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Juxtapoz Magazine Interview "I am obsessed with household textures and objects—furniture, blankets, towels, bath mats, rugs, socks, etc. I add layers and layers of latex paint onto soft objects that soak it in and fossilize into solid forms." "Colors choices are usually based on the context of what is around and trying to create the most contrast and visual force possible." "I prefer words like provocative and precarious, psychological, nauseating, inundating, confrontational, luscious, alive, awkward, rhythmic as well as more direct thematic words like feminine, domestic, material culture, home, interiority, etc. I kind of hate when the work is reduced to the formal and abstract, which are present but not prevailing. One of my favorite comments recently was when someone said that the work is “mischievous."
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From Art Zealous "Five Minutes with Sarah Cain in Her Dreamy Studio" by Caitlin Confort "I don’t plan paintings out in a traditional way, I need to remain super open and shed boundaries so I can be ready for the next move." "I’ve always related to the concept of synesthesia. My earliest work dealt a lot with that idea. Color comes supernaturally to me, I see it without trying. I exist in a pretty open emotional space, both of these things just happen so I just let it work for me." "Lets Make a Book of This: Studio Visit with Yolanda Cuomo"
The New Yorker Link "There’s a Chinese saying that in a book you’re allowed one mistake cause that means a person made it. I always say if there’s more than one mistake, you’re a slob." "If all your books look the same than your ego is too big." www.eskekath.dk
"In strictly formal terms, Eske Kath’s work is a skillful and restrained integration of traditional Japanese landscape iconography and the flattened perspectives of the Suprematists and Fauvists. His paintings are easily recognized by the outlined segments of raw linen contrasted by the deeply saturated, opaque shapes and geometric figures that are often shown amid mountains, waves and Henri Rousseau-esque jungles. These objects are not at rest. Every cube, cone and house, despite the lack of the traditional perspective, appears to be in motion. In some compositions they are carried by powerful currents towards and away from the viewer or appear deposited in trees and forests as if by a great destructive force." By Kristina Nazarevskaia. To read more click here. andrewmorrison.org
"A moment of patience can create safety." "Intuition should be respected." "Something beat and neglected can be recycled into something honored and respected." "The way I think I can help may not be what is needed." "You cannot walk into a relationship overnight and you cannot walk out either." "Choose carefully how you present yourself because you will end up in the right place for the person you presented yourself to be." www.hollycoulis.com
Excerpts from 5 Questions with... "Some of my go to [art books] are Milton Avery, Gary Hume, Jane Freilicher, William Nicholson, William Scott (the Williams). Sometimes I troll Tumblr. People put up some great images that I probably wouldn't find on my own. The thing about the internet is that you can end up with an inspiring image that you didn't go looking for." "I'm sure young artists are tired of advice, but here's the only advice I have: Find a way to focus on your studio. Make your time there as clear and as meaningful as possible." Excerpts from Beer with a Painter.
"I like making paintings that can be read in multiple ways, all in one synthesized image." "I like that painting is inherently fictional. I have always been interested in the decisions painters make within that space — the kind of experience they create." "The willingness to give yourself up to a fictional space, which ultimately doesn’t mean anything, is something that I admire in people. It’s about believing in it, and being passionate about it, despite a colder logic... I think it’s good to maintain some of that irrational romanticism." “I’m in the stage right now of trying to really take in a lot of the affirmations that I tell myself, that I am these things too. I am a kind person. I am a funny person. I am compassionate. I am kind to myself. I try to be gentle with myself.”
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Interview with Art21. "My work is about posing this possibility for some other experience [or] world than the one that we experience as mundane." "My work is really about pleasure." "I think what kids do as play is a kind of learning and thinking that doesn't have a predetermined end." |
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