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Category: Interviews

• An Interview with Heather McQueen

  Ashawnta Jackson | 03.31.10 | Interviews, Vol3, Issue1 - Spring/Summer 2010 | 2 Comments

  Heather McQueen is a painter, illustrator and photographer living and working in Northampton, Massachusetts.  Her work, representational in its nature, examines the details of everyday objects and plant life.
  Ashawnta Jackson:  So, tell me a bit about your background, and the kind of work you do.
  Heather McQueen:  I always did art as a kid, and eventually […]

• An Interview with Deema Bayrakdar

  Janet Freeman | 11.24.09 | Interviews, Vol2, Issue2 - Fall/Winter 2009 | 1 Comment

  Deema Bayrakdar is a mixed media artist and textile/surface designer living in Brooklyn. Her work finds inspiration in both urban and natural landscapes, and Bayrakdar’s keen interest in energy and movement is reflected in her playful collages, prints and textile designs.
  JF: First, I’d like to say thanks, Deema, for agreeing to this interview! Your images […]

• An Interview with Jesse Reno

  Janet Freeman | 05.15.09 | Interviews, Vol2, Issue1 - Spring/Summer 2009 | Comments

  Jesse Reno is a self-taught artist living in Portland, Oregon. His mixed-media paintings are a delightful mix of shamanic figures, totemic imagery, forest sprites and creatures of the sea–guideposts for navigating a man-made world increasingly at odds with its natural environment.
  Recently, I caught up with Jesse at Opposable Thumb here in Portland, where talk about […]

• An Interview with Dana Ellyn

  Laura Horsley | 11.08.08 | Interviews, Vol1, Issue2 - Fall/Winter 2008 | Comments

  D.C. artist Dana Ellyn documents the political, social and cultural events of the day with the humor of a satirist, the mind of an informed citizen and the color and brush strokes of an engaging artist who is serious about her work. Her commentary on the 2008 presidential race and the self-inflicted crippling of U.S. […]

• An Interview with Matt Sesow

  Janet Freeman | 04.21.08 | Interviews, Vol1, Issue1 - Spring/Summer 2008 | Comments

  Matt Sesow is an independent and self-taught artist living in Washington, DC. Since starting his career in 1993, he has sold thousands of paintings all over the world. A self-described ‘social anthropologist,’ his art documents the times in which we live while simultaneously skewering our perceptions about everything from world politics to personal trauma.
  As […]

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by Heather McQueen