How did you come to art, or how did art come to you? I grew up in a family of artists, my father was a cameraman for movies, my aunts actresses or painters, my grandfather a theater writer, It felt normal to be artistic in every move . Only when I attended school I realized that my upbringing was not…
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Short summary about you? I’m an artist and galleried residing in rural Pennsylvania in the north east of the United States. I am the director of the Factory Works Gallery and the Williamsport Community Darkroom both at the Pajama Factory, an arts complex here. I received my MFA from America’s oldest Arts school, the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts in…
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The Naif Brief introduction of yourself I am self-taught and consider myself to be a craftsman first and foremost – my prime interest being in creating images. I love vintage cartoons and Eastern philosophy. Making a painting is, for me, very labour intensive and, I like to think, an extension of my spiritual practice rather than a conventional attempt to…
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Short summary about you? I am a landscape-focused painter, who has lived and worked in East London for 20 years. What is your art about? We live on the edge of Epping Forest in East London and the relationship between the urban and the natural is a constant source of inspiration to me. My most recent series of paintings was…
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Brief introduction of yourself. Talking about oneself is always difficult for me. I am me I paint in traditional oil techniques but in a different style. People have to go away from my paintings to see the details. Do your work engage with current events (and how)? It is difficult not to react on current events or impressions. I hear…
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Why do you make art? I have always been fascinated by all the many different forms of human expression. Writing, music, painting, dance, sculpture, cinema, etc., it is endless!I traveled for the first time in the U.S. as a young teenager and spent a whole rainy week stuck in a cabin in the Adirondacks with not much to do. I…
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How does your atelier look like ? Myworking spaceis in a coworking space dedicated to the visual arts, in the center of Paris, which is rare.It gives me the opportunity to meet other artists. I do my work on composition and research on a computer and I havethereat my disposal computers, large format printers and 3D … I go from…
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Why do you make art? I have always loved the act of creating, since I was eighteen months old. I have continued to create art for the past thirty-eight years because it is my divine passion and a cathartic act. It is a positive release of experiences of intense beauty and emotions. Can you describe your typical working day? I…
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Where comes your inspiration from? Inspiration I find in anything that has life, power, spirit, truth and reality in it. What does it mean to you to make art? It means taking something personal, private, prosaic and extract something permanent and broad out of it. The Horse, its Owner, His Wife and the Jockey© OFIR DOR How does your atelier…
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Courtesy :Irene Cruz ! Short summary about you? I am someone that can’t live without creating. I’m in love with Berlin’s blue-light and weather, I actually moved here from Spain because of that, even if it sounds a bit crazy. My name is Irene Cruz, and I am a photographer, cinematographer, performer, and video artist. I sometimes teach in different…
