Quick Draw Artist Interview #27: Chris Shepherd

Quick Draw Artist Interviews are a series of interviews conducted by Otino Corsano using Facebook's IM Chat feature. Spontaneous conversations with international artists are recorded and documented specifically for publication on this blog.

Quick: Bud. Gilded framed Picasso print. A collector, old friend, bronze focus. Regatta regalia; it was he who left the massive model ship to be repaired. Gluing thin rope and then reattaching the toothpick pushpit. “Thanks for spending time.” At the doorway. Every time repeating the action reinforces tide. 
Draw: art about art.

Chris Shepherd (b. Grimsby, ON) is represented by Bau-Xi Photo. His most recent and fourth solo exhibition at Bau-Xi Photo, "Wandering," was exhibited in January 2013.

http://chrisshepherd.net

http://www.bau-xiphoto.com/dynamic/artist_photo.asp?ArtistID=51938&CategoryID=Wandering

I like the idea of
architecture changing people,
when the term
architecture truly begins to mean something.
Most of what we see
in the city
is not
architecture, it's
building.

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Quick Draw Artist Interview #26: Carla Danes

Quick Draw Artist Interviews are a series of interviews conducted by Otino Corsano using Facebook's IM Chat feature. Spontaneous conversations with international artists are recorded and documented specifically for publication on this blog.

Quick: home. Then there was the time everyone agreed to meet at the restaurant afterwards. I showed up to find you waiting outside just as perplexed. No one was inside so we carried on. On our own. The first was no longer touring yet if the second was was in town it could be planned. Across the movie theatre isle; walking in as it dimmed. Same name; two locations. You kept your word. Draw: art about art.

Carla Danes (b. New Jersey) received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, both an AAS at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York and a MS in Early Childhood Education at Hunter College, SUNY, New York, and completed her MFA at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, in 2002. Exhibitions include “Bloomin Coral” in the group show “Story of O” at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design and in the lobby of the Torrance Art Museum (2010/2011). “Doin It” was an installation of a 100 small pieces at Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA (2009). Her solo exhibition titled “Tabletop Jungle” was featured at The New Chinatown Barbershop. Among numerous experiences, she is a volunteer at Santa Monica College in the Etching Studio and is a member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.

Carla currently lives and maintains a studio with her husband Christopher in Venice, California.

http://carladanes.com/home.html

Decoration is related 
to fashion
but it is not
the same thing.
Humans have always decorated themselves
and their
(caves?).
Men love it too, but in Western society,
we get to dominate. 

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Quick Draw Artist Interview #25: Melanie Authier

Quick Draw Artist Interviews are a series of interviews conducted by Otino Corsano using Facebook's IM Chat feature. Spontaneous conversations with international artists are recorded and documented specifically for publication on this blog.

Quick: faith. My crippling reply was not a threat. No one actually knows what takes place behind this wall. Not even me since I have no legs anymore. They were lost at the beginning of my disappearance. I left my fingers there; even the term phantom limb doesn’t apply to an absent torso. Still I’m floating; two circular orbs. Aqueous. Draw: art about art.

Melanie Authier (b. Montreal, QC) received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal in 2002 and completed her MFA at the University of Guelph in 2006. Solo Exhibitions include Nobody's Geometry at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery at Concordia University in Montreal (2010) and Warrior Ridge at the Michael Gibson Gallery in London, ON (2010).  Her most recent solo exhibition titled “The Ribbon and the Lightning Rod” was featured at Georgia Scherman Projects (2010/2011). Among numerous scholarships and awards, she is the recipient of the Honourable Mention Prize for the 9th Annual RBC Painting Competition 2007. Authier's artwork is in numerous national and international collections including the National Gallery of Canada.

Melanie Authier is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects and her latest solo exhibition “Jostling Pictorial Oppositions” opens this Thursday February 7 and runs until March 16, 2013.

She currently lives and maintains a studio in Ottawa.

http://www.melanieauthier.com

http://www.georgiascherman.com

I think the work is about combining
opposing visual elements
(painterly facture) and allowing them to play out
and evolve
the illusion of a seamless
imaginary space. 

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Quick Draw Artist Interview #24: Jonathan Scott

Quick Draw Artist Interviews are a series of interviews conducted by Otino Corsano using Facebook's IM Chat feature. Spontaneous conversations with international artists are recorded and documented specifically for publication on this blog.

Quick: mystery. The power of art is a wonderful thing. Image image transporting us from the cars cares and concerns of our workaday world into; we read about them everyday in our newspapers; we see them every night on our television screens. Surrounded by such misery and degradation, our sensitivity becomes coarsened and our spirits desensitized. I promise you this. Draw: art about art.

Jonathan Scott (b. Glasgow, UK) Jonathan Scott is a Scottish artist based in Toronto. 
He received his Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 2005 and subsequently was granted a number of significant awards, including a Henry Moore Foundation Grant. He has made a number of solo exhibitions in the UK, and has exhibited internationally, including Australia, China, Mexico, Sweden, Germany. Recent exhibitions include 'Face of an Angel, Voice of a Demon' (commissioned by EmergeD as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art); 'New Ruins' (EmergeD in the City Watch House, Melbourne); 'Re-escape' (Transmission Gallery project in Hamburg); 'Exit Strategy' (CAFA, Beijing); 'Syncopations: Art from Great Britain Now' (Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm); 'Prospect Drawing Prize' (Tea Buildings, London). Scott lives and works in Toronto, and is represented by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto. 

http://jonathanscott.info

www.katharinemulherin.com

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Quick Draw Artist Interview #23: Rachel MacFarlane

Quick Draw Artist Interviews are a series of interviews conducted by Otino Corsano using Facebook's IM Chat feature. Spontaneous conversations with international artists are recorded and documented specifically for publication on this blog.

Quick: prism. You’ll be my mirror. It’s nice to have your pick when an avenue advances in seven directions. Thinking of a better band name. This is why you spend so much time in your studio. Following your leads. Covering your tracks. Reissuing before restoring is required. Demolishing your citations.Draw: art about art.

Rachel MacFarlane (b. Scarborough, Ontario) received her BFA, graduating as the Drawing and Painting Medallist  from Ontario College of Art and Design in 2008, and has also received a Certificate of Advanced Visual Studies from OCAD Florence Satellite program in 2009. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto and Howard Park Institute, Toronto. MacFarlane's work has been included in many group exhibitions including Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto; X Pace, Toronto; Beaver Hall, Toronto; Triangle Arts; NYC, Studio 21, Halifax; among others. MacFarlane has participated as a visiting artist at the Triangle Artists Workshop, NYC in 2010, and at Cow House Studios, Ireland in 2012. MacFarlane lives and works in Toronto, and is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.

Rachel MacFarlane's second exhibition with Nicholas Metivier Gallery runs from January 3 - 26, 2013. 

Opening Reception: Thursday January 10th, 6pm - 8pm, 2013.

http://www.rachelmacfarlane.com

www.rachelmacfarlane.blogspot.com

http://metiviergallery.com/artists/Rachel-MacFarlane/paintings

Read the entire interview with Rachel at:

http://artpost-oc.blogspot.ca/2013/01/quick-draw-artist-interview-23-rachel.html

Quick Draw Artist Interview #22: Bobbi Woods

Quick Draw Artist Interviews are a series of interviews conducted by Otino Corsano using Facebook's IM Chat feature. Spontaneous conversations with international artists are recorded and documented specifically for publication on this blog.

Quick: match. Coats like Sherman-Williams (i.e.: Cindy and Christopher). When it’s pass or fail, an abandoned studio photocopier sure can help with processing. Hidden away in the electrical room. First covered with silver leaf. Then you fixed the fuse. Draw: art about art.

Bobbi Woods (b. St. Louis, MO) received her MFA and BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland; Workspace, Los Angeles; Annie Wharton Los Angeles, Los Angeles; and 2nd Cannons, Los Angeles; among others. Woods's work has been included in many group exhibitions at Night Gallery, LA; Charlie James Gallery, LA; New York, NY; Cirrus Gallery, LA; International Art Objects Galleries, LA; Almine Rech, Paris; Actual Size, LA; Asia Song Society, NY; and Daniel Hug, LA; among others. Woods lives and works in Los Angeles, and is represented by Pepin Moore, Los Angeles and Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland.

Her work was recently on view at Pepin Moore’s group exhibition, “Raze; Revert; Repeat”, through 8 December 2012 and featured in the exhibition, “Romancing the Stone”, at Fourteen30 Contemporary in Portland through 2 December 2012. A solo exhibition of Woods's work will be presented at Pepin Moore in 2013.

http://www.pepinmoore.com/PM/BobbiWoods.html

http://fourteen30.com/index.cfm

Read the entire interview with Bobbi at:

http://artpost-oc.blogspot.ca/2012/12/quick-draw-artist-interview-22-bobbi.html

artUS 33

Graham Gillmore
by Otino Corsano

The Issue 33, 2012 of artUS Magazine featured

my interview with Graham Gillmore.

Gillmore's work is included 
in a new group exhibition

"20 YEARS"

Monte Clark Gallery
Vancouver

August 16, 2012 to October 31, 2012
Opening: Thursday August 16th, 6pm

THE MONTE CLARK GALLERY opened in the fall of 1992 in Gastown, Vancouver. 
To mark the occasion of this 20th anniversary, the Monte Clark Gallery will present an exhibition of specially selected works from gallery artists. The exhibit will feature artists that Monte has represented within the last twenty years, alongside three new artists: 
Jay Issac (Toronto), Mari Eastman (Los Angeles) and Paul Housley (London UK).

Gillmore credits the work of artists Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Salle and Bryce Marden for informing and inspiring his artistic quest. He is a disciplined, prolific and highly successful artist who has exhibited annually since 1984. His work can be found in numerous private, corporate and public collections in Canada, the United States and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, The Ghent Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Artists for Kids Gallery in North Vancouver. Graham Gillmore exhibits with the Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver/Toronto and currently lives and works in Winlaw, BC.

I usually start with washes of bright primary colours, gradually neutralized through successive pourings. Sometimes, just a
sliver
of pure colour will peek through the murkiness, like a brilliant flash
from an otherwise foggy ground, only to slip underneath again.

Graham Gillmore
"Hand Held"
oil and enamel on panel, 
54 x 48 inches"

http://www.grahamgillmore.com

artUS 32

Alex McLeod
by Otino Corsano

The Issue 32, 2012 of artUS Magazine featured

my interview with Alex McLeod.

McLeod's work is included 
in a new group exhibition

"Simulators"

Angell Gallery

November 3rd – December 1st
Opening reception Saturday November 3rd 1–4 PM

ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present SIMULATORS, an exhibition showcasing new work by eight artists who are at the forefront of contemporary digital art practices: Philippe Blanchard, David Clarkson, Alex Fischer, Brianna Lowe, Alex McLeod, Rafael Ochoa, Jon Rafman and Jillian Ross. 

Alex McLeod's work delights and confounds. They appear to be photographs of futuristic fantasy dioramas, yet are entirely constructed using a specialized 3D rendering program. Expertly exploiting the software's capacity to emulate surface textures, McLeod builds highly tactile virtual worlds replete with gleaming globular clouds, shiny porcelain towers and crystalline structures, sumptuous yet strangely deserted. McLeod is represented in public and private collections, and at age 28 has already had seven solo exhibitions, including this year's Curiosity at Mass MoCA. 

The following is an excerpt of the artUS article:

Making a big deal about the software, is like asking a painter what brand of paint they use.
It shouldn't matter,
you can produce my work any number of ways.
There are no secrets.

Alex McLeod - "Rare Lights"
http://www.alxclub.com