“I understood that I am a person who strongly resists a pre-understanding of the world… paintings can always be the clue for this whole process.”
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Joshua Raz | Artist Interview Series
“Complexity and convolution can often lead to a painting’s downfall but I tend to push things in that direction despite this… I often find that the more a composition teeters towards total collapse, the more exciting it becomes.”
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Cha | Artist Interview Series
“My art has truly been helpful in understanding my identity as someone from the Korean diaspora. And before this exploration through my work, it was an area that I was afraid to tap into.”
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Jinhwa Jang | Artist Interview Series
“When I had tough times, nothing has comforted me much; only the passage of time helped. I think it could have influenced my work. I think the passage of time restores people.”
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Leah Gardner | Artist Interview Series
“Sometimes I’ll stumble upon an object or a scene and know in that moment that I am going to need to paint it as soon as possible. Other days, I definitely have to dig it up and suck it up…”
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Laurent Allard | Artist Interview Series
“More and more we know that the whole system is not going in the right direction… But sometimes such a serious subject deserves a little derision and humor.”
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Michael Haight | Artist Interview Series
“I’ve been slowly working on a series focusing on folks reaching enlightenment in Walmart… The subjects are like the Buddhist image of the lotus which rises from muddy dirty waters without a speck of dust adhering to it as it proceeds to bloom pristine.”
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Jason Herr | Artist Interview Series
“I am always fascinated with how each of us has a subjective view of reality, which is sensed through a biological lens that has evolved over millions of years. The question of, how do we find a sense of objective reality? Also, how much free will do we really have?”
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Stuart Pearson Wright | Artist Interview Series
“I’m painfully aware of how elastic our ‘selves’ are… exploring the ‘self’ becomes a paradoxical and ultimately futile journey, like the search for the unicorn.”
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Lize Krüger | Artist Interview Series
“[Vulnerability] is everything to me. Art is my way of communication and where I express my deepest pain and concerns… I can probably be judged and taken apart, but I can’t shy away from topics that create deep emotion.”
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Iwo Zaniewski | Artist Interview Series
“Human imperfection is a prime mover of people’s lives… The world is built upon imperfections. However, imperfections shouldn’t be considered as nature’s errors that should be corrected, but the essence of life that moves it forward.”
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Desmond Clarke | Artist Interview Series
“I’m not a massive fan of the idea of “expression” in art. Increasingly, I side with Stravinsky when he said “music [or in this case art] is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all”.
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