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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Interview with Slink Moss

q)Name?

a)Slink Moss

q)Location?

a)New York City and Hudson, NY

q)Contact info...?


q)How did you get started making art?

a)I started drawing sports uniforms and sports stadiums as a child.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)My art is folk expressionism with gothic and rock'n 'roll flavors

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)I get inspiration from what I read (Melville, histories), what I see(people, places, Medieval art) and what I dream.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Dr Seuss, Edward Gorey, Philip Guston, my son Augustus, my wife VilmaMaré, my mother.

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)I sell prints. You can see them at slinkmoss.com and I'll be finishing a book this year of my comics.


q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Pen and ink.

q)What are you working on now?

a)I'm making a series of prints of our Roman alphabet from A to Z. It's for children and adults. I'm also having fun making videos and posting them on youtube. Look up slinkmoss on youtube.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)Eat spinach and brown rice.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)Watching sports. Otherwise, I'm making art as much as possible.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Music is water.

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)Art is the sun and moon.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Interview with Serge Seidlitz

q)Name?

a)Serge Seidlitz

q)Location?

a)London

q)Contact info?

a)For commissions - info@debutart.com

q)How did you get started making art?

a) I always drew when I was a kid and always got in trouble at school for not paying attention and just doodling in my exercise books. I remember even at prep school making comics and drawing fake newspaper covers. Later, I made a comic called ‘spliff’ with my friend Ed when we were about 15, it was kind of like Viz and was all about the teachers and people in our school. We got in trouble for that and had to censor it, we changed the name to ‘the sensible comic’, Ed’s now a childrens Tv presenter which is quite funny. Art school seemed like a good place for me to go, and I didn’t really have any other option as I was not interested in going to university and studying something for the sake of it.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)I would currently describe myself as a commercial illustrator, so maybe something like ‘contemporary illustration’.
q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)I look at other artists work, film posters, rock posters, surfing the net, comics, record covers, magazine, book covers, in my head. I like to cut things out of newspapers and magazines, I keep folders of reference.
q)What other artists inspire you?

a) I was a bit of a skater and had a santa cruz deck, my girlfriend just bought me an original signed-to-me Jim Philips ‘screaming hand’, which is very cool! I used to read Mad magazine compulsively and trade garbage pail kids stickers. There are so many artists that are around at the moment that are cool and I’m inspired by. There’s been a big renaissance in illustration. With my own work I like to look at other stuff as inspiration but think it’s important to stay original, I think art, whether it's music, illustration, or whatever is much more meaningful if it’s personal and has something of the artist soul in. That sounds a bit wanky, but I mean I hate seeing stuff that is just a generic treatment or a fashionable design trend. It’s easy to find the latest trend and just apply it to you work blah blah rant rant.


q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a) I’ve got some screen prints for sale in an east London gallery called Nelly duff (http://www.nellyduff.com/)

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Pen and mac

q)What are you working on now?

a) Right now I’m working on an advertising campaign for top secret client and a series of board games for a Channel Four book, I’m also doing some portraits for a UEFA Football project.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to be an artist?

a)Be original and a bit obsessive, possibly even a bit autistic.


q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a)This summer im renting a van a bit like the one in Scooby doo and going ghost hunting with my girlfriend. One of the places we’re visiting is a haunted insane asylum which was built on a druid burial ground.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a) Wow. I’m not sure how to answer this question to be honest, my piano teacher at school to told me to give up and take up an instrument which only used one hand, because I was so musically uncoordinated, but I wonder now if she meant something else! I played bass guitar in a band for one night, I think I was on the stage for about six hours (at least it was light outside by the time I looked up from strumming), I thought I was pretty pretty good, but im told otherwise.

q) What does art, in it' entirety, mean to you?

a) Also, a hard question - I like colouring in books and pictures of dinosaurs.


q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a)I used to visit pixelsurgeon.com religiously every day and since its closet down there is a big hole in my morning routine, so if anyone can recommend a replacement ?I like little chimp thingy page and illustrationmundo



Friday, January 11, 2008

Interview with Ash Lieb

q) Introduce yourself first please?

a)Hello I'm Ash Lieb, I live in a City called Ballarat at the bottom of Australia.I'm mostly a digital artist though I incorporate all art forms into my work.

q) How did you get into art?

a)I've always been interested in Art from a young age, but it wasn't the traditional art.I was always drawn towards film and animation cells from Disney and Warner Brothers and I'm sure that has always been an influence.

q) Who has been the biggest influence on you?

a)My biggest influence is not an artist, it's comedian Mitch Hedberg.I relate to Mitch's observation style of humor and I've been creating artworks for year upon my own observations.I've admired artists Ray Caesar and Loretta Lux for a few years now and those old animation cells.

q) Do you rule by any tendency in your creative work, or you only follow what comes in your mind?

a)I think the idea rules the creation, so I'm never really sure what the artwork will look like until I have the idea.I might be working small one day, gigantic the next or Sepia one day and blue the next.Though I'm sure if I do have a tendency it would be to make the work entertaining and fun for the viewer.

q) Do you have a preferred medium to work on? Why?
a)My preferred medium has become the camera and computer only for their power to create truly surreal images.I love all art styles and mediums and try to work with all of them as much as possible, combining them wherever it feels right.

q) How much does your environment have an effect on your pictures?

a)I love to work outside, that's why I love photography.I think the more time I spend outside the more open my work is and if I get stuck inside for a week my work becomes claustrophobic.You can tell by looking at each artwork if I was outside that week or inside that week it's almost like diary of locations and thoughts and dreams.

q) Tell us about your studio space. Where do you work? Do you listen to certain types of music while working?

a)My studio space is a cube, there's a desk at one wall with windows in the corner. There's a piano by another wall and a lounge chair on another.There's an artwork on one wall with more than three thousand pins and needles in it, and there's also a door.I usually listen to music without lyrics as I get distracted by what they're saying and the fewer distractions the better.

q) Who are your favorite artists?

a)I like art forms but my favorite artist's would have to be Loretta Lux,Ray Caesar and Joe Sorren as they are the first names of any artist's that come to mind.

q )When have you started using the internet and what role does this form of communication play for you, personally, for your art, and for your business?

a)I began using the internet in the early years of high school (1995-7)where I taught myself everything there was to know about making websites at the time.The internet has been the greatest promotional tool for my art and without it my work would be only known to little more than a hundred people rather than the thousands that it is.The internet has a lot of potential for artists and artworks, I'm sure there are an infinite number of ways that a viewer could interact with an artwork via the internet.

q) What books are on your nightstand?

a)I've been reading a lot lately, in my room you'll currently find a bunch of Bukowski books, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and Chuck Palahniuk's Choke.

q) What's playing on your stereo?

a)Currently listening to a Jose Gonzalez' cd.. when that comes out it will either be Turin Brakes, Kaki King or Eliott Smith.
q) Any interesting "rituals" before you start creating?

a)I try to avoid rituals if it's at all possible, though I often don't start working 'till everybody else is asleep and dreaming.

q) What is your favorite color?

a)I'm a fan of that faint champagne color or that surreal denim shade.

q) What is the best time in the day for you to work on a project? Is thereone, or is it more about the environment -- maybe the right mood?

a)If it were possible to live in a house on my own I imagine any time of the day would be perfect, but since there are others who whether they mean to or not distract me I usually work late at night.It's bets not to be too hot as that doesn't help anyone. I'd prefer it be a nice cool night, maybe with some rain in the background.

q) What projects mean a lot to you at the moment?

a)I'm trying to work on some writing at the moment so that's been getting alot of my time.I have several stories on the go, one about a girl who's cat goes missing,one about abortion, and one about Nothing.But as always I'm always I'm working on getting my 'Meaning of life'artworks together for an unknown exhibition in an unknown future :)

q)Your contacts.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Interview with Tonya Solley Thornton

q)Name?

a)Tonya Solley Thornton

q)Location?

a) I recently moved to Asheville, North Carolina, before that I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 9 years.

q)Contact info.?


q)How did you get started making art?

a) In college I started working towards an art education degree, but I got so involved in my art classes that I fell in love and decided to get my BFA in art instead.

q)How would you describe your art?

a) That is such a difficult question, I am always hoping that my work will answer it for me.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a) I am very inspired by amusement parks, Busby Berkeley movies, parades, thrift stores, and any other strange wonders of American culture.
q)What other artists inspire you?

a)Mary Blair, Andrea Loefke, Suzanne Husky, Carsten Holler,Jovi Schnell these are just a few.

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a) I am having a show in April at The Fleetwing Gallery in Lambertville, NJ,you could also contact me through my website.

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a) I love using a wide variety of materials in my sculptures - plastic flowers, fabric, found items, mechanical dolls, beads, glitter... anything that appeals to me.

q)What are you working on now?

a) I am working on some smaller works for this show coming up in April. Most of the work I've done has been installation-based, but I am trying to work on smaller scale sculptures that have an interaction with each other.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants tobe an artist?

a) I used to think you had to be a natural at drawing in order to be an artist, but I have discovered that if you just have a creative nature you can do anything you want.

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a) I love going to thrift stores to gather new materials to use, and I like toget my craft on, which works as a creative exercise to get me geared upto work on my art again. I also love watching old movies, especially musicals.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a) You would have to ask my husband trevor aka kittinfishmountain. He is the music in my life.
q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a) I think art is all around us, and each person takes in what they have an affinity for. For me, that's anything that stimulates my sense of wonder.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?





Thursday, January 3, 2008

Interview with Frank Kortan

q) Introduce yourself first please?

a)I live in Germany in Kalchreuth, near Nürnberg, but I was born in Prague, Czech Republic, where I started my professional artistic career originally as a musician. As I was not agreeing with the communistic political situation in Czech my wife and me decided to emigrate 1984. Such escape was really very risky at that time, because the borders to all west countries were closed, therefore we decided to emigrate through Yugoslavia and Italy. After very dangerous and adventurous escape we arrived in Switzerland, in Tessino. After one year we moved from Switzerland to Germany.

q) How did you get into art?

a)My interest to the art was there in general always, I studied music, because I wanted to become a musician previously; however I painted from an early age parallel. Unfortunately after our arrival in Germany I found out this is a very hard to find a good job as a professional musician on a continuing basis. Therefore I had to search for a new way for my future and as the painting was my passion too, this is why I decided to become a painter. Since that time (1990) I have been studying painting very intensively, during these studies I joined the German Trompe-l'oeil scene as well, because I was fascinated from the perfect technology of this style. But only Trompe-l’oeil this was not sufficient for me, I want to realize also some surrealistic idea, therefore my personal style is a combination of fantastical realism and surrealism with the precise technology of Trompe-l’oeil and this is a very big challenge for me. One of my focuses are surrealistic portraits in highest quality, e.g. I created an oil painting for the famous writer Ephraim Kishon.

q) Who has been the biggest influence on you?

a)In principal all interesting personalities in the field of literature and music, e.g. Frank Zappa, Franz Kafka and concern fine artists old masters who have differed clearly, e.g. Hieronymus Bosch and of course Salvador Dali.

q) Do you rule by any tendency in your creative work, or you only follow what comes in your mind?

a)I would say both, but at the beginning is always an idea and it does not play any role if this is a special order or one of my free works. For me is important that my style is clear recognizably after finalizing, everybody must say this is a “Kortan”. However this is really a lot of work, normally I am working several months on one painting, I study very intensively the given theme, I read books, I pay attention on correct elements that are integrated in the painting, e.g. when I am create a renaissance painting, there are only components, ornaments, and animals which belong only to the given style.
q) Do you have a preferred medium to work on? Why?
a)I create only oil paintings on wood at the moment because wood can be better undercoated. In order to apply my precise painting I need extremely smooth and fine surface without any imperfections. The surface must be fine like a paper. Undercoating of canvas is much more complicated, you will not get so smooth surface and therefore I do not use it any more.

q) How much does your environment have an effect on your pictures?

a)Should you mean my direct environment like a place where I live, so this does not influence my pictures. My direct inspiration is e.g. travelling, music, literature and meetings with interesting personalities.

q) Tell us about your studio space. Where do you work? Do you listen to certain types of music while working?

a)Maybe I disappoint everybody who thinks the classical studio of an artist must be dirty and chaotic,
and where the colours are thrown from the distance of 5 metres at the canvas.
My studio is the right opposite, I prefer to keep the things in order and I believe this influence the final result of my work as well, in some cases I am very pedantic e.g. a forgotten hair of brush in the painting disturbs me extremely.
My studio is integrated in my private house, which is in morocco and indian style with a lot of things we also brought from our travel trips and till recently the interior of my studio was very rational and insipid, almost minimalistic, but last year I furnished also my studio in the same style like my house, indian and morocco style. Now I am feeling very well there.
Concerning your question of music I personally love jazz music very much, my favourites are e.g. Monty Alexander, Jacques Loussier, Count Basie Big Band or Diana Krall, however with such type of music I can not concentrate properly, therefore I need some other “simple” music as a background while working.

q) Who are your favorite artists?

a)I have a lot of favourite artists, if I should call some of them, from old masters e.g. Philippe de Champagne and Gerit Dou and from contemporary artists e.g. Jacques Poirier, Rudolf Hausner and Oldřich Kulhánek.

q )When have you started using the internet and what role does this form of communication play for you, personally, for your art, and for your business?

a)I started to use the internet quite late, it is about 6 years ago, however without this I can not imagine my business life any more. In order to mention only some benefits, I recognize the value of fast communication all over the world and all types of publishing of my art. Furthermore internet is a perfect way in order to get all information you need.

q) What books are on your nightstand?

a)Unfortunately I do not have enough time I would like to have for literature at the moment. As I will work on a painting with Franz Kafka theme shortly, so there is a Franz Kafka book STORIES, which I need for my inspiration. You also will find there two books of my friend and great humorist Ephraim Kishon, I love his humour very much.

q) What's playing on your stereo?

a)There is a CD with jazz, Jacques Loussier Trio, Mozart Piano concertos 20/23 with string orchestra.

q) Any interesting "rituals" before you start creating?

a)I have only one ritual since 11 years, I walk with my “dog-friend” Monty (german boxer) before I start creating, this helps to clean my thoughts from daily stress.

q) What is your favourite colour?

a)I have no unfavourite colour.

q) What is the best time in the day for you to work on a project? Is there one, or is it more about the environment -- maybe the right mood?

a)My working day does not differ from working day of a non-artist. I start in the morning and I work very concentrated approximately 5 – 6 hours. But in principal there is no end of working day for an artist, because I think about my paintings round-the-clock.

q) What projects mean a lot to you at the moment?

a)It is interesting, but many doctors have interest in my artworks, a part of them are psychiatrists, must I be worried? At the moment there is really an exception because I am working on an order, surrealistic portraits for an anasthesiologists.

q)Your contacts…

a)Frank KORTAN
Heroldsbergerstrasse 23 a
90562 Kalchreuth
GERMANY

Phone: +49 (911) 313 975