interview with artist Seren Moran

The Interview Series continues with artist Seren Moran sharing her thoughts on painting, art, and the creative process. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see the featured portfolio.
From the 'Brazil' series by Seren Moran

From the ‘Brazil’ series by Seren Moran

1. How did you first become interested in painting?

Ironically enough, my parent’s actually forced me to study art.  I was a super creative and artistic child and won all kinds of awards for my art citywide and even some pieces went statewide as early as 5 years old.  But during my adolescent years I was pretty rebellious and ended up dropping out of high school.  My parent’s were convinced that had I had an artistic outlet, I wouldn’t have acted out as much.  So when I decided I wanted to go to college, they said they would only pay for my applications if I applied as an art major.  So I did.  The agreement was that I only had to try it for the first year and could then change to any major I wanted.  But of course I fell head over heals in love with art within the first few months, and haven’t fallen out of love since.

2. What do you learn through your work?
As time goes on I find that my art really is just an extension of myself, so it’s hard to separate between what is me and what is my art.  What I learn in life is reflected in my work and what I learn in my work is reflected in my life. They are really just one in the same.

3. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process?
Being able to be and do anything.  I love that in art there are no rules, and even if there were you could break them.  I can act on all my impulses and be whoever I want without having to worry about how that translates to acceptability in society.  It’s extrodinarily satisfying to know that you can truly create something from nothing, and I honestly don’t know how people live their lives without some form of art.

From the 'Brazil' series by Seren Moran

From the ‘Brazil’ series by Seren Moran

4. If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them?

I’ve actually found that most of my artistic role models are non visual artists.  I have friends and collegues that I really admire and who inspire me. These are poets, actors, musicians, directers, and writers, yet few painters.  I think my inspiration comes more from the way people think, feel and how they view the world, rather than which art form they use to express their creativity.The creative process and artistic mind are similar regardless of medium.  I will say that my brother is a huge role model, and I really can’t imagine being where I am without him.  He is an actor and director and I couldn’t feel more proud or lucky to be his little sister.

5. Can you describe your technical processes? How do you make the images, what materials do you use, etc…?

It really depends.  I don’t have one way of working, and I like that.  Sometimes I work from life and do sketches that then turn into paintings, sometimes I take photos and paint directly from those withtout sketching at all, sometimes I sketch from my imagination or from photos and then paint, sometimes I make collages and paint from the collage using that as a sketch, and then sometimes I just paint, with no plan or image ahead of time.  In regards to medium, I’m in love with oil paint.  In Brazil and some months prior, I was forced to paint in acrylics which initially was frustrating but actually turned out for the best.  I experimented with more geometric styles and linear forms that I might not have otherwise.  And now I actually do a lot of my paintings with an acrylic undercoat and paint with oils on top, which I am loving.

6. You have traveled quite a bit. How does this influence your work?

Greatly! My environment influences my work regardless of where I am, traveling or not.  If I am present and in the moment, then where I am, who I am with and what I am doing in my life are always going to be reflected in my work.  So traveling has of course changed my work significantly.  Adjusting to a different culture, language, lifestyle and country has had a huge impact on who I am, how I view the world, and therefore my art as well.  I think one of the contributing factors to my “Brasil Series” being so stylistically different than my other series’ was that literally the style and way of my life was so different when living there.

From the 'Brazil' series by Seren Moran

From the ‘Brazil’ series by Seren Moran

7.  Where do you see yourself and your art practice in say 10 years?

Honestly, I just hope I’m still painting.  However that happens, whether I’m successful as an artist or not, I just hope that regardless of what job I have, family or not, that I am at least painting…even if no one sees it.  That’s what matters most to me.  But of course it doesn’t hurt to have some recognition along the way.

8. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?

Gosh, “contemporary” art… I suppose I could ramble on about what that even really means, but all in all I have mixed feelings about most of what I see in regards to “contemporary” art.  Not always, but at times I feel that a lot of art today is becoming overly conceptualized.  I don’t think there is a better or worse between conceptual art and emotive art, but I find more and more artists becoming highly concerned with the ideas behind their works which for me often times falls flat and doesn’t move me.   Something primarily conceptual can certainly cause you to feel and something primarily emotive can certainly cause you to think, and in my eyes both are equally important. I’m contributing by allowing the emotive aspect to take form and the thinking and relecting to happen afterward, by myself and my viewers.  This is the most organic and honest way I have found to approaching my art.

From the 'Brazil' series by Seren Moran

From the ‘Brazil’ series by Seren Moran

9. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with?

Anything a viewer takes from my work is important, whether it’s a feeling or idea, bad or good.  The worst thing someone can say about my art is that they don’t remember it.

11 questions with artist Leslie Supnet

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Leslie Supnet sharing her thoughts on drawing and animation. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see the featured portfolio.

'Revenge'  by Leslie Supnet

‘Revenge’ by Leslie Supnet

1. When did you first begin to draw seriously? Or rather…take your drawings seriously enough to consider sharing them?

It was after meeting my partner, Clint Enns, that I decided to share my work and have an exhibition at local gallery in 2007 – Semai Gallery, owned and operated by Winnipeg based artist Takashi Iwasaki. Clint was very supportive, and encouraged me to think about actually having an art practice. In return, I did the same for him, pushing him to make films.

2. How did drawing translate into animation? Was there a sharp learning curve?

As my arts practice started to emerge, I became interested in artist-run centers and creative communities in Winnipeg. I signed up for a circuit-bending workshop at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, and after that started voraciously taking workshops there and at the Winnipeg Film Group – animation, filmmaking, Super 8 and 16mm experiments and editing. Definitely the animation process became easier over time.

'Hand Cranked VHS' by Leslie Supnet

‘Hand Cranked VHS’ by Leslie Supnet

3. Can you describe your technical process a bit. Do you sketch out ideas? How do you turn your drawings into animations?

I usually think of an experience, or emotion I would like to concentrate a drawing or animation on, then think of a good title that conveys that experience. Humor has always been a healthy way of coping with grief or tragedy for me, so I try to infuse that in my titles which then carries over into the animated narrative. This is how some of my drawings turn into animations — there’s always a back story in my drawings.

4. If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them?

Margaret Kilgallen is someone I look up too. She was a San Francisco visual artist, street artist and musician who passed away, loosing a battle with cancer in 2001. The way she drew from folk art, hand painted signs in her neighborhood, and the beauty of every day life, and created art that was sincere which didn’t need art-speak to justify its existence was really inspiring.

'Sunny Day' by Leslie Supnet

‘Sunny Day’ by Leslie Supnet

5. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process? 

Figuring out a way to communicate an experience or feeling with colour, movement and light. And intuitively knowing you’ve hit on something, that usually I can feel in the gut area. I really really really enjoy that! It’s like that moment you get a joke. Pure joy.

6. Your work seems to have ‘characters’ that are pulled from various sources. How do you define these roles for your ‘cast’?

The characters in my drawings and animations started off to be fairly generic, with the intention to be as universal as possible, rather than be specific. Hence the lack of hair colour, and ambiguous ethnicity in my early characters. But when someone thought I was only drawing Caucasian blondes, I knew I had to address that with specificity. So with my animation Gains + Losses, I decided to draw upon characters in my own life and experience, the central character in that work my cousin who committed suicide in March of 2010. Since then I’ve drawn upon people around me, and also base a lot of the characters on myself.

7. You have also studied mathematics. How does that influence your work?

I graduated with a BSc in Statistics. I’m not sure if that education influences my work at all, on a conscious level anyway.

8. How autobiographical is your work?

Most if not all my work draws on personal experience. Though personal, I focus on experiences most of us go through – loss, grief, longing, loneliness, awkwardness and love.

'The Nature of Schemes' by Leslie Supnet

‘The Nature of Schemes’ by Leslie Supnet

9. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?

Since I started animating, I’ve been focusing more on the black box than the white box. I really do enjoy experimental film – making it, watching it (other people’s work!) – over anything else at the moment. I really like the nature and experience of experimental moving images – accessible, ephemeral, hard to monetize. I find it more freeing than making art objects that often gets a value attached to it to be sold to whoever can afford it.

10. What, if anything, do you want viewers to learn from your work?

What I hope people take from my work is a sense of empathy and connection.

11. What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?

I’m an introvert, and spend a lot of time looking inward for answers. I trust my intuition and feel that when I listen to myself, it’s the most honest thing I can do.

new featured artist: Leslie Supnet

pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com. multimedia artist Leslie Supnet creates drawings and animations that are honest, gentle, and delicate. Click here to visit the featured portfolio.

Leslie Supnet

Legalities (detail) Leslie Supnet

11 questions with artist Clint Enns

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Clint Enns sharing his thoughts on cinema, history, and video games. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see the featured portfolio. Interview with Peter Hayes.

Clint Enns

Clint Enns

PH: How did you first become interested in exploring film, cinema, and photography?

CE: I first began making films in 2006 and I was an avid cinephile for many years before that.  The first film I made was for the One Take Super 8 Event in Winnipeg, Manitoba – an event where filmmakers shoot a roll of Super 8 and the first time they are seen is unedited in an audience full of people.  My partner, Leslie Supnet, pushed me into making it and I had a blast.  Since that time I haven’t been able to stop making films.

I began taking photos in 2010 when my friend Ashley Gillanders, a Winnipeg photographer, shared a disposable camera with me.

In 2011, I made photography a part of my practice while taking a course titled The Practice with Toronto filmmaker Mike Hoolboom at York University. The course was about exploring cinema and our practice through Buddhist philosophy, which may sound cheesy, however, the course was totally amazing.

PH: Can you articulate what you are looking for when creating your work?

CE: I really believe in fun formalism, that is, entertaining films and videos that explore and experiment with the formal elements filmmaking.  I attempt to make works that not only experiment with form but distance themselves from the supposedly “boring” world of avant-garde film.  I am interested in experimenting with the medium itself and its underlying structure.  Currently, pursuing a Masters degree in Cinema and Media Studies at York University has lead me to theorize about medium specific explorations.

PH: What is most satisfying to you about the creative process?

CE: In general, I love making films and videos, however, the most satisfying part is when a work breaks your expectations and you produce something better than you imagined it would be.  It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does it is like “Oh shit, I made that it.  Awesome!”

Clint Enns

Clint Enns

PH: If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them?

CE: The support and camaraderie of the Winnipeg film community means the world to me.  There is definitely something happening there.  Filmmakers and video artists like Michael Snow, Guy Maddin, Shana Moulton, Wendy Geller, George Kuchar, James Benning and Owen Land have had a huge influence on my own practice, specifically their use of humour.  I think the use of sound in Benning’s work is incredibly clever and humorous.

On that note, I believe humour and satire is an effective form of critique.   For instance, consider the way in which Owen Land makes fun of Hollis Frampton in Wide Angel Saxon or the structuralists in Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.

Some people take art making too seriously.  Relax, it’s only art.

PH: How does your study of mathematics influence your work?

CE: Mathematics has helped me to develop problem solving abilities.  In addition it has provided me with an interest in abstract structures.

On a practical note, it has provided me with the ability to write basic code and at the very least it has provided me with the ability to hack other peoples more complex code.

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Clint Enns

PH: Your work references history and specifically film history while adding a contemporary twist. What specifically about film inspires you as opposed to, for example, painting history?

CE: Cinema speaks to me more than painting.  I like how the field is fairly new and rapidly evolving.

Some people view seminal avant-garde films as sacred, however, to me, they are another database of found footage.  With that being said, I reference historical works in order to develop a dialogue between my work and the original.  It is also a chance to pay homage to the my favourite films and filmmakers.

PH: In addition to appropriating imagery and technology, how big a fan of video games are you? Thoughts on the evolution of gaming technology?

CE: I like video games, however, I wouldn’t consider myself a gamer.  I am more interested in game art and game technologies than I am in playing video games.  I am convinced that the evolution of gaming technologies, especially in regards to game art, is directly linked to our understanding of the underlying structure of digital video.  Furthermore, I feel that video games provide us with a better reflection of contemporary culture practices than television at this point.  In regards to my own practice, I view video games as another source of found footage.

PH: Where do you want to see your art career in, say, ten years?

CE: I hopefully will be alive in ten years.  If I am there is a good chance I will be making making, watching and writing about films and videos.   In addition, I will continue to be an active member of my local film and video community.

PH: How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?

CE: I believe strongly that making contributing to the experimental film and video scene means more than just making experimental films and videos.  To me this taking part in the community through writing, programming, interviewing, reading, theorizing and watching.  If artists aren’t interested in each other work and aren’t creating dialogue, how can we expect others to be interested.

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Clint Enns

PH: What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with? What, if anything do you want them to learn through your work?

CE:  My videos are experiments and explorations.  With that being said, they aren’t intended to be instructional.  I hope people enjoy them.

PH: What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?

CE:  If anyone has any questions about my work, feel free to contact me.

The Bay Lights

The Bay Lights is a monumental light sculpture inspired by the 75th anniversary of the Bay Bridge. Artist Leo Villareal will network 25,000 individually programmable LED lights to create  patterns across the western span of the bay bridge. It may be the world’s largest LED light sculpture!

After it is officially lit on March 5, 2013, it will be on display every day from dusk to 2 a.m. for two years, viewable from San Francisco and points north.

More info here: thebaylights.org

11 questions with artist Beti Bricelj

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Beti Bricelj sharing her thoughts photography and art. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see the featured portfolio.

Beti Bricelj

Beti Bricelj

1. How did you first become interested in painting the geometries that you do? Was there a conscious decision to engage in abstract work rather than another kind?

The decision to dedicate myself to abstract painting of geometries was most likely a subconscious one, made when I completed my studies at the College of Visual Arts in Ljubljana. However, I think that my living in Australia where I spent valuable time doing research into the ancient Aboriginal art of painting for my diploma thesis actually crucially influenced my artistic development. Aboriginal art gave me the opportunity to encounter typical simple geometric elements and patterns, which Australian Aborigines used to enforce their deepest beliefs about nature, rhythm and cycle of life. Incidentally, a significant leap in my artistic growth was caused by a review of my first exhibition in Melbourne, which drew parallels to optical art. From that point onwards, I consciously started to devote my time to geometric abstraction in its fullest manner of expression.

2. Can you articulate in words what you are looking for when creating your work? 

I find myself constantly in the process of exploration, searching for new solutions in terms of composition and colour, which, from series to series, lead me to new options, new work and new opportunities for reflection. I place high importance on studies of colours, and I strive to harness the physicality of colour, its vibrations and influences different colours have on each other. I try to make use of all available artistic elements in order to produce paintings with an added value. This means that each individual work of art does not only represent a carefully thought out geometric abstraction, but also serves as a tool to include the observer as a personified reflection, thus allowing him or her to find something more in the observed art, respond with different associations, emotional states of being, and, to put it simply, be drawn into the work and react to it. Through this interaction, the observer becomes trapped in two different systems of perception – mine and his/her own.

3. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process? 

What I love most about the creative process is the phase, which I reserve for the development of an idea, as it is this phase that simultaneously leads to the budding of new ones. They appear like sparks, which need to be caught and recorded for future use. All this is an intense game of exploration during which only one sketch can produce several solutions or possibilities of expression. The exact geometric compositions inevitably contain my own personal perceptions, experiences, as well as views of the world and nature – this intimate approach to creation eventually softens up the mathematical exactness of the developed form. Even though the final version of my paintings is often already visible in my sketches, the leap from the rough idea to the final result – a painting that suddenly becomes alive – always manages to excite me.

Beti Bricelj

Beti Bricelj

4. If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them?

I have never idealized anyone in my life, yet I am sure there were people present during my artistic development who influenced me in an abstract way and whose artistic expressions and thought have left a mark in the studies of colour, which were important for my own growth.

5. Can you describe your technical processes? How do you make the images, what materials do you use, etc…? How do you decide on a specific composition? Do you make sketches?

The manner in which I paint is above all a careful thought process, originating from a net system, which allows me to develop my ideas. The compositions are created from basic shapes subjected to change as I go along. The sketches are in their initial phase merely compositions made up of lines.  They represent the first step – a black and white version. This contrast is extremely important, as it allows me to get a glimpse into the visual effect my idea might have. The first step is followed by playing with coloured surface variations, which may turn out to be numerous. My most commonly used technique involves painting with acrylic colours on canvas in different sizes. On the other hand, when I work on series featuring small-size paintings, which I decided to name “Point of attention”, I also paint with acrylic colours on wooden surfaces. Sketches are, at all times, of crucial importance on the path to the final result.

All of my paintings, when seen as final results, do not allow mistakes and demand extremely exact and disciplined work. Since I possess the nature of a true Aries, I also tend to be driven by my stubbornness and perseverance.

6. Your pieces each have a unique visual movement (grouped in series, for example “geoLOM” ). How do you decide on a specific approach to a series? 

Each series possesses its own specific characteristics. The decision on the structure of any of my series originates from the very first idea for the first painting, which, in its initial form, is only a sketch. This sketch then goes through the creative process and becomes a sort of a continuation of the initial idea. The geoLOM I.,II. series featured smaller sizes of painting that demanded of me to resort to a different approach. I had to put crucial emphasis either on rhythm, the composition, colours or the net basis, thus creating a unique movement in each painting.

With the GEOtransFORM A series, for example, I explore the animate nature of the inanimate world. I ponder on the primal and elementary characteristics of the Earth (gea – geo), I reflect on the origins of the world and, on the other hand, I think about the cold, exact geometry, which, through a transformation of the inanimate, can pass over to the animate flowering, and to crystalline and pyramidal structures. “Geo” as a word, a prefix or even as a concept suddenly becomes a living artistic organism within the painting, as well as a language or a way in which I achieve several associative states and produce symbolic messages.

7. Is there a specific artistic philosophy that you adhere to?

Actually, this is how I view constructivism where everything is determined. There is only one possibility for the unpredictable to happen – and that is a spontaneous, unplanned line or a stroke within the initial sketch, which I use for the creation of a new idea. 

Beti Bricelj

Beti Bricelj

8. Where do you want to see your work progress to in the future?

I remain curious in facing new discoveries and I keep wondering where this path might take me; what will be the results of my artistic endeavours. I would like to see my art being introduced to other fields like ambient art, urban artistic living, and architecture. The latter was actually the first to give me a great opportunity to contribute in terms of design, as in 2007, I was asked to provide an idea on the colour compositions for the façade of the business and commerce building Epicenter B2 in Slovenia. For me as a painter, this project represented a large and a demanding challenge.

 

9. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?

I see myself as a part of a larger diverse whole, which thrives on its own versatility and grows in a very specific era of individualism.

10. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with? What, if anything do you want them to learn through your work?

The most important purpose of my paintings is to make the observer stop and be immersed in the art, and to be compelled to think, contemplate. My art encourages logical thinking, and stimulates perception in terms of finding one’s own reflective and associative explanations for the observed objects. It is important and it is considered as an achievement, if the observer of my art stores my paintings deep within his/her memory.

11. What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?

My art possesses limitless possibilities for interpretation. My purpose is to stir emotions within the observer who has to be open-minded and, above all, not burdened with explanations.

Beti Bricelj

Beti Bricelj

new featured artist: Beti Bricelj

pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com. Beti Bricelj creates stunning geometric paintings. Click here to explore the featured portfolio.

Beti Bricelj

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11 questions with artist Adriana Mosquera

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Adriana Mosquera sharing her thoughts photography and art. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see the featured portfolio.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

1.How did you first become interested in photography?

Desde el comienzo de mi proceso artístico la fotografía ha estado presente, ya fuera como dato inicial, como apunte rápido en mis desplazamientos, como material dispuesto a ser intervenido manual o digitalmente, como pieza capaz de construir un lenguaje en movimiento cuando se utilizan imágenes en secuencia ó como instancia final funcionando como retazo, como fragmento de la presencia de un objeto, un pedazo de circunstancia, de realidad.

Photography has been present since the beginning of my artistic process. Either as an initial idea, as a quick sketch, as material ready to be modified manually or digitally, as part of the language when using moving images, or as the final work functioning as a fragment of the presence of an object, a piece of circumstance, of reality.

2. If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them?

Mi proceso artístico se ha basado en la fotografía como herramienta para el estudio de fenómenos naturales y culturales. En la que investigo el concepto de espacio y la relación entre objetos, borrando las fronteras de los espacios públicos y privados. En donde lo fotográfico puede darse como condensación de un hecho performativo o viceversa, o lo escultórico puede anteceder o promover lo fotográfico. Estrategias que permiten, dentro de las dinámicas urbanas,  desdibujar y replantear continuamente su concepto, en un diálogo siempre abierto de imágenes encontradas y construidas. Un encuentro absurdo entre  ready-mades y lugares comunes.

My artistic process has been based on photography as a tool for studying natural and cultural phenomena. In which I investigate the concept of space and the relationship between objects, erasing the borders of the public and private spaces. Where the photo can be seen as a condensation of a performative act or vice versa, or sculptural can precede or promote the photographic. I use strategies that permit, within urban dynamics, blur and continuous rethinking of concepts, in an always-open dialog of images both found and constructed. An absurd meeting between ready-mades and common places.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

3. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process?

Dejarme sorprender por lo que descubro en el proceso, como las ideas se materializan y adquieren un carácter único, muchas veces indescifrable solo hasta el momento que se conciben.
Del mismo modo es impactante cuando las ideas se materializan tal como las imagine, y siento como libero mi mente luego de realizarlas, son retos pendientes que debo resolver antes de continuar y seguir creando.
Es emocionante como lo que creas puede afectar tu realidad inmediata y porque no decir permite crear nuevas realidades.

Allowing myself to be surprised by what I discover in the process, as the ideas materialize and acquire a unique character – they are often indecipherable until they are conceived.
Similarly satisfying is when ideas are materialized as I imagined them, and I feel like I can release my mind after making them – they are challenges that must be resolved before proceeding and creating more.
It is exciting because what you create can affect your immediate reality and why not create new realities?

4. What do you learn through your work?

Realizar mi trabajo, me permite no solo reflexionar sobre el modo en que el ser humano se enfrenta al mundo y las estrategias que construye para personalizar su habitar, sino como desde mi experiencia inmediata puedo catalizar mis propias vivencias y hacerlas comunes, reconocibles. Una especie de espejo donde el espectador, puede reflejar su existencia.

My job allows me to not only reflect upon the way in which human beings face the world and create strategies to personalize their habits, but also on my immediate experience that could make them common and recognizable. A kind of mirror where the viewer can reflect their existence.

5. Do you use tools other than photography for looking at various cultural phenomena?

La fotografía es una herramienta fundamental en mi trabajo, ocupando diferentes estancias e involucrándose simultáneamente con prácticas escultóricas y performativas donde el video y el stop motion han hecho parte de esta búsqueda dentro mi lenguaje artístico.

The photograph is a fundamental tool in my work, occupying different roles simultaneously with sculptural and performative practices. Video and stop motion have also played a role within my artistic language.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

6. Your photography reveals different types of patterns in our urban environment – both in public and private spaces. Do you find that working in series helps you define those patterns? Do you always think in series as opposed to say, individual images?

Estos registros reflejan un interés marcado en lo serial, en lo reiterativo, a veces presente en una misma toma, en otras la serialidad se presenta en múltiples tomas buscando aprehender la temporalidad de los eventos y acontecimientos sencillos e inasibles, incidiendo constantemente en el comportamiento mudo de una cultura a través del rastreo minucioso de sus cuerpos, de sus muros desnudos, de su arquitectura oculta para muchos, visible para pocos.
Así mismo la serial se vincula simultáneamente a un problema de identidad, ser gemela es una historia propia, una realidad vigente y no contingente, donde se pone de manifiesto un ambiente homocigoto, donde la relaciones interpersonales, parten de un mundo compartido, dosificado en partes iguales, homogéneo y regular en sus formas, pero diverso en colores y texturas.

Some works reflect a strong interest in serial and reiterative phenomena, which can be present in the same shot. In other cases the seriality comes in multiple shots and describes the temporality of simple and ephemeral events. I constantly stress the dumb behavior of a culture – which is hidden for many, visible for a few – through careful tracking of bodies, bare walls, and architecture.
Also the seriality is linked to an identity issue. Being a twin is  its own history. It is a reality which reveals a homozygous environment where relationships that begin from a shared world, dosed in equal parts, homogeneous and regular in form, can be different in color and texture.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

7. What is your process like? Do you start with an idea, or do you happen upon a scene that resonates with you and then begin to photograph it? How do you know when an idea is worth pursuing?

Los procesos de creación varían de acuerdo a las especificidades de cada obra y su contexto. La mayoría de las imágenes encontradas o construidas son producto, de encuentros fortuitos al caminar por la calle, puede ser un arrume de bultos de pasto, hombres uniformados en su rutina limpiando las calles que forman patrones, gestos, actos, inclusive mis propios sueños.
Analizo el día a día como si quisiera desmantelar lo que se esconde en los quehaceres comunes, para catalizar la vida y descifrar el comportamiento humano, porque hacemos lo que hacemos y como lo hacemos.
Algunas veces puedo mantener una idea en mi cabeza por mucho tiempo meses , a veces años antes de concebirla o materializarla. Lo comparo con el entrenamiento de una bailarina o un gimnasta que ensaya sus pasos en la cabeza, día tras día, hasta que llega el momento de hacerlo publico. Es un entrenamiento mental, que luego se materializa.

My creation processes vary according to the specifics of each project and its context. Most of the images, found or constructed, are the product of chance encounters while walking down the street; they can be masses of grass, uniformed men routinely cleaning streets that form patterns, gestures, acts, and my own dreams.
I analyze daily life and try to dismantle what is hidden behind the common chores, catalyzing life and deciphering human behavior, why we do what we do and how we do it.
Sometimes I keep an idea in my head for a long time, months, sometimes years, before fully conceiving or realizing it. I compare it to the training of a dancer or a gymnast who rehearse their steps in their mind, day after day, until it comes time to make it public. It is mental training, which is then materialized.

8. Can you talk about your time in Madrid and how it informs your work? Were there major differences to your experience in Colombia?

A diferencia del proceso y las dinámicas de creación un poco mas marcadas en la formación artística colombiana, donde se construye un marco teórico e investigativo al rededor del proyecto a construir, antes de concebir una imagen o en una obra. En Madrid encontré un campo de acción mas flexible, sin pautas establecidas donde la obra puede surgir de un proceso creativo mas espontaneo, menos pretenciosos, que puede confluir en una reflexión teórica o viceversa.

It was a different process with a different dynamic of creating. Colombian artistic training emphasizes a theoretical framework and research around a project to be built, before you conceive an image or a new art piece. In Madrid I found the scope more flexible, without established guidelines where the work can come from a creative spontaneous process – less pretentious, available to converge in a theoretical reflection, or viseceversa.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

9. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?

El acto de crear, inherente al ser humano, cualquiera que sea su disciplina y su rol en el mundo, equivale a un compromiso con la sociedad y su contexto inmediato. Ser artista es ser biógrafo de su época,
Es fundamental de acuerdo a los intereses de cada artista reconocer la época mediática en la que nos encontramos ya sea para trabajar desde allí o reflexionar desde la distancia anacrónica, siempre siendo conscientes del lugar geográfico y cultural en el que nos encontramos, somos artistas, somos biógrafos de nuestras épocas. la colectividad es sincera y es vital , la noción de autoría cada vez se diluye en una época en la que todo se copia, se edita, se transforma y en donde la “nuevas” ideas surgen de la reflexión de lo existente.

The act of creating, inherent to the human being, whatever  its discipline and its role in the world, is equivalent to a compromise with society and its immediate context. Being an artist is to be a biographer of time.
It is essential (according to the interests of each artist) to recognize the media age in which we find ourselves and either work from there or reflect it from an anachronistic distance. We always need to be aware of the geographical and cultural context in which we find ourselves: we are artists, we are biographers of our times. The collective is sincere and it is vital to have the notion of authorship which is increasingly diluted in an age where everything is copied, edited, transformed and where the “new” ideas come from reflection of what exists.

10. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with?

Las lecturas pueden ser múltiples al contemplar mi obra, todas son validas, mi interés no es imponer un significado, pues no existe una sola manera de ver ni de vivir el mundo.
Para mi es vital todo lo que brota desde allí, desde ese primer encuentro, es allí donde la obra finalmente se completa, es el espectador quien le otorga un sentido propio desde su contexto, desde su experiencia. Lo que me impulse a crear es una reflexión sobre nuestra sociedad contemporánea y el comportamiento humano, la enajenación, la soledad, el sin propósito, el encubrimiento, la manipulación mediática y el espectáculo.

The interpretations of my work can be multiple; they all are valid. My interest is not to impose a meaning, because there is no one single way of seeing and experiencing the world. For me it is vital that everything which comes from there, from that first meeting, is there where the work finally is completed, when the spectator gains a proper sense from its context, from their experience. What drives me to create is a reflection on our contemporary society and human behavior, the alienation, loneliness, doing without purpose, concealment, media manipulation and strategies of the spectacle.

Adriana Mosquera

Adriana Mosquera

 

11.What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?

Mi metodología no se aparta de lo onírico. Sin embargo son los espacios, el habitar colectivo, el comportamiento humano, la realidad latente y cotidiana lo que inspira mi trabajo.
Es una continua transacción con la realidad, para entender mi trabajo hace falta tan solo mirar a nuestro alrededor y reflexionar.

¡Girar un poco mas la cabeza de lo acostumbrado, detenerse unos minutos más, repetir y dudar.

My methodology does not depart from the dreamlike. However spaces, collective living, human behavior and everyday life inspires my work. It is a continuous transaction with reality – to understand my work it is necessary only to look around us and reflect. Turn the head a little more than usual, stop a few minutes longer, repeat, and doubt.

11 questions with artist Mike Frick

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Mike Frick sharing his thoughts on painting portraits. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see the featured portfolio.

goodbye, goodbye California by MIke Frick

goodbye, goodbye California by MIke Frick

1. How did you first become interested in painting portraits? 

It’s the hardest thing you can do as a painter. And the only way to get good at it is to paint a thousand of them.

2. Who are your subjects? Do you need a certain type of relationship to someone in order to paint them?

I used to go through magazines and books for an interesting face, but now I can go online, and the internet offers an amazing chunk of reference material for the artist — an enormous family photo album, with every weird uncle’s face right there to appropriate. I prefer not to have a personal connection to the subject, most of my portraits are of people I’d rather not associate with anyway; killers, gangsters, hipsters, etc. I’m just an observer.

3. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process? 

It’s stops time.

4. If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them? 

All the usual suspects, Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine, Marlene Dumas, Chantal Joffe, Elizabeth Peyton, Lucien Freud. I’m not sure I relate to them at all, other than I’m a painter also, and I appreciate their work.

5. Can you describe your technical processes? How do you make the images, what materials do you use, etc…?

I’m not too concerned with the techincal process or the longevity of a painting. I just want to get an image down, and it doesn’t matter if I’m using mud on cardboard or oil on linen.

illegal 6

illegal 6 by Mike Frick

6. Your pieces have unique titles that seem to be important to your conception of the work. Can you describe the process of titling the work? 

It’s usually something I was listening to or reading. An afterthought. It helps me remember the pieces while keeping the viewer confused about the meaning of the painting..

 

7. Your work ranges from quick sketches to more detailed, built-up surfaces. How do you decide when a certain piece is finished? 

I prefer the sketch, I think I have ADHD, so I get bored painting on the same image. I’m trying to say more with less now. I’d love to be more technically adept and devoted to a painting but as soon as it becomes a chore, it’s done.

 

8. You once conducted an interview over Twitter. Do you see Twitter as a creative tool? What is your relationship to new technology in general? 

Other than being a great place for stealing photos of people’s faces, I could easily live without all the networking sites. I’m a Luddite at heart. Putting paint on hair and sticking it on a surface is about as far from technology as you can get.

9. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it? 

Of course I love all art — it’s the only thing keeping us out of the muck. The current lowbrow/surrealist scene is amazing, there are painters so technically skilled it’s scary. I can’t compete with that so I’m trying to go the opposite direction–towards children’s scribbles and cave paintings, the opposite of shiny and perfect.

10. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with? What do you want them to learn through your work? 

I’m not trying to teach anyone anything. If a portrait connects with someone emotionally that’s great, what else could I hope for as a painter?

wtf

wtf by Mike Frick

 

11. What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better? 

I’m not sure I even understand my work yet.

new featured artist: Mike Frick – Portraits

pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com. What stories can a face tell? visit the featured artist page to experience the paintings by Arizona artist Mike Frick.

“how to make a bird’s nest” by Mike Frick

new featured artist: Nick Briz

pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com. explore glitch art and the new aesthetic. videos, games, and software by Nick Briz.

11 questions with artist Inga Pae

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Inga Pae sharing her thoughts on photography, art, life, and more. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see her featured portfolio.

“There is a Field No. 8″ by Inga pae

1. How and when did you first become interested in image making?

I discovered photography at age seven, developing prints in the bathtub with my father in Estonia. Based on reading numerous artist bios, it turns out that many of us caught the bug this way in the 70s and 80s.

2. Who are your role models and how do you relate to them?

I value the visions of many individuals who specialize in the field of photography, and the list is constantly increasing as I view new work. A few of my long time favorites include David LaChapelle, Phillip Toledano, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Julie Blackmon, and Jill Greenberg, just to name a few. In comparison, I recently “discovered” magnificent projects by Brian Christopher Sargent, Matthew Gamber, and Odette England.

Quite often I think to myself: “I wish I would have thought of that, it’s brilliant!” While I don’t wish to imitate anyone, I am selectively picking up on other artists’ insights and approaches to certain projects. Art succeeds and stays alive that way. A kernel of sensibility or perspective is passed on from one person to another and evolves in the process.

3. What is most challenging to you about the creative process?

In theory, a process starts and ends. For me it doesn’t end and this is a challenge. A project keeps moving in my head long after it is finished and new visual solutions keep popping up. It could take a year of incubation before a concept feels ready to shoot. I have learned to “just do it”, get it out of my head and on paper. With a few projects, I am now thinking of “sequel” work to deepen the study.

“Red Shed” by Inga Pae

4. Can you describe your process? How do you make the images? Are they all digital? What tools and techniques do you use?

Yes, I use digital cameras. I am old-fashioned in a sense that I try to get everything “right” in the camera at the time of capture. I do minimal post-processing.

5. Much of your work has a narrative feel to it. How intentional is this? How do you come up with the situations in which your ‘characters’ appear – for example in the series “There is a Field”?

I think it is intentional. We know most of the time what we are seeing in a photograph and how it makes us feel. But what is the story? And we keep staring at the image as if the story is just about to reveal itself in full. There is room for fantasy and interpretation.

I draw influences from a wide variety of gestures in the contemporary culture– lines in a play, song lyrics, text messages, specific movements from a dance performance, for example.

6. Your overall aesthetic is clean and clear and bright. What are your motivations behind this?

Less clutter. Less is more. Our (visual) lives are so busy. Have you noticed that when you go to a museum, it feels as peaceful as standing on a mountain top? I think it’s largely because of high ceilings and a lot of white space – the sparse space gives you room to breathe.

I have thought of adding more “layers” to images, but keep coming back to the fact that all the layers are in the viewers’ mind.

Simplicity of a photograph has always compelled me to keep looking. An image can be clear the same way that language is. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it. When a person looks at an image, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. And even that perspective can change daily.

7. Though in a larger sense, most art can be seen this way, do you see your work as autobiographical?

Absolutely. I think there is a big difference between academic knowledge and experiential knowledge. The latter is what I draw from – it feels authentic to work that way.

8. What are your goals as an artist? Where do you want to be in 5 years? 10 years?

As the cultural and economic landscapes are changing, I am not sure if the traditional success milestones are as desirable in the future as they used to be. I am focusing on how I feel, rather than where to be in terms of achievement. (Of course, they tend to go hand-in-hand.) I currently feel as if I am in the middle school and happy to be learning, exploring. In five years, I would like to feel as if I am college graduate, comfortably getting a “hang of it”. And in 10 years I’d like to feel that I am well on my way – completely comfortable in my skin artistically, fulfilled with the quality of work, peaceful about my creative process.

9. How do you feel about the contemporary art world and your contribution to it?

When I hear “contemporary art”… I immediately think of art museums. I could spend days browsing exhibits and installations, not even come up for air. I find comfort and sincere joy in that type of immersion.

Specific to contemporary photography, I am an active contributor and consumer through contests, portfolio reviews, exhibits, and open studios – at many different levels. I believe it keeps the craft moving forward and encouraging everyone to evolve their work to new levels.

10. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with? Who is your ultimate audience?

I would like the viewers to feel “in the know” and “connected” when they view the work. I want it to feel accessible, yet intriguing to new collectors — people who are opening up to different types of work and aesthetics. I believe that there is a crop of new collectors currently emerging, making the art scene a fun place to be.

11. What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?

Perhaps I can tell you where the idea for the image “Gossip” came from. There is a magnificent monolog by Father Flynn character in the play Doubt. He explains to sister James that if someone goes on a high rooftop, stabs a pillow… and thousands of feathers spread wide and far….. one could never put ALL of them back. That is gossip.

“Gossip” by Inga Pae

Creative Mornings

CreativeMornings is a free, monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. There are chapters in 29 cities across the world, including San Francisco. Some have dubbed it “TED for the rest of us”.

For upcoming events, and a great video archive of past talks, check out creativemornings.com

new featured artist: Inga Pae

pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com click the link to see Inga Pae’s bright, light photographic vision.

There is a Field No. 14

Souvenirs From Earth

SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH, founded by Marcus Kreiss and curated by Alec Crichton, is an international Cable TV station, broadcasting in France and Germany with a program showing art, video art, film, music, installations and performances. If you are not there, you can still check out excerpts from the curator and a list of the many artists who contribute online here: souvenirsfromearth.tv or watch in online here: playtv.fr/television/souvenirs-from-earth

Glibberings (Lloyd Fachman)

11 questions with artist Dan McHale

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Dan McHale sharing his thoughts on art, life, and animation. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see his new film “Spear, Fish, Boat”.

McHale - animation still from 'Spear, Fish, Boat' - 2011

1. How did you first become interested in animation, illustration, image making?
I’ve been drawing since I was little and got encouragement from my parents. My
father was a painter and my mother a high school art teacher. As a child liked science
fiction, drawing monsters, spaceships and so on.
 
 
2. If you have artistic/creative role models, who are they and how do you relate to them?
There are so many artists I admire. Sometimes I unconsciously rip them off. In my
film there is that close-up of the diver’s eye and then his point of view underwater.
Once I drew it I thought, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Uh-oh, I’m copying Kubrick. But
then I figured, I could do worse.

3. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process?
I like to make a gesture, and see the response. Whether I move the stylus across the
graphics tablet, or add a new layer of sound, say, I like to see/hear what the result is.

4. What do you learn through your work?
You know how people debate the meaning of a work of art, and wonder what the
artist intended? And the artist’s intention is not always the best guide of the meaning
(for each viewer)? I also find layers of meaning in what I’m making. I have certain
goals and make rules for myself, but later on I might say, oh, this is what this film is
about.

McHale - animation still from 'Spear, Fish, Boat' - 2011

5. Do you prefer painting to drawing? or vice versa?
I love both drawing and painting. I haven’t painted lately as I’ve been focusing on
animation, so I miss painting right now, would like to get away from the computer and
go dirty up a canvas.
 
 
 
6. How does the narrative or story-line develop for your animations? Do the images
come first or the story?
I think I start with an image usually. In the case of Spear, Fish, Boat I just wanted to
mess around, and make some things move across the screen, without any plan. I just
started an underwater scene with a blue background. Then I remembered a story my
wife had told me about her brother, where he lost his boat. Then I started making
drawings to tell that story.

7. How do you know (if ever) when a piece, whether a painting or film is finished ?
In the case of a painting I may declare it finished the moment someone buys it. Do
any other artists tell you that? With film it seems, every time I start a new one, I say,
I’m gonna make this fast and rough, and leave it that way. With Spear, Fish I started
that way, but kept layering things in. More colors, more bubbles, a variation in the
music. I think this film will really be done when I see something to fix and decide, no,
make that better in the next film.

8. Your work can be very funny or wry or satiric. Can you talk more about humor and
how it works for you?
There’s a lot to laugh at in the world, including one’s own thoughts. Sometimes I say
something that I think is funny and I try to draw it. When I put it on a screen, in
movement, I try to get the timing ‘right’. I know a joke about timing. I would tell it now
but it has to be told ‘live’.

9. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?
Contemporary art, for someone like me who has worked a lot in commercial
animation, is a place where I get a break from clarity of communication. I’m talking
here as a spectator of contemporary art. Sitting on the floor of a museum is a rock the
size of a fist. I notice that sounds are being emitted from the rock. I crouch low and
realize that there must be a speaker under the rock producing scraping noises. What
does it mean? I don’t know, but I enjoy it. On the second question, I love the idea of
contributing something to contemporary art. Maybe someday I will.

10. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work
with?
I would like a person to experience some soulfulness when they take in my work. I
want them to go to a dark place, and come back again. So what they might take away
is a shudder of dread at where they’ve been. And having survived, they’re glad to be
alive.

McHale - animation still from 'Spear, Fish, Boat' - 2011

11. What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?
When I did the Hamm’s brewery paintings, people started telling me their memories
of the giant beer glass, and I loved hearing that. Then once a fellow told me, no, it
wasn’t Hamm’s, it was another beer. I started getting annoyed, but then I figured, just
listen to him. It¡’s nice to make something and talk about it. It’s also nice to make
something, and listen.

new featured artist: Dan McHale

pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com

visit the site to see the fantastic animation by Dan McHale!

McHale - animation still from 'Spear, Fish, Boat' - 2011

11 questions with artist Benjamin Meyer

The 11 Question Interview Series continues with artist Benjamin Meyer sharing his thoughts on art. Learn more about the artist and visit pivotartgallery to see his featured portfolio.

Cut

1.  How did you become interested in image making?

I had an interest in drawing from an early age, the first subject I can recall drawing with any conviction was baseball diamonds on lined notebook paper.  I must’ve done dozens of these before my sister taught me more advanced skills like shading and proportion.  Subject-wise, my interest at the time was basically just sports, so I spent a considerable amount of the Midwestern winter months reproducing images from baseball cards and magazines. It wasn’t until undergraduate school that I started to consider things seriously, like what being an artist could mean long-term.

2. Do you have artistic/creative role models? If so, who are they and how do you relate to them?

I draw influence from a variety of people for a variety of reasons.  I’ve been influenced by people’s work, the way they think about their materials, or even just the way they’re able to maintain a studio practice and exist day to day as artists.  As far as a long term influence, I keep coming back to Philip Guston.  In addition to his paintings, I admire how he stubbornly refused complacency and always fought against the constraints of his “style.”

3. How do you feel about contemporary art and your contribution to it?

As much as I often feel a certain amount of distance and/or alienation from a lot of contemporary art, there are always a lot of exciting things happening.  I always feel like experiencing other people’s work in person, even if it fails in some way or is not my taste, is vital to my own practice and helps me to think differently or articulate aspects of my own work.

In the studio, l sometimes feel like I’m pushing directly against elements that are traditional or old-fashioned – and since I don’t intend to be ironic or casual, my attempts to make “good paintings” can magnify that distance or alienation from what I see in Artforum.  But in general it feels sort of trivial to worry about whether I’m making “contemporary” work.  I think the best I can do is to actively observe my surroundings, filter them in every way I’m able, and trust that my work will follow.

4. What is most satisfying to you about the creative process? 

For me, painting is the act of reconsidering.  I get to create problems and then try to solve them.  I’m always looking for ways to question what I thought I knew, and I get to operate on my own terms.  Having the opportunity to work on all of this sometimes feels like a total luxury, and while it’s not always fun, when I’m in that moment of honest engagement – it provides a satisfaction that I’m constantly striving for.

5. What do you learn through your work?

I learn constantly that nothing is fixed and everything is relative.  In some way I feel like I’m constantly un-learning, questioning what I thought I knew.

Grand View Obstructed

6. Your work goes through many transformations before it is eventually transferred to a canvas. Can you describe the process and its importance to the final piece?

I think a large part of my work is about the transformation – the time and distance between our experience of a place and the translation into an image.  My process typically starts with my everyday movements through the city. I’m drawn to a certain peculiarity of spaces that embody a lot of the language one uses when discussing painting.  Space, color, form, structure, etc.  I typically rely on photography as a way to record these moments, but I try to push the paintings past the photographic by working from more than one photo of the same location, or by processing the images digitally in different ways. Once I have a source image that feels coherent but slightly unstable, I start the relatively straightforward process of translating this image through the vocabulary of painting, trying to pay special attention to the structures of the image and the places where disparate forms collide. In a formal sense, these areas of the painting are the most important for me because they contain the most potential for pictorial invention.  But I’m also interested in the tension between the logic and structure of representation and where this breaks down.  In some way, I think these areas get closer to how memory works.

7. Do you have any favorite specific techniques that you use?

I don’t work with specific techniques necessarily, though I often find myself concerned with the idea of limitations, systems, and rules as a way of working.  The rules can represent structures – spatial, representational, theoretical – which I use to provide a framework to work within.  Depending on what each painting needs, I can choose to then follow these self-imposed rules, or decide to break them if it feels necessary.

8. Your work feels very much like re-imagined or re-conceived landscapes. How intentional is this?

It’s very intentional, though (for better or worse) a certain skepticism of spontaneity keeps me from working from my imagination in a very direct way.  I tend to use my subject as a model to work from, and the re-imagination and reworking of the landscape results from compositional, structural and material responses to that.

9.The spaces inside your work seem both constructed and destroyed, or built and dismantled. How purposeful is this simultaneity?

I think that one of my primary concerns in painting is the idea of betweenness.  I’m drawn to the tension between the materiality of the paint, the flatness of the support and the pictorial space that is always present when marks are made on a surface.  I think the kinds of images/representations/situations I depict reflect a similar sort of this betweenness, so in a way they act as metaphors for the processes of painting. My primary subject is always painting itself – but I’m drawn to places that have a sort of competition happening amidst one space.  These are virtually always very ordinary situations, but urban spaces in particular are full of spots when a variety of forms and origins (man-made vs. natural, for example) seem to bump up against one another and occupy the same space.  I really like when, over time, the combination of these forms link and begin to make something new.  I use the process of painting to rework the situations that are in the state of coming together and falling apart at the same time.

10. What is the most important thing you want viewers to come away from your work with?

I guess in the simplest sense I’m trying to make something that transforms something ordinary into something interesting.  If I can uncover and demystify the painting process in some way, that would be great too.

Untitled

 

11. What can you add that would help us understand you and/or your work better?

Organizing chaos is my primary goal.

new featured artist: Benjamin Meyer

pivot art gallery is pleased to present the next artist portfolio in the ongoing series at pivotartgallery.com

visit the site to see paintings by Benjamin Meyer

Benjamin Meyer 'Cut' (detail) 48"x78", Oil on canvas, 2011

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