walk the dog, take shower, eat, draw, t.v., draw, go to bed. I leave the house once or twice a week.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What's the one thing you can't live without?</strong><br /><br />AO: Daniel [Attaboy]<br /><br /><strong>SC: The one thing you can't live with?</strong><br /><br />AO: unchecked ignorance<br /><br /><strong>SC: What's next for Annie?</strong><br /><br />AO: A new haircut to fix the self inflicted damage.<br />Solo show at Copro Gallery in April 2011.<br />Carrying on with Hi-Fructose, it’s growing like a beast!<br />Oh and that movie we talked about... </p><p></p><p>Thanks Annie! To learn more about Annie Owens and her artwork, visit <a href="http://www.ouchclub.com/">OuchClub.com</a>. To view her artwork in HORRORWOOD, visit <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/horrorwood/horrorwoodartshow.html">WWAgallery.com</a>.<br /><br /></p>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-46781824235782090322010-10-05T15:50:00.000-07:002010-10-07T10:55:31.362-07:00HORRORWOOD!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmXCrGsvl97yUADspQj0FcAoPiR47YpbRhe75lZb3aqvPobeWGxQ-KTP5eLqUDl_nVWOryj24IHAFFjNgKwVHXkuw8pW9FIqRvFCkWuhzH0Rii2m8xL3W_rg5rlMDLSGDtskuVKGYreHmy/s1600/Blade%5B1%5DPuppet_Master_.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525104302988084722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmXCrGsvl97yUADspQj0FcAoPiR47YpbRhe75lZb3aqvPobeWGxQ-KTP5eLqUDl_nVWOryj24IHAFFjNgKwVHXkuw8pW9FIqRvFCkWuhzH0Rii2m8xL3W_rg5rlMDLSGDtskuVKGYreHmy/s400/Blade%5B1%5DPuppet_Master_.jpg" /></a><br />The ghost story has been a part of human culture since we've had words and fire. We scare each other in relative safety, around flickering lights, after we have eaten a good meal and are about to bed down for the night: Fantastical tales that give form to sounds in another room, gruesome faces and the terror that they bring.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdxDod9dolZtvKrMMLUhBXXyTSlG8OWp0QgCX-oykg0gZR5GgCLdYnSiOgJZchxRJQ-351jhltd7O1_Py2T4S66SJdiLgvc8R38deza7U6-hFxaDL0vWnMmftv3tXAW86BsGIgCyRrr80y/s1600/the+birds.jpg"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdgQNELYuZaY2mp4FRpaf_ENeunqPUQvS-IV7kgkipB6RMXj-IHb5dUfimAhHYlJr4TeKGmMh5wbaSLKgErRo7Cm8OmFH307jx2yXWEEYxyrgfVw1EwUhevrHAevrPXAg8k71NUa6RLKJk/s1600/thething460%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 261px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103824544364802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdgQNELYuZaY2mp4FRpaf_ENeunqPUQvS-IV7kgkipB6RMXj-IHb5dUfimAhHYlJr4TeKGmMh5wbaSLKgErRo7Cm8OmFH307jx2yXWEEYxyrgfVw1EwUhevrHAevrPXAg8k71NUa6RLKJk/s400/thething460%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a> Just like a dream or a nightmare, these images are important to us. We feed off of them.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqAiyos3z_G9U6cE2hNV2Wq4H1EVkjsk3m5DF1fpa8E1JuNLAqSqlhh_rQRjQBBYSSte4d5eN64EEcQ-8w1aDKeYbpnMtu3UvpKSlGs-0weyX6CWfb26X1p5CpenOFZ36HjeRoj1E-ZuE/s1600/Fridaythe13th_AdrienneKing.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103638307987682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqAiyos3z_G9U6cE2hNV2Wq4H1EVkjsk3m5DF1fpa8E1JuNLAqSqlhh_rQRjQBBYSSte4d5eN64EEcQ-8w1aDKeYbpnMtu3UvpKSlGs-0weyX6CWfb26X1p5CpenOFZ36HjeRoj1E-ZuE/s400/Fridaythe13th_AdrienneKing.jpg" /></a> They illustrate seemingly ungrounded fears of the natural world, where anything can go horribly, terribly wrong at any given moment. Even when we know it wouldn't make sense in the natural world.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHhCduRkW1dr8zGDalYaqvDEKO0UzR-bgDLoYEZcPdbxVlvC5JhKPpAkfAPRx0ve3m_74lW3RneEMzxdVQrXfXt10QF97Ipou9e8UmmWIcYKmRrpeVJTODurau6c0t_8odCQHgQeKbWRW/s1600/zombie-lake.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 239px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103711379698882" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHhCduRkW1dr8zGDalYaqvDEKO0UzR-bgDLoYEZcPdbxVlvC5JhKPpAkfAPRx0ve3m_74lW3RneEMzxdVQrXfXt10QF97Ipou9e8UmmWIcYKmRrpeVJTODurau6c0t_8odCQHgQeKbWRW/s400/zombie-lake.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnhwQy0U7hiPOzMz_b3oexYr4dV8Ib9S1-7rDLvYVPZA2a-hmAy88IZLtp6qTy2ynFbScTDKII7ySr9KonAA0QgvIn-x4GHKY-KiGo-9prV1FCaifn0L48d39d8aFT7kUnKHzTp8PPdE2l/s1600/cyclops.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 368px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103558359172098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnhwQy0U7hiPOzMz_b3oexYr4dV8Ib9S1-7rDLvYVPZA2a-hmAy88IZLtp6qTy2ynFbScTDKII7ySr9KonAA0QgvIn-x4GHKY-KiGo-9prV1FCaifn0L48d39d8aFT7kUnKHzTp8PPdE2l/s400/cyclops.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivishBX9rzTAFVedhBOeCQQkjtWDOGd5VeTA53fi4Qm8RJ2F8n9L-oG9m-SiDllMhGj-opN-Bssytir9hen20Brr1Mw09SjoacbLm0gB732_Mhgmo4Blk-AMOf9mwfntTrqMyMM1GnOmBA/s1600/Black+Lagoon.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103493704421586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivishBX9rzTAFVedhBOeCQQkjtWDOGd5VeTA53fi4Qm8RJ2F8n9L-oG9m-SiDllMhGj-opN-Bssytir9hen20Brr1Mw09SjoacbLm0gB732_Mhgmo4Blk-AMOf9mwfntTrqMyMM1GnOmBA/s400/Black+Lagoon.jpg" /></a> We can't help but think that this world is actually expansive enough to hold in reality what we can conjure in our minds.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwp2bzeVlueEVuwMIzFvaWbf1ze6iU4RaXxHLrJkBlwHXY3JZWLdbuxFycDhrbyLAnTx9jmxgwL09n1s-rbDrWPJfXnAmcx3k3gGY5OurerF8kzhodqSnzNpeYsEqpI1Yi684Gu8v_veBq/s1600/Frankenstein_monster_Boris_Karloff%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103300453153410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwp2bzeVlueEVuwMIzFvaWbf1ze6iU4RaXxHLrJkBlwHXY3JZWLdbuxFycDhrbyLAnTx9jmxgwL09n1s-rbDrWPJfXnAmcx3k3gGY5OurerF8kzhodqSnzNpeYsEqpI1Yi684Gu8v_veBq/s400/Frankenstein_monster_Boris_Karloff%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-jhX2LBNsN8AnA8YOPbGzt4Zq1qOwrMyiNrh_LaXPI38aiDD-LF60d6XmzEA9ID3IG1u2l_iiJlzdY2izwnVpb76vTKWRomSHxDKo_5mG2QjLvssP95n1h7jFvur5M0lBzdR7YJvcNNw/s1600/hitchcock_psycho%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103358739280002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-jhX2LBNsN8AnA8YOPbGzt4Zq1qOwrMyiNrh_LaXPI38aiDD-LF60d6XmzEA9ID3IG1u2l_iiJlzdY2izwnVpb76vTKWRomSHxDKo_5mG2QjLvssP95n1h7jFvur5M0lBzdR7YJvcNNw/s400/hitchcock_psycho%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPWIR0OhWd0n1J7Sn1nqk1yQXh9XhUbqUliu6zVg0XT7rhpSGSIhKa20G0VjRfFMWwKYkU5yPunCHLy20fAwFkUkXGFucl154_bUQUKlDveECx4KeU4VGYdclroUmFdhsM67aOBbP3biLA/s1600/bride_of_frankenstein%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525103183771988450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPWIR0OhWd0n1J7Sn1nqk1yQXh9XhUbqUliu6zVg0XT7rhpSGSIhKa20G0VjRfFMWwKYkU5yPunCHLy20fAwFkUkXGFucl154_bUQUKlDveECx4KeU4VGYdclroUmFdhsM67aOBbP3biLA/s400/bride_of_frankenstein%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmyqkVCKpUahqWvHK0cMphymAb4f0uCVT7YhJR7rc9xPdL6qlwW8Hlc8hfMAK7a3iPzi1uPzSM-khht0rm2PmnY566eesEUqznHs8E2K3HGar6uUo0m-YfiWuLfxqurGPMIgXZ-QN7n32/s1600/main+horror+image+1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 298px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525084388209801906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmyqkVCKpUahqWvHK0cMphymAb4f0uCVT7YhJR7rc9xPdL6qlwW8Hlc8hfMAK7a3iPzi1uPzSM-khht0rm2PmnY566eesEUqznHs8E2K3HGar6uUo0m-YfiWuLfxqurGPMIgXZ-QN7n32/s400/main+horror+image+1.jpg" /></a><br /><div>The Horror film represents our wildest nightmares in film form: the genre covers the darkest shadows of paranoia, vivid fears that are unfounded and founded, outright hilarity, gruesome fantasies, and off-the-wall what-ifs. </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnB5zBju5JMSFc8KwDsYiCiHOJ82fbIftTkQ3TvK3FWsf-gzfJjaUgxwaVxJVGUZ6Jb2QGyh29lNomFGzXOF8rXd3Uu-h0gHgGDrKEH_-nVChH_UMHJtmEC3tYFOeWmgCLr4dD9Ncvr61/s1600/rosemarys%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 178px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 212px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525084801257887442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnB5zBju5JMSFc8KwDsYiCiHOJ82fbIftTkQ3TvK3FWsf-gzfJjaUgxwaVxJVGUZ6Jb2QGyh29lNomFGzXOF8rXd3Uu-h0gHgGDrKEH_-nVChH_UMHJtmEC3tYFOeWmgCLr4dD9Ncvr61/s400/rosemarys%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a> </div><div>Generally, we live our lives with the expectation that one day, we will meet our death.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwl1R7cJ5M-aPkM20bg8rBdNXDlt3-YLgqwwlRcMop8H-U5UZKmObnNAPqhbpttumw9RITNaqL0uoBnp2lJAX4cFST0-JvbqVGYLzzp-XboMZinCvsDc8KY7kaK-Dys04OumF89NYGxO9R/s1600/he-who-gets-slapped%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 217px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525092673249034322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwl1R7cJ5M-aPkM20bg8rBdNXDlt3-YLgqwwlRcMop8H-U5UZKmObnNAPqhbpttumw9RITNaqL0uoBnp2lJAX4cFST0-JvbqVGYLzzp-XboMZinCvsDc8KY7kaK-Dys04OumF89NYGxO9R/s400/he-who-gets-slapped%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br />It is the only thing certain, as you can actually evade taxes. But regardless of there being something on the other side of this life, our death and final moments can, to varying degrees, occupy our thoughts throughout our lives from the moment we realize that death is unavoidable: Will I be one of those that gets hit by a bus? Or worse yet, will I die at work, my drained-of-life head weighting down a non-sensical series of letters and numbers, endlessly repeating. Will I drop dead in a supermarket whilst holding melons like Uncle Pete?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOGJQcjeBiv1UINBnCrqlXtARLCbCXSQ_fGXVXKLxCL12nhBt9_jR9e-k1FcdCBvSA80PS8D4yNzy-jGeudZWPx0Aq4DYrekIn2Z7wK1Vt2_WL_lHM-_BqMkYEydzvcWkg96uZuNd46Y6n/s1600/Old_Man_At_The_Marketplace_191107%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 292px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525095746273922642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOGJQcjeBiv1UINBnCrqlXtARLCbCXSQ_fGXVXKLxCL12nhBt9_jR9e-k1FcdCBvSA80PS8D4yNzy-jGeudZWPx0Aq4DYrekIn2Z7wK1Vt2_WL_lHM-_BqMkYEydzvcWkg96uZuNd46Y6n/s400/Old_Man_At_The_Marketplace_191107%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Or, as we all sincerely wish, will it be a nice peaceful departure asleep at a ripe old age before we are drooling and mindless, crapping our pants and yelling at the cat.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqHxhKSeSFW_xXH8Ed9WZQ_S1U_oV1Z3P5wwEZBaCM8NQg2TsliczXfjNakWW_OJ_hPfy9ub-jxVx6Ve8JsKX3sX5TyJgf9qMRRLmIQPw0H5FDn-CO1VelD5OG4akr6FMXWxDUAfmGgJG/s1600/zombie-cat%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525085546134999234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqHxhKSeSFW_xXH8Ed9WZQ_S1U_oV1Z3P5wwEZBaCM8NQg2TsliczXfjNakWW_OJ_hPfy9ub-jxVx6Ve8JsKX3sX5TyJgf9qMRRLmIQPw0H5FDn-CO1VelD5OG4akr6FMXWxDUAfmGgJG/s400/zombie-cat%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Horror films take this precious jar of curiosity, uncertainty, and fear, and smashes it into a million glittering pieces, poking and relentlessly fingering at that small nerve as if to say, yes, the end will find you, but could you have ever imagined this type of ending? Did you ever think it could be THIS BAD?</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDl1BaGJhp81onZwx3SdNAFbNgrfWOlPnzmdXr2j7p3uQ1cQb2cJ0OvAl1WS5TkNWzACzF9Q9W0GljFE6rJTRp8Q6AdZLMwVBCJtHGnCoYq_1lmhxX8qYrMM7zTgSU081TdqfBCoDufsP/s1600/HalloweenMichaelMyersCarpenter.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 330px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 337px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525086363992207906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDl1BaGJhp81onZwx3SdNAFbNgrfWOlPnzmdXr2j7p3uQ1cQb2cJ0OvAl1WS5TkNWzACzF9Q9W0GljFE6rJTRp8Q6AdZLMwVBCJtHGnCoYq_1lmhxX8qYrMM7zTgSU081TdqfBCoDufsP/s400/HalloweenMichaelMyersCarpenter.jpg" /></a><br />Or could the end have ever been imagined as this badly hilarious, as in, you've always known that one day, yes, you would die...but like this?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcdNhfWFetFRb130d4Tp74y2hBP2sB0fjA85PEwnPMeg7WRQFADH2uC8OZgzMZLE-ehsGMatwpDsvtQb4JYqrdPjijjj5BUey8fLGYJkEuI68uep9TtnLv4zCDux5ce_MrT-BR7YDo3wJ/s1600/fiend-without-a-face-1958%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 281px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 192px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525086789388013714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcdNhfWFetFRb130d4Tp74y2hBP2sB0fjA85PEwnPMeg7WRQFADH2uC8OZgzMZLE-ehsGMatwpDsvtQb4JYqrdPjijjj5BUey8fLGYJkEuI68uep9TtnLv4zCDux5ce_MrT-BR7YDo3wJ/s400/fiend-without-a-face-1958%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><div>These fantasies give us a thrill that can range from raucous laughter to creeping nightmares that never leave us... Or simple lessons such as: Don't Go Upstairs When Chased, Moron! </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBtU6-znKEAHoACTvOlDfXYNL9us655yMD6dsjgXDrAVZMivQ5VtXMybqL0DtdphRWT1GJ1IFI26MhdnKcFzrTGwq0MfYiwv2VMUthsDRrJWrV7kLn4Icyazqz4vb6F4gWFgmIWEmLttzW/s1600/1controversial-gal-texas-chainsaw-massacre%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525088103267395714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBtU6-znKEAHoACTvOlDfXYNL9us655yMD6dsjgXDrAVZMivQ5VtXMybqL0DtdphRWT1GJ1IFI26MhdnKcFzrTGwq0MfYiwv2VMUthsDRrJWrV7kLn4Icyazqz4vb6F4gWFgmIWEmLttzW/s400/1controversial-gal-texas-chainsaw-massacre%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div>We have asked over 40 artists to pay homage to Horror films and celebrate this awesome and unique genre. The films and characters chosen range from the iconic to the more obscure.</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3iBt3prfdoMVOcI5pGou1_2xrV9pSIFcq47AHU7p-b4k5pdgsNPvGXW3pGcB29PeJJvcr3jLVI3UxfpDrnnJ4ApAVUmztSbHMIO2swuT_Vxa2iprO43IHyqB9X3jAd5x6ZFYYAGI2uJV/s1600/exorcist%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 247px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 359px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525099908873483922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3iBt3prfdoMVOcI5pGou1_2xrV9pSIFcq47AHU7p-b4k5pdgsNPvGXW3pGcB29PeJJvcr3jLVI3UxfpDrnnJ4ApAVUmztSbHMIO2swuT_Vxa2iprO43IHyqB9X3jAd5x6ZFYYAGI2uJV/s400/exorcist%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49UKFmcmQFAXUiKTdlo6RLcFwSKpi3Ri_z8zaQ7Yqx2qyMyTAWyOph9197Bu8K62y33bUQ9Vihjjkv6F3URS-eqBQgiEMWlTf3lwV_bkfy31xnCVIFx45P3mr-SSNwx5ZNqYLe05ttDJi/s1600/sleepawaycamp.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525101823280649266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49UKFmcmQFAXUiKTdlo6RLcFwSKpi3Ri_z8zaQ7Yqx2qyMyTAWyOph9197Bu8K62y33bUQ9Vihjjkv6F3URS-eqBQgiEMWlTf3lwV_bkfy31xnCVIFx45P3mr-SSNwx5ZNqYLe05ttDJi/s400/sleepawaycamp.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtW5ucRy2A7euV49vcv9dWStoGwUaH4Cfpuszps8rfN6AbDpxRS8bHERe6hZfcfjUOXj0lgJbfO9tGbWOdH19Vka1EciNQLSbajVPPP7tKSpFsba5OPA03m4F-VoZukQnhnT9nAhP-wiYC/s1600/Freaks%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 328px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525101761634779442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtW5ucRy2A7euV49vcv9dWStoGwUaH4Cfpuszps8rfN6AbDpxRS8bHERe6hZfcfjUOXj0lgJbfO9tGbWOdH19Vka1EciNQLSbajVPPP7tKSpFsba5OPA03m4F-VoZukQnhnT9nAhP-wiYC/s400/Freaks%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br />In a way, tales of Horror serve to affirm our living moments, to take joy in our breathing and to maybe illuminate that it really ain't that bad. Or to illuminate that maybe it is that bad and to be more aware. That maybe it's not such a good idea to walk alone on a dark street or run up the stairs during a home invasion. Or take into account the reprecussions of your money-making star attraction getting out of hand.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMzh8gTXctUACDZfZxbVFKWZfLa3eqqCCVXvNGoP9AZNWcckSulYuuhGhwoFaEJvFMriyR_2QcW5eALzGuEK7l7y-N3uzW5nflceSxXrejfX702CP7V5TUzUJBeTzUF-ILjRwhq1-8c2EI/s1600/kingkong1%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 340px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 253px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525101655162677026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMzh8gTXctUACDZfZxbVFKWZfLa3eqqCCVXvNGoP9AZNWcckSulYuuhGhwoFaEJvFMriyR_2QcW5eALzGuEK7l7y-N3uzW5nflceSxXrejfX702CP7V5TUzUJBeTzUF-ILjRwhq1-8c2EI/s400/kingkong1%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><div>The images of Horror film stills and characters represent the homages being paid by over 40 artists at WWA gallery on Friday, October 15th, 2010 in Culver City, California. <br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div> To see images of the artwork, go to wwagallery.com after October 16, 2010, or, to sign up to receive a preview to the show, email <a href="mailto:Preview@wwagallery.com">Preview@wwagallery.com</a> </div><br /><br /> All images are copyright the respective owners. No uncles or hairless cats were harmed in the making of this.<br /><br />-Rob FaucetteIndustrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-60997480577615041412010-09-01T14:55:00.000-07:002010-09-01T16:50:30.994-07:00A Pie in the Hand<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDh1w5FT0fj3DEtMz5bb5Jq2hK52pra8TzeDf8rk48CbQcglhZ9WicTPmIuaZqWGjsjDFoZKQKuKzB4Y9sLYEtziOLnSTzNR6KCNuGHX-QtmO76XKzyGBo9U4zxqRaA0_I9o15tfON4isT/s1600/buster-keaton-pie-throwing1%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 309px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512074157192688818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDh1w5FT0fj3DEtMz5bb5Jq2hK52pra8TzeDf8rk48CbQcglhZ9WicTPmIuaZqWGjsjDFoZKQKuKzB4Y9sLYEtziOLnSTzNR6KCNuGHX-QtmO76XKzyGBo9U4zxqRaA0_I9o15tfON4isT/s400/buster-keaton-pie-throwing1%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i></i><br /><i>Buster Keaton, armed with pies.</i><br /><br />You will eat, bye and bye,<br />In that glorious land above the sky;<br />Work and pray, live on hay,<br />You'll get pie in the sky when you die.<br />-Joe Hill, 1911<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HDIHo4A1PZrCt5ezviTuqVn6emQOIHw83Ql5VpBHrhYVOt1EYn-m8zAXDLuqeHu2FOabg-oeI8A2cGJ4R2HBj1lf7d2L5O9ymd_vjCX0LwR41a1myhtjvLrnfkR-7OF8Bx22MEkeTTji/s1600/Mindy+Behind+the+Scenes.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073882935443954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HDIHo4A1PZrCt5ezviTuqVn6emQOIHw83Ql5VpBHrhYVOt1EYn-m8zAXDLuqeHu2FOabg-oeI8A2cGJ4R2HBj1lf7d2L5O9ymd_vjCX0LwR41a1myhtjvLrnfkR-7OF8Bx22MEkeTTji/s400/Mindy+Behind+the+Scenes.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For their first solo show together in nearly 3 years, the Artist Sisters (aka Miss Mindy and CJ Metzger) are running free and wild with the Pie in the Sky concept. As a highlight of this show, they have made, with the help of their friends, family, and anyone else who wanted to ride along for the fun, an old-timey black-and-white frolic of a film to be premiered the night of the opening aptly titled: A Pie for a Pie!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisiYeHgyAQVvWvwujaES7G5BetdEMN5u64ovPJxBig-7nUZT8VKnNYSDsfDUBlsfWYea_6-jVwIUcy6N6PL_Lhb02ETdgiLlqie8PPmcO1LrWyA35Z6aHBZ0EMbBVODj6NXf_oe2ZPhK9k/s1600/mm+and+cj.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073728145298978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisiYeHgyAQVvWvwujaES7G5BetdEMN5u64ovPJxBig-7nUZT8VKnNYSDsfDUBlsfWYea_6-jVwIUcy6N6PL_Lhb02ETdgiLlqie8PPmcO1LrWyA35Z6aHBZ0EMbBVODj6NXf_oe2ZPhK9k/s400/mm+and+cj.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In keeping good step with the concept of Pie in the Sky, the Artist Sisters have thrown off the heavy cloak of words like ‘Work’ and ‘Project’ and ‘Serious’. So they will not be showing a Body of Work. They will be showing Fun, Frolic, Mirthful Creativity, and, of course, Pies. Because of this, there is a light-hearted humor that breathes fresh air into the displayed objects, painted with frivolity, but not frivolous. By their accounts, caution was thrown to the wind. Hearts were followed. Pies were tossed into the air. Because of this, we can have our Pie now.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1PhTDjw5vjfPKGqVinYRxi4RNQNIsfyUrjItF05tLzvOddz4A8D0YZvR_DdtMq9INwP-UM02Yvrd3VSupRnIcC-XlnGkOltBNUmW5zZqiP9k1G0md5wZ0fC8jmD0PQ_Wf0YE82_UKbF4q/s1600/BenTurpinBeachGals%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 237px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073564175430978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1PhTDjw5vjfPKGqVinYRxi4RNQNIsfyUrjItF05tLzvOddz4A8D0YZvR_DdtMq9INwP-UM02Yvrd3VSupRnIcC-XlnGkOltBNUmW5zZqiP9k1G0md5wZ0fC8jmD0PQ_Wf0YE82_UKbF4q/s400/BenTurpinBeachGals%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In 1909, Ben Turpin was hit in the face by a pie in the film Mr. Flip. He rather deserved it as he trundled from establishment to establishment, tickling and goosing all the girls on the neck or cheek, looking for some affection, taking it where he could. He hit on the telephone operator, the girl behind the bar, the manicurist, and the lady barber, all to be done in by a prop from their specific trade (he gets shocked, sprayed with seltzer, sits on a pair of scissors, and thoroughly brushed with shaving cream, respectively.) In the last scene, undaunted, he tried his hand on the girl at the lunch counter and swiftly received a pie in the face. One of the classic and gold standard of all sight gags was born as this is said to be the first film to capture this gag. See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcJaN9n3W6Q<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOFUYGUkR67fptvtkucCFPkRqQ1Q-UQUVxtd78xvW_CFVTdkAFa8meQv8Wt2zYqzfnj8hRqNIxd0gzUa-mH5pfloplGBsjig17MMxYs9Se4I9QotUSKcilYIW7tZkIyiyhFHsJsXcqoDJ/s1600/nick_swisher_pie.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073448245294466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOFUYGUkR67fptvtkucCFPkRqQ1Q-UQUVxtd78xvW_CFVTdkAFa8meQv8Wt2zYqzfnj8hRqNIxd0gzUa-mH5pfloplGBsjig17MMxYs9Se4I9QotUSKcilYIW7tZkIyiyhFHsJsXcqoDJ/s400/nick_swisher_pie.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Nick Swisher from the New York Yankees having just been pied by teammate AJ Burnett, a sweet ‘reward’ for a job well done. A Pie in the Face, or Pieing, has permeated culture from running gags in sports like baseball, to politics, and even charity pie throwing.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAg6LFnEUaHDbZHSKy6U8sVNDvzznJwmVYfxVGlG-TxlwRqtxxBJiYHGELKo8VCBlUZ5YBMEDWJsGFvLyWkZ5fPoyomFxR1yEiDPsYD-skqsKRHiTpmS5YUfQpAEaIzr6mKmMJU8GWOJL/s1600/PieintheSky%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 346px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 396px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073289569482050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAg6LFnEUaHDbZHSKy6U8sVNDvzznJwmVYfxVGlG-TxlwRqtxxBJiYHGELKo8VCBlUZ5YBMEDWJsGFvLyWkZ5fPoyomFxR1yEiDPsYD-skqsKRHiTpmS5YUfQpAEaIzr6mKmMJU8GWOJL/s400/PieintheSky%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It was a labor activist by the name of Joe Hill who first penned the phrase “Pie in the Sky” as a parody of the Salvation Army Hymn “In the Sweet By and By” in which we are asked to suffer in this world for the trusted hope that there will be something better, and sweeter, in the next:<br /><br /><em>Workingmen of all countries, unite,<br />Side by side we for freedom will fight;<br />When the world and its wealth we have gained<br />To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:<br /><br />You will eat, bye and bye,<br />In that glorious land above the sky;<br />Work and pray, live on hay,<br />You'll get pie in the sky when you die.</em><br /><br />Joe Hill was Swedish-born and immigrated to the US after the turn of the century. As a migrant laborer, he quickly became a labor activist and travelled extensively throughout the U.S. Unfortunately for him, he got shot in the wrong town at the wrong time in Utah in 1915. There was a murder of a local storekeeper by two men, one of whom was shot. On the same said night, Hill himself had been shot on the other side of town. He was having discreet relations with an unmarried lady. There was an argument in which Foreplay to turned to Gunplay and Hill was shot in the arm. To protect her reputation, he never gave his alibi and remained silent. He was quickly sentenced to death by firing squad on November 19, 1915.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hO-9ix5OUdgx42nrBsjCu1thxI0goEjx4_5ojx3f56lVFBXNqQFYOhXE-AD0_TY251xX00CBDjeHSwuqnlbOK1XRAUvvoeTQpO0Z-Vo57eYZTZn86vj7x47eJUxevJATUGmLJAlGZxye/s1600/hill_joe1%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 265px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512073115965296018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hO-9ix5OUdgx42nrBsjCu1thxI0goEjx4_5ojx3f56lVFBXNqQFYOhXE-AD0_TY251xX00CBDjeHSwuqnlbOK1XRAUvvoeTQpO0Z-Vo57eYZTZn86vj7x47eJUxevJATUGmLJAlGZxye/s400/hill_joe1%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />He wrote to his friend Bill Hayward: “Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize... Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don't want to be found dead in Utah."<br /><p></p><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7F0sqHGRsL1Ku1OG97_isfkCAGiwBeueehaF39H9j08Jmj-7Gg9YhfoIGCtH5oZJQob5hTKg7IRMnEjMfE5qrGlv2Kb6cKZvEAX8MhFTbQLA1BTw9o9IMqgfSIHf5GJeacIRUtUMPzy-P/s1600/hill_joe_deathportrait.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 285px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512072976558256626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7F0sqHGRsL1Ku1OG97_isfkCAGiwBeueehaF39H9j08Jmj-7Gg9YhfoIGCtH5oZJQob5hTKg7IRMnEjMfE5qrGlv2Kb6cKZvEAX8MhFTbQLA1BTw9o9IMqgfSIHf5GJeacIRUtUMPzy-P/s400/hill_joe_deathportrait.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />As he stood before the Firing Squad, his last word(s) was said to have been “FIRE!”<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHGfQybyVyWLAKDS0xqIWPFPDkoJIe6_9XokDFsIGpNfrMTZhnNq8DPXc1jwG9EuQV6Y5YelFI13l1qbI_nVsOopDp-bI44-DocqSKN6qSEUCktEWtUP8L2_OC3sDfV619XGqW8cyRR2S/s1600/pie%2520in%2520your%2520face%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 175px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 228px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512072811961427026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHGfQybyVyWLAKDS0xqIWPFPDkoJIe6_9XokDFsIGpNfrMTZhnNq8DPXc1jwG9EuQV6Y5YelFI13l1qbI_nVsOopDp-bI44-DocqSKN6qSEUCktEWtUP8L2_OC3sDfV619XGqW8cyRR2S/s400/pie%2520in%2520your%2520face%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Depending on who you ask, the first custard-pie-in-the-face on screen occurred in the comedy A Noise From the Deep (1913), in which Mabel Normand, playing a farm girl, throws a pie into the Pie-hole of the ever funny and rotund farmhand Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxLcPh-9C4n2ccKu0xuJjAJGhngPmWOST95FwO8mF7oiBRxIiwvnNnuRmIQkN75pDTPP_od3vlLqKhwsWD62jq_UfpOZidlgGib8ZC0A_o4S34aVPgKkcBScA12ZqlX0fFAdvuNPWV6uS-/s1600/mabelnormandportrait%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 286px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512072560879725314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxLcPh-9C4n2ccKu0xuJjAJGhngPmWOST95FwO8mF7oiBRxIiwvnNnuRmIQkN75pDTPP_od3vlLqKhwsWD62jq_UfpOZidlgGib8ZC0A_o4S34aVPgKkcBScA12ZqlX0fFAdvuNPWV6uS-/s400/mabelnormandportrait%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Mabel Normand</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWib4LThQiy9lW9GcDpHctldoeJX-NqStY5bsVmt6vH08EcIJv7-IFB9CX32L-v-uAF2GYzvGirywfvyDIdoY4l2wNOyBdOE5YGqcMGIQ527KnEQSZ-Ds4ljEfGealH4AmYakF9tdYw_P3/s1600/arbuckle-fatty-mabel-normand%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512072196089246610" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWib4LThQiy9lW9GcDpHctldoeJX-NqStY5bsVmt6vH08EcIJv7-IFB9CX32L-v-uAF2GYzvGirywfvyDIdoY4l2wNOyBdOE5YGqcMGIQ527KnEQSZ-Ds4ljEfGealH4AmYakF9tdYw_P3/s400/arbuckle-fatty-mabel-normand%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Mabel Normand feeds Fatty Arbuckle</em><br /><br /><br />In the days of early cinema (and later cinema, really) it did not behoove the female actor to play the clown, as they were wanted and needed to play the pretty girl or the vixen. Tell that to Mae West or Lucille Ball or to the Artist Sisters for that matter. These women did and do what they want with grace and humor because now is the time to Laugh. We want our Pie in our hands and on our faces, not in floating in the Sky.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIp15098O12NWTnUpgrbAH9ymsJBvZ7axkJBfJNGBzuGT_OBwJWc393I4WdOdN2iYKWWKfpjN9cOI2mi8rWIwBk24l3RVo1S5K-106J9hdUQzdfA1hqxnylFlKGSTk7-xX1kaPe5cU-qs/s1600/behindthescenespie.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 340px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071974505177074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIp15098O12NWTnUpgrbAH9ymsJBvZ7axkJBfJNGBzuGT_OBwJWc393I4WdOdN2iYKWWKfpjN9cOI2mi8rWIwBk24l3RVo1S5K-106J9hdUQzdfA1hqxnylFlKGSTk7-xX1kaPe5cU-qs/s400/behindthescenespie.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Behind-the-scenes from a Pie for a Pie</em><br /><br /><br /><br />Pie in the Sky, as a now popularized phrase, expresses the sentiment that an idea is just too lofty, too dreamy, won’t happen. It’s out of reach. We as people just need to toil away in the hopes that when our lives have come to an end, we get our reward. In a word, dessert after life. The Artist Sisters’ twist on this is that we can have our Pie right now, it’s there for the taking. Joy, mirth, delight, laughter: these are all things to strive for and to have now, not tomorrow, not at the end. Thinking that our reward and happiness is a thing to be had in some other life (later, not now, Heaven, not Earth) negates our living and breathing and laughing and making the world we inhabit now the Place we expect later. We each are responsible for our own destinies, to make our inner-worlds exist on the outside, to turn thoughts and dreams into reality. Today exists, tomorrow is a fantasy. You can grab the Pie from the Sky here in this world, and you can make any Pie you want. You can throw it around. Eat it if you want. Just make sure it’s not made with shaving cream…<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymq7WJRf6ExOWxC6AERSb9-cNQoyQLW9MpyzRxrDGUplfdD5rJ60uyyz5_6717G4l7yj35Yr0Z8N_0ePqzz-kLzTvI9J6vnOLB-SR4BY_JmM3rY5z9-Z6sZ22FTjl2626dVH74GnnaQRh/s1600/blazing-saddles%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 120px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071759213974546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymq7WJRf6ExOWxC6AERSb9-cNQoyQLW9MpyzRxrDGUplfdD5rJ60uyyz5_6717G4l7yj35Yr0Z8N_0ePqzz-kLzTvI9J6vnOLB-SR4BY_JmM3rY5z9-Z6sZ22FTjl2626dVH74GnnaQRh/s400/blazing-saddles%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Blazing Saddles</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7cFpQlx2oWsRY3L5x-HcFLLW9bpnzLYrrH1ux0pz6wUxy8Orv-FTKfFv2tPMYsHVid7jfZkMxuLTmqmHN5L0DGahrr1ANJg10FNfcD-EH0iV_GwAjMqMrlLT8icU8vj3EZuG2mg8OWCr/s1600/nataliewoodpie.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071660891763346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_7cFpQlx2oWsRY3L5x-HcFLLW9bpnzLYrrH1ux0pz6wUxy8Orv-FTKfFv2tPMYsHVid7jfZkMxuLTmqmHN5L0DGahrr1ANJg10FNfcD-EH0iV_GwAjMqMrlLT8icU8vj3EZuG2mg8OWCr/s400/nataliewoodpie.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>The Great Race with Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis</em><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFZI5RTiPvOViR1OMV21Dh9QLogHgGEvGp1d09shNZeUedyBUI0Pz4qTCTRgKgDhDchkE631u3stmZvyAUKxkFL-UOgeShiUJGMEH84OA8pDy-1t6_MX-9SfeCCdYIAfOWa_1eH2RHO4lo/s1600/battle_of_the_century.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071479337433314" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFZI5RTiPvOViR1OMV21Dh9QLogHgGEvGp1d09shNZeUedyBUI0Pz4qTCTRgKgDhDchkE631u3stmZvyAUKxkFL-UOgeShiUJGMEH84OA8pDy-1t6_MX-9SfeCCdYIAfOWa_1eH2RHO4lo/s400/battle_of_the_century.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Laurel and Hardy - Battle of the Century</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SQXAIevFRtmPHob1MTBID2HKdsCMN4KeAtJNDnjVCuR6fnji2Vf0C_kzsWwPuJnPr8kQdQYxvmcG4O4n2NewOXWaoC1hj1T6iAhqQ6_6zbIKBOm2ot8AwxkThbxHJurQ5XgUrO-wMR7e/s1600/dr_strangepie%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512071081815140626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4SQXAIevFRtmPHob1MTBID2HKdsCMN4KeAtJNDnjVCuR6fnji2Vf0C_kzsWwPuJnPr8kQdQYxvmcG4O4n2NewOXWaoC1hj1T6iAhqQ6_6zbIKBOm2ot8AwxkThbxHJurQ5XgUrO-wMR7e/s400/dr_strangepie%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The final scene that was filmed yet cut from the end of Dr. Strangelove, in which everyone in the war room engaged in a pie fight. Apparently, Kubrick cut the scene due to the fact that everyone looked to be having too much fun and it ultimately didn't fit the tone of the film.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOQs30W1WBRbAVwxgbkst5isREjfgMpg7Fxd7gNRGWPdJEluFlXYpIZTUCAdaowyFeG4Z6Zc_ZvYNzdsqy9p_AoaJO_Z8wj-Wjq1P4uTFq67LDB6XS5o5Ai_9opLpvw-tiJWaXlNS03FEe/s1600/erickson_tn%5B1%5D.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 220px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512070904605451490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOQs30W1WBRbAVwxgbkst5isREjfgMpg7Fxd7gNRGWPdJEluFlXYpIZTUCAdaowyFeG4Z6Zc_ZvYNzdsqy9p_AoaJO_Z8wj-Wjq1P4uTFq67LDB6XS5o5Ai_9opLpvw-tiJWaXlNS03FEe/s400/erickson_tn%5B1%5D.gif" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>You will Eat, bye and bye<br />Whipped cream delights, my oh my<br />Just you sit right on down, and it’s off with your frown<br />We’ll eat Pie from the Sky, you and I<br /></em>-Rob Faucette, 2010<br /><br />Join the Artist Sisters at WWA gallery for their opening of Pie in the Sky on Friday, September 10th and their world premiere of A Pie for a Pie from 7- 10 pm.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-63970841703845240942010-07-15T17:21:00.000-07:002010-11-12T11:34:19.285-08:00Takin' It Back<div align="left">The Art of Tommii Lim </div><div align="left">by Stephanie Chefas<br /><br /></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtTqfNQnQ81FYjJnm-ayDvWDIsBwUc61OOTRGftM5Ih9GC9RB8K8JcMECzR8AsB2FOH6hWtlXrx_wSJbKQdofM9d_rrduCqa6Hy9Ftgrwn692AuOBm7d6OzMufHCR7GQI5nsOuBHfpDkvC/s1600/LAroof-268.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494536243674861474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtTqfNQnQ81FYjJnm-ayDvWDIsBwUc61OOTRGftM5Ih9GC9RB8K8JcMECzR8AsB2FOH6hWtlXrx_wSJbKQdofM9d_rrduCqa6Hy9Ftgrwn692AuOBm7d6OzMufHCR7GQI5nsOuBHfpDkvC/s400/LAroof-268.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Tommii on a LA rooftop<br /></span><br /><br />Make no mistake about it, Tommii Lim knows how to party like an art star. Creating art by day, DJ'ing at night, and going on adventures in between, Tommii is living life to the fullest. Drawing upon his experiences and finding inspiration from daily interactions with you and me, Tommii captures today's society in graphic abstract patterns and employs his unique style to highlight the complexities of our technologically driven world.</p><p>As one of the participating artists in Industrial Squid's upcoming group show <em>Off the Strip</em> at <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/">WWA gallery</a>, I wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about Tommii and what makes him 'tick'.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): When hearing about the theme for Off the Strip, what was your initial reaction?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br />Tommii Lim (TL): Vegas and bacon.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwFqN-2yr2G4hBvkSKVjO7i0wvHWSo8amceVfEdtjRZqBZ_tlTRPRxiGdGpWWqrerXtU8P31lxwj7iofcRLeMFVrEmbM_K27xENMcTOz2Tzz4zgSYpeLKaxhYnoU9RZe5VbiEZcUwR0O7v/s1600/busride2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537223136226850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwFqN-2yr2G4hBvkSKVjO7i0wvHWSo8amceVfEdtjRZqBZ_tlTRPRxiGdGpWWqrerXtU8P31lxwj7iofcRLeMFVrEmbM_K27xENMcTOz2Tzz4zgSYpeLKaxhYnoU9RZe5VbiEZcUwR0O7v/s400/busride2.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Bus Ride</em> by Tommii Lim</span><br /><br /><strong>SC: Which comic strip character do you relate to and love the most?<br /></strong><br /><br />TL: Don't have a specific character but i think i can relate most to villains and antagonist characters. They always try to question authority and cause ruckuses but always get foiled by the 'hero'. In reality, good and bad is not as clear cut as is in fictional worlds so i guess those characters make me wonder who the true villains and heroes are in real life and which side I'm on.<br /><br /></p><p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVoFr4I37P-WXBx3mVQCDgl_rmNY3KONFM3G66E9NlidUwiTkdEvbvjMh-L-TTs2a0MKSQBS8xZspho88wstzBSGl6S2YygZNANKAHxgf7Mlkl2Klq6pcrkyIq39JZhRtM2Ayb22Xva6o/s1600/tommii-lim_LOL_72.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 397px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494550999782060850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioVoFr4I37P-WXBx3mVQCDgl_rmNY3KONFM3G66E9NlidUwiTkdEvbvjMh-L-TTs2a0MKSQBS8xZspho88wstzBSGl6S2YygZNANKAHxgf7Mlkl2Klq6pcrkyIq39JZhRtM2Ayb22Xva6o/s400/tommii-lim_LOL_72.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>LOL</em> by Tommii Lim<br /></span><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>SC: What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong>TL: I've been a DJ for the last 10 years and have had gigs ranging from the Porn industry to Playboy parties, that's all i will say...<br /><br /><strong>SC: Did you get caught?<br /></strong><br />TL:Yes<br /><br /><strong>SC: Would you do it again?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong>TL: Yessss<br /><br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2rq3GMqrBEPXk0usnZhIq9zWR7AG_HF7ctGZIhj4IpVidD7kbVHRcpxCYrX3_MYb_f2AUtxZ5bVH79i8Ob7KTOr1zLfb0YVGZaTwmAZBXnnacdM3eS-U77MJOALGdDBLd7XFur7qwpst/s1600/playboy.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494536720288034738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2rq3GMqrBEPXk0usnZhIq9zWR7AG_HF7ctGZIhj4IpVidD7kbVHRcpxCYrX3_MYb_f2AUtxZ5bVH79i8Ob7KTOr1zLfb0YVGZaTwmAZBXnnacdM3eS-U77MJOALGdDBLd7XFur7qwpst/s400/playboy.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Partying like an art star!</span><br /><br /><strong>SC: What was the inspiration when creating your piece for the show, Hobbes Ride (Takin' It Back)?</strong><br /><br /><br />TL: As a kid, I grew up every Sunday morning eating fresh doughnuts and getting the Sunday comics from my dad. Calvin and Hobbes was one of my favorites. The perfect friend was the one he would go on adventures with. For me, my piece is about that moment in your childhood that goes by in a blink of an eye and becomes a flickering thought in the back of your memories. The piece is made like a random frame in a comic, forever frozen in time, as a reminder of the past.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyBSVXcWvjp66ZNJWp1vPCx8v2z4_2jm-_2ZZF_Dj1HJ3nfSjeYoTvfFsNtrqphBT-Dnm2KAlzn7WWTzA9SNBeAq3nddlab7zwgVD82djS-d-Pyu9Q6fFZFyQMylOOKhcguN-yA0dlCYRv/s1600/takinitback.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 273px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494553429201359042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyBSVXcWvjp66ZNJWp1vPCx8v2z4_2jm-_2ZZF_Dj1HJ3nfSjeYoTvfFsNtrqphBT-Dnm2KAlzn7WWTzA9SNBeAq3nddlab7zwgVD82djS-d-Pyu9Q6fFZFyQMylOOKhcguN-yA0dlCYRv/s400/takinitback.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Hobbes' Ride (Takin' It Back)</em> by Tommii Lim<br /><strong></strong></span><br /><br /><strong>SC: The majority of your art in 2010 are powerfully strong graphic black & white images and a departure from the vibrant color palette that you're known for using. Is there anything specific inspiring this change?</strong><br /><br /><br />TL: Not sure exactly what triggered the change, but i guess I'm going back to basics. My early work started off very monochromatic and then i started noticing everything around me was very wild with color and vibrant, so i intensified the colors to portray that. I've always wanted to reflect my world and thoughts in my paintings and that was what i was feeling at the time. I moved to downtown L.A. earlier this year, in the middle of all the buildings and smog and i think that has effected my color palette and work in many ways. I also came across some old Asian comic books, which are all in black and white and that has had a big influence in my art. I am not departing from color but feel like a limited palette is strong for me right now. I have always been drawn to simple graphic work. My work has evolved into more simpler graphic imagery and i can imagine it will keep simplifying and changing.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRuStyuvB6dwlBYVyUBUkFnOdos0rHx9qTibJm83amZL99AFBsCGofRk_calvsgb-2PGDBAmkdzSw6rIwNg_dSPSS6X2CAjoxKMhqft6BWySSga24f9xnfjyRA4a170MbGcqDyR6Wk62m/s1600/phat-ride.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537230461514130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRuStyuvB6dwlBYVyUBUkFnOdos0rHx9qTibJm83amZL99AFBsCGofRk_calvsgb-2PGDBAmkdzSw6rIwNg_dSPSS6X2CAjoxKMhqft6BWySSga24f9xnfjyRA4a170MbGcqDyR6Wk62m/s400/phat-ride.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Phat Ride</em> by Tommii Lim</span><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><strong>SC: Where do you find inspiration and influence on a daily basis?<br /></strong><br /><br />TL: From you, from him, from her, everywhere. Things i see on the streets, conversations i have or overhear, the shit the media feeds us on tv and internet, pop culture, music, riding bikes, the demons in my head.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuIUjAPcrtZO5IT716lNfmHMjfFmn5BqF57A5n10VXXXVUGrv0VsU6S0GC8MufQ_e4NYJj1AIreUaXe1qOWUIbiAPXXL6U-mzTrT5q1rQVmNYQr-OdYkXGXYozUN1r4Ygrc5Dj1tudlTse/s1600/tommii_hurley_workingmural_.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537970029013410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuIUjAPcrtZO5IT716lNfmHMjfFmn5BqF57A5n10VXXXVUGrv0VsU6S0GC8MufQ_e4NYJj1AIreUaXe1qOWUIbiAPXXL6U-mzTrT5q1rQVmNYQr-OdYkXGXYozUN1r4Ygrc5Dj1tudlTse/s400/tommii_hurley_workingmural_.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Tommii working on a Hurley Mural<br /><strong></strong></span><br /><br /><strong>SC: As an artist, what message do you carry?<br /></strong><br /><br />TL: I used to make social and political art but now my work acts more of a diary than anything. I try to keep my paintings as ambiguous as i can. Each piece is a frozen moment in time from some part of my world. They have messages, but that's between the viewer and the piece.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7-p1UlTUS4t0RbyPFacOZXilZ-YffcT_ILb8SYFJFxQ-AaHRiL3ikDB3_4Jl51tIXebBtIj3D8fEOnsXHUdAuYzUzVIZLwpA0Bar2iszRG9N2vl5c_fyqBr6YoKw8mM4fRP9Xji1XO-7/s1600/tommii-lim_2015.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537977312374338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7-p1UlTUS4t0RbyPFacOZXilZ-YffcT_ILb8SYFJFxQ-AaHRiL3ikDB3_4Jl51tIXebBtIj3D8fEOnsXHUdAuYzUzVIZLwpA0Bar2iszRG9N2vl5c_fyqBr6YoKw8mM4fRP9Xji1XO-7/s400/tommii-lim_2015.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>SC: What do you think of the current climate of the art scene?</strong><br /></p><br />TL: Cloudy with a chance of....naw, i don't know. i don't go out to too many art shows or read too many magazines. I try to keep it fresh so i try to stay away from the 'art scene'. In the age of the internet, it is 'virtually' impossible to be original but there is dope home grown art out there and of course, a lot of xerox art.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQ3GPYFSQYsTCTtgs65xHDm_-LkCHip6vXGgsfmV0nEGbSAxg1iqVBIRZaJ5f_uXTR7Zbg01IXGiYXaexGA_1z5cT9yqqy8yzSw33vREHDFRIx8StNQG35I_kdXwx42F2xp4zoIIgqY23/s1600/tommii-llim_livevil_03.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537983796492722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQ3GPYFSQYsTCTtgs65xHDm_-LkCHip6vXGgsfmV0nEGbSAxg1iqVBIRZaJ5f_uXTR7Zbg01IXGiYXaexGA_1z5cT9yqqy8yzSw33vREHDFRIx8StNQG35I_kdXwx42F2xp4zoIIgqY23/s400/tommii-llim_livevil_03.jpg" /></a> </p><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Livevil</em> by Tommii Lim<br /></span><br /><br /><p><strong>SC: Where do you see the art scene going in 10 years?</strong><br /><br /></p><p>TL: Not sure, but ill be on my hover board watching you suckas!<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Which contemporary artists do you most admire and/or are inspired by?</strong> </p><p>TL: Artists i meet and/or collaborate with, artists who are true to themselves and artists that do it for the love of it. Also get inspiration from gimmicky cheese balls out there that make a fortune portraying an artist, these people inspire me to keep it real.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: If I were to spend the day with Tommii, what could I expect?</strong><br /><br />TL: Depends on what day of the week. On a really good summer day, we would make some art and /or music at my studio in downtown, take pictures of people from my patio, get some coffee, eat dollar tacos, smoke some of God's greens, go for a bike ride to the beach, take a dip then a nap, get some Korean food in Korea Town, ride back to downtown, get some $2.50 beers, if I'm DJing somewhere, go there, dance, drink, smoke, eat and be merry.<br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBT4pA3r3d7A5IcDw5p1ttQay4QVcIQA4vMNtAQVY27fN8n2iffCbDva91By3l1WD18x7RCyinboqUUzyOxnE-akQnapJtvEaaBmuxzG9g3m-XEBE22Bwx9DhsrC2SBxnVR2VuQNg2rlR/s1600/100102_rage_xmas-013.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537217557143778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBT4pA3r3d7A5IcDw5p1ttQay4QVcIQA4vMNtAQVY27fN8n2iffCbDva91By3l1WD18x7RCyinboqUUzyOxnE-akQnapJtvEaaBmuxzG9g3m-XEBE22Bwx9DhsrC2SBxnVR2VuQNg2rlR/s400/100102_rage_xmas-013.jpg" /></a><br /><strong>SC: What's the one thing you can't live without?</strong><br /><br />TL: It's a tie. Music and women.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: The one thing you can't live with?</strong><br /><br />TL: Another tie. Black Licorice and dog piss.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: What are you creating at the moment?</strong><br /><br />TL: I started a series involving my surroundings that will connect to create a mega landscape, pretty excited to make it. I am also doing some commercial work with some major surf, skate, snow board and urban brands. I'm always making music on a daily basis as well.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: What's on the horizon for Tommii?</strong><br /><br />TL: New friends, more traveling, making art and just living! I will also be working with a legendary art consultant for some upcoming projects including some big museum exhibtions (that's all i can say for now). I will also be making an art book with my paintings and design work as well as creating art under a new alias in the not to distant future (check my site for details later). I also started Djing and playing keyboard with guitarist Dave Burch under the name 'Legal Aliens' mixing live funk with electronic music, we will be playing more gigs soon. Check out my site www.uglyfresh.com for updates in my world, thank you and peace out!<br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRKTtRFaxLPcEqvExEB31V-OL35NouQeCZNANmFM0xnZqGmL1c5WkWLw_Mj7eFAAOIILwUdDBAWcyMnUcVSE-J9HLAYBv2CCduJ5R5oEyI7_KcJPjcqx7URcUgpnv1XJD2JVLqb7EiA6q/s1600/book.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494537213169468946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRKTtRFaxLPcEqvExEB31V-OL35NouQeCZNANmFM0xnZqGmL1c5WkWLw_Mj7eFAAOIILwUdDBAWcyMnUcVSE-J9HLAYBv2CCduJ5R5oEyI7_KcJPjcqx7URcUgpnv1XJD2JVLqb7EiA6q/s400/book.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Thanks Tommii! </div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">To learn more about Tommii and his art, visit </span><a href="http://www.uglyfresh.com//"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.uglyfresh.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /><p></p></span><br /><br /><br /><p align="left"><br /></p>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-12606252257589729962010-07-15T11:08:00.000-07:002010-07-15T11:49:54.078-07:00Nate Van Dyke goes Off the StripWhat it is Squidlovers,<br /><br />So we got this here <a href="http://wwagallery.com/upcoming.html">Off the Strip</a> show set to blow the roof off the mother tomorrow, from 7-10pm at the <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/index.html">WWA gallery</a>, and if you aren't familiar with the concept let me spin it for you right quick. Basically we love comic strips, and really comics of any kind, so we asked several of our favorite artists to do their own interpretations of classic comic strip characters. The twist you ask? We requested that they take the characters out of their norm and throw them into deplorable, despicable and down right reprehensible situations. I know, sick nasty is what you're thinking.<br /><br />Anywhos, one of the artists that we asked to dip his dirty pen into the show was Nate Van Dyke, and as per-usual, the man did not disappoint. He brought it with a particularly salacious take on one Hobbes the tiger from Calvin and Hobbes, which after Krazy Kat is my personal favorite strip. You'll get to see it below, but I warn you this ain't no kids show. Once I saw his piece I knew immediately I had to interview him and Mr. Van Dyke was kind enough to oblige. Get ready for all sorts of nonsense. Boom.<br /><br /><br />DR: Where were you at about 9 pm last night and can anyone corroborate your whereabouts?<br /><br />NVD: I was at home watching Independence Day, drinking beer and drawing some shit I didn’t want to draw. Just ask Will Smith. He’ll back it all up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_hZc4ZFitBh4eLsqkhOB6JaEy3f6uNQ51pIPpGgS_hROtL0ddctGQnR-jkkbRccjpGr4RW4E_K0w2Wppio9YSEhNQ304_Y5SRByRvil9_cGvTboWU249CMh1MfcZQgjHxRDm25KeMFvW/s1600/the_beast_in_me.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_hZc4ZFitBh4eLsqkhOB6JaEy3f6uNQ51pIPpGgS_hROtL0ddctGQnR-jkkbRccjpGr4RW4E_K0w2Wppio9YSEhNQ304_Y5SRByRvil9_cGvTboWU249CMh1MfcZQgjHxRDm25KeMFvW/s320/the_beast_in_me.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494203078358444626" border="0" /></a>DR: While you create many things, you’ve made quite a name for yourself with your illustrations of anthropomorphic chimps. So how did you get into the monkey business and do you take your monkey business seriously?<br /><br />NVD: Getting into all of this chimp shit was random. I had done a dozen or so large pieces for a solo show I had about 10 years ago. One of the pieces happened to be this pissed off chimp and everyone loved it. I could have sold that piece 8 times over. Oddly enough it was the only piece in that show which sold. There was a lot of buzz around it so I decided to explore it more. Fast forward a bunch of years and a lot of beers and here I am. Known as the guy who draws the pissed off chimp. I guess it all worked out. And, no, I don’t take my shit that seriously at all.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryCnsyCm-hqD38a51a1x3uXBxgypODftTSfMaH09_eNn2EYqgFBCla2FH5eyCDvDhjYrgneTynnMxtsF_OhaYwSCBivmlBWMeFeuvU16q7lBtAFUPcO9xL7HyVRNbf11Ie3EjxZED5i5w/s1600/hamburger_hill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryCnsyCm-hqD38a51a1x3uXBxgypODftTSfMaH09_eNn2EYqgFBCla2FH5eyCDvDhjYrgneTynnMxtsF_OhaYwSCBivmlBWMeFeuvU16q7lBtAFUPcO9xL7HyVRNbf11Ie3EjxZED5i5w/s320/hamburger_hill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494203069243081810" border="0" /></a>DR: I love your contribution to Off the Strip, as I am a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes and for some reason it reminds me of my babysitter as a child. Some, however, might call your piece a bit salacious. How important do you think it is to shock you audience from time to time? Do you find it is becoming harder and harder to shock people now a days?<br /><br />NVD: I don’t really set out to shock people like I may have when I was younger. I’ve learned that you have to draw whatever it may be. Be it a cartoon character about to eat fur burger or a vase of flowers. I’ve learned that you can’t please everyone. As long as I enjoy doing it and get a good piece out of it I’m happy. I actually look at that piece and laugh. I just think it’s funny. I think it’s gotten harder to shock people because there are a lot of people who try and do simply that. I just draw what comes to my mind and thins was one that came to mind when I saw that specific shot of Hobbes in one of the books.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5grLjCxLKskLOZTnx1z0kstoYQVF-0E49gCNZ2uCuxl1uYYMj2fOzYoq87eqvoSS-IHIGkzMrdn6ZFWJeKITa2wrhRofl11bUHiUPSuVZ5HS-6P3P0-cTWeZ5hriVzIk1IZJ7NbLArKg/s1600/natevandykehappinessisawarmpussy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5grLjCxLKskLOZTnx1z0kstoYQVF-0E49gCNZ2uCuxl1uYYMj2fOzYoq87eqvoSS-IHIGkzMrdn6ZFWJeKITa2wrhRofl11bUHiUPSuVZ5HS-6P3P0-cTWeZ5hriVzIk1IZJ7NbLArKg/s320/natevandykehappinessisawarmpussy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494204047493574594" border="0" /></a>DR: So you are illustrating the new Jurassic Park comic. Considering the history of the franchise that seems like quite the honor. Has it been a challenge? Do you think you could take a T-rex, you know, if it were either you or him?<br /><br />NVD: Drawing Jurassic Park has been an interesting ride. I’m supposed to be working on it right now. Shhhh! I was quite honored when Bob Schreck contacted me to do it. He kept begging me to take it on and I finally gave in and accepted. It’s cool to be a small part of the franchise. The odd thing about doing comics is you end up having to draw a ton of shit you don’t want to draw in order to tell the story.<br /><br />I already know I can kick the shit out of a Rex. One night I was getting hammered at home and I drunkenly fell over and completely wrecked this T-Rex splash page. So, yeah… that bitched armed Rex didn’t stand a chance around me.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ARCr6pG1DlFOjdqxCttG6RfZUItyGD1V1yBBGOSaHiYYDMJfvLDtdusQFA2IjkfoC-8pwlWG6IMbS8W6LIU5sGm-l_3xG2QgNwDCutRR_JVohSVL2p3kZZZEbISUhxPey_zZK3FPA2_M/s1600/JP%232_pg_09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ARCr6pG1DlFOjdqxCttG6RfZUItyGD1V1yBBGOSaHiYYDMJfvLDtdusQFA2IjkfoC-8pwlWG6IMbS8W6LIU5sGm-l_3xG2QgNwDCutRR_JVohSVL2p3kZZZEbISUhxPey_zZK3FPA2_M/s320/JP%232_pg_09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494203087023847122" border="0" /></a><br />DR: If you could hang out with one character from the comic pages who would it be and what would you guys do? (If it’s Blondie be careful what you say. Word on the street is Dagwood is nasty jealous and ain’t afraid to cut a bitch.)<br /><br />NVD: I’d say Calvin but as smart as that kid is it gets a little creepy being that guy who wants to hang with 6 year-old boys. I’d have to say Daphne from the old Scooby Doo cartoons. I had a crush on her when I didn’t even know what you would do with a woman. Also, I could stomp the shit out of Fred if he gave me any beef and that dyke, Velma, doesn’t seem to pose too much of a jealous threat.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-8l4dzFoAYVNBf01MSxfW14R1vgQRaLPeKYAtezejwY-ZM1Mf4pWnnsWMKpFFrX4d2tTOhRUw7sFFIeZlj5U2w4xS22VtpyP19n37WUYryfb0RyHgFRoFxRTY4I-Y235Vs3_brcd-MHj/s1600/Gargamel_Laughs_Last.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-8l4dzFoAYVNBf01MSxfW14R1vgQRaLPeKYAtezejwY-ZM1Mf4pWnnsWMKpFFrX4d2tTOhRUw7sFFIeZlj5U2w4xS22VtpyP19n37WUYryfb0RyHgFRoFxRTY4I-Y235Vs3_brcd-MHj/s320/Gargamel_Laughs_Last.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494203062974634850" border="0" /></a>DR: Have you ever stolen anything and was it worth the disappointed look in your mother’s eyes? After all she did raise you better than that.<br /><br />NVD: I remember being a kid at the drug store and they had these toy Hot Wheel cars on display at the register. I started stuffing them into my overalls without a thought in plain sight. I think my mom was pretty embarrassed. I totally thought I had come up with a golden plan.<br /><br />DR: What inspires you to keep creating, you know, besides the large room of money that you swim in?<br /><br />NVD: Uncle Scrooge has nothing on my money bin. When not doing the breast stroke through the benjamin’s I’m plotting my next shitty piece of art. I think the only thing that keeps me going at times is having deadlines. A lot of the time when I am drawing it’s not because I want to but rather because someone is waiting on me for pieces. I’ve got a lot of ideas I am looking forward to exploring after I finish this damn comic book.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggAf1p4kepJWuag4Nq9TYpabIH0Jbnf9O-XzxIwSHAPYvtegfB0v53bDZM1cJe21B0uxo9BYH_YaM_qE0QLx2zh-N9Vbv-NIGPlom67eA2YhwhHAvTkD_IZoF2O6NHh4PKlEE0AOnZycEp/s1600/headache_in_bloom.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggAf1p4kepJWuag4Nq9TYpabIH0Jbnf9O-XzxIwSHAPYvtegfB0v53bDZM1cJe21B0uxo9BYH_YaM_qE0QLx2zh-N9Vbv-NIGPlom67eA2YhwhHAvTkD_IZoF2O6NHh4PKlEE0AOnZycEp/s320/headache_in_bloom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494203077002841746" border="0" /></a><br /><br />DR: Do you have any advice for the kids out there that dream of one day being illustrators and look up to Nate van Dyke as an inspiration? And please feel free to include as much profanity as you feel the answer necessitates.<br /><br />NVD: Don’t do it. Art will rot your brain. Become a doctor. If they still wanna draw cool shit I strongly suggest they try and find their own voice. Don’t copy James Jean, we already have one of those. Get your own voice heard. It’s cool to be inspired by people but make it your own. Don’t go to art school, either. All they care about is your money. If you are good enough to make a living making pretty pictures school is not necessary. I never went to art school and my shit came out ok. The first thing you need to do is get a website with your name in it. Nobody wants to look at your Flickr or MySpace. A website is the most important thing and artist can have. Start fucking someone who can build you a site if you need to. Works for me.<br /><br />I'd like to thank Nate for taking the time. If you'd like more info on him check this out <a href="http://www.n8vandyke.com/">http://www.n8vandyke.com/</a>. If you'd like a preview of Off the Strip click <a href="mailto:preview@wwagallery.com?subject=Off%20the%20Strip%20Preview">this</a>.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-2265539892303985712010-06-16T14:05:00.001-07:002010-06-16T15:00:58.556-07:00Alison Blickle in Unicorn Wonderland<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">by Radford</span><br /><br />Hello Peoples,<br /><br /></span></span></span><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Georgia; panose-1:2 4 5 2 5 4 5 2 3 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p>When we here at Industrial Squid were looking for artists to participate in our all things happy, funstravaganza <span style="font-style: italic;">I Believe in Unicorns<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>, the art of Alison Blickle caught our eye immediately. That was primarily due to that fact that it simply exudes awesomeness, but also because just by looking at her paintings we could tell that Alison had the kind of vivid imagination and yearning for adventure that we wanted the show to be about. So we asked her to join us in our quest for merriment and joy and she graciously provided us with the portrait below, which kicks all kinds of booty, and thus unicorn history was made. Anyways, I asked her a bunch of stuff and she told me a bunch of stuff and that is all neatly displayed below for your perusal. Enjoy bitches.<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYPv9nqq-rJIrZwOtAql01mBuUCyDGyNAJbfQN3er2D679rU5_Qb0Q94kmVYvzahiyUJL3R4v37H6xXve-Zm68jdrOFm0sEIdOpuaB9Lz8r-pd6WVRH4KpPO12YPXX1qkMht0_KFejeel/s1600/american_sunset.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYPv9nqq-rJIrZwOtAql01mBuUCyDGyNAJbfQN3er2D679rU5_Qb0Q94kmVYvzahiyUJL3R4v37H6xXve-Zm68jdrOFm0sEIdOpuaB9Lz8r-pd6WVRH4KpPO12YPXX1qkMht0_KFejeel/s320/american_sunset.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483491213723200738" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: So its Alison Blickle is it?</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>Yep.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: Dude, Blickle is a stellar last name. What is its origin? Awesometownlandian?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>Thanks, man. "Awesometownlandian" is one word for it, another is "German".<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_0JR6TLCjuGjjlpqSOyMWmnS9vAVu-vE_GmknlTwCsiUaYpj160TSWAkVeziz10BUh3yjL9rz5RkN8w6g0yh9fetOBHOJFDIfMVqRWTWGzBMs9QANH-1T4b6FGrVUk0gKLhzUsSfmnb0/s1600/alison_with_painting.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH_0JR6TLCjuGjjlpqSOyMWmnS9vAVu-vE_GmknlTwCsiUaYpj160TSWAkVeziz10BUh3yjL9rz5RkN8w6g0yh9fetOBHOJFDIfMVqRWTWGzBMs9QANH-1T4b6FGrVUk0gKLhzUsSfmnb0/s320/alison_with_painting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483491220686009314" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR:<span style=""> </span>At what age did you first think “Hey, sure the art world is a harsh, unforgiving place that can be extremely fickle and turbulent, but I totes wanna be part of that.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>I heard that.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">I try to keep a positive attitude about art, and just enjoy working in the studio, make paintings that I like, and have amazing friends who support each other through the ups and downs. The rest is just the business side of things. You have to deal with it, but you can't let it get you down. Which is easier said than done sometimes.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: <span style=""> </span>So… say I don’t really get art, which, I mean, isn’t true. Like, I totally get art, like a lot. You know? But for hypothetical’s sake let’s say I don’t, what would you say you are trying to convey through your work? And let me just say I totally already know, this is just for the readers…who….don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>It's about wishing for unattainable experiences and connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1UBjbMFMoc3YUlOvhss9QvzkSitI0rfi1bOF_L9axKg62hUHBO5EYeupyYzIZ8aacCW6Zg_WWQDtFtZuJXsS3vYed101CcQnv1CJLXo3NIKRVWc4KpVoHwY585mnXQQrKR_hAtDb_k85Z/s1600/wish_you_were_here.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1UBjbMFMoc3YUlOvhss9QvzkSitI0rfi1bOF_L9axKg62hUHBO5EYeupyYzIZ8aacCW6Zg_WWQDtFtZuJXsS3vYed101CcQnv1CJLXo3NIKRVWc4KpVoHwY585mnXQQrKR_hAtDb_k85Z/s320/wish_you_were_here.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483491787887301602" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: So, Unicorns, what say you?<br /><br />AB: I'm strongly in favor of unicorns.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: What’s your favorite song….wait you didn’t let me finish….what is your favorite song…to plot revenge to? Did you really think I was just going to ask you what your favorite song is? Oh man, come on, what kind of lame, vanilla, mickey mouse interviewer do you think I am?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB: I don't generally plot or plan my revenges, I like to take a more spontaneous approach. J/k, I'm not into revenge. Let it go and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtxh2TrqLDr60XCCAoS6UGlQORZgILGOfL8H8BNxhUvDjgFYBOLhbC-rhH7RdAxeoSPD6Z5q57CrFoTB7_OhJYKULEOCVqmZWzXE6KD-LdEnDeLDF6jzKvKnQZ7d-L2hulrMJZPJ-NX5I/s1600/hiking.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtxh2TrqLDr60XCCAoS6UGlQORZgILGOfL8H8BNxhUvDjgFYBOLhbC-rhH7RdAxeoSPD6Z5q57CrFoTB7_OhJYKULEOCVqmZWzXE6KD-LdEnDeLDF6jzKvKnQZ7d-L2hulrMJZPJ-NX5I/s320/hiking.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483491778391136274" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: <span style=""> </span>You know, now after talking about it so much, I am kind of curious.. So what is your favorite song, you know, in general?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>It's <i>Echoes</i> by Pink Floyd.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><br /></p><p>DR: <span style="font-family:Georgia;">Could you take your whole general philosophy on life, encompassing the whole breadth of your experience thus far, and distill it into one single sentence. And if you could make it super inspiring to the people reading that would really help me out, cause then you know they’d probably talk about it with other people, and then those people become interested so they’d start reading the blog, and so on, and so on.</span> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>It really depends on what kind of mood I'm in.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLVHNggWz0YhnpVbCdoo8aeSOaJol3fYq_7lmwEvLuz5OcvVlaomlL33UE9fNUsJBpyfnoJh3v1bTtClkzA-QUhLZrkjNPAc4uh7rwgKbDz97qGeVIQD_-b0fixdbjBn_uifH9gh_I5WM/s1600/camping.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLVHNggWz0YhnpVbCdoo8aeSOaJol3fYq_7lmwEvLuz5OcvVlaomlL33UE9fNUsJBpyfnoJh3v1bTtClkzA-QUhLZrkjNPAc4uh7rwgKbDz97qGeVIQD_-b0fixdbjBn_uifH9gh_I5WM/s320/camping.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483491775650773874" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: <span style=""> </span>Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>I'll take Fortune, thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijK4gUnEqiVF0QdWo_ZbSK0Z2DKNbY3dHIuCLDAaOgx7wZ5WuS7gS_J85aEZ4DOwvKoeuFELD1AaAfRm0fgwAheGTFt5VP0eIPE41R6jg-Z_zjg1AcGJVMu3tgkwAGnG2xbpvpFUGYgE16/s1600/wheel-of-fortune.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijK4gUnEqiVF0QdWo_ZbSK0Z2DKNbY3dHIuCLDAaOgx7wZ5WuS7gS_J85aEZ4DOwvKoeuFELD1AaAfRm0fgwAheGTFt5VP0eIPE41R6jg-Z_zjg1AcGJVMu3tgkwAGnG2xbpvpFUGYgE16/s320/wheel-of-fortune.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483493615472465250" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: Price is Right it is. So you went to school in both SF and NY, so as far as East Coast/West coast, what it is lady? Whose side you on?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>Oh man, that is a tough call. As far a cities go, nothing beats <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>. More art, more awesome. But nature-wise, I have to go with <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>. Death Valley, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, <st1:place st="on">Big Sur</st1:place>, redwoods, I mean come on. It's almost too good to be true.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Also lower anxiety levels out west I have to say.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYec37yXxjSq1UmdLKQkCJ4ozV9H81BH806N7aAoigni7iY3MWEPPAHDJ2Ntkz8_5d1AONd4QUjdKEiuQmKKEtg5fvV6G1AcXVFV9PiXyYphqgsUEet1HLzO9GQtIiDP9Hmy8Y1K_Jm5U0/s1600/California.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYec37yXxjSq1UmdLKQkCJ4ozV9H81BH806N7aAoigni7iY3MWEPPAHDJ2Ntkz8_5d1AONd4QUjdKEiuQmKKEtg5fvV6G1AcXVFV9PiXyYphqgsUEet1HLzO9GQtIiDP9Hmy8Y1K_Jm5U0/s320/California.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483493963590805618" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: So what are you up to? No not like with your career, like literally right now. What are you doing, besides filling this out, because I know you aren’t giving me your full attention…no one ever does. *sigh*<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>I <i>am</i> giving you my full attention! Dang.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: Did you have a good time? (If you didn't could you just say you did? I'm dealing with some low self esteem issues right now, which you could probably guess from the last question.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">AB:<span style=""> </span>I did.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia;">DR: Oh, I almost forgot, one last thing, this is really important. So do you know how to plug the hole that is gushing tons of oil into the <st1:place st="on">Gulf of Mexico</st1:place> because I don't know, it seems like a problem?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> AB:<span style=""> </span>I don't know but the oil covered animals are breaking my heart. Humans have got to stop being so rude. <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br />Thanx so much to Alison for being Awesometownlandian. Check out her piece and the rest of the art for I Believe in Unicorns <a href="http://wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/unicorns/ibelieveinunicornsartshow.html">here</a>. And to learn more about Alison and her work go <a href="http://www.alisonblickle.net/">here</a>.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-19328361977374371522010-06-14T12:51:00.001-07:002010-06-14T14:01:22.821-07:00I Believe in Unicorns Because I Have Photographic Evidence<div style="text-align: center;">Question: Who wants to see photos from our Magical Unicorn Photo Wonderland?<br />Answer: Every-fricken-body!<br /><br />Here are a few of our favorites and you can check out the rest here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=18636&id=100000426735242&ref=pb">Magical Unicorn Photo Wonderland</a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWBAiuWpoG7j81Zx1Ygt0bkchSxb_7gv98141_xVMG9gsiPiCwkiODitzbra7ZU6oiCdTFU0tFby8YgnTBCMm3hnIUCAizYY6wrdORKgi6KLxNBaWi_-8mHuJfRd8SAv_EYJ-aCfZmfl-/s1600/DSC_0060.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWBAiuWpoG7j81Zx1Ygt0bkchSxb_7gv98141_xVMG9gsiPiCwkiODitzbra7ZU6oiCdTFU0tFby8YgnTBCMm3hnIUCAizYY6wrdORKgi6KLxNBaWi_-8mHuJfRd8SAv_EYJ-aCfZmfl-/s320/DSC_0060.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482730095967929010" border="0" /></a>Unicorn (being a jerk like usual)<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5Cb6eMcnFuDkX-KFzn_-55qJpdQwLL-9YOXVN7OzNkIYbKtvKPu7j94ICooiw4GqPhTAIrMgCzrgvI91GcDXxciA4rPUGpJPAB2xpmlLP52laoRd0O3ZL-xTyiuQ26tRDdcIZm87ReFR/s1600/DSC_0204.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5Cb6eMcnFuDkX-KFzn_-55qJpdQwLL-9YOXVN7OzNkIYbKtvKPu7j94ICooiw4GqPhTAIrMgCzrgvI91GcDXxciA4rPUGpJPAB2xpmlLP52laoRd0O3ZL-xTyiuQ26tRDdcIZm87ReFR/s320/DSC_0204.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482732190363921650" border="0" /></a>Unicorn creepily appearing in Jim and Tina Darling's Prom Photo.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOe25-YnKtYDTz_bD_ILAesRcrTML6UeR06vACrnNaRyMzw72Ftdx7PIYOkOemY1V0v3eXQMfzMuEAOOUsWoftJAWR5y_DLsRIb6xhxrbHR4lcnB6nAFfUpm0zxNv7B4fVle0N1xoCoC7/s1600/DSC_0191.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOe25-YnKtYDTz_bD_ILAesRcrTML6UeR06vACrnNaRyMzw72Ftdx7PIYOkOemY1V0v3eXQMfzMuEAOOUsWoftJAWR5y_DLsRIb6xhxrbHR4lcnB6nAFfUpm0zxNv7B4fVle0N1xoCoC7/s320/DSC_0191.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482732170210411538" border="0" /></a>Dan Barry is not amused. Or is he? No seriously could<br />somebody let me know because I can't figure it out.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvLG21iF13_FfaC3LYq_i61DAb03U9RuxFi2FcofQTXLLvhgavMGIfL1KzFYA-2q3S0tbMcpyH_Aaku-qxJghrRxXeiBuHFcty8sHGFG7_IjNBCPhQlB7h9CKfwNJNI1lS3shE-73iwp4/s1600/DSC_0165.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvLG21iF13_FfaC3LYq_i61DAb03U9RuxFi2FcofQTXLLvhgavMGIfL1KzFYA-2q3S0tbMcpyH_Aaku-qxJghrRxXeiBuHFcty8sHGFG7_IjNBCPhQlB7h9CKfwNJNI1lS3shE-73iwp4/s320/DSC_0165.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482731138161904466" border="0" /></a>Unicorn gave Jesse Hotchkiss a lift home.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz97B0NVHov3D-hXiDYdpQPaG8miQsl7XDEmVgkIIznbOjj3e5cxSSsy47E1gAUwfzQ2nedi73eVJbEyOsEQDmVaPFEtzFArW5T720D8s0iN-XBQu_L6HmAkh3IbUM9Sx98y_REvQhBBsg/s1600/DSC_0206.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz97B0NVHov3D-hXiDYdpQPaG8miQsl7XDEmVgkIIznbOjj3e5cxSSsy47E1gAUwfzQ2nedi73eVJbEyOsEQDmVaPFEtzFArW5T720D8s0iN-XBQu_L6HmAkh3IbUM9Sx98y_REvQhBBsg/s320/DSC_0206.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482732211636436514" border="0" /></a>Unicorn striking a pose for Ana Bagayan.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1baAVmrSZEcnRVCC9Oo5Ufe2vj2WL2H0_fdm_rozt8vtDIojPg2kn1Uu5SqLizMw82epzPqlAp9wbW_5vldkERaaoVqDm_XAne7T9FVTqZAGvek9GOT69cDuvr5pqH4HAcn4ayxnO7C9J/s1600/DSC_0205.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1baAVmrSZEcnRVCC9Oo5Ufe2vj2WL2H0_fdm_rozt8vtDIojPg2kn1Uu5SqLizMw82epzPqlAp9wbW_5vldkERaaoVqDm_XAne7T9FVTqZAGvek9GOT69cDuvr5pqH4HAcn4ayxnO7C9J/s320/DSC_0205.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482732201172168242" border="0" /></a>Dee Chavez and Jeni Yang and the Unicorn<br />discussing the possibility of Glee being canceled.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7z_pnCJGAggLPANnYhikHMBAcBDsSZRCiMieMtfYOo0jj0u5QhEYCsVay66Sr8S4OAdUE3ptkQh2kz5qD7COsRp4aBx9wxbDjwcLJnGHLw9nXsqegmXeuMc7GCaq5idzBtWqeg6F3WvIO/s1600/DSC_0198.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7z_pnCJGAggLPANnYhikHMBAcBDsSZRCiMieMtfYOo0jj0u5QhEYCsVay66Sr8S4OAdUE3ptkQh2kz5qD7COsRp4aBx9wxbDjwcLJnGHLw9nXsqegmXeuMc7GCaq5idzBtWqeg6F3WvIO/s320/DSC_0198.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482732185333182178" border="0" /></a>Max Kaufmann just wanted to get a photo with a couple of his friends<br /> and Unicorn had to jump in the background. Stupid Jerk Unicorn.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftGnK_8drw4UZ4J-fzCJKf5XgcVJZIzmkR9_nl83OGyZD_s3sJgQxbNCqQ0Wi9tRXPdm50cDghz3rVbKNHyRTAJYmhX19rJDBUdn2JGfwCeLt8JftHaj-FWaEPayWSUtoPbxrh6CiDlpa/s1600/DSC_0185.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftGnK_8drw4UZ4J-fzCJKf5XgcVJZIzmkR9_nl83OGyZD_s3sJgQxbNCqQ0Wi9tRXPdm50cDghz3rVbKNHyRTAJYmhX19rJDBUdn2JGfwCeLt8JftHaj-FWaEPayWSUtoPbxrh6CiDlpa/s320/DSC_0185.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482731150099422226" border="0" /></a>Jessica Cooper and the softer side of Unicorn.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-ItMd4lyopJ3QDT65YwOGeeqB2wvtTHd5D7u_SHSNuf80Pn7sY8beI5IsKA5vTiuZ-1PQm0TKnxOPrjzQC-53_Z7t3lqie7cjr3v27BvYQ6o-LOnstlrQjc155yf7zjnhN9w-ylvWDwB/s1600/DSC_0117.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-ItMd4lyopJ3QDT65YwOGeeqB2wvtTHd5D7u_SHSNuf80Pn7sY8beI5IsKA5vTiuZ-1PQm0TKnxOPrjzQC-53_Z7t3lqie7cjr3v27BvYQ6o-LOnstlrQjc155yf7zjnhN9w-ylvWDwB/s320/DSC_0117.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482731123087697682" border="0" /></a>Emily Trent Dickens and Unicorn understand the definition of the word frolic.<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLowO6x-ZEYS2UoGuKmetcoBcm402A6F76sqfW7uZAdpTssS0lw-gdN217e6pQY8qRgVSgEvZCHuxXdJfOOwEf6DcoH_USAgPHI8ECPP0JfaWx0FyDu-I6XHGUFWMbVDzojg1tWcD1l8R/s1600/DSC_0163.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLowO6x-ZEYS2UoGuKmetcoBcm402A6F76sqfW7uZAdpTssS0lw-gdN217e6pQY8qRgVSgEvZCHuxXdJfOOwEf6DcoH_USAgPHI8ECPP0JfaWx0FyDu-I6XHGUFWMbVDzojg1tWcD1l8R/s320/DSC_0163.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482731126617243986" border="0" /></a>Unicorn and his Gang of Merry Artists.<br />(Don't let the Merry part fool you, they will cut you.)<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBwIm9w9kNGLtiqE93rqL6dJCZfRRg4YzEF2Ko665j2mRDqrmrSaA9gbL0jwopd57DszPMFeTcessaUiY2i_PXuVsSkAOon0IlvwddtRGGiZnKW6sikACRD-Qf92Ts5o0uJoupGMEIoeY/s1600/DSC_0112.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBwIm9w9kNGLtiqE93rqL6dJCZfRRg4YzEF2Ko665j2mRDqrmrSaA9gbL0jwopd57DszPMFeTcessaUiY2i_PXuVsSkAOon0IlvwddtRGGiZnKW6sikACRD-Qf92Ts5o0uJoupGMEIoeY/s320/DSC_0112.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482731112522537554" border="0" /></a>Dee Chavez and Unicorn begin an interpretive dance.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWl638Fn434KavkRjXIe_s2M8St11idshu9TB-BzsTKDCFkEVTevAR60J3UZ9XGkixY7ooe7Ik_5UZVfGdwQrVUFiuWpHYQzCCZ6qFKbPJ6ZX5g3rjn3CW7cmtHC1WDtO32Ag5WmrfuvI/s1600/DSC_0109.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWl638Fn434KavkRjXIe_s2M8St11idshu9TB-BzsTKDCFkEVTevAR60J3UZ9XGkixY7ooe7Ik_5UZVfGdwQrVUFiuWpHYQzCCZ6qFKbPJ6ZX5g3rjn3CW7cmtHC1WDtO32Ag5WmrfuvI/s320/DSC_0109.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482730117755152882" border="0" /></a>Tiffany Liu finds out if Unicorn hair is indeed made out of licorice.<br />(Warning: Do not try this at home. It is not made out of licorice<br />and Unicorns have a nasty habit of kicking)<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyju_E3wZuJI4cpm7a7jKoOG46aDfhQoXUlbxMb-ViqUBaLKVgp0mefME6AYAufnbbkygeOBSagdK5C2WClh7anwrvOY-jWyz2ZavYo6c8Tl1gSZviBWvEBmUHnreNi0bfzeYm3GDSBxe/s1600/DSC_0098.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyju_E3wZuJI4cpm7a7jKoOG46aDfhQoXUlbxMb-ViqUBaLKVgp0mefME6AYAufnbbkygeOBSagdK5C2WClh7anwrvOY-jWyz2ZavYo6c8Tl1gSZviBWvEBmUHnreNi0bfzeYm3GDSBxe/s320/DSC_0098.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482730111754464786" border="0" /></a>Unicorn knows how to get down.<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7y8MD8mw7eGJSsS0KwJbynkZFx0epBmZa_d7Z_lF1bMK0MyUxMFu7VoPLjsish5XtiUxoYz4F59V4IS-nzbcxs1EY1XerBS5XfjMXTQqrOi0DTHt9ZFP-lT1KhKGFuZnCexF6izRoduzw/s1600/DSC_0078.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7y8MD8mw7eGJSsS0KwJbynkZFx0epBmZa_d7Z_lF1bMK0MyUxMFu7VoPLjsish5XtiUxoYz4F59V4IS-nzbcxs1EY1XerBS5XfjMXTQqrOi0DTHt9ZFP-lT1KhKGFuZnCexF6izRoduzw/s320/DSC_0078.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482730107834678642" border="0" /></a>In the end, Unicorn is a lover at heart.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Now that you're done checking that out, check out the art from the show here:<br /> <a href="http://wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/unicorns/ibelieveinunicornsartshow.html">I Believe in Unicorns</a><br /></div>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-90077577428570583572010-06-07T13:45:00.000-07:002010-11-12T11:35:18.945-08:00Storybook MagicThe Art of Tiffany Liu<br />by Stephanie Chefas<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0xk-YJe7G3MfpiMStvfjTDsskfHeP9HtDXQufbDNyuaqe-z9-sW9uWhTH4_gQhzcGodfQSqmxAwQaMpnkh2Hg71AeNwjmZKy6_FBgJY545JFYeDmOW9At9L0orupDea5pKRwH8QZRXOt/s1600/The-Celebration-of-the-Money-Tree.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480898213788589762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0xk-YJe7G3MfpiMStvfjTDsskfHeP9HtDXQufbDNyuaqe-z9-sW9uWhTH4_gQhzcGodfQSqmxAwQaMpnkh2Hg71AeNwjmZKy6_FBgJY545JFYeDmOW9At9L0orupDea5pKRwH8QZRXOt/s400/The-Celebration-of-the-Money-Tree.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">The Celebration of the Money Tree</span></em><br /><br /><br /><br />Sugar and Spice and everything nice, that's what Tiffany Liu's art is made of. Or is it? As a self professed exemplar of the 'peter pan syndrome', Tiffany Liu instantly seduces with her vision of a lolipop world filled with candy colored hues, precocious nymphs, and enchanted forests. Look beyond the surface of her paintings and you'll soon realize there's deeper meaning delicately woven into the storybook magic. Tiffany weaves a fairytale tapestry where everything isn't quite as it seems and classic myths and fables are given a modern twist. Though child-like at first glance, her work is never childish, ensuring that there's a sense of balance and order in her worlds where the sweet wouldn't be as sweet without the sour.<br /><br />As one of the participating artists in Industrial Squid's upcoming group show <em>I Believe in</em> <em>Unicorns</em> at <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/">WWA gallery</a>, I wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about Tiffany and her artwork and what makes her 'tick'.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): When hearing about the theme for I Believe in Unicorns, what was your initial reaction?<br /></strong><br />Tiffany Liu (TL): My initial reaction was of great enthusiasm. Yes, a show about magic, right up my alley! At a time like this where the world is focused on so many unpleasant topics, its really refreshing to have the opportunity to escape reality for a little while.<br /><br /><strong>SC: Do you believe in unicorns?<br /><br /></strong>TL: I believe in what they stand for. I don't think I will see one walking down the street any time soon, but I see them when I dream.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorUUTr7ncmWYRQ5eD5Zdbi85gD-TzkI7rRLPUu34KF3OyP2faJL-h165LaTB1VeARVPdDlRM03UT9I0-gyOZcUykD57LiYmBtCwefqGIs_uKhxs3z2pxQSgDbnebCbhSa8OKYygoJfR35/s1600/The-Taming-of-Genetically-Altered-Magic.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480904914670122130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorUUTr7ncmWYRQ5eD5Zdbi85gD-TzkI7rRLPUu34KF3OyP2faJL-h165LaTB1VeARVPdDlRM03UT9I0-gyOZcUykD57LiYmBtCwefqGIs_uKhxs3z2pxQSgDbnebCbhSa8OKYygoJfR35/s400/The-Taming-of-Genetically-Altered-Magic.jpg" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>The Taming of Genetically Altered Magic<br /></em></span><br /><br /><strong>SC: Your paintings project a storybook quality with precocious child nymphs and adorable little forest creatures. Were there any children's books you read as a young girl that influenced your style?<br /></strong><br />TL: I am greatly influenced by Alice in Wonderland. I think the core idea of the story, rather than any specific scene was my biggest influence. For me, the idea was just that there was this girl that had a second life and a second chance to interpret her reality for whatever rules or lack of them there were. I have always been a big dreamer. Even before I knew of Alice and Wonderland my head was in the clouds day dreaming and night dreaming of places, stories and creatures I'd meet and have adventures with. So meeting Alice for the first time in story books was like meeting another me. As I progressed as an artist, I tried many things, but the one thing that stuck out, that really felt like me, was being able to create with the freedom that I have through the voice of a child. Children are probably some of the most imaginative beings on earth. I would be honored to look through any child's eyes and see what they see. It must be an amazing experience to be able to be the first to define what a thing is before the thing is given a name or definition by another.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1GuSAlzLbgzpzl8wsbjnXJWkVSta1EDPWmfRPqo1hJnAMvCUMKVwAmPsm0jYm7kwvBKzYJX30FjZtDnhca_wCJeJpJpj1qQ0XqUlSFl4SthfDUyIa-6MKRcz8YETGq2uYajES0cnfkNT/s1600/alice-in-wonderland1.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 333px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480908512926089810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY1GuSAlzLbgzpzl8wsbjnXJWkVSta1EDPWmfRPqo1hJnAMvCUMKVwAmPsm0jYm7kwvBKzYJX30FjZtDnhca_wCJeJpJpj1qQ0XqUlSFl4SthfDUyIa-6MKRcz8YETGq2uYajES0cnfkNT/s400/alice-in-wonderland1.jpg" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size:78%;">Lewis Carroll's <em>Alice in Wonderland<br /></em></span><br /><br /><strong>SC: Amidst the candy color palette and fairy tale landscapes danger is always near, whether it's an axe used to sever a head as with 'The Unicorn's New Head' or a ride with death as in 'You Can Take it with You'. Is this an homage to The Brother's Grimm- telling a moral that not everything is as it seems?<br /></strong><br />TL: I love Brother's Grimm stories and they probably have had an influence on me, but I don't think I'm necessarily trying to consciously pay homage to them in my work. Things aren't what they seem in my paintings not because I have a set of rules of what is right or wrong in the world, but more so that things just happen and sometimes they are "good" and sometimes they are "bad". I actually like the idea that there may not be a very good explanation for anything. Though childlike at times, my work is really a reflection of life and the questions and ideas that I have about it, which often draws parallels between the good and bad. I often use color to skew the viewers initial perception of the piece.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAX2ArIBR0hWe5IxYSVraJbSGzRQwsxjOZbowwvNGfog1jw8N29VkiM1yTtBxKuf1pHI83Xd5A8rayFXjWAAOhDRZ78Q71rWXD6h7v-L75NnRJmfXIH2iCmw1CSbF9b4tAPQg__gS25nSP/s1600/You-Can-Take-it-with-You.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480898245929211426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAX2ArIBR0hWe5IxYSVraJbSGzRQwsxjOZbowwvNGfog1jw8N29VkiM1yTtBxKuf1pHI83Xd5A8rayFXjWAAOhDRZ78Q71rWXD6h7v-L75NnRJmfXIH2iCmw1CSbF9b4tAPQg__gS25nSP/s400/You-Can-Take-it-with-You.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>You Can Take It With You</em><br /><br /></span><br /><strong>SC: What's the moral for 'The Unicorn's New Head'? Is there a moral or message at play?<br /><br /></strong>TL: The closest moral or message I have as an explanation is that no matter what happens to magic, it will always grow and flourish.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jwCRlI4Q-4afnDKJy3U49WAVxd7ZP8geYfjDk4vwDXQY8ZoozfzOr6F9UVtyox4WtZVRFLjo5I7FxQem5rIw78M9J_n_GYkqFIFUwGVElvIZimXK7rmgb_WSBfJujvPOHAlM2HPckL58/s1600/unicorns+new+head.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480898230036488642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jwCRlI4Q-4afnDKJy3U49WAVxd7ZP8geYfjDk4vwDXQY8ZoozfzOr6F9UVtyox4WtZVRFLjo5I7FxQem5rIw78M9J_n_GYkqFIFUwGVElvIZimXK7rmgb_WSBfJujvPOHAlM2HPckL58/s400/unicorns+new+head.jpg" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size:78%;">The Unicorn's New Head</span><br /><br /><strong>SC: For 'A Song for the Siren' there's a bit of a role reversal at play. According to Legend, Sirens or Mermaids used their majestic voices to lure in sailors to their untimely dooms. However, in your painting it seems a human female is engaging the seduciton, to a Merman no less. Does this scenario entail any of your personal beliefs on modern day gender roles?</strong><br /><br />TL: Yes, I like the idea of switched gender roles. In many legends of the past, women were often the objects of great tales and mystical mysteries. My explanation on that account would be that in the old days men were often the ones that were adventurers and also the ones that told the stories. Especially now that gender roles have changed, I see it only fit that legends would also follow that trend.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvS8OzdS5iJjwzSL5oVvrMf9c-I67OtcCgRLclR2vPADwdbhim4ZyDtffst_YvDzh1QY7OVF1gm-zrBCNo_zR34yeB5MwNwK2aVL0AkALUUAb9mHrSBu9vxtbgwjDnOJoRil_KFGZv0DjA/s1600/song+for+siren.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 390px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480898204141713922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvS8OzdS5iJjwzSL5oVvrMf9c-I67OtcCgRLclR2vPADwdbhim4ZyDtffst_YvDzh1QY7OVF1gm-zrBCNo_zR34yeB5MwNwK2aVL0AkALUUAb9mHrSBu9vxtbgwjDnOJoRil_KFGZv0DjA/s400/song+for+siren.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">A Song for the Siren<br /></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></em><strong>SC: In looking at your work, one can't help but notice the repeated use of ghosts or spirits that often emerge from or around trees. Chinese folklore call these supernatural beings Guǐ Shù and are believed to confuse travellers by appearing in random locations, especially in forests. Is this an homage to Chinese folklore or is this an invention unique to the world you've created?</strong><br /><br />TL: I actually didn't know that folklore! Thanks for letting me know! The ghosts in my paintings often don't know what they are doing in my paintings. They appear and reappear as an element that I feel is always around us as either a real ghost or just a memory of what once was.<br /><br /><strong>SC: Was anyone else in your family an artist and did they encourage your artistic talent?<br /></strong><br />TL: My mom and dad are artists. My mom studied at a reputable art college in Taiwan and my dad was self taught. When they came to America they opened art galleries and art schools in which I spent most of my life in. So their was no question of what I would be when I grew up. It was just a natural thing that happened. They encouraged me to be an artist, but they were also very critical of what kind of artist I was.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLkWHUbAmUsI3oGcT-GK4qUciHTmijLeqSlMLNvlCb-efFntTzw3qzapPjM1Aie_rxKoZDzJ4F7_biaiDQFbSLOvexAt5ad5X_O7m_6XH7sUiBdEpcE8jwNOwF3q9sZWMMzRYqLqcfF41/s1600/Sewing-My-Little-Pony_.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480898195947838946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLkWHUbAmUsI3oGcT-GK4qUciHTmijLeqSlMLNvlCb-efFntTzw3qzapPjM1Aie_rxKoZDzJ4F7_biaiDQFbSLOvexAt5ad5X_O7m_6XH7sUiBdEpcE8jwNOwF3q9sZWMMzRYqLqcfF41/s400/Sewing-My-Little-Pony_.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Sewing Up My Little Pony<br /><br /></span></em><strong></strong><br /><strong>SC: Which contemporary artists do you most admire and/or are inspired by?<br /></strong><br />TL: I am inspired by many many artists more so in their passion as artists than anything. I love the Clayton Brothers, Todd Schorr, James Jean, etc.. I can't really pick a contemporary that I love the most. One of my greatest influences in art was actually Rene Magritte. When I saw his work it really hit me! At the time I was thinking, wow here is an artist that makes art work that not only makes me remember the asthetic, but also the idea.<br /><br /><strong>SC: If I were to spend the day with Tiffany, what could I expect?</strong><br /><br />TL: Complete and utter randomness. You'd probably be confused a lot. I would probably talk your head off too.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What's the one thing you can't live without?</strong><br /><br />TL: Well thats a hard one to answer cause I am greedy as sin! I would have to say I would have a really hard time living without being able to be creative. It makes me happy and without it I feel empty. If I could name another it would be sugar, but thats for another interview.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUFBxEXlQ7vqdgMFHNOKZvkSQZ1lH0SXWNbgqdayI1DJ7YHBNuObPjGOnLaIxS91YsO77RFThhYMxr6jpw8BYLch4jUDqIPM9dCL7tOo5Balrv0cMGiezl1-5ZMzKZncdEpayc0flwL7L/s1600/satan+charity+drawing.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480904935689880738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUFBxEXlQ7vqdgMFHNOKZvkSQZ1lH0SXWNbgqdayI1DJ7YHBNuObPjGOnLaIxS91YsO77RFThhYMxr6jpw8BYLch4jUDqIPM9dCL7tOo5Balrv0cMGiezl1-5ZMzKZncdEpayc0flwL7L/s400/satan+charity+drawing.jpg" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size:78%;">Drawing for<em> 100 Artists See Satan Charity Auction</em></span><em><br /></em><br /><br /><strong>SC: The one thing you can't live with?<br /></strong><br />TL: I can't live in a world where I'm not allowed to think outloud.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What are you creating at the moment?<br /><br /></strong>TL: I have fallen in love again with drawing and sketching. I am currently working on a piece for an upcoming Group Show called Sweet Streets II.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What's on the horizon for Tiffany? </strong><br /><br />TL: Well, I do have a show in London in 2012 and an avalanche of other group shows. Also, I am working on ideas for a children's book I want to make. Followed by toys that I'd love to produce from the story.<br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtZWj8vF2if6fuHTFfo3PDhq_rT-dX5wcXKVze6FkbJk5AMItqrVeniZvAv0mg-bzZr8MLhhaFugQ-BvmFq4zmzROL3ZY3r58J67TsAi4JFe73ToRCU3HR-i84sEzAGOq7DJ3fqMuXwK3/s1600/Together-in-Heaven.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 346px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480904922950862610" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtZWj8vF2if6fuHTFfo3PDhq_rT-dX5wcXKVze6FkbJk5AMItqrVeniZvAv0mg-bzZr8MLhhaFugQ-BvmFq4zmzROL3ZY3r58J67TsAi4JFe73ToRCU3HR-i84sEzAGOq7DJ3fqMuXwK3/s400/Together-in-Heaven.jpg" /></a> </div><div><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Together in Heaven</span></em><br /><br /></div><br /><div>Thanks Tiffany! </div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">To learn more about Tiffany and her art, visit </span><a href="http://www.tiffanyliu.com//"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.tiffanyliu.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /><p></p></span>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-12683820980774748232010-06-01T19:11:00.000-07:002010-11-12T11:36:18.883-08:00Fantasically Surreal<strong>The Art of Tracy Tomko</strong><br /><strong>by Stephanie Chefas</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmy8Yvh4GG1-xDKNdTERpcmGC1GKozOFWwZz-FwuUhQVKYBqEW40ceUboXupbLNMwwcFMshB-TUYYv6T6r5bjwfT13H1nKZA4bKsulqCZCEDeIICswEC-Eo7Rt81fNHPXzrx1OAmM1iIS/s1600/tristan+and+the+id.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 393px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477996197853363042" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmy8Yvh4GG1-xDKNdTERpcmGC1GKozOFWwZz-FwuUhQVKYBqEW40ceUboXupbLNMwwcFMshB-TUYYv6T6r5bjwfT13H1nKZA4bKsulqCZCEDeIICswEC-Eo7Rt81fNHPXzrx1OAmM1iIS/s400/tristan+and+the+id.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Triston and the Id</em><br /></span><br />When I first laid eyes upon Tracy Tomko's artwork, I was immediately engaged by its homage to the surreal with her depiction of Daliesque backgrounds, the irradescent color palette, and how much her spare yet otherworldly approach reminded me of the animated sci-fi cult classic Fantastic Planet. Needless to say, it was love at first sight. After further exploration of her paintings I realized that beneath the radiant hues and minimal landscapes there was a deliciously twisted intellect at play uniquely her own. Take for instance Tracy's painting <em>Jibbly</em> <em>Vink Lorp?:</em> a translucent blue child sits atop a lavendar mountain goat while gripping her Rainbow Bright toy against a desolate blue background. At first one might describe the piece as innocent or even cute, but a closer look instilled me with a sense of mistrust and even fear. Something wasn't right. Then it hit me: it was a trap! These seemingly harmless objects were being used to bait mindless travellers into a world of sin and darkness--the devil at work.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_P3PNBTv4rYNv19EMfqVGmbKdaDLY3h7P2ShqFxbiYTmSSbCf_0ddcx197dAME9S2YTyb79EVnut0uXCtJqaq0ZFWAgz6md0W0iPyx0BTzt7oXhqxO5dD0cmSZ3jcojk0odkD0xUBqpC6/s1600/jibbly+vink+lorp.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477996224960101506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_P3PNBTv4rYNv19EMfqVGmbKdaDLY3h7P2ShqFxbiYTmSSbCf_0ddcx197dAME9S2YTyb79EVnut0uXCtJqaq0ZFWAgz6md0W0iPyx0BTzt7oXhqxO5dD0cmSZ3jcojk0odkD0xUBqpC6/s400/jibbly+vink+lorp.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Jibbly Vink Lorp?<br /></span></em><br />As one of the participating artists in Industrial Squid's upcoming group show <em>I Believe in</em> <em>Unicorns</em> at <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/">WWA gallery</a>, I wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about Tracy and her artwork and what makes her 'tick'.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): When hearing about the theme for I Believe in Unicorns, what was your initial reaction?<br /></strong><br />Tracy Tomko (TT): Spontaneous happy-dancing.<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>SC: Do you believe in unicorns?</strong><br /><br />TT: Yes. My knowledge of unicorns before being invited to participate in this show was all silly, girly, sparkly stuff. When I started talking about the show, in Denver, I was invited to visit Dana Cain's unicorn tapestry library. It turns out that she is somewhat of an expert on the subject. I was indisputably convinced of their existence through reference materials passed on by her. They seem to have been carved into things and written about extensively since the beginning of time. Unicorns are even in the bible.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLQeHxk8-9krYeiAqMv1TXHtIX76wiO4Eqq_vZXWHUeqxas0aZ1eNcfmLW7uu_IuynVPlS3USqFPySt81Nr6aIlAy0QTvEpaV79U13edcSfTysZDAfPslBg1l6QuO_eLRI75EzChMxsErm/s1600/unicorn-and-maiden-yuri-leitch.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 397px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479072535145811346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLQeHxk8-9krYeiAqMv1TXHtIX76wiO4Eqq_vZXWHUeqxas0aZ1eNcfmLW7uu_IuynVPlS3USqFPySt81Nr6aIlAy0QTvEpaV79U13edcSfTysZDAfPslBg1l6QuO_eLRI75EzChMxsErm/s400/unicorn-and-maiden-yuri-leitch.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Tell me about your childhood. Were you the kind of kid who created private little worlds? What made you happiest as a girl? </strong><br /><strong><br /></strong>TT: I was the oldest of seven kids. I had imaginary friends, kept and still carry too many lucky, little things in my pockets, made a lot of forts, and would dig little ravines with cave dwellings in the walls for my friend and brothers to play with Star Wars figures in. The lucky, little things made me happiest. I loved little bottles. My aunt would save medicine bottles for me, and my Grandpa would bring home those little, plastic garbage cans, that had candy in them, from the factory he worked at. I would fill them with pretty colored paper that I ripped into confetti and keep some in my pockets. I hated pants without pockets.<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>SC: Was anyone else in your family an artist and did they encouraged your artistic talent?</strong><br /><br />TT: My mom painted while I was growing up and let me paint my first oil painting when I was very young. She sewed and crocheted, as well. My dad worked with wood a lot, can fix anything, and worked as a precision machinist professionally. He once built us a playhouse that was bigger than some apartments I've lived in. They were always making something. I have a lot of creative aunts and uncles, and my Grandma would work all year making gifts for her many grandchildren. Handmade by Grandma Kline was always special, and I admired her greatly.<br /><br />I have always been a bit of a nerd, so I think the family may have hoped that I would pursue my academics more seriously to become a scientist or something, but they supported my art. They kept me in supplies and bought me comics and art books for inspiration.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzm9PTV9gPU9W5_V-kco8VQ_5tY-PWwbl0aqa6_l2HCBPaTStyz7MMnXxG0j7XhCZmXT9Be1Oj3ER7IUD9Btw-18FBjZWM4ppjv9OnUV2kQiWcNkH5Iy9cDBZkfDV5LlrScUAEbKRoXBqE/s1600/4332_1007438802528_1721692049_9665_8077516_n.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479075070194206114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzm9PTV9gPU9W5_V-kco8VQ_5tY-PWwbl0aqa6_l2HCBPaTStyz7MMnXxG0j7XhCZmXT9Be1Oj3ER7IUD9Btw-18FBjZWM4ppjv9OnUV2kQiWcNkH5Iy9cDBZkfDV5LlrScUAEbKRoXBqE/s400/4332_1007438802528_1721692049_9665_8077516_n.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Attack of the Innocents</span></em><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Your paintings often portray floating images with a Daliesque background, what do you think sparked your fascination with the surreal?</strong><br /><br /><br />TT: I do a lot of research and love to read. I'm really interested in how things grow, stages of metamorphosis, and evolution. One of the most interesting things to me is the theory of the missing link suggesting that out of a need or desire for something, it just became that. A grand and magical manifestation happened. I like to think that the next wondrous evolution is in process and growing from the collective thoughts of our time. That my contribution to that will be the intention and concentration that happen while I'm creating. The paintings and sculptures are the physical sharing with the now, but that the greater manifestation is still to come in another form. The surreal feel to my work might be these thoughts. I paint things that exist in nature with a twist toward a new, beautiful place.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAk3v0XTh5Dn2il6URrxhBnmzXLLJUZs9SMXIECKYLSfShWg4VTecVr3k72BwPzpqog8bBc_MNlEMOYbY13k6Jw7e1wWXlTc2621j4W0fopeLMq65ucDmlnhblVQP58g4d-HI6lEUBrYa/s1600/hybrid+grow+land.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 319px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477998404574819538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAk3v0XTh5Dn2il6URrxhBnmzXLLJUZs9SMXIECKYLSfShWg4VTecVr3k72BwPzpqog8bBc_MNlEMOYbY13k6Jw7e1wWXlTc2621j4W0fopeLMq65ucDmlnhblVQP58g4d-HI6lEUBrYa/s400/hybrid+grow+land.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Hybrid Grow Land<br /></span></em><br /><strong>SC: I love the use of color in your work. The luminous quality of greens, blues, and purples help translate the surreal fantasy world depicted in your paintings. How do you choose your color palette? </strong><br /><br />TT: I like to try to reflect the feeling of my subjects through color. I'm amazed at the colors that exist in nature and enjoy exploiting them on the canvas. For Unicorns, it was all about the pink.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkE7iaKB8JkJWgPhM7Llr1tqfJ18L-ORAzPZSHLpPfdbD4UcJ2pSZ19h6ncvqdtCwpZBr7iCHQCz11d7YO6TxSsTtCULMzFLujBCE-4ML5h5U3vhk8rnP2Fh95NCfgbo9hKX8hiD0JqRGp/s1600/Tracy+Tomko+Studio+Fetus.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477996216588208130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkE7iaKB8JkJWgPhM7Llr1tqfJ18L-ORAzPZSHLpPfdbD4UcJ2pSZ19h6ncvqdtCwpZBr7iCHQCz11d7YO6TxSsTtCULMzFLujBCE-4ML5h5U3vhk8rnP2Fh95NCfgbo9hKX8hiD0JqRGp/s400/Tracy+Tomko+Studio+Fetus.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Tracy working on 'Tickle My Fancy' for I Believe in Unicorns<br /></span></em><br /><br /><strong>SC: I see a lot of similarities with your art and the 1973 animated film, 'Fantastic Planet' based on the french novel LA Planete Sauvage by Stefan Wul: the color palette, minimal landscapes, and the symbolist artifice of the surrealists placed in two-dimensional space. I love this movie and I know you do as well. How much of it has influenced your work? </strong><br /><strong><br /></strong>TT: I'm a big believer in synchronicity. Things seem to find me when I need them. Fantastic Planet "found me". The Cell is one of my favorite movies for concept and costume design. Jennifer Lopez's character is watching Fantastic Planet, in this film, as she relaxes after a long day. I thought it was interesting looking, but had no idea it was a feature length film or that it was the masterpiece that it is. I never even looked to the credits to find out its name. Then, later I was in a video store and just saw the spine of the DVD with the little, blue face on it. I knew it was J Lo's cartoon and made the purchase. It came into my life at a time when my fascination with plants was really developing and I"m super grateful for it. I'd love to do my own plant art film someday.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmquVrwXObmOLRUb-d0lnvDod4l4itzI2fzj7N3SxFbWM8Doj4SVo5IbfXfD6HLNOfQEQe2K26vZTk7lfLVsV1Ps0Kdlci8cm2rQ7sZ02WxB-kUUMbzwo3tEU1L0mjlXiiWCirmSp6R1s/s1600/200px-Fantastic_Planet_2.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 310px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478001777500335922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmquVrwXObmOLRUb-d0lnvDod4l4itzI2fzj7N3SxFbWM8Doj4SVo5IbfXfD6HLNOfQEQe2K26vZTk7lfLVsV1Ps0Kdlci8cm2rQ7sZ02WxB-kUUMbzwo3tEU1L0mjlXiiWCirmSp6R1s/s400/200px-Fantastic_Planet_2.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Fantastic Planet<br /></span></em><br /><br /><strong>SC: Are there any films that have inspired your work over the years? </strong><br /><strong><br /></strong>TT: So many! To name a few: The Cell, The Dark Crystal, Aeon Flux (animated version), The Happening, Alien, Dark City, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Corpse Bride.<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>SC: I've read that you created a series of paintings based upon the book, 'The Secret Life of Plants' by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. This book examines the symbiotic relationship between plants and humans and suggests plants are sentient. Has living in Colorado, a state rife with lush foliage and natural beauty, inspired you to explore this idea through painting? </strong><br /><br />TT: My family is rich with gypsy blood and moved frequently. Colorado is just one of the many beautiful places that have inspired my love of nature. I think that with age I've started to notice the little things and marvel at them more. I took beauty for granted when I was younger.<br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTuNDo0qcURcVt-lHXwvRU-zzsn5LeMqidlckTOiKVIpWvwDv1_WniyGWExf40noyv3UGaulgMcFucbOi6aDP9uRA3f3JkmYDdWI6Qmd3SMI3g_eolS82F1JwGap3GDyfnzinujlfhJ7s/s1600/gunther's+dance.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 271px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477996202999615650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTuNDo0qcURcVt-lHXwvRU-zzsn5LeMqidlckTOiKVIpWvwDv1_WniyGWExf40noyv3UGaulgMcFucbOi6aDP9uRA3f3JkmYDdWI6Qmd3SMI3g_eolS82F1JwGap3GDyfnzinujlfhJ7s/s400/gunther's+dance.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Gunther's Dance<br /></span></em><br /><br /><strong>SC: What other themes would you like to explore through your artwork?</strong><br /><br />TT: I plan to continue to incorporate the plants into works with dream imagery and memories. Growth will be a strong element in my upcoming work. I'd like to explore the triumph of embracing ones uniqueness.<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>SC: Which contemporary artists do you most admire and/or are inspired by?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong>TT: Lori Earley, Jessica Joslin, Daniel Sprick, H.R. Giger, Greg Simkins, Scott Radke, Naoto Hatori, Lola Gil, Scott Musgrove...this list could go on forever. There is a ton of exciting work being done right now. My immediate art group is the most influential in my daily inspiration/admiration - Erin Asmussen, Stephanie Riekena, Anthony Clarkson. These guys are invaluable for feedback and support.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_QrNkZAf418AxfKIYkc2sFtKfHgGFsLRSdqWk-5vy8GKcwqtIaocfnUeXNQ9nlbW6PCuxD6jGIUyaU5-_7SkQy_E6DC332j0wBk-HJw9-A3bMBta-0NtnIM5kj_xwC88RKDQnPxId_7fY/s1600/Tracy+and+Friends.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477999023543464706" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_QrNkZAf418AxfKIYkc2sFtKfHgGFsLRSdqWk-5vy8GKcwqtIaocfnUeXNQ9nlbW6PCuxD6jGIUyaU5-_7SkQy_E6DC332j0wBk-HJw9-A3bMBta-0NtnIM5kj_xwC88RKDQnPxId_7fY/s400/Tracy+and+Friends.jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Stephanie Riekena, Anthony Clarkson, Erin Asmussen, and Tracy Tomko<br /></span></em><br /><br /><strong>SC: If I were to spend the day with Tracy, what could I expect?</strong><br /><br />TT: I'm pretty chill. Stimulating conversation, fresh air, and good food. I'm always up for music, art, or some kind of adventure.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What's the one thing you can't live without?</strong><br />TT: Good friends and my awesome daughter - we'll count that as one thing. :)<br /><br /><strong>SC: The one thing you can't live with?</strong><br />TT: Negativity.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What are you creating at the moment?</strong><br />TT: Paintings with iconic design elements of our time worked into scenery for childhood memories.<br /><br /><strong>SC: What's on the horizon for Tracy?</strong><br />TT: I plan to be a little hermit-like while I focus to create a kind of magic show effect for my new body of work. Then, I'll reappear with wand in hand. Destination unknown.<br /><br />Thanks Tracy!Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-62187138349232259642010-06-01T17:48:00.000-07:002010-06-01T18:21:20.333-07:00C.W. Moss - Interview with a Unicorn<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8oHjkTXaU7RlzqpaR_zVk342z6n-eZ-5h6_qkCpBMAfQ4ADrAlfPGa49Fulk9bCyKDI0Cw4GhtAb_zVAHSW09yR0ZykKn0TWuVdKd595pwErN6P6Q5VyaNPl2taQ8GNqOJt_QkTN_Sja/s1600/2.+oldest+relative+photo+-+on+emperor+hirohito.jpg"></a>-by Rob Faucette with CW Moss<br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>Because Unicorns can't always speak, I thought it would be easier to ask questions to a Unicorn and have him answer with pictures. And that's what we did.</div><br /><div></div><div>A Picture of youself please?</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7VobKetVh34L5RmA0FhL2nZMQyYJ1daaW1weHiPQQ0j8PBVSVxRzwjSdk47uaOpWN90FRlNM-ROKjr-9kv1gZDIFphQq9BlWX6gh9hOoR_AElpps_UrZhtg0fwUcWVkSCNsvIihxwISD/s1600/1.+unicorn-with-cat-cw+moss.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477974404589539986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 257px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7VobKetVh34L5RmA0FhL2nZMQyYJ1daaW1weHiPQQ0j8PBVSVxRzwjSdk47uaOpWN90FRlNM-ROKjr-9kv1gZDIFphQq9BlWX6gh9hOoR_AElpps_UrZhtg0fwUcWVkSCNsvIihxwISD/s400/1.+unicorn-with-cat-cw+moss.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br />The oldest picture of a relative you have? <div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477975568421261330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 307px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5809sb3GAQgUeEHyL8n8_xe8VjOvl3ph8brSBvlzghQ2V2wKHayw01FfCTjW1V4vihoVn0KdkT_VpCRVbZ2udYQ87NyXYkM4XLUVM-3EpHC-lIFgSh7XeEX5yu-c2ljC57TOptc_8cU6t/s400/2.+oldest+relative+photo+-+on+emperor+hirohito.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div></div><br /><div><br />Your favorite thing to do? </div><div><br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFABjBwAmJS-hEM_FzEEG1bgHBMNren_JCRWDWFAP4KxMaqePKoIu3cIZ9lNslmeciB2ShOXorJYBN_2_eS8iZlTSdJbHwZRGdbjxoSHm85HnOKpmTTwcdS88Wpqlh5SGw8HcF2BHgJ7AJ/s1600/3.+gardening.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477974328621267714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 261px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFABjBwAmJS-hEM_FzEEG1bgHBMNren_JCRWDWFAP4KxMaqePKoIu3cIZ9lNslmeciB2ShOXorJYBN_2_eS8iZlTSdJbHwZRGdbjxoSHm85HnOKpmTTwcdS88Wpqlh5SGw8HcF2BHgJ7AJ/s400/3.+gardening.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div>Your least favorite?</div><div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTkoU_o00aFB2odQDMdG6vSiIy3L0fdJjADf4H09ZMBXLgcsm8D4DK40hbvarkKzz0HjjcI_AqrYTmxgl9mV2DdQ89C3wv8npjwBg9TYpKICv7DFvGwQ5IuefDxzWGYgJfgZL5-8JR6k7/s1600/4.+be+ridden.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477974247921858578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 298px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTkoU_o00aFB2odQDMdG6vSiIy3L0fdJjADf4H09ZMBXLgcsm8D4DK40hbvarkKzz0HjjcI_AqrYTmxgl9mV2DdQ89C3wv8npjwBg9TYpKICv7DFvGwQ5IuefDxzWGYgJfgZL5-8JR6k7/s400/4.+be+ridden.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Your favorite food?<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NKWhMNWwczphyGdEfiZHUf_Oc0ISIcPiWMzem7lKAQQT7ugD4hoLWdtI6gcfa7n6TxLYQbvt3JYZw6R7_He-LX1U8vgpvyRDzfvaJYC5lMgdgbPx-nYp1IxqZq5-jqnBUzPN8dWrFhG3/s1600/5.+popsicles.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477974176873259746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NKWhMNWwczphyGdEfiZHUf_Oc0ISIcPiWMzem7lKAQQT7ugD4hoLWdtI6gcfa7n6TxLYQbvt3JYZw6R7_He-LX1U8vgpvyRDzfvaJYC5lMgdgbPx-nYp1IxqZq5-jqnBUzPN8dWrFhG3/s400/5.+popsicles.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />What is something you would never eat, even if you were starving and it would save your life?</div><div></div><div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmcPSg7IQ0KKGOxSiY38YKqdB0RPvKjxxe93PSyc7cg8MDGZNbBg5RBl8eQsS7ytl9eff4I6eJw7n1jPiHWAGOthnNwgkHPwOYJxy76qr2AfQk3vq1kN9ZnIfDFr5bMn7utPMrQJVb4no/s1600/6.+steak.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477974111643953090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmcPSg7IQ0KKGOxSiY38YKqdB0RPvKjxxe93PSyc7cg8MDGZNbBg5RBl8eQsS7ytl9eff4I6eJw7n1jPiHWAGOthnNwgkHPwOYJxy76qr2AfQk3vq1kN9ZnIfDFr5bMn7utPMrQJVb4no/s400/6.+steak.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />When you are sad, what cheers you up?<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9I72OgWrI_CpQ3-na2P_y5OuPjMEIqmgQqLwGGUrxl1J-kCOMtc9c8FEuq4dC4LSm1lRFjV2x59XJEKstrH8uRyRF1cKc2FJXD-WndTMqwIcVeLs0THQIJWcc7iLlBeZm7PL1_2Hpje3O/s1600/7.+caging+free+birds.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477974031363121378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9I72OgWrI_CpQ3-na2P_y5OuPjMEIqmgQqLwGGUrxl1J-kCOMtc9c8FEuq4dC4LSm1lRFjV2x59XJEKstrH8uRyRF1cKc2FJXD-WndTMqwIcVeLs0THQIJWcc7iLlBeZm7PL1_2Hpje3O/s400/7.+caging+free+birds.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Upon winning the lottery, you would go out and buy…</div><div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRwhkL88O9Ozs5cpDvttVCFtg8jq2FxdVnyBcQnKiXCYw7LIqFDyaajy8kXipfV-OC2DHxNfkwm3Tbxsug1zpk6B0yU7fKWzxu9NMPcWqmjoLGjfOYsOTLlFomzTXKyf9Mxz_fJnQwfzH/s1600/8.+vatican.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973893042969698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 385px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRwhkL88O9Ozs5cpDvttVCFtg8jq2FxdVnyBcQnKiXCYw7LIqFDyaajy8kXipfV-OC2DHxNfkwm3Tbxsug1zpk6B0yU7fKWzxu9NMPcWqmjoLGjfOYsOTLlFomzTXKyf9Mxz_fJnQwfzH/s400/8.+vatican.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The most beautiful thing you ever saw was…<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGOdWPyTqP9dpXCSPe8roRG0W36f8nqJYQVd_HP7_qvUQTfelRCwAbUrdbsv28_dj6zkRMZIoEzMBT8xuVzt4ien6L27bPgd-fBlD5F0C4vUDixl_rJx7KqFP3-37j5IPwS4WXDmwmYv1/s1600/9.+The+fountain.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973805416883106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 271px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGOdWPyTqP9dpXCSPe8roRG0W36f8nqJYQVd_HP7_qvUQTfelRCwAbUrdbsv28_dj6zkRMZIoEzMBT8xuVzt4ien6L27bPgd-fBlD5F0C4vUDixl_rJx7KqFP3-37j5IPwS4WXDmwmYv1/s400/9.+The+fountain.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLKmUs_OEKpgUAJTFFNbWplzvXej_d45IONB-iVX4QDQKRb4eOutOp155nG7KwaArZ6gn8tfhnXntmvjxWy3dL6WobvFW1rPEoj-h9RyzwkLZJaNejpemyGFDiubNJUdw3PqaihKTgrVp/s1600/9.-weather-systems.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973729260699170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 273px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLKmUs_OEKpgUAJTFFNbWplzvXej_d45IONB-iVX4QDQKRb4eOutOp155nG7KwaArZ6gn8tfhnXntmvjxWy3dL6WobvFW1rPEoj-h9RyzwkLZJaNejpemyGFDiubNJUdw3PqaihKTgrVp/s400/9.-weather-systems.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />The ugliest thing ever?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSyyx6xcxQi92rZxxxAXH3kkYs3rjBte58daw8_OPgZ471dIzddd8dNccGU6t6whYZposa50Ty6niWyV-im1fuAVqEyWGv-3k7grImVgnTdDrVi0dPNgECc8jmWfJq515zVDxvZUTmGwZn/s1600/10.+billboards.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973586503653314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 326px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSyyx6xcxQi92rZxxxAXH3kkYs3rjBte58daw8_OPgZ471dIzddd8dNccGU6t6whYZposa50Ty6niWyV-im1fuAVqEyWGv-3k7grImVgnTdDrVi0dPNgECc8jmWfJq515zVDxvZUTmGwZn/s400/10.+billboards.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Unicorn, what's your most favorite movie?<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMesWd97HT5xdbZcNvDiUxg8PlkIAi6Otsmxw0gStmptJsiUtsEkrR8uHwSv5dNBBHAbBq12SJfXrDXSuI9KMVAoFoutKZ11SJ9_zI0kk2iFnW_2nuMQGAaN34xzpN8lCDux_9zEAt7acH/s1600/11.+anchorman.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973496337240002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 270px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMesWd97HT5xdbZcNvDiUxg8PlkIAi6Otsmxw0gStmptJsiUtsEkrR8uHwSv5dNBBHAbBq12SJfXrDXSuI9KMVAoFoutKZ11SJ9_zI0kk2iFnW_2nuMQGAaN34xzpN8lCDux_9zEAt7acH/s400/11.+anchorman.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Are you dating anyone?<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3no1-0eEvhLLVOsBnKfp3v8WRxL37lbmPP7PiDv3g-RHlz3Mdd7JA62XWWjZq5NdAB1hmEl1Hg5a6mzuI4IWPN1va3L8hYJyt9x2C5bNb4dlJJpQgrDzW5RrvWFZAgGEzQMxO_y3zYxa/s1600/12.+my+left+hoof.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973413148714370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3no1-0eEvhLLVOsBnKfp3v8WRxL37lbmPP7PiDv3g-RHlz3Mdd7JA62XWWjZq5NdAB1hmEl1Hg5a6mzuI4IWPN1va3L8hYJyt9x2C5bNb4dlJJpQgrDzW5RrvWFZAgGEzQMxO_y3zYxa/s400/12.+my+left+hoof.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />What was the wish that was granted to you? </div><div></div><div><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQaCjO9mPAttIAlE_rJymAkYkDXUc7o8TYbBuMYYAI7d1Wr1Ul8qLPD8pYKulmsatViP2agehhrUoGAdjBTP6iOrQPi1DnsLCod2Ne1Xgf4oCpTuESCOvV9RPzm2fzPX6eQcYwCk7DWyM/s1600/13.+have+a+book+written+about+me.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973343301058370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQaCjO9mPAttIAlE_rJymAkYkDXUc7o8TYbBuMYYAI7d1Wr1Ul8qLPD8pYKulmsatViP2agehhrUoGAdjBTP6iOrQPi1DnsLCod2Ne1Xgf4oCpTuESCOvV9RPzm2fzPX6eQcYwCk7DWyM/s400/13.+have+a+book+written+about+me.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What was the wish that has been denied you Unicorn?<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9TjRvHK1dzpLodDOggJfHFYYwR6SbT9gAMuIIcLJVqzSv4Cz39agJYt82kYmjzC9Pup9HHeQGA7tjoWtyx2veGVrH6cRuXa65pSWMEwYUBfeE4tLui20Wem6xSY80SMrBqCSxGi5_PJh/s1600/14.+go+on+a+date+with+natalie-portman.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973260841818610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 307px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9TjRvHK1dzpLodDOggJfHFYYwR6SbT9gAMuIIcLJVqzSv4Cz39agJYt82kYmjzC9Pup9HHeQGA7tjoWtyx2veGVrH6cRuXa65pSWMEwYUBfeE4tLui20Wem6xSY80SMrBqCSxGi5_PJh/s400/14.+go+on+a+date+with+natalie-portman.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />What's your favorite color?<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVPXFim88WBJ39CWEmSP_BxxZNzTg1fUQxEPcfc81xNj59znlUjAASjyzeW1bFZh5H1qDqB2CpCX1WU6RN8L6-kJSS7UzSLp_rQgqCNe10Z7WYFJCdEkhrkXJuS1fg3NhP0c4SR7LZQhF/s1600/15.+yves+klein+blue.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973183529952738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 341px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVPXFim88WBJ39CWEmSP_BxxZNzTg1fUQxEPcfc81xNj59znlUjAASjyzeW1bFZh5H1qDqB2CpCX1WU6RN8L6-kJSS7UzSLp_rQgqCNe10Z7WYFJCdEkhrkXJuS1fg3NhP0c4SR7LZQhF/s400/15.+yves+klein+blue.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What's your favorite vacation spot?<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qSu3KLZjChtwLUOAhm1kOUbfitddtnaKr2vhMCuYWQ2kKBTodtjmjRAvNYft-1iZxLC1yEbFWvWBvSzDkTrF5I8Ymha2Ajt3nJI9rA_kQp243e_Ds64gItA86dUFp2o5Mr0nrSq4xoGw/s1600/16.+antarctica.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477973097475139986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 281px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qSu3KLZjChtwLUOAhm1kOUbfitddtnaKr2vhMCuYWQ2kKBTodtjmjRAvNYft-1iZxLC1yEbFWvWBvSzDkTrF5I8Ymha2Ajt3nJI9rA_kQp243e_Ds64gItA86dUFp2o5Mr0nrSq4xoGw/s400/16.+antarctica.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What is your greatest Desire?<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuEQEZglOIaznPRfvpQZMZdQQ47-6JrPfEmiwusH-8h6-gM1LgIXev523w_IbcqPek0c6T1TTGI1RnAP5rIQlVA31_m-wd7eYA3I9v-evTPJssh9nFGqen4NT9OGVhUb8RfAfNLE-ZvgUh/s1600/17.+climb+mount+everest.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477972973911470898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuEQEZglOIaznPRfvpQZMZdQQ47-6JrPfEmiwusH-8h6-gM1LgIXev523w_IbcqPek0c6T1TTGI1RnAP5rIQlVA31_m-wd7eYA3I9v-evTPJssh9nFGqen4NT9OGVhUb8RfAfNLE-ZvgUh/s400/17.+climb+mount+everest.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Who is your Nemesis?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxi3IC_VDdRruLT6u4Al7OCFGhoeUa1mbFCNJ-Zn7KFkiba6O_gHUJzBKCzSjT5nnj3SPPOSqkRWA9g68UTXcYkLZSj5d9lNfJT-BAFjj1OH2oXuXeqgYB-8Yk_pd_YUupf58joy8HcTPx/s1600/18.+fake+unicorns.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477972815985590194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 166px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxi3IC_VDdRruLT6u4Al7OCFGhoeUa1mbFCNJ-Zn7KFkiba6O_gHUJzBKCzSjT5nnj3SPPOSqkRWA9g68UTXcYkLZSj5d9lNfJT-BAFjj1OH2oXuXeqgYB-8Yk_pd_YUupf58joy8HcTPx/s400/18.+fake+unicorns.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />What's the coolest way to die?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsyppg0PsozGzz0WzXerrS-2Wtj7Ii7RyfQPAmCEuyMocRSaQQBUipaHMfubxlLruLl9khyphenhyphenSKY7i8dOGBKzTSvfUD-uT7ANjuJ6XQt6oUpAartfkZAiGFV1TT1O_BkszLYv0rtSV31ioU/s1600/19.+fighting+for+democracy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477972739639156146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 272px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsyppg0PsozGzz0WzXerrS-2Wtj7Ii7RyfQPAmCEuyMocRSaQQBUipaHMfubxlLruLl9khyphenhyphenSKY7i8dOGBKzTSvfUD-uT7ANjuJ6XQt6oUpAartfkZAiGFV1TT1O_BkszLYv0rtSV31ioU/s400/19.+fighting+for+democracy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>What's the lamest way to die?<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzVAf3KI-JyzStbY_5S-lzaKkrPFPj-09mh21ROK3-d3qOllIFhFxAuFbStpNmCGGKtr1yw-oFcz13yGBpQ2E4fLESCOy8_NbCnGS_6F2hb6jiLjyK4bWLpN_Sn3wBV-2pbjC8IzNiX43/s1600/20.+horse+colic.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477972669245656914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 245px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzVAf3KI-JyzStbY_5S-lzaKkrPFPj-09mh21ROK3-d3qOllIFhFxAuFbStpNmCGGKtr1yw-oFcz13yGBpQ2E4fLESCOy8_NbCnGS_6F2hb6jiLjyK4bWLpN_Sn3wBV-2pbjC8IzNiX43/s400/20.+horse+colic.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />How would you kill someone, Unicorn?<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_agcHjuGTO-9LSirH7MxTOiV7vJAwmB8J8rKakHJCHwOsBa1C5SaKfSlXFynU9SmnY_pHcUPiaJ4UArrs1Dc6lJS3n1h9DBJ_yVSk7caYO-q9uvB6qK0fC96UCIXMv6AAESMtlZ6rbs4/s1600/21.+with+a+sniper+rifle.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477972566821793074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 243px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_agcHjuGTO-9LSirH7MxTOiV7vJAwmB8J8rKakHJCHwOsBa1C5SaKfSlXFynU9SmnY_pHcUPiaJ4UArrs1Dc6lJS3n1h9DBJ_yVSk7caYO-q9uvB6qK0fC96UCIXMv6AAESMtlZ6rbs4/s400/21.+with+a+sniper+rifle.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I hope it never comes to that, Unicorn, I hope it never comes to that...</div><div> </div><div>The End.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-14856910141600407642010-05-20T14:41:00.000-07:002010-05-20T15:05:12.807-07:00Lunch Bunch!!!!!!!!!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkb1d6Uht5uRqKcGv5tFg4UZXtJCLL-4u4NOizxYFd3nwXe9mmLwIzja_Foo2tssuBlu6aNUtCK0SgwtS5C85vYPbXl43DQSZJlTr7WWSP5eynyuzTyS-oKDtWgCSpGJEZbfmG6x6F9V4/s1600/DSC_0013.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 73px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkb1d6Uht5uRqKcGv5tFg4UZXtJCLL-4u4NOizxYFd3nwXe9mmLwIzja_Foo2tssuBlu6aNUtCK0SgwtS5C85vYPbXl43DQSZJlTr7WWSP5eynyuzTyS-oKDtWgCSpGJEZbfmG6x6F9V4/s400/DSC_0013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473473473412565026" border="0" /></a>In January, WWA gallery, the home to all of Industrial Squid’s events, played host to a group show curated by the lovely Artist Sisters, CJ Metzger and Miss Mindy.<span style=""> </span>The show, entitled “Trappings,” featured works by Dee Chavez, Jeni Yang, Celene, Tina Darling, Su Moon, Katie Rice, Lesley Reppeteaux, as well as the Artist Sisters themselves and<span style=""> </span>during the show all of the artists in attendance began a collaborative painting which was to be donated to the wonderful LA based charity, Lunch Bunch.<span style=""> </span>Well earlier this month we received the completed painting and as you can see it is A-mazing.<span style=""> </span>Since I needed to get the painting over to the Lunch Bunch crew anyway, I thought I’d tag-a-long with them as they did their thing and this past Sunday I did just that.<span style=""> </span>I had an amazing time and I want to help spread the word about the Lunch Bunch and exactly what they do.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ptk0cdbRO7D3UYYmZJ1JSFtivKPs7paO-zhVBsFuF8XW3owi-LIGH6YLfC5j1YA0-o0dd2vKKkejpY_nt0OhSqoHlImRlb9xUu9wjiBkgoCmPwlQ6n0NIvVffa9gGbeZqG6Rj-3bi8DU/s1600/IMG_0083.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ptk0cdbRO7D3UYYmZJ1JSFtivKPs7paO-zhVBsFuF8XW3owi-LIGH6YLfC5j1YA0-o0dd2vKKkejpY_nt0OhSqoHlImRlb9xUu9wjiBkgoCmPwlQ6n0NIvVffa9gGbeZqG6Rj-3bi8DU/s400/IMG_0083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473473781755681874" border="0" /></a> Lunch Bunch is the brain child of two of the bestest friends the world has ever known, Meridyth MacDonald and Ana Bagayan.<span style=""> </span>Very giving by nature, these two ladies wanted to find something to do with their time that would help others that were in desperate need and thus they formed Lunch Bunch, a program in which every Sunday they get together, buy food, create bag lunches and drive around Los Angeles disseminating them to the homeless and disadvantaged.<span style=""> </span>It has nearly been a year since they first began Lunch Bunch, and Ana and Mere still do it with the same eagerness and joy that is normally only associated with the beginning of such an endeavor; where as most people their age would have lost interest or motivation by now, they have an unflinching dedication to Lunch Bunch that is beyond admirable. <span style=""> </span>Over the past year, Lunch Bunch has provided thousands of lunches, inspired just as many smiles, and picked up many new friends along the way.<span style=""> </span>Being with them as they passed out the lunches, seeing the looks on the faces of those who received their charity, I came to realize that Ana and Meridyth were doing more than just putting food in peoples stomachs, they were reminding people, people whom most of the world either ignores or forgets, that we are capable of being good to each other, and that our lives, as harsh and unforgiving as they can be at times, are also filled with these beautiful moments of kindness.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BN2an6I6aGyHqUgeYfM-yFGo-RudpDgZz0Lbz7TYG5ke4CDP1IjkByJN8vjM2AZZG0MSu1OmBhjzh-F5YJE0KxInILxhIuBN7hArVqD3yuKBJJ21MY8Meq0uapbhuihCzbT-NeXy0E8H/s1600/IMG_0087.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BN2an6I6aGyHqUgeYfM-yFGo-RudpDgZz0Lbz7TYG5ke4CDP1IjkByJN8vjM2AZZG0MSu1OmBhjzh-F5YJE0KxInILxhIuBN7hArVqD3yuKBJJ21MY8Meq0uapbhuihCzbT-NeXy0E8H/s400/IMG_0087.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473474523951199026" border="0" /></a>In order to help pay for all of the food that they pass out, Lunch Bunch holds art auctions from time to time.<span style=""> </span>Ana, a well established and extremely talented artist herself, relies on others in the art community to donate works that she and Mere can then auction off.<span style=""> </span>That is where the Trappings painting comes into play.<span style=""> </span>It will be available in their next auction, which is coming up soon.<span style=""> </span>Lunch Bunch is still accepting donations for their upcoming auction, and if you don’t have any art to give they are also continually accepting monetary donations as well.<span style=""> </span>As it gets closer to the actual date of the auction, I’ll be posting an interview with the Lunch Bunch crew, as well as more details on the auction itself.<span style=""> </span>If you’d like to become involved or donate, please contact Lunch Bunch directly at <a href="mailto:Lunchbunchco@gmail.com">Lunchbunchco@gmail.com</a> and follow their blog at <a href="http://lunchbunchco.blogspot.com/">http://lunchbunchco.blogspot.com/</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4WGF-B9cMTFxC8ynlMW2Q5Pvvmrg-Auv1xmUmULkW913ER2AQwtgFz9acoFMX8D_mNC1kphJ1XLikNYPnAJ5-aOFJz8zb1Ag24tUHHhCNw4LfcV_lWzTmYwvaFt9hRGablRyozxaLEkF/s1600/IMG_0088.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4WGF-B9cMTFxC8ynlMW2Q5Pvvmrg-Auv1xmUmULkW913ER2AQwtgFz9acoFMX8D_mNC1kphJ1XLikNYPnAJ5-aOFJz8zb1Ag24tUHHhCNw4LfcV_lWzTmYwvaFt9hRGablRyozxaLEkF/s400/IMG_0088.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473474985712153618" border="0" /></a>I’d like to thank both Meridyth and Ana for allowing me the chance to help them with their project.<span style=""> </span>Along with the immense amount of fun that I had being in their presence, I also walked away from the experience feeling far more satisfied with how I spent my Sunday afternoon than I have in a while.<span style=""> </span>It was a gift I wasn’t expecting, but if I had to guess I’d say most people who spend any time with Ana and Mere leave with that same feeling.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Dave<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kDrubyZhrHI5y6OA0BW3baaU-boZFz8ZDyDmzt0YN470XIrQPrKps8SPUqjRefaGodZpqKTg6QUdAdc-s2UXTBa7OmLfXZFjR1Zk5RPDUoBycJ_ryXT9xLJTPaEReThwx0PF3Rewuuek/s1600/lunch+bunch+painting.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kDrubyZhrHI5y6OA0BW3baaU-boZFz8ZDyDmzt0YN470XIrQPrKps8SPUqjRefaGodZpqKTg6QUdAdc-s2UXTBa7OmLfXZFjR1Zk5RPDUoBycJ_ryXT9xLJTPaEReThwx0PF3Rewuuek/s400/lunch+bunch+painting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473475512381429522" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-59527346384139706942010-05-01T12:09:00.000-07:002010-11-12T11:36:59.379-08:00The Intrepid ExplorerThe Art of Julian Callos<br />by Stephanie Chefas<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirOa-hgZkyC_qquuzdf1dZCRNFMdSOImBetI-J9sYp372EL38JxEfied5ZeT6uc40YlnCngwTUTquqbY_JRtfgCYPjyDb7F4n2O3rK9xN51xDSm8JSpuIq9-rxHvAEEmHnoUiFcdcVVDzO/s1600/juliancallosinnerspace.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 298px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467178790743183634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirOa-hgZkyC_qquuzdf1dZCRNFMdSOImBetI-J9sYp372EL38JxEfied5ZeT6uc40YlnCngwTUTquqbY_JRtfgCYPjyDb7F4n2O3rK9xN51xDSm8JSpuIq9-rxHvAEEmHnoUiFcdcVVDzO/s400/juliancallosinnerspace.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Inner Space</em> by Julian Callos<br /></span><br />Haven't heard of Julian Callos? Don't worry, you will soon. This relative newcomer is turning heads with each new painting, and forging a style uniquely his own onto the Los Angeles art scene. I met up with Julian to learn more about the inspiration behind the latest works for his upcoming show at WWA gallery this Friday. Here he gives us a little insight into his artwork and what makes him 'tick'.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): What's the concept behind your upcoming show 'Into the Unknown'?<br /></strong><br /><br />Julian Callos (JC): I wanted to focus on one character going through a journey and exploring the strange and mysterious, represented by outer-space. He eventually travels through an environment reminiscent of viscera, so his adventure also becomes a metaphor for self-discovery. The entire journey represents an attempt to figure out the answers to life's questions by venturing through uncharted territory as well as looking inward and trying to discover how one fits into the larger scheme of the universe. It sounds like pretty heavy stuff, but really I want it to be fun at the same time. Exploration and discovery can be really exciting, so I wanted to have that sense of excitement alongside the general tone of contemplation and introspection.<br /><br /><br />The set of pieces that I'm showing in May is fairly small, so I'm considering eventually expanding the series even further, especially since the search for such answers to such weighty questions is never-ending. This set is open-ended anyway, with the explorer returning home without the answers he was looking for; instead, he has more questions than when he ventured out in the first place. That's another thing I wanted the series to address: the idea that even if you don't find the answers to whatever questions you have, you're all the better for having taken the journey to find them in the first place.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFBJoKsVGCn8JrI0LYWr9X6Vpm9Kjznyf0MaB7uzKkv8ItMoB63i13l38C7kqEO7e6R8H88gSJKgLstmrARGwu0jr1J8p4P-nNOiq6vnj69xRhO6hIOnGhKzsGkn_nmcoyAUiTkq5Bi6_/s1600/juliancallosmorequestionsthanever.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466384712023850802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFBJoKsVGCn8JrI0LYWr9X6Vpm9Kjznyf0MaB7uzKkv8ItMoB63i13l38C7kqEO7e6R8H88gSJKgLstmrARGwu0jr1J8p4P-nNOiq6vnj69xRhO6hIOnGhKzsGkn_nmcoyAUiTkq5Bi6_/s400/juliancallosmorequestionsthanever.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>More Questions than Ever </em>by Julian Callos<br /></span><br /><br /><strong>SC: What questions does the intrepid explorer have?</strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JC: He doesn't really have any specific questions...I wanted the paintings to be open enough so the viewer can interpret them in his or her own way. I think the journey of self-discovery, or even just a search for answers to one's issues — whatever they are — is a universal thing. Outer-space represents looking outward and maybe venturing outside one's comfort zone to find answers, and inner-space represents a more introspective approach.<br />Actually, I'm sure the intrepid explorer would like to know what's in the hatch (he's only mid-way through the first season of LOST).<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Would you tell me a little bit about your background?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><br />JC: I was born in the Philippines in 1987 and moved to Los Angeles at the age of three; I've lived in or around L.A. ever since. I'd been drawing even before I moved here, and I was inspired to keep drawing by the attention I got from family, friends, and teachers, who believed I had talent and encouraged me at an early age to nurture it.<br /><br />I just recently graduated from Otis College of Art & Design as an Illustration major, and I was lucky enough to have been there with an amazing mix of fellow students and professors before an over-haul of the department. I'm continually inspired by the people I met there, as well as by a wide variety of art forms that range from fine art to to cartoons to comics.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Tell me about your creative process.</strong><br /><br /><br /><br />JC: I start off by sketching and sketching and sketching until I come up with an idea and composition that I like. The sketching stage is actually the longest part of my entire process. Once I have a final sketch down and it's transferred to paper, the actual painting usually doesn't take too long to finish compared to how long all the sketching takes. I work with acrylic inks and washes of acrylic, using watercolor sable brushes for the line-work as well as the washes.<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Your artwork has transitioned through the years from animal skulls and forest creatures to drawing inspiration from ocean and space imagery. Is there anything specific inspiring this change?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><br />JC: Sometimes the change simply comes from a desire to paint and explore different subject matter; other times the change is sparked by some specific personal events. Recently I've been drawn to both ocean and outer-space imagery; there's especially a great sense of danger, romance, and adventure about the sea that I love. I think I started exploring those vast, mysterious territories through my work as a sort of allegory for new relationships and for my own venture from art student to artist working in the real world.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtyPvYMCmwqPQJa3PcJQWb0DjX0bXIuhoUxzG2o72UKeDoVwE-mhWk4lmS9fwPS3fRL3Gudw4zBQ0MQBScZsV9pZ_3JtY8CqV87DyBk7RH_Xp3Cb2uqAN9Gj7zA2qv1ON0Qv08KTCn1Qg/s1600/juliancallosselfreflection.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466384716734702258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtyPvYMCmwqPQJa3PcJQWb0DjX0bXIuhoUxzG2o72UKeDoVwE-mhWk4lmS9fwPS3fRL3Gudw4zBQ0MQBScZsV9pZ_3JtY8CqV87DyBk7RH_Xp3Cb2uqAN9Gj7zA2qv1ON0Qv08KTCn1Qg/s400/juliancallosselfreflection.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Self /Reflection</em> by Julian Callos</span><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Have you tried or ever wanted to create sculptures?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><br />JC: I created a sculpture/mixed-media piece for my senior project at Otis. It was really fun, so I'm trying to explore that medium more. I'm hoping I'll have enough time to make a tiny sculpture for the "Into the Unknown" show, so we'll see.<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: When you find yourself with 'artist block', what do you do to find inspiration?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><br />JC: I usually go out for a walk and try to think about other things. A lot of times, inspiration hits when you least expect it, so setting your thoughts on something else for a little while helps.<br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>SC: A recurring subject I see in many of your works is birds (Adrift, Afloat, Mine, High Spirits), what is the significance of the birds?<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong><br /><br />JC: I love incorporating symbolism into my work, and birds can symbolize so many different things depending on the species.<br /><br />Swallows are often associated with sailors as a mark of bravery and luck. They were also believed to protect the souls of sailors who had died at sea. So in my piece "Adrift," the symbolic meaning of the swallow is twisted around; the dead swallows on the ends of fishing lines represent a sort of "giving up" of the sailor character, who is left vulnerable because the swallows can no longer protect him. But at the same time, the swallows are being used as bait, in hopes of winning back what the sailor once lost.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtX3CK2Ycgpw-vcsMObWHt_DWiNmBiiilPJvL9m0tagO82cGehqo-1itcDL4eH_35eTboecqq-_24YLp2fmY-erYJHi4X74rsBSWv-NyPocPFHuHy3tUPfdO7M79ydMkIhZQqafvkDxe4b/s1600/Adrift.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 255px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466874707860292834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtX3CK2Ycgpw-vcsMObWHt_DWiNmBiiilPJvL9m0tagO82cGehqo-1itcDL4eH_35eTboecqq-_24YLp2fmY-erYJHi4X74rsBSWv-NyPocPFHuHy3tUPfdO7M79ydMkIhZQqafvkDxe4b/s400/Adrift.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Adrift</em> by Julian Callos</span><br /><br /><br />Its companion piece, "Afloat," is more positive; the sailor and his companion are together rising above a sea of uncertainty, with the swallows guiding and protecting them.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBlEEf86uuQCmBHYrzYI9pkeYiSBnGmWK0DgFSevGPX4CSBY0f7tu_NdV3anA6ypstuFRmgAm3CgGXXY4SpHfxEGuIX6yBYx5_YwuTp6l2Wp1SHvVRYupKYqHXvGSGlJ8lPrJd1z1RBUt/s1600/Afloat.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 296px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466874712360236962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBlEEf86uuQCmBHYrzYI9pkeYiSBnGmWK0DgFSevGPX4CSBY0f7tu_NdV3anA6ypstuFRmgAm3CgGXXY4SpHfxEGuIX6yBYx5_YwuTp6l2Wp1SHvVRYupKYqHXvGSGlJ8lPrJd1z1RBUt/s400/Afloat.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Afloat</em> by Julian Callos<br /></span><br /><br />In some legends, kingfishers are associated with calm seas. In "High Spirits," they're keeping the main character happy and tempered as he remains drunkenly oblivious in the flood of alcohol.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvIS-VS1djnklWlA1EyT5ueaOOyfrA-TWIeeY0bpU_4lGMw6NtwBebMm8iW4SBxBsWwE7-tgrIP4MC94kSyLIo7V_RjZz-Mq_Lr6_8c_i8i0D4GHLees-Q1vaAqLRXCTgci9tsW3xLNFv/s1600/High_Spirits.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 296px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466874720979168722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvIS-VS1djnklWlA1EyT5ueaOOyfrA-TWIeeY0bpU_4lGMw6NtwBebMm8iW4SBxBsWwE7-tgrIP4MC94kSyLIo7V_RjZz-Mq_Lr6_8c_i8i0D4GHLees-Q1vaAqLRXCTgci9tsW3xLNFv/s400/High_Spirits.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>High Spirits</em> by Julian Callos<br /></span><br /><br />Finally, canaries were used by miners as an early-detection system for harmful gases down in the mines. I just love the juxtaposition of something delicate and beautiful like the canary with rugged and worn-down miners and the fact that they're already closely associated with each other, so they're the main characters of my piece "Mine." Someone has interpreted the piece and noted that the escape of the canaries from their cage was a metaphor for the miner's soul leaving his body.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu83RfFMd6NvCzrhomR6uKp_0OKQ2VzJfbUWDAMXQpRgLr2ojFINxsu9muj-VQm88fhQ2fD04_ezjC8QEMvdCnfRMHMSWEo3J6BcP5Rp7ErrKIjJaPx1FOMc8iuECAC7N4yNjRB4XJJOZt/s1600/juliancallosdmd23.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 297px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466384700665847506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu83RfFMd6NvCzrhomR6uKp_0OKQ2VzJfbUWDAMXQpRgLr2ojFINxsu9muj-VQm88fhQ2fD04_ezjC8QEMvdCnfRMHMSWEo3J6BcP5Rp7ErrKIjJaPx1FOMc8iuECAC7N4yNjRB4XJJOZt/s400/juliancallosdmd23.jpg" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Mine</em> by Julian Callos</span><br /><br /><strong></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong>SC: If I were to spend the day with Julian, what could I expect?<br /></div></strong><br /><div>JC: A low-key hang-out or a fun-filled adventure. I'm always down for either.<br /><br /><strong></strong></div><div><strong>SC: What's the one thing you can not live without?<br /></div></strong><br /><div>JC: I hate to say it, but: the internet. It has consumed me. I should try going without it for a week... I'd probably spontaneously combust.<br /><br /></div><div><strong>SC: The one thing you can't live with?</strong><br /><br />JC: People with bad attitudes.<br /><br /><strong></strong></div><br /><div><strong>SC: Which artist, living or dead, has influenced you and your work the most?<br /></div></strong><br /><div>JC: I would say the cartoons I used to watch as a kid, especially the Looney Tunes under Chuck Jones, have had the biggest impact on me as an artist. They inspired me to keep drawing throughout my childhood and have definitely influenced my sense of humor and my love of puns! </div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwDcdvR9vpJetN19jwRMZVpA2YJzNk57vlazjCNTk0_EohL7a8xzaPTzurRX8LHryKhy5_yosaWw-UdGndPo6EhMDOmvwresn32SbXiINja5o80zDY8Ks-7viGsDYCthprW2LYVRpZczB/s1600/daffy-duck-looney-tunes-bugs-bunny-duck-dodgers.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466878166076805714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwDcdvR9vpJetN19jwRMZVpA2YJzNk57vlazjCNTk0_EohL7a8xzaPTzurRX8LHryKhy5_yosaWw-UdGndPo6EhMDOmvwresn32SbXiINja5o80zDY8Ks-7viGsDYCthprW2LYVRpZczB/s400/daffy-duck-looney-tunes-bugs-bunny-duck-dodgers.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><br />While in college I was looking at a lot of contemporary illustrators for inspiration, and have admittedly been a little too influenced by them. I've been trying to veer away from being overly-influenced so my work shines in its own way. I've been experimenting with styles and in many ways I'm still trying to find my own voice. I'm constantly building upon all that I've learned in the past and trying to consolidate all my loves and inspirations into something uniquely my own.<br /><br /></div><strong></strong><br /><br /><div><strong>SC: What's on the horizon for Julian?<br /></div></strong><br /><div>JC: I'm working on a couple groups shows with Gallery 1988 in L.A., and I've got a semi-regular visual column in LA Weekly called "LA-LA Land," which explores the eccentricities of Los Angeles and its characters. I'm hoping to participate in more gallery shows and find more illustration work, so if you keep up with my blog, I'll keep you updated about any exciting news! </div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Thanks Julian! To receive an advance online preview of 'Into the Unknown', visit <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/upcoming.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">WWA gallery</span></a>. To learn more about Julian and his artwork, visit <wwagallery.com. href="http://juliancallos.com/"><a href="http://juliancallos.com/">http://juliancallos.com/</a>.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-76212569477535320842010-04-28T10:22:00.001-07:002010-04-28T11:18:44.302-07:00Rob Corless Comes From A Land Down UnderHello Squid Faithful,<br /><br />My good friend, Rob Corless, has a show at the WWA Gallery, opening next Friday, May 7th at 7pm. His art is super kewl and you should def take the time to check out his blog at <a href="http://cyanidesunset.blogspot.com/">Cyanide Sunset</a>.<br /><br />I met Rob Corless sometime ago. Actually that is a big, fat liey liey lie lie. I've never actually met Rob Corless, although I've known him for sometime now. Ours is a 21st century friendship. It began when I saw a painting of his I just had to have on the reader art section of Juxtapoz's website. From there we became Myspace friends, because this was back in the day when people actually used Myspace. (Did I just date myself?) We've now transitioned to Facebook friends and I have full faith that one day we may actually be face to face, real life friends, but its more likely we'll just start following each other on Twitter.<br /><br />Anyways, enjoy getting to know Rob Corless the same way I have, by reading his answers to my asinine questions on a computer screen. YAY FOR TECHNOLOGY!!!!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpYIHK2Z_h-tPg82Qji8thEJqGoBRRjQejeNkPm8AubUfVBvi2jzFuz15cjnXfCZ5i6I3cUj0cjIhvje4JoHEYDtIEjcY3-J8msIAIcEqz22ESWFUWlb5kN4rPesEr_88SU4aoko4s5XB/s1600/PA100007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpYIHK2Z_h-tPg82Qji8thEJqGoBRRjQejeNkPm8AubUfVBvi2jzFuz15cjnXfCZ5i6I3cUj0cjIhvje4JoHEYDtIEjcY3-J8msIAIcEqz22ESWFUWlb5kN4rPesEr_88SU4aoko4s5XB/s320/PA100007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465254353689477186" border="0" /></a>DR: I've known you for a while now and I keep meaning to ask you this, what the hell is going on in that head of yours?<br /><br />RC: Ticking clocks and time bombs, and there is a net with a giant hole in it. And there is a strange dwarf that always laughs at me, kind of like a David Lynch movie.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiel-VidPqmX3pFOPTFfFICNaqa7JL30bvofgk5zyGiN6-L8C7OjyBlNp9JRncD1uKaF3FfecAT1DZBOLcSFslaJ7EbbvYqHSCtNTFteaMZmAoMF2Siil1wcfjDtL91y7zuRKVmhxPNmylY/s1600/issue4advert.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiel-VidPqmX3pFOPTFfFICNaqa7JL30bvofgk5zyGiN6-L8C7OjyBlNp9JRncD1uKaF3FfecAT1DZBOLcSFslaJ7EbbvYqHSCtNTFteaMZmAoMF2Siil1wcfjDtL91y7zuRKVmhxPNmylY/s320/issue4advert.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465245780577896754" border="0" /></a>DR: I know you have a regular comic in Strange Aeons Magazine and comics of your creation have been featured in Planet Lovecraft several times. What would you say were the most influential comics to you growing up and what comics are you into now?<br /><br />RC: The most influential would have to be The Maxx. Sam Keith's art really drew me in, but it was the story that made me rethink comics in general. It made me realize that comics could be more than just flashy good guys vs bad guys stories, but a very relate-able format for storytelling. I don't tend to read many comics these days. I enjoy drawing them and mainly spend time trying to get my own projects to see the light of day. Slowly but surely Dave, I'm sure you can appreciate that.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZ_3i1PB656HGGhCF0f94gSQD-T1YN-t6ksLUSqnKnQ9Xsw-CPz5WPM-2a-JOrXe0JVDai8H8ky2LDviN-8pnrB9q9WFfQHASUoF_LlOWapvojSs9dtCcLDLfGFAwDjY8EYa4v9mX8Qsd/s1600/the_maxx_01_cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZ_3i1PB656HGGhCF0f94gSQD-T1YN-t6ksLUSqnKnQ9Xsw-CPz5WPM-2a-JOrXe0JVDai8H8ky2LDviN-8pnrB9q9WFfQHASUoF_LlOWapvojSs9dtCcLDLfGFAwDjY8EYa4v9mX8Qsd/s320/the_maxx_01_cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465246090312998002" border="0" /></a>DR: An Asian influence seems to pop up in your work from time to time. Is this because you are a ninja sir, or is there a more probable and thereby boring reason?<br /><br />RC: I'm much too clumsy to be a ninja so there has to be another reason. I really enjoy Japanese art and design, particularly the Ukiyo-e prints by the greats like Utagawa and Hokusai, and this must translate in to my art in some way. I do tend to use dragons in my work which are very recognisable as an Asian symbol of strength and spiritualism.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsr-sFAYaGS8wlS-TEQd1RcV_d27NhvZk_zjn0dNwWwJEN3SB5DPLUuBTrY-4NZ7-9wKJVEaXO2S8eQfhxBG25yI28_OES36rAoRYu78MKXlqv9JzSHFcAQprN6vU5hPxoQKMM9JwUBO2/s1600/robcorlessryokomasku.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsr-sFAYaGS8wlS-TEQd1RcV_d27NhvZk_zjn0dNwWwJEN3SB5DPLUuBTrY-4NZ7-9wKJVEaXO2S8eQfhxBG25yI28_OES36rAoRYu78MKXlqv9JzSHFcAQprN6vU5hPxoQKMM9JwUBO2/s320/robcorlessryokomasku.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465246424006659186" border="0" /></a>DR: Let's say there is some validity to the theory of reincarnation. Do you think its possible that you've eaten some of your ancestors?<br /><br />RC: That could be possible. Sorry about that, but that's life I guess. Maybe they should have tried harder in their past life and they wouldn't have ended up as part of my meal.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyK8_objIHOzbewUTcJPg8ew5S4zWNAGgdObQXFVPQFJsQax-l08wlSBCG7U39M_-1Ma2XmQsn2YUUEbb2uCa0jlaiRsYB4_ot69Y3bnKjImGWMSvFcyQz32SddCST2mOx4UeQ6yndOJrf/s1600/robcorlessalgo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyK8_objIHOzbewUTcJPg8ew5S4zWNAGgdObQXFVPQFJsQax-l08wlSBCG7U39M_-1Ma2XmQsn2YUUEbb2uCa0jlaiRsYB4_ot69Y3bnKjImGWMSvFcyQz32SddCST2mOx4UeQ6yndOJrf/s320/robcorlessalgo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465246616066198066" border="0" /></a>DR: For those that don't know you, describe yourself, but do it as if you were writing a personal add on Craigslist.<br /><br />RC: Well-meaning Australian artist seeks validity in Artworld on some level.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj02LVRlmFVfgTSPBb_BtLXH7UmxYeCMt0aBljJNd8b_XDUBBuQIecUEWICcGoAHH0YTj2B_87mpm_IJeGM-RR_YqI9P09eL5YsT8Ba61TvvZd6R-Z_juRK3fpJLOAtZvWcW9-EfLgBn-AL/s1600/pg_10557-kangaroo-with-paintbrush-and-paint-can.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj02LVRlmFVfgTSPBb_BtLXH7UmxYeCMt0aBljJNd8b_XDUBBuQIecUEWICcGoAHH0YTj2B_87mpm_IJeGM-RR_YqI9P09eL5YsT8Ba61TvvZd6R-Z_juRK3fpJLOAtZvWcW9-EfLgBn-AL/s320/pg_10557-kangaroo-with-paintbrush-and-paint-can.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465247048664990898" border="0" /></a>DR: Your painting "The Sparrow Visit" involves a man with what appears to be a bag lunch and a box on his head. Do tell.<br /><br />RC: The image the box-headed man started off as a scribble that I found amusing. I thought it was kind of crazy for this guy to be hiding this way seeing as he was obviously out and interacting with the world. There is no real underlying meaning. I prefer to hear what people take away from the image.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfosW54bELIFdGZJl8-nH-HiInRehiSYaafSYdUF76aybOyh31Sn6lolawhmSHNkWYkEoCcbnwfWy707kq0f-wcu1AE8aFjBUaGxyqh6Zb7Qt3Fn91tC5RQwAjmMEQ2y4cfRVzbtIJBu4/s1600/robcorlessthesparrowvisit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfosW54bELIFdGZJl8-nH-HiInRehiSYaafSYdUF76aybOyh31Sn6lolawhmSHNkWYkEoCcbnwfWy707kq0f-wcu1AE8aFjBUaGxyqh6Zb7Qt3Fn91tC5RQwAjmMEQ2y4cfRVzbtIJBu4/s320/robcorlessthesparrowvisit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465247245447646946" border="0" /></a>DR: What are your feelings on boxed wine?<br /><br />RC: Great for playing Wheel of Goon. Hang the inner bag to a clothes-line, spin it. Whoever it stops over has to skull. It reminds me of parties many years ago.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQX3A6_eQENfOQkwR3bA4Gmm04T36UAWtx6xe4nzVKMLMhNM2USpOw7jjG6o4uHEIQLEGW0ryD-ZELSyrz__prHTQ16Z-Yf6bkyCukQf30_4UWCNahSPGy1-pat_cbttabvE9LNmi0AS6/s1600/boxed_wine.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQX3A6_eQENfOQkwR3bA4Gmm04T36UAWtx6xe4nzVKMLMhNM2USpOw7jjG6o4uHEIQLEGW0ryD-ZELSyrz__prHTQ16Z-Yf6bkyCukQf30_4UWCNahSPGy1-pat_cbttabvE9LNmi0AS6/s320/boxed_wine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465247506109546242" border="0" /></a>DR: I have no idea what the hell you just said. Moving on. What is your favorite thing to do when nobody is looking?<br /><br />RC: Sleeping. It is such a precious commodity.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPNoLDXvZqS-AJmoX7mpC4WgcuOjnIVYsPR9QQtXNp_h1riVEGgb8am-N0BfjeErGuK-C_85BqBDqGnVdV7FjFEzGzteKEG_d0AOYiEO1fFhBeZeJ6SXlbBdQlnjBtLvjGdePCAwv_VXI/s1600/robcorlessearlysignsofapath.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPNoLDXvZqS-AJmoX7mpC4WgcuOjnIVYsPR9QQtXNp_h1riVEGgb8am-N0BfjeErGuK-C_85BqBDqGnVdV7FjFEzGzteKEG_d0AOYiEO1fFhBeZeJ6SXlbBdQlnjBtLvjGdePCAwv_VXI/s320/robcorlessearlysignsofapath.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465248086958764210" border="0" /></a>DR: This is your first solo show in The States. As an outsider looking in what are your impressions of our fine country?<br /><br />RC: Growing up in Australia in the 80's I had a healthy dose American pop culture pumped into my brain in the form of TV sitcoms, movies, music etc. Starting from then I guess the US has always had a kind of fascinating appeal. Also there seem to be more opportunities to have a large audience see my art.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2_FzPENv4h3w_tZK7Rad48ohqP20Ztzfyo9XmRwl8gNdANDQaqJ_GHGUMh379MlbU4QHlB0qTlIfeP9aDOvLIM3HmxC8sml5cHDBQgJHX4OQOYvqie28iPBPrfwyK_vo4wlNd_i-5DGbP/s1600/robcorlessdaydream.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2_FzPENv4h3w_tZK7Rad48ohqP20Ztzfyo9XmRwl8gNdANDQaqJ_GHGUMh379MlbU4QHlB0qTlIfeP9aDOvLIM3HmxC8sml5cHDBQgJHX4OQOYvqie28iPBPrfwyK_vo4wlNd_i-5DGbP/s320/robcorlessdaydream.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465248929123660770" border="0" /></a>DR: Throughout all of the paintings in "Offerings" there is healthy dose of fantasy. What do you fantasize about? And may I remind you that your kids might read this someday.<br /><br />RC: When I was a kid I would wish that I had super powers. That I was able to fly or zap somebody with my hands. Now days when I'm working on a story for a comic I'll try to put myself in the scenario to try and come up with some ideas, but I wouldn't really call that fantasizing. I guess I fantasize about ordinary things like traveling the world or what I'd do if I came into loads of money. Probably the same as most people.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzztgnZrcz7ZyXwDow39HY-_1V1ioUoHde7bxdV8zxyM1YoJKdV3F958URUWRWcWwWSetEgmYn-czVoVM98V2Fq1Kr4rPpp_yg9UI7jqNc4ePoEzNoqNyVqLtlJOdPQZQ_oBHlRaGLnr3/s1600/queen-elizabeth-ii.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzztgnZrcz7ZyXwDow39HY-_1V1ioUoHde7bxdV8zxyM1YoJKdV3F958URUWRWcWwWSetEgmYn-czVoVM98V2Fq1Kr4rPpp_yg9UI7jqNc4ePoEzNoqNyVqLtlJOdPQZQ_oBHlRaGLnr3/s320/queen-elizabeth-ii.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465249260952146850" border="0" /></a>DR: One last question, what is the deal with the extra u in color? Colour? Seriously? Seriously?<br /><br />RC: In Australia we firmly believe in inefficiently placing extra irrelevant letters in certain words. I don't know, blame the Queen. It's her English.<br /><br />For more information and to view Rob's available artwork from the "Offerings", visit <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/">WWA gallery</a>.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-26675607508867387522010-04-25T11:39:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:19:02.498-07:00Rey Ortega LandA Conversation with Rey Ortega<br />By Rob Faucette<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKh8oY8mrUBq1ph60Ic90ssh2DVfR49A2l8MNCPYo0FSXro529i2iYy9f9A86jMYS8vjrOmVD8-YKXIIuq3DsohV_SyFtHh_61zBIgasZoKHQJy6j7fDPsHBS6ig246nTYqUYrvPSLPBq/s1600/Ortega2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKh8oY8mrUBq1ph60Ic90ssh2DVfR49A2l8MNCPYo0FSXro529i2iYy9f9A86jMYS8vjrOmVD8-YKXIIuq3DsohV_SyFtHh_61zBIgasZoKHQJy6j7fDPsHBS6ig246nTYqUYrvPSLPBq/s400/Ortega2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464150415640551282" /></a><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Rey Ortega</em> </span></div><br />Rey Ortega is a mind traveler. With his vision and power, he travels to a place that only he can journey to, but has the ability to show us what he sees. In Ortega’s drawings, paintings, and illustrations, there is a kind of quietness in the way these creatures and landscapes and themes (from love to ruins to death) are captured and brought back to us. Rey brings us pictures he has taken of The Land which exists as a mental geography: part archeology, part history, we eagerly await the images from his latest exploration. <br /><br />In preparation for Rey Ortega’s show, set to open at WWA gallery on May 7th, I asked Rey a few questions.<br /><br /><b>What did you want to be when you grew up? </b><br /><br />Pretty much from an early age, I always wanted to be an artist. I didn't know what exactly being a visual artist meant, mostly I just wanted to draw. There was brief period when I was like, 6, where I considered being a Firefighter, mostly for the trucks, and an Astronaut, mostly for the Spaceships. <br /><br /><b>What is your favorite memory? </b><br /><br />That's a tough one to pin down to just one. That one time I caught a huge pike while fishing, climbing to the very height of an Aztec pyramid, late nights at the studio back at school, the day I got a Nintendo. <br /><br /> <b>When do you do your best work? </b><br /><br />Either early in the morning, which I find is a good way to set the tone for the rest of the day, or late at night, when the rest of the world is sleeping. <br /><br /><b>In your exploration of The Land, what is your most interesting discovery? </b> <br /><br />The Land is filled with weird stuff that I haven't entirely explored yet. Right now it has to be all the ruins and statues. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRD5-1Z1uYh-lDWWtubGhjT37Cc6xM6E1R_AyxSenQcVHwKezB98vYT3Lp-Ry6AqTRfXzGfQNNA2yy_nhmQZZ82ReA5w9iiKgbBjSkd4jkhZGnYlyPD1jXknwXIyjtc1n4UZssMQC-fGtz/s1600/Ortega1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRD5-1Z1uYh-lDWWtubGhjT37Cc6xM6E1R_AyxSenQcVHwKezB98vYT3Lp-Ry6AqTRfXzGfQNNA2yy_nhmQZZ82ReA5w9iiKgbBjSkd4jkhZGnYlyPD1jXknwXIyjtc1n4UZssMQC-fGtz/s400/Ortega1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464151374256189330" /></a><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Rey Ortega</em> </span></div><br /><br /><b>What is the earliest record of The Land and the People or Inhabitants? </b><br /><br />There might be a long lost crayon drawing of the The Land, buried somewhere in a box...maybe some doodles on a wall that have been washed off long ago. Basically the first time I drew was the first time The Land was made, although I didn't know it at the time. It's all about being imaginative. <br /><br /><b>What is the most interesting custom in The Land? </b><br /><br /> That would have to be the tradition of rock garden maintenance and totem pole carving competitions. <br /><br /><b>Why is fantasy and myth (or myth making) important to a culture? </b> <br /><br />I think it was important, especially in the case of ancient civilizations, because mythology was a way to understand the world. Everything from where the sun goes at night, to why we feel love or jealousy. Even now, I still think there are important lessons buried underneath the veil of fantasy stories. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiT2MIAtcoubDK0nrhW60dWHgfOJu2v56eNG3HA6ggSEspaCKJSnMVE2oVySM_qlyb2F51Qs9eG_Xen7l0ymMRmDnhUTL84-f-WOclpEuztU73LrULT8PS3GMlSxwLMIE3zsAPjK8yTXp0/s1600/Ortega3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiT2MIAtcoubDK0nrhW60dWHgfOJu2v56eNG3HA6ggSEspaCKJSnMVE2oVySM_qlyb2F51Qs9eG_Xen7l0ymMRmDnhUTL84-f-WOclpEuztU73LrULT8PS3GMlSxwLMIE3zsAPjK8yTXp0/s400/Ortega3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464151837348152354" /></a><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Rey Ortega</em> </span></div><br /><br />These days mythology and fantasy are important to our culture because they essentially are a part of our culture. The way we tell the stories, and the people involved, might have changed, but even something that we might categorize as "pop" culture is still really important to our collective identity. Super Mario, Avatar, Zombies, we might not see it right now, but it's part of a new culture and heritage. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNuWZ7F4hETZJn2GNghKM5KZHuttdvR5x5Cns2A6VyQClL0wlbhAStxOndhuDkRI8J_ZD-vk-eCEv6LtSbWiDUo-RNj78CuGqwdvDnJyyA9OMt53ipFD-R5Q3-8wWVEfm-NGxSClfgOYm/s1600/Avatar+International.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNuWZ7F4hETZJn2GNghKM5KZHuttdvR5x5Cns2A6VyQClL0wlbhAStxOndhuDkRI8J_ZD-vk-eCEv6LtSbWiDUo-RNj78CuGqwdvDnJyyA9OMt53ipFD-R5Q3-8wWVEfm-NGxSClfgOYm/s400/Avatar+International.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464152084897331538" /></a><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Avatar</em> </span></div><br /><br /><b>What have been major influences on you?</b><br /><br />First and foremost, the work of Jim Henson. Everything from Sesame Street, to the Muppet Show and then into movies like Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwBjoB5P8QI0sx_FzeiCSpDPkZ3HImEDPjhd1OCTQx3sC3Ay9AyuXFhIyeuglXClPwgCBSC8KCn24RERaAKq2IEoWqI09ukASDKmQZVdeFMYjIGziCeePs-hkXgYcChyphenhyphen5QaDKgMdN6cDE/s1600/the+dark+crystal.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwBjoB5P8QI0sx_FzeiCSpDPkZ3HImEDPjhd1OCTQx3sC3Ay9AyuXFhIyeuglXClPwgCBSC8KCn24RERaAKq2IEoWqI09ukASDKmQZVdeFMYjIGziCeePs-hkXgYcChyphenhyphen5QaDKgMdN6cDE/s400/the+dark+crystal.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464152337646041314" /></a><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>The Dark Crystal</em> </span></div><br /><br />He was probably the first person that I recognized as a creator of a "world", and even though something like Kermit the Frog doesn't seem all that related to the Dark Crystal, still I feel like there is a common thread between all of them. A sensibility that informs Jim Henson's work that extends beyond just puppetry. Something heartfelt, quirky, something fantastic but also grounded in reality too. <br /><br />Another big influence are the games from Fumito Ueda, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus for the PS2. They go beyond what we normally understand what a video game is, and yet show a deep appreciation for the gaming tradition too. The way those games convey a feeling of place, of loneliness and huge sense of scale, I try and communicate that in my work too. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6oLu7UD8UlGs6U8bs7C4uxvQ0gHcLQmhSNyR31KFteWq1ntsBoOZm4m4K8kvXmB7v55TYA2eyHQd8KV3GG0-aurHDU9xLbSrxqHq9lTqbNwlfRTdEaPC7at0jh9QVZMpFaiR2eG4DLJN/s1600/Fumito+Ueda.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6oLu7UD8UlGs6U8bs7C4uxvQ0gHcLQmhSNyR31KFteWq1ntsBoOZm4m4K8kvXmB7v55TYA2eyHQd8KV3GG0-aurHDU9xLbSrxqHq9lTqbNwlfRTdEaPC7at0jh9QVZMpFaiR2eG4DLJN/s400/Fumito+Ueda.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464152560188759890" /></a><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Fumito Ueda</em> </span></div><br /><br />Those are the big ones, but I try to throw in almost everything that I see and here in my day to day life in my work. My parent's organic vegetable garden, moss growing on rocks, relationships, a funny conversation I had with friends. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilf8moIhs3lh9tvkhcxd1gOnLv2t18zDnBnu60PT05mXnUV04aZWKtORX4h4EPajbGarZLc-hcC_0ZWTWXGDmaZQiTpKf37zNCP703Pei4McAeNFL9NT8IHeRnzbXc1uTn-io3iPkvLIG/s1600/heartartSEND.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilf8moIhs3lh9tvkhcxd1gOnLv2t18zDnBnu60PT05mXnUV04aZWKtORX4h4EPajbGarZLc-hcC_0ZWTWXGDmaZQiTpKf37zNCP703Pei4McAeNFL9NT8IHeRnzbXc1uTn-io3iPkvLIG/s400/heartartSEND.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464152777370051346" /></a><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Rey Ortega</em> </span></div><br /><br />Rey Ortega earned his Bachelor's in Illustration from Sheridan College. He lives and works in Toronto, Canada.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-9286182834030110032010-04-20T20:45:00.000-07:002010-11-12T11:39:43.320-08:00Eye Heart stenSOUL<div align="left">The Art of Peat Wollaeger</div><div align="left">by Stephanie Chefas </div><br /><div align="left"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyFevRFVvIMhDP9KfSowLUkKsrdAlrKAbeGjmq79RR7kUfkqP2nvDcAI4X0v33Au7QqduuUaIF8KbsnlcXCBUgrUA4Z1JVjG_u98No6yfJIWc9CaFvPNaSROjvdGOkDo7k33ZqWeHTOgGL/s1600/peatwollaegereyediverhollywood3010.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 248px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462754064236991378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyFevRFVvIMhDP9KfSowLUkKsrdAlrKAbeGjmq79RR7kUfkqP2nvDcAI4X0v33Au7QqduuUaIF8KbsnlcXCBUgrUA4Z1JVjG_u98No6yfJIWc9CaFvPNaSROjvdGOkDo7k33ZqWeHTOgGL/s400/peatwollaegereyediverhollywood3010.jpg" /></a> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Eye Diver Hollywood 3010 by Peat Wollaeger</em> </span></div><p><br />'Suburban dad by day and stencil graffiti artist by night' is how one of L.A. 3010's stand out artists, Peat Wollaeger describes himself. This St.Louis based artist has been making his mark on the streets for years with his raw, brightly colored stencil characters. Fortunately for us, he agreed to taking a little time out to create <em>Eye Diver Hollywood 3010</em> for the Squids 2nd group show. We were so blown away by his contribution- the EYE burning hues of gold and orange and his haunting commentary of Los Angeles sliding into the Pacific in the not too distant future- we just had to know more about this soulful artist. Here Peat shares some insight into his artwork and what makes him 'tick'. </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"></p></span><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong></strong></div><div align="left"><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): What was your initial reaction upon hearing the theme for 'L.A. 3010'?</strong><br /><br /><br />Peat Wollaeger (PW): I guess what LA might look like in one hundred years and sad to say Global Warming was the first thing that popped in my mind. Immediately thought of the Hollywood hills turning into Coastal Property.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: How do you see Los Angeles today?</strong><br /><br />PW: Smoggy...Grimey...California Dreamin'! A lot of really sick work and galleries coming out of that town.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Would you tell me a little bit about your background?</strong><br /><br />PW: I started doing Graphic Design for the godfathers of Guerilla Marketing in the early 90’s for clients like Camel Cigarettes, Salem and Coca-cola. Once I saw how underhanded this world was....I left it behind and started doing my own “Guerilla art” with stencils and spray-paint.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUIiKoj2Zq4kIwnp7MW8lrEWdO_vTEZcrOTFX5i3d9DGb-aZccIgTdFOeOuaPA1js_UKm-Q5t1zh8M-5zozt0oHDX5MaB0IDmKVxUGr5G0Be4m903C2YkVJ6Eg1HkqnXJbTE-WEH7MAEC/s1600/Conan_Likes_Eyez.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462804732201538626" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsUIiKoj2Zq4kIwnp7MW8lrEWdO_vTEZcrOTFX5i3d9DGb-aZccIgTdFOeOuaPA1js_UKm-Q5t1zh8M-5zozt0oHDX5MaB0IDmKVxUGr5G0Be4m903C2YkVJ6Eg1HkqnXJbTE-WEH7MAEC/s400/Conan_Likes_Eyez.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Conan O'Brien and Peat Wollaeger</em> </span></div><div align="left"><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Tell me about your creative process.</strong><br /><br />PW: I create images that come deep from with-in my SOUL... I create them, digitally in Photoshop/Illustrator, CUT-them out and then Spray them on many different surfaces on and off the Street. I am also a video artist and create numerous stencil videos where I show my process or become the charater that I am painting. Peep some videos here --<a href="http://vimeo.com/peat/videos">http://vimeo.com/peat/videos</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sxM2zIzLatO8WILtOSeN0_HQSR228bvQXjuZueWfxB9SOFf9y4f0-LocDtxPTZ5pn2cd2G5L7jkD9N3l7ppY8GGMlItOEe_-5Rancy4Nkeqv7GW-wPirDR-BWOTaeZlC1S7vF6xuAmZE/s1600/Peat_Wollaeger.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462804739204530338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sxM2zIzLatO8WILtOSeN0_HQSR228bvQXjuZueWfxB9SOFf9y4f0-LocDtxPTZ5pn2cd2G5L7jkD9N3l7ppY8GGMlItOEe_-5Rancy4Nkeqv7GW-wPirDR-BWOTaeZlC1S7vF6xuAmZE/s400/Peat_Wollaeger.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Peat in his studio</em> </span></div><div align="left"><br /><br /><strong>SC: What's the significance of the "eye"?</strong><br /><br />PW: The Eye represents the window to my “SOUL” and IS at the very heart of every stenSOUL piece that I spray! The eye has always been at the center of my art. One of the first paintings I created was of an eye, and is the first thing that stands out when you look at my work.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijsCjLJv1K7dIkgjUeVoP3tQpTLZlxnhuXdfa5ubrqmST6xMIigtP5I8HrA1YWgrPBvbTyzboDE_2eI5l4rK7xhieJakl8S9_I-iLKMcbiryHKHRoNMe6AmmySg_C-jsWnkswrr4qF0wc/s1600/Orange+Celly+Eye+Peat.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462799504092411298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijsCjLJv1K7dIkgjUeVoP3tQpTLZlxnhuXdfa5ubrqmST6xMIigtP5I8HrA1YWgrPBvbTyzboDE_2eI5l4rK7xhieJakl8S9_I-iLKMcbiryHKHRoNMe6AmmySg_C-jsWnkswrr4qF0wc/s400/Orange+Celly+Eye+Peat.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>SC: As a graffiti artist, have you ever found it difficult to find the right representation?</strong><br /><br />PW: I do not consider myself a Graffiti Artist, because I feel I do not vandalize. I have respect for the places that I put up my art, and with not paint over raw brick or a property that has been taken care of. I guess I would consider my self more of a Street Artist and I always try to make my canvas look better than when I arrived.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZT5FJsk71P9Ve963lmZdqXi87Y_0nK_q-wp5Zof07W5EWUDaQqjDpmu-fy2FaesMV3DOkaJmteTubMGhIUupU6REHBJel6iWqBoAENMKLLkUIpQPXi6mm-qcFTcEEryHgDEBW5Ut2ilV/s1600/Paint_Cans.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 344px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462799510199348226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZT5FJsk71P9Ve963lmZdqXi87Y_0nK_q-wp5Zof07W5EWUDaQqjDpmu-fy2FaesMV3DOkaJmteTubMGhIUupU6REHBJel6iWqBoAENMKLLkUIpQPXi6mm-qcFTcEEryHgDEBW5Ut2ilV/s400/Paint_Cans.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: If I were to spend a day with Peat, what could I expect the day to be like?</strong><br /><br />PW: Non-stop action!<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: What's the one thing you can not live without?</strong><br /><br />PW: My Family.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: The one thing you can't live with?</strong><br /><br />PW: Haters.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Which artist, living or dead, has influenced you and your work the most?</strong><br /><br />PW: Undoubtedly it would be Keith Haring.<br />He was the first artist I saw doing street art in the 80’s and his colors and energy completely spoke to me. I did a Massive tribute to Keith at Art Basel in Miami for Primary Flight a few years back, I even dressed up like him and painted his portrait in character. ( http://vimeo.com/2280517 ) While I was in Melbourne, I notice a building that he painted was Badly faded and was up for sale and was possibly going to be torn down....so I left a message on the front gate that said “Never Forget Keith” <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stensoul/2796251261/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/stensoul/2796251261/</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWp2y5-oRpP5xcBJtUU2BPpEvyPNW_8YaM3MGqHR3O75eKfSF3HqsQNU3mUTBoF-zFerqmrrRn1uKeh-gQ_TOoIAo0hT0wSMbETa-MVTXCf5mDh_V_mQRhgvRIXQh14OUZsZLjxasYCGJc/s1600/peat_keith_portrait.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462799497397519586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWp2y5-oRpP5xcBJtUU2BPpEvyPNW_8YaM3MGqHR3O75eKfSF3HqsQNU3mUTBoF-zFerqmrrRn1uKeh-gQ_TOoIAo0hT0wSMbETa-MVTXCf5mDh_V_mQRhgvRIXQh14OUZsZLjxasYCGJc/s400/peat_keith_portrait.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div align="left"><div align="left"><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Peat's tribute to Keith Haring</em> </span></div><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: What's on the horizon for Peat?</strong><br /><br />PW: This summer I am doing a massive Mural project in Beacon NY called Electric Windows with pieces by Logan Hicks, Ron English, Chris Stain, Bigfoot and more... http://www.electricwindowsbeacon.com I also have a show at Brooklyn's Mighty Tanaka Gallery with Robots will Kill and Choice Royce in September. Keep and EYE out for more stuff at stenSOUL.com<br /><br /></div><p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Thanks Peat! Be sure to check out Peat's art at the L.A. 3010 group show. Show runs until May 1st. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"></span><br />For more information and to view Peat's available artwork from the "L.A. 3010" group show, visit </span><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/la3010/la3010artshow.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">WWA gallery</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. To learn more about Peat and his art, visit </span><a href="http://www.stensoul.com//"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.stensoul.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /></p></span>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-40685528013862864682010-03-24T19:46:00.000-07:002010-03-24T22:16:32.012-07:00L.(innea) S.(trid) 3010<span style="font-size:100%;"> Holla. Radford here.<br /></span><div style="margin: 1ex;"><div><p style="font-family:arial;">If you've noticed a little something extra in the air lately, and you've been asking yourself what it is, I am here to tell you that it is excitement and it is there because Industrial Squid has a new show opening this Friday. I'll give you time to stop screaming and dancing around with happiness.</p><p style="font-family:arial;">You ready? Good.</p><p style="font-family:arial;">So the new show is <a href="http://wwagallery.com/upcoming.html">L.A. 3010</a>, and it gave artists a chance to envision what the City of Angels might look like after another 1000 years of partying have gone down in the books. One of those artists was the tremazing (both tremendous and amazing at the same freaking time) Linnea Strid. If you aren't familiar with Linnea's work then be prepared to have your mind blown. I sent Linnea some questions and she was nice enough to take some time out of her day to reply to my nonsense.</p><p style="font-family:arial;">And...here...we....go....<br /></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Dave Radford: Hello lady! Well let me thank you for being a part of our L.A. 3010 group show. It was important to us to have a few international artists involved because we wanted to see how artists living outside of this country perceive the City of Angels. What first comes to mind when you think of L.A.?</span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Linnea Strid: Hey there, and thank <i>you </i> for inviting me to take part in the show! Well, the last time I went to LA was nine years ago, and what first comes to mind must be the cool atmosphere. Very laid back and kind of “be whoever you want to be, we don’t care”. And yes, the beaches in Venice obviously made a deep impact on me, haha.</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg918oP82p90-JCRLuVrie_xoWmNVDW5GiR_P7W8zI0lqNygqP6sIwamn5Cuaf0eYeqoTbFQIt49jsm-2vdWYaPpxvEY8p9XSJxI2FHo0l41Tb23vFaxi1jfMSjAn0Jv1fpOJkoHJ98ewvi/s1600/roundedreflection.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg918oP82p90-JCRLuVrie_xoWmNVDW5GiR_P7W8zI0lqNygqP6sIwamn5Cuaf0eYeqoTbFQIt49jsm-2vdWYaPpxvEY8p9XSJxI2FHo0l41Tb23vFaxi1jfMSjAn0Jv1fpOJkoHJ98ewvi/s320/roundedreflection.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452404884186271602" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">DR: I fell in love with your oil paintings from the first time I saw them. You create extremely realistic images, even though your paintings often involve elements like rippling water or rounded reflections, which tend to be more difficult to paint in such a life like manner. So give it up. What is your secret? Are you a witch of some sort or do you have a working relationship with magical elves that come into your studio in the middle of the night?</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: I suppose my secret has been revealed now, so I better look for a new job. No, but as much as I would love to have witch powers or a great working relationship with elves (not Legolas though.. he’s such a dork) I actually work best alone. Team work has always been difficult for me and I love to just lock myself up in my studio for days... or weeks. Hmmm, maybe that’s the trick? Yeah, that’s my answer, becoming a hermit.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">DR: How do you choose the subjects that you paint? Does it involve a dart board?</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: I suck at throwing darts so I usually just ask my dog, she’s extremely intelligent and has a lot of creative ideas. They usually involve food, sleeping and chasing cats... but I can read between the lines, I know what she’s after.</span></p><p face="arial"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYz3emH4QjQoMhuWWk_X3_lde83vAi_YLkz-ps8k3lof-Y-7U5iOprcqyb2bttk7gXqsGWK0L_Z_OFpJSsLjqI1dDfGN3XSNUNHRdVtRnrNP4GSP7VrQBaUxLiLkckgYx-oly-F-4w_nfJ/s1600/pringles.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYz3emH4QjQoMhuWWk_X3_lde83vAi_YLkz-ps8k3lof-Y-7U5iOprcqyb2bttk7gXqsGWK0L_Z_OFpJSsLjqI1dDfGN3XSNUNHRdVtRnrNP4GSP7VrQBaUxLiLkckgYx-oly-F-4w_nfJ/s320/pringles.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452404885991612050" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">DR: Yellow?<br />a. Strongly Agree<br />b. Whatevs.<br />c. Disagree<br />d. Bacon.<br />Why?</span><br /></p> <p face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: Disagree. It’s the color of pee and it just looks terrible on me.<br /><br />DR: After LA 3010, the WWA Gallery is featuring Australian artist Rob Corless and Canadian artist Rey Ortega, and we at Industrial Squid love working with international artists for our group shows because we've found there is great work coming out of nearly every corner of the globe, even though it just occurred to me that globes don't technically have corners....anyways....is there any place on this little planet of ours that has particularly sparked your interest because of the art work coming out of it?<br /></span></p> <p face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: I’m really into the new American contemporary art movement with pop surrealism, photo realism, graffiti, street art and all that implies. I’m feeling a bit bored with Swedish art at the moment. Sure, performance art, installations and conceptual art was fun for a while, but come on. It’s time to move on now (not saying all of it is crap, just generally speaking).</span></p><p face="arial"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTbyiNbpDHZpjb2l4yvvsVlbBcpipE3uNKlnfSDLgcpOgwE1SNMohQeiwrvczhIG-extsQU413Kzmx3jt4alPgy9eJ3_6mDL6vRz_WNDRA_XGPPNtlFQMnR4xFg0qbC1Mv06HDJSBZfTHo/s1600/adolf.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTbyiNbpDHZpjb2l4yvvsVlbBcpipE3uNKlnfSDLgcpOgwE1SNMohQeiwrvczhIG-extsQU413Kzmx3jt4alPgy9eJ3_6mDL6vRz_WNDRA_XGPPNtlFQMnR4xFg0qbC1Mv06HDJSBZfTHo/s320/adolf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452404874124862018" border="0" /></a></p><p face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;"> DR: Your painting of George W Bush and Adolf Hitler drinking tea whilst getting their hair did always makes me smile. Do you enjoy infusing social commentary into your work and is it something we will see more of in the future?</span><br /></p> <p face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: Yes, I do enjoy making some sort of social commentary in my work, whether it’s the work itself or just a hint in the title. It was much more important for me to make grand statements when I was younger, but it’s still a huge part of who I am, so you never know, I might do some political art in the future. For me, the <i>Baywatch year 3010</i> piece is also somewhat political since it concerns the future of the animals and the climate of our planet, but maybe not quite in an obvious and hardcore way as <i>George and Adolf</i>.</span></p><p face="arial"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE9BtoseBD5DeXEViqHzxhFWHW1gpt_xyBIJFvzddrbIZ69CGAZoUACjPZ6O3H16jLzTxqqzYWDsnJKJqaIlG2Gk0Gz5SIdCWy8ZEl0Xro_KygacJYe4wQHZeFe0gfM5smJ_8wGElAoc_R/s1600/la3010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE9BtoseBD5DeXEViqHzxhFWHW1gpt_xyBIJFvzddrbIZ69CGAZoUACjPZ6O3H16jLzTxqqzYWDsnJKJqaIlG2Gk0Gz5SIdCWy8ZEl0Xro_KygacJYe4wQHZeFe0gfM5smJ_8wGElAoc_R/s320/la3010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452404896125016146" border="0" /></a></p><p face="arial"><span style="font-size:100%;"> DR: Your contribution to LA 3010 is A-mazing, although I may be biased because it does involve my two favorite things, Polar bears and the beach. What inspired you to turn LA into a winter wonderland?<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: Thank you! It was pretty much a nice little cocktail of climate changing, animal loving and a cold, ruthless, Swedish winter who made it happen. </span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">DR: Since your painting is titled Baywatch 3010 I have to ask what will probably be considered the defining question of our times, who was your favorite Hasselhoff, Michael Knight in Knight Rider or Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch?<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: Oh, the agony of choice! But if I have to choose, I suppose I’d go with Michael Knight. I mean seriously. Knight Rider. Epic.</span><br /></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKzHqU1mclOFkNVKOe4TUM9G-WLqBN8-AtVu-9M8qc7E0Z3MA6yuKN-y0Oca9fWiw4v-axF9orjdcCbhad3GZ5Gcffleoa_7lkkq5t1_TsbqQjp7W56uEU9Me5TB4fCovKkrMzp_AMDlM/s1600/hoff-knight-rider-mustang.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKzHqU1mclOFkNVKOe4TUM9G-WLqBN8-AtVu-9M8qc7E0Z3MA6yuKN-y0Oca9fWiw4v-axF9orjdcCbhad3GZ5Gcffleoa_7lkkq5t1_TsbqQjp7W56uEU9Me5TB4fCovKkrMzp_AMDlM/s320/hoff-knight-rider-mustang.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452406110148977778" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">DR: Industrial Squid's next group show is "I Believe in Unicorns," which is going to be a celebration of all things happy and smiley. What things make you happy and smiley?<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">LS: Unicorns are pretty cool, I think they’d make me smile if I ran into some in the street. But except from that I’d say girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, silver white winters that melt into springs. These are a few of my favorite things.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">DR: We've already seen what you think the future might hold for LA, but what do you hope the future holds for Linnea Strid?</span><br /></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">LS: Lots of fun experiences and painting, that’s all I ask for. Oh, and a new house/studio would be awesome too. </span><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">For more information and to view Linnea's available artwork from the "L.A. 3010" group show, visit </span><a href="http://wwagallery.com/upcoming.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">WWA gallery</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. To learn more about Linnea and her art, visit</span> <a href="http://www.linneastrid.se/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://www.linneastrid.se/</span></a></span></div> </div> </div>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-4665080006180117512010-03-22T17:30:00.000-07:002010-11-12T11:32:24.596-08:00Devil's Haircut<span style="font-family:arial;">The Art of Edward Robin Coronel</span><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;">by Stephanie Chefas</span></div><div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 153px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455554474621881682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEZiF5bRropxiP85G3xQDEmJ57_MXLu2Keelw1MvIureRu5fdx4bc6vRw8QShMdJ4J6j9BcXY8nRrc1U0czCb8x6OT1MRYm_Ls-UB1s9fXu445SHfrfETZR2vygIn02rFCLNSwFJWYmQX/s320/23525_380908243410_656448410_4151545_2094684_n.jpg" /> <strong></strong></div><div><strong>Edward Robin Coronel</strong> is a very busy man these days showing in several group shows and a solo show that opens April 1st at Epoch in Austin, Texas. Early this year ERC showed new works in <strong>The Devil Made Me Do It</strong> group show at WWA and delivered an outstanding piece titled 'Haricut' that has been receiving much attention. Find out what makes ERC "tick" and get a sneak peek of his new works for his latest solo show 'furry:fuzzy'.</div><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 158px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455554813331758322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimz9Sq1jQ60hxxpsw8YhP-4yStV3-g62pPQCyiqYwvXrItwUp-vhPKCXMhlo4S9Vh-tVaIlAPadoMnTjQ6p3N8WoqXtydNcfUTVxxfYTqLb_tQ13himfGcztsPROadn1BHJGqKg2I_00iC/s320/23525_380908173410_656448410_4151535_2751678_n.jpg" /> <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455554816275133650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04qIGyQZ8SvKrExnwI_GZ7687kD1t6QlR8nVxkuWA7hVdrPj_KWarmRTu_LCf-2SrOD71gkSwNCJYbos4HwJFClFpLx2hPtuR8DJZ8A0vKESJJCL9MVBePgVUB5Dy4y1f_re8OxXG4ozm/s320/23525_380922568410_656448410_4151994_1920936_n.jpg" /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): When hearing about the theme for The Devil Made Me Do It, what was your initial reaction? </strong><br /><br />Edward Robin Coronel (ERC): I immediately thought of the very first time I heard that line. My sister, April, said it defensively. She was around 6, and I was about 8 years old. Since then, in my childhood, I’ve thought about saying it but knew I would have regretted it.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: What are some things in your life that the devil made you do?<br /></strong><br />ERC: In my youth, I’ve done my share of damage that I was not too proud of. Luckily, no one was hurt, and time heals wounds.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: What was your most memorable dream or nightmare?</strong><br /><br />ERC: I had a pretty vivid dream last night. I was calmly replacing a flat tire, while my father, B.A. “Bad Ass” Baracus, and Wolverine were diverting rainy-city-rush hour traffic around my little white ’93 Toyota Carolla station wagon. All three of them were pretty impatient and grouchy. They gave me their own perspective on how to change a tire, while I calmly swapped the flat out. We were running late to meet up with other friends who wanted to see “Maid in Manhattan.” Yep, this was a nightmare alright.<br /><br />I know it may sound pretty weird, but I can remember most of my dreams.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: Did you go to art school?<br /></strong><br />ERC: No, but I took a basic art class in high school. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and minor in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduating, I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 15 years. I am passionate about making art and have been painting for a couple of years now. It is a wonderful outlet.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Can you tell me about your process?</strong><br /><br />ERC: It usually starts off as a quick “concept doodle” in a sketchbook. Once, I like the drawing, I paint it onto canvas. When I am satisfied with the initial composition, I build up many layers of color before adding the finishing touches. At times, I feel that I am back in the R&D lab and experimenting. I do allow the characters to evolve on the canvas so the final work may look different from the initial sketch. From the distance, some of the characters appear to be one solid color of paint, but if you look closely, you can see other colors come through. I’ve also tried to document the process of my work by taking lots of photos to show the transitional progress of each painting. Being new to making art, I like to see the steps I have taken to bring me to the final work.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451642513054623970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYZwK3jKoPC5c_OORnFQFVL2hXD3bYO4HZS4zYKMPAbMKVXEJi3MioigK3RMRLamoBEBK5AUd_Ek2F7AlIjssFvXtUEmZ_I_PauTfh78OIJVkqlOq0H_jvR5kmRyTTkk-GE6g31qArOyZa/s320/ERC.jpg" /> <img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451643806017420818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBVY0JOlB69ScbfBzdGtMiD9pfBL8k4GB4aEQ6_61GR8uzIx11KcV3MqFiiBCiApWUCEWJnxZZnTCP-mF47CuNlyCLa38eirfqSh0KDFAh78VrgxWHbWDSfyKP9xEI28HLNGRnbGWA2UGs/s320/ERC2.jpg" /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: The Haircut is such a great, playful take on the Devil theme and has been getting a lot of attention. What was your inspiration for creating this piece?<br /></strong><br />ERC: It was from a happy memory of the first time I heard the line. In our childhood, my parents caught my sister, April, and me playing “barbershop.” April was the barber, and I was the client. April used the line defensively after shaving part of my right eyebrow off with our father’s electric shaver.<br /><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451642516353262514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNq8-iYbm7-LYdUGtxlY64CBdXl7XzXUXiuI5cMBihgHCNRNeNd-3L4hfQKHvutroAYelSRm4M43uAN08Wa_3a-Q-KFjBef78V7HklVn9bZv8qxURITDs2hcAXWwbjBDn-qkp1u2yjT0o/s320/GetAttachment.jpg" /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: Are many of your childhood memories the inspiration behind your works?<br /><br /></strong>ERC: Yes, most of my artwork is inspired from memories. They can be inspired from happy memories from my childhood and/or colorful interactions with folks.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451646122271642274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEymqLYLH4Q3jIs4eEpCJR-AnTs-Rpa4ShiB8N25lgiT2huuDH3eYyo5A1BlXBXEnh3CNnpkIFFtiHfHCAwjwjHXfkyCf_GTrNIOQQRrH1XenhKdewmEtYpPt7UOiYYiiaU89caNxhEtlq/s320/18941_231642843410_656448410_3533012_4663248_n.jpg" /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Tell me about the two other pieces in the show, The Wolf and The Piglet.</strong><br /><br />ERC: Speaking of colorful interactions, I was projecting some feelings onto canvas where I thought the fun “Devil” theme would fit.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 264px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451646133013014338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6efgJ30xEZrfzRRnJ3JbuTh5-A1xxvXhkxGMMQFWwYvYujr8TFWEktT2mvqJxHnb21V4clD7dZMgbImo_mAUBv21qkqwGejiXAW71tq5HrXqrQb7ElMmzuiM8YcjDLNCFkz09rLb2heX/s320/27104_105427172814840_100000426735242_140555_4323786_n.jpg" /><br /><br /><strong>SC: What are you creating at the moment? Any shows coming up in the near future?</strong><br /><br />ERC: I am finishing up some work for an April solo show at Epoch and a 5x7 fundraising group show at Arthouse at the Jones Center in May. They are both here in Austin. I am also very excited to get started on my piece for the I Believe in Unicorns show at the WWA Gallery.<br /></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />For more information and to view Edward Robin's available artwork from "The Devil Made Me Do It" group show, visit </span><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/devil/thedevilmademedoitartshow.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">WWA gallery</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. To learn more about Edward Robin and his art, visit </span><a href="http://www.edwardrobin.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.edwardrobin.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /></span></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-4161418805125158112010-03-08T17:01:00.000-08:002010-03-08T17:43:55.520-08:00The Devil and Mr Sisson<span style="font-size:100%;">Radford here again with another interview full of deep, philosophical questions that help illuminate the psyche of one of the <a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/devil/thedevilmademedoitartshow.html">"Devil Made Me Do It"</a> artists. This time Dylan Sisson dared to stand before the firing squad and in doing so he revealed, among many other things, a predilection for chainsaws, his true feelings on argyle, and the terrifying possibility that he may indeed be close to building a time traveling robot. Don't believe me? (Why should you? We really haven't known each other that long.) Read for yourself.<br /></span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><div class="im"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6CRTsCQF9uEgPbIDCHXNvvv0JMkcPq_YKJI5DEAGFxjIlYFWO1S6lvtwQ0GAN27gAihK6_R9hgCO0kyvl3rYi7MQeddEvLT_GeODHmt0BawFIx8moeq0w-dPsBWiyrk5gErgAAdmN85J/s1600-h/dylansissondmd12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6CRTsCQF9uEgPbIDCHXNvvv0JMkcPq_YKJI5DEAGFxjIlYFWO1S6lvtwQ0GAN27gAihK6_R9hgCO0kyvl3rYi7MQeddEvLT_GeODHmt0BawFIx8moeq0w-dPsBWiyrk5gErgAAdmN85J/s320/dylansissondmd12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446442469711218914" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">Dave Radford (DR): Your artwork has been described, I believe by you, as Creepy Cute. Is there anything you find creepy cute in real life? For instance, I think hairless dogs and cats are creepy cute. I hope I didn’t just take your answer.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b> </b></p></div><p style="margin: 0px;">Dylan Sisson (DS): Whew, thankfully you didn't steal my answer, otherwise the tables would be turned, and I would have to interview you instead. And that would make for a bad interview, wouldn't it? </p><div class="im"><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">DR: Indeed. Putting the propaganda aside, which do you feel is the most important meal of the day?</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p></div><p style="margin: 0px;">DS: I appreciate the diplomatic nature of your query. Perhaps the meal that is the best is the meal not had? Perhaps being sated, physically, spiritually, or mentally, inhibits the creation of art. Maybe asceticism is inspiring? Or maybe it's purely pragmatic ... when I don't eat, I have more time left to paint. </p><div class="im"><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtAtqC6q4h1_3fX15Tv-MIfQtZ3UqLm7Jm4X7mYtPAuAsYBs1STq1AhdoScft23FbpOK9Cg0qTSCr1toagRjPyWC8uvNa3f2dFFEzUvN-9Jqwe_qhreYsv2EyoesljqBTemNhMhQUNT_Gq/s1600-h/Baker's_Dozen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtAtqC6q4h1_3fX15Tv-MIfQtZ3UqLm7Jm4X7mYtPAuAsYBs1STq1AhdoScft23FbpOK9Cg0qTSCr1toagRjPyWC8uvNa3f2dFFEzUvN-9Jqwe_qhreYsv2EyoesljqBTemNhMhQUNT_Gq/s320/Baker's_Dozen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446441909182454738" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">DR: What do you think the characters you create do when you aren’t watching?</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><b> </b></p></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;">DS: That assumes my characters have free will, but ok. When I'm not watching I'd like to think my characters are following me behind my back. </p><div class="im"><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">DR: What are your feelings on argyle?</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><b> </b></p></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">DS: It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't like to live there ... but seriously, Argyle has always been a sore point for me, a thorn in my side ... Argyle never liked it when I said that Plaid was my favorite color and could never forgive me. Well, I told Argyle that Argyle is really just like Plaid but with a slight tilt. I even said that Plaid could be considered Argyle, but Argyle could never be Plaid, and guess what? Argyle didn't care.</span></p><div class="im"><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlEwG2NO0vHJqH8hcwfuGYXLBOdg_k2_ytG162lK2T_VNx6HEeZ0oo9a8UIPEwlUN4fYVRQXo7GVvBgi-CeySgLqOoT9ViiFM7uSdDLUq_MYyfpUw99MHXay-kNR7K5vL6DvnqN8axKg6Y/s1600-h/Uncle_Rhubarb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlEwG2NO0vHJqH8hcwfuGYXLBOdg_k2_ytG162lK2T_VNx6HEeZ0oo9a8UIPEwlUN4fYVRQXo7GVvBgi-CeySgLqOoT9ViiFM7uSdDLUq_MYyfpUw99MHXay-kNR7K5vL6DvnqN8axKg6Y/s320/Uncle_Rhubarb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446442054662935826" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"> DR: So you sketch, paint, animate, design vinyl toys and even i-Phone games. Are there any other media you’d like to explore, then conquer and benevolently rule over?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p></div><p style="margin: 0px;">DS: Well, I've actually had a long standing fascination with chainsaw art ... I would like to explore that, if given an infinite amount of time. A lot of the subject matter of chainsaw art falls within the boundaries of bears, gnomes, and the great american bald eagle. There's a lot of stuff that hasn't been done. The idea of creating a motley collection of chainsaw sculptures for some kind of bizzarro road side attraction is kinda interesting ... but it's also a lot of bulky equipment, you need to get some tree trunks and a chainsaw for starters. You can't carry that stuff around and make art spontaneously ... like sketching people on the bus with a log and a chainsaw. That's generally frowned upon. </p><div class="im"><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">DR: What was your favorite comic growing up?</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><p style="margin: 0px;">DS: This is actually a rather tough question. But I'd have to say that out of all the comics I read as a little kid, Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland was pretty much my all out favorite ... just because the stories were so elaborate and strange. And as a kid the only prop you needed to pretend to be Little Nemo was a bed. Luckily I had one of those. Of course, Winsor McCay was an early pioneer of animation and watching his early animation Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) taught me how the process of animation actually worked, a bonus I guess. </p><div class="im"><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTU170i4mDuNJKoQj6exjj1KQ-o9chBZVxhiYraT4xG06om5K01N_hViSSQukCNSKJG3qG8oWXc8r7hVYHpMTd2DI9LFRqn6b7Ne5J3GjdYu2au392aWSLr7VDkt4L72FL8WWwgwiTuiID/s1600-h/Fashionably_Late.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTU170i4mDuNJKoQj6exjj1KQ-o9chBZVxhiYraT4xG06om5K01N_hViSSQukCNSKJG3qG8oWXc8r7hVYHpMTd2DI9LFRqn6b7Ne5J3GjdYu2au392aWSLr7VDkt4L72FL8WWwgwiTuiID/s320/Fashionably_Late.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446442225807535346" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">DR: You created possibly the most adorable depiction of the devil ever for our Devil Made Me Do It show. Is there anything in your past you’d now like to take this platform to publicly blame the devil for?</span></p><br /></div>DS: I thank you for this opportunity to publicly blame the devil. In Boise Idaho, when I was a young lad of 13, I danced in front of a security camera at a pizza parlor ... like a mime. I pushed against the invisible wall of the camera, thinking that the security guard would look at me on his screen and think ... "Ha, there's a kid pretending like he's trapped in my security monitor!" Years later I now realize he probably thought I was a punk. I now have to agree with him ... I was a punk, and I publicly blame the devil for making me do that. If I could build a robot and send it back to anytime in the past. I would send that robot to that pizza parlor and kill that mime boy.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">For more information and to view Dylan's available artwork from "The Devil Made Me Do It" group show, visit </span><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/devil/thedevilmademedoitartshow.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">WWA gallery</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. To learn more about Dylan and his art, visit</span> <a href="http://www.dylansisson.com/">www.dylansisson.com</a></span></div>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-23112990758557054562010-03-03T22:35:00.000-08:002010-11-12T11:40:39.894-08:00Elephant in the Room<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Art of David M. Ball</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">by Stephanie Chefas</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZzpoTcjQWMguExkCFl9subE8wkaGR1ChTlHhOoODbmQcIJyKmbmoVJqqFfI6b-tVuB7KSpEafEQYFXeq8Ua98DY3PLLAyYROawovRfGXVy9CMS9kAwvzIGXNKkVVwVNEwg006_dQl1SJ/s1600-h/_DSC4450.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445556688896090770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZzpoTcjQWMguExkCFl9subE8wkaGR1ChTlHhOoODbmQcIJyKmbmoVJqqFfI6b-tVuB7KSpEafEQYFXeq8Ua98DY3PLLAyYROawovRfGXVy9CMS9kAwvzIGXNKkVVwVNEwg006_dQl1SJ/s400/_DSC4450.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">photo by Shaun Roberts</span><br /><br />I was first introduced to David M. Ball's art in April 2009 on a trip to San Francisco at the Cigar, Bar & Grill. On a quest for the perfect happy hour, my boyfriend and I popped into the bar on a whim and were immediately captivated by a series of collage compositions of surreal, twisted dreams on exhibit. These works never left my mind; I was infatuated and entranced. Six months later when the Squids created the theme for our first curated show, “The Devil Made Me Do It”, artist David M. Ball was, without a doubt, at the top of the list. To our delight he happily agreed and submitted two outstanding pieces, 'Third' and 'Dependency'. Here David shares some insight into his artwork and what makes him "tick".<br /><br /><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): When hearing about the theme for "The Devil Made Me Do It", what was your initial reaction?<br /><br /></strong>David M. Ball (DB): Sincerely, the thought that there is no devil or external force to make me do anything but I was glad that that the theme left room for work addressing moralizing, guilt, fetish, and introspection.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90NKagewEsIW0h4jO-CBg8KNNLHpkuTZ0raY_chZj5ahTjDfWF4scFhHYNZVW93PWkLiWOazQtHYh7H2SdYcYZlqVIA5d8N_gDT48kdGxgJUoGQrBSPa0SJZyW5yY5jjwPGnC8ph5qE6f/s1600-h/_MG_0621.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445561379462901202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90NKagewEsIW0h4jO-CBg8KNNLHpkuTZ0raY_chZj5ahTjDfWF4scFhHYNZVW93PWkLiWOazQtHYh7H2SdYcYZlqVIA5d8N_gDT48kdGxgJUoGQrBSPa0SJZyW5yY5jjwPGnC8ph5qE6f/s400/_MG_0621.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">photo by Megan Wolfe<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>SC: What are some things in your life that the devil made you do?<br /><br /></strong>DB: For that answer, we would have to go back to the days of my Catholic upbringing. I suppose in my moments of iffy lingering faith when I was in my early teens I may have perceived the devil tempted me away. I would say that with 25 years between myself and that decision now, I am in the clear.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: What was your most memorable dream or</strong> <strong>nightmare?</strong><br /><br />DB: I rarely remember my dreams. I try to manufacture them on canvas instead.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Can you tell me about your process?</strong><br /><br />DB: It goes through changes but most recently, it starts completely abstract with aggressive paint application with no attempt at representation. Once I have a base (or as I have been working lately, multiple bases) I dig through my collage files which are also organized abstractly by palette. When I cut material, I generally just trim away to abstract shapes for texture or form. These files are extensive and are all pre-cut and in drawers classified by palette alone. Once I have a palette base of paint down, I look through the material files and pull out shapes and test them out on the surface. Once an image begins to suggest itself, I let things grow from there. The first phase takes a very long time. This is why I work on multiples- so I won't get bored. Once those elements are done, the rest is painting and drawing, building up in layers until complete.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzp5aN58LZ8JYfyQJA94G_9_tPAs9NefXGMVA1eyfmL8WFvCS5Qouw2QTQwlfajKdEN3tAhQtZ_Zf8iYW6PTOkP7vr8G34RAH4yImIlMjlKn_bcX6xTkWaamPhGPaS1OO8kK4GQP-KVMX/s1600-h/_MG_0859.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 223px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445562487052897074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBzp5aN58LZ8JYfyQJA94G_9_tPAs9NefXGMVA1eyfmL8WFvCS5Qouw2QTQwlfajKdEN3tAhQtZ_Zf8iYW6PTOkP7vr8G34RAH4yImIlMjlKn_bcX6xTkWaamPhGPaS1OO8kK4GQP-KVMX/s320/_MG_0859.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPdgTPjGcx65UsiA_sWRs6z0Nxy3nn3y8LsBTTm77C6o_idttyjeWpZwjyTnF1AESdK1hCbreAmnWVmxOPy6qrTJJ3zqgFHEM6WPJYGgdFxAZKC_qFXjnfXlRNWRUlFsU57QZk1Exntuy/s1600-h/_MG_0641.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445577071006981954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPdgTPjGcx65UsiA_sWRs6z0Nxy3nn3y8LsBTTm77C6o_idttyjeWpZwjyTnF1AESdK1hCbreAmnWVmxOPy6qrTJJ3zqgFHEM6WPJYGgdFxAZKC_qFXjnfXlRNWRUlFsU57QZk1Exntuy/s320/_MG_0641.jpg" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size:78%;">photos by Megan Wolfe<br /></span><br /><strong>SC: Is the process different with your illustrative works?</strong><br /><br />DB: As mentioned above, with fine art, I don't like to plan. As an illustrator, I am used to planning and there are benefits to it but I find that when I let things evolve of their own accord, I create works that I would never make if I was allowed to remain fully conscious of the objective. My work when I was younger involved a ridiculous amount of planning. Now I just let it go and see where it takes me. I tend to learn a lot about myself in the process-sometimes good and bad. I think these growing pains are part of the process. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzcFgcvA_09EwaBt5PNQEwDkIjyfu3ZNbQccebwlsmlHp1QMWHjIMyOCoClX1aK9vgy0jexk36M4ixyds1bLJ5eiTOlAaVjFhnCKa1qJCjunFgaUQfz6IDVmN_CGEvOHMRgDDTyKscxK83/s1600-h/_DSC4370.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445577056380613602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzcFgcvA_09EwaBt5PNQEwDkIjyfu3ZNbQccebwlsmlHp1QMWHjIMyOCoClX1aK9vgy0jexk36M4ixyds1bLJ5eiTOlAaVjFhnCKa1qJCjunFgaUQfz6IDVmN_CGEvOHMRgDDTyKscxK83/s320/_DSC4370.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKWwY6QCy7cylrBQ8BTSgKRt6MtuqCfLEwKLcHrqnQtNkJh4_ryUHs2DxSaytQiADLQhjS2uVOFzgYokxYH4mz9J5ZiB0FS7s1qEpyLEybhAxr7pZK6Y02j7y5S-BhYbG46hptGtzKHk-a/s1600-h/_DSC4413.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445577067943137890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKWwY6QCy7cylrBQ8BTSgKRt6MtuqCfLEwKLcHrqnQtNkJh4_ryUHs2DxSaytQiADLQhjS2uVOFzgYokxYH4mz9J5ZiB0FS7s1qEpyLEybhAxr7pZK6Y02j7y5S-BhYbG46hptGtzKHk-a/s320/_DSC4413.jpg" /></a> </div><div><span style="font-size:78%;">photos by Shaun Roberts</span></div><div><br /><strong>SC: Is there any particular mythology at play in the two pieces you submitted for the Devil show, 'Dependency' and 'Third', or in your artwork as a whole?</strong><br /><br />DB: No, It is a strangely veiled, cryptic form of self examination or sometimes social commentary. I think that the few who know me best can see right through them.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Many figures in your works feel isolated (even if surrounded by others). Is this a self-examination or a social commentary?</strong><br /><br /><br />DB: This was self examination on some level but also I notice this in urban living. Many people living within the same areas, repeating the same patterns yet never seeming to cross the threshold into connection- in some sort of strange state of isolated coexistence. People unravel alone, right in the midst of others.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: Both pieces (and many of your works in general) have a very mechanical feel to them, with certain body parts like their eyes resembling solid objects or even small machine parts. Is this in any way a commentary on man or nature?<br /><br /></strong>DB: All of it is a commentary on various human behaviors but the parts are almost always chosen as shapes that seem to make sense and look cool to me, no so much what they are. The reason why I have my files pre-cut is that I don't want to be conscious of why I am choosing them. That said, I am sure there is some unconscious drive at work but if so, I have done an excellent job of hiding it from myself. Mainly I am just fascinated how our primitive nature will seek what we already identify with, ourselves, in everything we see no matter how unrelated logically.<br /><br /><br /><strong>SC: In 'Third', I see a female figure who's physical appearance has a cold exterior and is some-what grotesque looking upon a small girl with an almost angelic aura. I wonder if the chained mechanical female is viewing herself in a hand mirror which shows what she believes is her true self; kind, gentle and perhaps meek or innocent. How do you see this piece?</strong><br /><br />DB: It seems that everyone is compelled to look past that corncob. It is the "elephant in the room". She seems to me more an anima as I believe both embody me on some level. The figure in back is a purer youthful self. I have my opinions on what I was addressing here about myself butl an element of mystery is best retained as, the beauty of surreal work is its capacity to unleash the unconscious of the artist and the viewer equally. Like each individual, its relationship to each person can be distinctly different, unique and unrelated. There is no one correct read for others. I think that at times, the artist knows as little of their intention as the outside observer. In such circumstances where i am inclined to express the meaning for me, I beat the narrator in me into submission and keep him out of people's way.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_ncIzBGOsrueWmgwpGXs5IGAaDzmtq59MvRTZBr-14oS_JnHabMrMXsHpPCIpB7E82pTpCLYIUfLoKI1KrcdATSzQqaKg7M47eSrHwTFkeW66Tj1xNVRgg6bF3_xLiBlSebMy8xTwOSl/s1600-h/DavidBall-Third%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445562499845293362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_ncIzBGOsrueWmgwpGXs5IGAaDzmtq59MvRTZBr-14oS_JnHabMrMXsHpPCIpB7E82pTpCLYIUfLoKI1KrcdATSzQqaKg7M47eSrHwTFkeW66Tj1xNVRgg6bF3_xLiBlSebMy8xTwOSl/s320/DavidBall-Third%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>SC: 'Dependency' has a twisted, dark, yet candid view on motherhood. What was your influence when creating it?<br /><br /></strong>DB: Although there are breasts, the figure could male or female- just a persona. It is more about them having something to provide and the false masks that other's will don to get access to it. For me though, I suppose it addresses some relationships with the opposite sex, maternal or otherwise. At its root, it is about how we treat each other, relationships in any form, addiction, and dependency.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIrqZffMpPT07csQUAJMt56iogxjU-mAbmZ1A0DAYawHS5FIPvLEKKf7EDfpa8_O9ee5qLV3ZZ84WdBau0QM3eZNT1IRrv3xdkGnxg6OfaKH4QQABu8u8T7JEw7ofK42_8r_enQajHsXFA/s1600-h/_DSC4321.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444668145957337826" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIrqZffMpPT07csQUAJMt56iogxjU-mAbmZ1A0DAYawHS5FIPvLEKKf7EDfpa8_O9ee5qLV3ZZ84WdBau0QM3eZNT1IRrv3xdkGnxg6OfaKH4QQABu8u8T7JEw7ofK42_8r_enQajHsXFA/s320/_DSC4321.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">photo by Shaun Roberts</span></div><div><br /><strong>SC: What is the most notable compliment, comment or critique about your work you've ever received?</strong><br /><br />DB: A stranger at a show once said my work was "like a deep wound bleeding out onto the canvas". A bit melodramatic but for the darker works, I can see it. I have a light side too although whenever I show it, I am told it is nearly as dark but I disagree. These days I find myself in a very good place taking on a direction that makes use of a more full range of emotion, exploring high key colors. Basically, I'm having fun.<br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />For more information and to view David's available artwork from "The Devil Made Me Do It" group show, visit </span><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/devil/thedevilmademedoitartshow.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">WWA gallery</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. To learn more about David and his art, visit </span><a href="http://www.david.ball.net/"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.david.ball.net/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-92070227636074016772010-03-03T08:04:00.000-08:002010-03-04T09:34:00.370-08:00A Conversation with Jason Smith<b>Rob Faucette: The one thing that I've always admired about you and your work is how you seem to get your humor into your work without it being overbearing, if that makes sense. Not that your humor is overbearing. </b><br /><br />Jason Smith: I think my feeling about humor in art is not the same as many people- I think most serious art (and literature) needs to have a sense of humor- Not necessarily being clever but something stemming from a sense of absurdity and some kind of anti-despair force. I think too much work these days is self consciously ironic - about layering poses. I really don't like that kind of thing. Plus puns can be funny but are also serious because they play with meaning in unexpected ways. I think visual punning and the ambiguous language paintings can develop have the potential for humor that is also rich with meaning. Plus painting is a somewhat pompous undertaking and needs a bit of self-effacement to make it bearable. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmmuXfkJdq1VImMybQpHd4O65M64psmEDQcq1O00gNb9OZrqIEDJa8D3nIYNXlP4cngTbf2XjIy5DloybB86Q0oYeYmQq3x3Jmfb10ly8asNAc_qdOg86JO7SendrL9rRVRAQl66yBVuBL/s1600-h/jasonsmithdmd13.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmmuXfkJdq1VImMybQpHd4O65M64psmEDQcq1O00gNb9OZrqIEDJa8D3nIYNXlP4cngTbf2XjIy5DloybB86Q0oYeYmQq3x3Jmfb10ly8asNAc_qdOg86JO7SendrL9rRVRAQl66yBVuBL/s320/jasonsmithdmd13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444449862259464418" /></a><br /><i>Jason Smith, "Throw Till-U-Win"</i><br /><br /><b>I wanted to talk about your painting in the show and if this is a part of a series or not. Really, Could you expand on the attraction to carnival games and how it relates to the landscape?</b><br /><br />The visual language of games is all about rules and boundaries- setting up a system that can be completed. To fuse that language with the landscape tradition for me is about generating tension between containment and the uncontained, something wild with something tired and teleological. But the language of games also reinvigorates the empty desire for transcendence that haunts the landscape and abstract traditions of painting. Who wouldn't want to be able to put a button on the side of a Rothko that let you dissolve up into the next level? <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FEIj8eZf6ekjvELkSvIeq3oanaapXweb72aHuB5KKC3AiGeoFutdDYw9FtBfsXE381GjArP0awx_nYvm748xuF8V_y_s8hon64jAn4c-_qoKfWACqsXcLuxJNMBe_ujOIqDafHQZdZan/s1600-h/Mark-Rothko-No-14-1960-7893.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FEIj8eZf6ekjvELkSvIeq3oanaapXweb72aHuB5KKC3AiGeoFutdDYw9FtBfsXE381GjArP0awx_nYvm748xuF8V_y_s8hon64jAn4c-_qoKfWACqsXcLuxJNMBe_ujOIqDafHQZdZan/s320/Mark-Rothko-No-14-1960-7893.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444453120839923714" /></a><br /><i>Rothko</i><br /><br />At the same time it mocks that desire. Also the whole structure of games is kindred to the exploitation of the landscape. Think of the lines and numbers on a football field, it’s somehow like comodifying the land. Drawing a grid on a field.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_kkePu52-aQhsWs5cztP5S7gETMBEV0vyWMrFyBGTF1smAmF4UfGN-kbAlqfZNcSSxsGbW_CrY6udhQzjMUBq61XRXQZ-lCN9_l6g_5hTWYqP_qa3wJypmX-0CVmhOMWBiVKYrSJT0Y6/s1600-h/Jason+225.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_kkePu52-aQhsWs5cztP5S7gETMBEV0vyWMrFyBGTF1smAmF4UfGN-kbAlqfZNcSSxsGbW_CrY6udhQzjMUBq61XRXQZ-lCN9_l6g_5hTWYqP_qa3wJypmX-0CVmhOMWBiVKYrSJT0Y6/s320/Jason+225.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444447826036599954" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsrkkmbWUJSqr4Hjn12sP3s08JRAA1pGpK3lR-CPvTO7Pr80LfK6XlYxD2FwSsVRbSNHc5Ly5UmQN_O2qqiXmG4IVD5hLHqaAcEetIX5vilGMyracr6EAeGg6a3lvQh-sjhx0tNf0uRIw/s1600-h/Inwood+Fiellds.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsrkkmbWUJSqr4Hjn12sP3s08JRAA1pGpK3lR-CPvTO7Pr80LfK6XlYxD2FwSsVRbSNHc5Ly5UmQN_O2qqiXmG4IVD5hLHqaAcEetIX5vilGMyracr6EAeGg6a3lvQh-sjhx0tNf0uRIw/s320/Inwood+Fiellds.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444447814571235698" /></a><br /><i>Jason Smith</i><br /><br /><br /><b>Last spring, we had a discussion regarding what it meant to paint, and was struck by your interpretation. I actually think that's the most important thing. It's not for shows, it's certainly not for glamour and fame, but what is it? Why do you paint and why do you still paint?</b><br /><br /><br />I remember when I started painting seriously, back in high school, it seemed like the only adventure I could get behind. It seemed like the only thing I could do that (through a purely personal process of elaboration) could surprise myself and take me someplace new. Plus I was in love with a beautiful girl whose painting seemed like magic to me. I spent so many years trying to get someplace special through painting. At Bennington Amy Sillman said that painting is the only thing you can do that you cant explain- described as the last refuge of the non-rational. Of course we have plenty of irrationality around and I don’t think painting ever really brought me the kind of transformation I sought but something of that feeling stays with me.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-y6oAj8jscZwdrdmbR2nhSp-QdlpMXZvYCWNM3aR_vQhW6m1tG_YkCxV9Ic3utKciq1vVrh4uy8ggZkee7T9tUBN2Ts9oiAPI6v278yUUa6v6h8J9pvAp5SNUmjjORq9pb8HD4irxxj3/s1600-h/amy+sillman.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-y6oAj8jscZwdrdmbR2nhSp-QdlpMXZvYCWNM3aR_vQhW6m1tG_YkCxV9Ic3utKciq1vVrh4uy8ggZkee7T9tUBN2Ts9oiAPI6v278yUUa6v6h8J9pvAp5SNUmjjORq9pb8HD4irxxj3/s320/amy+sillman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444445565986987458" /></a><br /><i>Amy Sillman</i><br /><br />I do not usually produce paintings for shows but I do think painting is fundamentally done for viewers. You can play an instrument for yourself but I think music is really about an audience- painting is the same, except you can delay showing your work for as long as necessary, even wait until after your dead (if that kind of drama appeals to you). In addition to admitting the necessity of showing, I must also admit to some vainglories notions somewhere. Do I really want lots of attention? I guess sometimes I do. I don’t care much about selling paintings for money though. At least I’m free of that need for validation. At the moment, since I have accepted the necessity of a full time job, my time for painting is limited, but I don’t need to worry about selling. There are lots of interesting spaces to show outside the commercial system. I’m not interested in academic settings or artist run spaces that I’ve shown in in the past- I hope to explore public spaces. There are interesting galleries in nyc in parks, botanical gardens, and other kinds of public - the Buffalo airport has a little gallery that always intrigued me. <br /><br />So I still didn’t say why I still paint. I guess that Idea of elaborating the self is part of it. Kiki Smith said something about making the internal external and there's something there as well but it’s not quite right, especially because my work is not really about any inner vision. It is a way to make something very personal in our very standardized overproduced world. And something that is personal in a really profound way like not just -this is my style- but this is how I see things and think when I try to see and think in as startling a way as possible. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8CvFMTaSAkWvn5clfLlZfk36VZ7HrUh5jO_sB-V5eJr_Z2qmoarv2GfNN3bPMD1LGiQEeIjLtZPaFIAxehPMO8ZNCG046BcliAyJPQSaOy8xA4wj7pmg-C28egSQ0BTYA_NkpVDM9UBmW/s1600-h/bornKSmith.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8CvFMTaSAkWvn5clfLlZfk36VZ7HrUh5jO_sB-V5eJr_Z2qmoarv2GfNN3bPMD1LGiQEeIjLtZPaFIAxehPMO8ZNCG046BcliAyJPQSaOy8xA4wj7pmg-C28egSQ0BTYA_NkpVDM9UBmW/s320/bornKSmith.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444444392770836610" /></a><br /><i>Kiki Smith, "Born"</i><br /><br /><br />Really, where can you find room to do that and make a visual record of that? There is something else though that is more passive- painting can be more than just about the self- I really like the way John Berger thinks about art. For him it's all about conversations- between artist and subject, artist and viewer, viewer and subject. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_OzTNfJGINPEEBhlSQVqvXSqjEd2zl4kVsJ2yKLzZ1IAWeBorxQczRcOw2-C8CI2OzC6Y6KLcLZfq5S6EjyyrukbCQCzHVI5DC_BFSYxfhs2UlYq5IjlVIOm05MY75r4ejDBe3PtEB4zf/s1600-h/john+berger.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_OzTNfJGINPEEBhlSQVqvXSqjEd2zl4kVsJ2yKLzZ1IAWeBorxQczRcOw2-C8CI2OzC6Y6KLcLZfq5S6EjyyrukbCQCzHVI5DC_BFSYxfhs2UlYq5IjlVIOm05MY75r4ejDBe3PtEB4zf/s320/john+berger.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444443532640139042" /></a><br /><br /><br />It’s about actually submitting- opening your consciousness to others. Looking at Cezanne looking at the mountain. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQPKvbz-szlf12TKq2SH7IYdzYUfOtPbB87rXqvYuSUra9QIqb9z2wx3oABx8JwfSr5g2d2PLV2UBE4RT52wvwKZreqGRvZRZJQEM18zJYjsARAizL_s6yp87N-j9p1qWPshDJOUfvM33/s1600-h/Cezzane's+mtn.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQPKvbz-szlf12TKq2SH7IYdzYUfOtPbB87rXqvYuSUra9QIqb9z2wx3oABx8JwfSr5g2d2PLV2UBE4RT52wvwKZreqGRvZRZJQEM18zJYjsARAizL_s6yp87N-j9p1qWPshDJOUfvM33/s320/Cezzane's+mtn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444443061531085778" /></a><br /><i>Cezanne's Mountain</i><br /><br /><br />I think we’ve lost the sense of how important that can be. Art is not about executing a plan. It has to involve this act of submission, listening looking, opening up. That’s why I always like to continue working from life, It keeps me honest. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6uY-GN4x2VRundMebggBsMDyueJG5U5yMf8ucHI1el6it7l2yOxJM-3fUPoxVXDvzWnoE743m4lbXcsmrpQOPmj-w0s7DKHE1-cGYcFBmekfRVVc22uGnADgoSx9xUhTALVXr72nXUB0x/s1600-h/Sweetgum+Branches.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6uY-GN4x2VRundMebggBsMDyueJG5U5yMf8ucHI1el6it7l2yOxJM-3fUPoxVXDvzWnoE743m4lbXcsmrpQOPmj-w0s7DKHE1-cGYcFBmekfRVVc22uGnADgoSx9xUhTALVXr72nXUB0x/s320/Sweetgum+Branches.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444442720457950322" /></a><br /><i>Jason Smith, "Sweetgum Branches"</i><br /><br /><br />I think a really good reason to paint now is simply to liberate our minds from photographs. Photographs and other derived ways of making images are very different from how we see or how we could see. They really tyrannize our imaginations these days. Painting will never take the place of the movies but it could be a small antidote. Like slow food or something. The world is richer than one way of picturing it. Unfortunately so many painters have forgotten that and work from photos. I have no problem using photos as a reference but the vogue for using photos as a subject is very limiting. I think Richter is a great artist but his influence is rather pernicious. I think Polke is also a great artist but sometimes I think everyone today who doesn’t paint versions of Richter paints versions of Polke. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJjkvk7uf8m1hqvzaWtHn9O6uHnwJJLo2WE4oadN9_VnHMwPcAxj_HhWbw5hKaZ73IXJlCs08IIZaGeMe2uM552RgZXry2fcuusQVXAFBzWv-oeLNB27nx7cGZAcQDLsDxwcAJOyoAa8tj/s1600-h/Polke1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJjkvk7uf8m1hqvzaWtHn9O6uHnwJJLo2WE4oadN9_VnHMwPcAxj_HhWbw5hKaZ73IXJlCs08IIZaGeMe2uM552RgZXry2fcuusQVXAFBzWv-oeLNB27nx7cGZAcQDLsDxwcAJOyoAa8tj/s320/Polke1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444442347639631378" /></a><br /><i>Sigmar Polke</i><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9R6EIwM7tPchC6Xl80RAn6HCWjsg5LrRER2VPuI6yOvqCTMjH1HbsdbM7YL05gTnv8Aa90qmuv-MKUFEQkGeh4P3_7uk7r7InZBaUvfg-Ya9c_JrCocwaQmGoA8jvycTvC_9EzMQkQHQ2/s1600-h/retrieve.image.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9R6EIwM7tPchC6Xl80RAn6HCWjsg5LrRER2VPuI6yOvqCTMjH1HbsdbM7YL05gTnv8Aa90qmuv-MKUFEQkGeh4P3_7uk7r7InZBaUvfg-Ya9c_JrCocwaQmGoA8jvycTvC_9EzMQkQHQ2/s320/retrieve.image.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444442340897693794" /></a><br /><i>Gerhard Richter</i><br /><br /><br />Myself I’d be happy to paint like Morandi for ever but I keep forgetting that and trying to become a version of Guston. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPoX-mdhiQf1RUsnq5HpoTXJlZb8u1o5_RZsR9bE53HjvHKMbNy-4RqZpmYqSeh0vs3nZVL1WN8L_ulocBIikiZ2TB0vrZNelnlRV5QcPRKsC9VheJa0lxja-DH6m3nJjZp9K5HLf9WQn/s1600-h/morandi_09.L.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPoX-mdhiQf1RUsnq5HpoTXJlZb8u1o5_RZsR9bE53HjvHKMbNy-4RqZpmYqSeh0vs3nZVL1WN8L_ulocBIikiZ2TB0vrZNelnlRV5QcPRKsC9VheJa0lxja-DH6m3nJjZp9K5HLf9WQn/s320/morandi_09.L.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444441216422675010" /></a><br /><i>Morandi</i><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7I1lw2aTYtkRMfZyjGgZ1SZHcQg_WoTiulhWF3N_9evQuXAfMZ-cnA4qo-EQmSfHr8iGPdbYnx3Asbqzwifbq_5K2s1LSGM-3yvO0DqvmaUYRkweC5MWnWXVe1L2UKPHFncPSv1wFaKb/s1600-h/guston4.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7I1lw2aTYtkRMfZyjGgZ1SZHcQg_WoTiulhWF3N_9evQuXAfMZ-cnA4qo-EQmSfHr8iGPdbYnx3Asbqzwifbq_5K2s1LSGM-3yvO0DqvmaUYRkweC5MWnWXVe1L2UKPHFncPSv1wFaKb/s320/guston4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444441205583122098" /></a><br /><i>Guston</i><br /><br />Not to imply that I have no voice of my own. I think this late in life I'm actually finding it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYDONq_9xq1U0rIFgkrUZubJmJaZtUCO5Xfd3D_jt9YMVL2jHkVTds2OaDYK-MEjruE54fX9bz_a_qR2oIq4bhbhx19vors4w0_3s3pm3-ziIJ6tasl3lFb1R7VCx30H00WuuxaIcc8Dr/s1600-h/Season+5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYDONq_9xq1U0rIFgkrUZubJmJaZtUCO5Xfd3D_jt9YMVL2jHkVTds2OaDYK-MEjruE54fX9bz_a_qR2oIq4bhbhx19vors4w0_3s3pm3-ziIJ6tasl3lFb1R7VCx30H00WuuxaIcc8Dr/s320/Season+5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444439630546177202" /></a><br /><i>Jason Smith, Season 5</i><br /><br />Jason Smith lives and works in New York.Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846554298170936935.post-20237976655424508892010-03-01T18:07:00.000-08:002010-11-12T11:41:35.275-08:00Me, Myself<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">The Art of Lily Mae Martin</span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">by Stephanie Chefas</span><br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ioqiNAI-SeVIfMEw8i7cXXlqBwtVm8yieySUnMMN-ESIJcMdhycn4U_a9O_a3ocegXasOYp2sM2uh5AGmPBzL16glxpnj79ngt4WLByldRuJa4LJKiLxfvQd2czcw0VGw9mAI9Yk-bDF/s1600-h/portrait.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 239px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443861448363810034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ioqiNAI-SeVIfMEw8i7cXXlqBwtVm8yieySUnMMN-ESIJcMdhycn4U_a9O_a3ocegXasOYp2sM2uh5AGmPBzL16glxpnj79ngt4WLByldRuJa4LJKiLxfvQd2czcw0VGw9mAI9Yk-bDF/s320/portrait.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">When Lily Mae Martin's piece, 'Me, Myself', arrived at the gallery, it was unanimous that this image would be the face of our first curated show "The Devil Made Me Do It". The piece embodied our concept perfectly; the idea of a sinister alter-ego persuading an otherwise content self to do evil acts on ourselves as well as others. Then 'Touchy Subject' appeared and the Squids knew we had not only an incredible talent, but also a unique voice on our hands. Here Lily Mae shares some insight on what makes her "tick".</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>Stephanie Chefas (SC): When hearing about the theme for The Devil Made Me Do It, what was your initial reaction?<br /><br /></strong>Lily Mae Martin (LM): I was very excited about the theme of the show. It was great to be invited to participate in an exhibition that celebrated artwork that didn't have to be cute or pretty.<br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: What are some things in your life that the devil made you do?<br /></strong><br />LM: Made me do his laundry once, very dirty knickers. Never again.<br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: What was your most memorable dream or nightmare?<br /><br /></strong>LM: I have intense nightmares and they are quite consistent. Without going into too much detail they are always about the loss of power or not having control of myself or control of the situation I find myself in. Fortunately I can usually wake myself up from them before they get too bad.<br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: Can you tell me about your process?<br /><br /></strong>LM: When I come up with ideas I like to immediately write them down in a notebook or sketchbook. Depending on how big the idea feels to me I sometimes talk it over with people to develop it in my mind, or I get straight into taking reference photos, sketching, and experimenting with how I am going to draw the final piece. Some drawings just come out really fast and others take a long time to get out, so I tend to have a few things going at once. This means that if an idea is proving difficult for me I can always move onto something else and come back to it when I'm ready. The main thing is that I am continually drawing and developing more ideas for the future.<br /></span></div></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: 'Me, Myself ' is such an intense image. How do you see this piece?<br /><br /></strong>LM: 'Me, Myself' is an important piece for me personally. Creating it was very much an exercise in releasing some of my personal demons, and it was a turning point in how I wanted to pursue my art. It's loaded with all the things I used to torture myself with. I've come a long way since then so the subject matter isn't as relevant to me as it once was, but it is a piece I am very grateful for.</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEX1qq02un9a4NBIEdjXnOFl-JdEoxwUWDkAklVsdK3-NJivYTlys_Im416WtnG6B9o1XVl_7dy4ZsqIi0nwVY7VTDmd4Qg74Z7-FTaRgyGYhGzZl_v09E-CFp-lOFCJ8o6O0oR2kU0n4/s1600-h/me_myself%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 234px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443864830799311682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEX1qq02un9a4NBIEdjXnOFl-JdEoxwUWDkAklVsdK3-NJivYTlys_Im416WtnG6B9o1XVl_7dy4ZsqIi0nwVY7VTDmd4Qg74Z7-FTaRgyGYhGzZl_v09E-CFp-lOFCJ8o6O0oR2kU0n4/s320/me_myself%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: Things to torture yourself? Can you expand on these "things"? </strong></span><br /></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><div>LM: Well, I guess the best was to describe it is that I was my own worse enemy. I tortured myself with setting myself unrealistic goals and expectations. It got to a point where when anything really amazing did happen, I wouldn't take the time to appreciate it, I'd instantly get to work on something else, so I had very little joy with anything I did. I'm also my harshest critic, so it is good I have my partner around to tell me to leave a drawing or myself alone! I'm much better with these things though, I can usually tell when I am pushing myself too far and can stop myself.<br /></div><br /><div><strong>SC: Touchy Subject is a very honest portrayal of the natural female form. I know from reading your blog, the piece had quite a negative reaction by some and consequently it was banned on Facebook. Have you received positive reactions or reviews for this work?</strong><br /><br />LM: Having it removed from so many websites was a very frustrating and it made me feel pretty powerless at the time. I had no say in what happened, however I do have my own website in which I am allowed the freedom to post whatever I like, so I wasn't as stuck as some other people would be. I guess I was really quite surprised with how many people missed the point. I was especially surprised with the reactions from some women. I even got a "my child could see that" argument. I think there are far more damaging things your child could be exposed to on the web than my art.<br />Overall I did get far more positive and honest feedback about this work than negative. The positive and honest feedback was far more interesting and inspiring and the negative reactions were a bit tiresome and typical.<br /></div></span><div></div><div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: Would you like to share one or some of the positive reactions?<br /></strong></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">LM: I don't think I should quote anyone, as some of the responses where very personal, but the fact that people were willing to share such personal stories with me was really amazing. I felt that I put myself out there, and then had this amazing network of people, both known and unknown to me, stepped up and embraced it. Very special.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: Tell me about your influence when creating Touchy Subject?<br /></strong><br />LM: The idea was a big one for me as it was quite personal in nature. I talked a bit about this idea before proceeding with the drawing and had a few negative reactions to it that provoked me to create it even more.<br /></div></span><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">As a young woman I feel that there is a real femininity that woman my age seem to have lost. The removal of pubic hair is the very obvious change in this generation of woman. I think it not only makes women look like children, but also quite androgynous. I don't understand why women wish to hide adulthood and the femininity, sexuality, and liberation that comes with that.<br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;">And of course, this is also about masturbation. Something that I find a lot of woman will not speak about and this is also curious to me. I do want to explore this subject further, but it is such a large and complex issue that I think it is something I can put on the back burner for now and come back to.<br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: Your work has a feminist feel; strong, smart and independent. Is this how you would describe yourself? Or would these be qualities you strive to achieve?<br /></strong><br />LM: This is certainly how I hope for my work to come across. I have moments of self doubt and I know I am constantly trying to improve my work and myself. The issues that I present in my drawings are very important to me and often can be confronting to others. I always strive to be sure of my views and opinions before putting them into a public forum. By the same token I like to keep an open mind to the opinions of others, as long as they are willing extend me the same courtesy.<br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>SC: What are you creating at the moment?</strong><br /><br />LM: At the moment I am doing a lot of life drawing, as I like to keep developing my skills. I am really enjoying it at the moment. I'm in the process of working on a piece about gossip as well as some nudes, and I am always filling up my sketchbook with new drawings of animals. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7o90P3BXmsOh4l30dhR3Hl7ATGrTqhu5pn76ecXGzzFrIe5wZtD7juH72xliTqAQ68idjuzmSB8oK2Yukk3TO6piZlFrCIuTnNidDP8fIsPz-CkisghAnQg7vfCVFeC6B8VyCN_YRrEg/s1600-h/untitled2010.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443865485432174898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7o90P3BXmsOh4l30dhR3Hl7ATGrTqhu5pn76ecXGzzFrIe5wZtD7juH72xliTqAQ68idjuzmSB8oK2Yukk3TO6piZlFrCIuTnNidDP8fIsPz-CkisghAnQg7vfCVFeC6B8VyCN_YRrEg/s320/untitled2010.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>SC: What is the most notable compliment, comment or critique about your work you've ever received?</strong><br /><br />LM: The most notable comments where again received with the 'Touchy Subject' image. I received a lot of emails about other woman's personal journeys, their sexuality and their struggles, which was quite inspiring for me. It showed that my work actually meant something to people and it's really inspired me to push my work further. </span></span><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />For more information and to view Lily Mae's available artwork from "The Devil Made Me Do It" group show, visit </span><a href="http://www.wwagallery.com/shows/artpages/devil/thedevilmademedoitartshow.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">WWA gallery</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. To learn more about Lily Mae and her art, visit </span><a href="http://www.lilymaemartin.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.lilymaemartin.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /></span></div></div>Industrial Squidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995390924936245353noreply@blogger.com0