Your regularly-scheduled Featured Artist interview will be back next Thursday. But since Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday—sharing food and watching TV with the ones I love make me feel grateful—I'd like to take this opportunity to say I'm thankful for this fantastic job. As an artist and educator, asking other artists about their work and their experiences making art couldn't be more satisfying. I've had the opportunity to get to know numerous amazing artists. The only thing that would make it better is to see all this work in person.
So on the occasion of Thanksgiving, I'd like to highlight a few of my favorite interviews from the past three years. Click the names to go to the interviews.
Spring Play @ VIAF Performance Festival
2009
Performance/ Installation
Resource
2011
Acrylic & spray paint on linen
Thunder Spoon
Stretched blanket, foam, paint, pompoms, copper leaf, shetland
pony, mancala beads, tacks, brads, flowers, sculpey casted: oatmeal, and
coffee beans, moss
48" x 65"
2012
2011
Mound
2010
Paper, charcoal, plexi
14 x 12 x 5 ft
Installation at Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
Got The Power: Minnesota
2011
Mixed Media and Sound
6ft x 2ft x 15ft
Opening Soon (Grand Gateway Mall, Shanghai)
2009
Lightjet Prints
Grid of 4, 20" X 30" each
Floating Forest
2010
Oil on canvas
6' x 10'
Reversed Racism
Hand-embroidered cotton
Series of 12 counted cross-stitch images
of stills taken from the George Holiday video of the Rodney King
beating
Happy Thanksgiving!
