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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Quick Draw Artist Interview #17: Aisha-Zalika Simpson

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. New “Quick Draw Artist Interviews” will be posted on my new Toronto Artpost blog:
Quick: remote. Each time I see you, you appear considerably more in unison; precise. A pull back shot with rack focusing on your stare; off centre. Now even further. The thought of never reversing marks your unexpected return; again; just real and raw. Draw: art about art.

Aisha-Zalika Simpson is an interdisciplinary artist and Criticism and Curatorial Practice major at OCAD University. Studying different art practices, Simpson has developed an appreciation for the potential art has to connect people, stimulate discussion and create positive change. Her Criticism and Curatorial foundation enables Simpson to approach her work with both a theoretical lens and a pragmatic approach to art making and curating. 
Simpson is participating in Project 417’s presentation "Unveiling the Myths" – an exhibition at Yonge-Dundas Square on August 3rd and 4th, 2011, in Toronto.

I think its always important
for the viewer to have space to piece together the message
within a work; however with socially conscious art
it is also important to not be too
illusive. Sometimes you need to be
literal and forthright.













It wouldn't be correct to say
“socially conscious” work is merely about presenting the theme
of social injustice to inform viewers.







Read the entire interview with Aisha-Zalika Simpson at: 


http://artpost-oc.blogspot.com

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Quick Draw Artist Interview #16: Janna Watson

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. New “Quick Draw Artist Interviews” will be posted on my new Toronto Artpost blog:
Otino personally thanks Lee Ka-sing for welcoming him back to Toronto Artpost.
Quick: drops. It wasn’t the first time it started to rain like this here. teem. It’s strange how first everyone was just fine in the lake; yet the concept of soaked is altogether different in a downpour. They run; we freeze; chemise evanescence; dissolved; just real and raw. Draw: art about art.



Janna Watson is a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and has already begun building an impressive list of exhibitions. Using a hybridizing and synthetic set of tactics, her work is intended to (con) fuse categories of painterly and graphic, landscape and body, 2D and 3D, to blend tension and coherence as one. Watson's most recent solo exhibition opens at Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver in June 2011.


It happened
over years of getting into
the work; letting myself
make
mistakes and trusting
those mistakes.


I’m happy to hear it...
I think you really get it. I think a lot
about ego
and having
humility and letting spirit
in and out and I want to reflect spirit in my work.















http://www.bau-xi.com


Read the entire interview with Janna Watson at: 
http://artpost-oc.blogspot.com