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The Visionary Potential of Science and Art: Q & A with Gloria Duan
Graphite and Suburbia: Q&A with Matthew McLaughlin
What prompted you to use graphite for this series? Does this material and how it looks relate to the idea of suburbia you are trying to convey? The choice to use graphite for the Scenes from Suburbia drawings had two parts. The first part was that I felt that out of all the different drawing […]
Complex Narratives and Contemporary Issues: Q&A with Craig Subler
Your pieces revolve around the nature of museums, which you have a long personal history of working in. How has working in the museum world influenced your own work? Museums are highly choreographed spaces. The art museum’s fractured discontinuity is a place where visitors have to navigate an artificially constructed world in which the narrative […]
Greater Sense of Inter-Connectivity: Maryanne Pollock
Artist, “Repression, Resurgence, Reemergence” In your artist’s statement you mention that you went “to Donegal to retrieve something that was lost. Perhaps it was a pride that had been crushed by poverty and starvation”. What role has your art played in retrieving this “something”? I found a rich artistic and oral history that was never […]
Uncharted Territory: Bart O’Reilly
Artist, “Repression, Resurgence, Reemergence” Your artist’s statement places emphasis on the present, between avoiding placing all interest in the origin of objects, utilizing improvisational exercises, and focusing on perception. Do you believe this central theme of the present should be used more when trying to understand identity? I think that in many ways we now […]
Conflicting Feelings: Colette Murphy
On your website, Bryan Wizemann describes your pieces as “haunted by a strong memory of youth, the culturally specific fantasies that one always carries as an immigrant to a new land.” Is this effect an inspiration for your pieces, or an involuntary result? As an artist I do not paint in response to emigrating from […]
Viscerally Expressing Themes: Erin Devine
Why did you choose video as your medium for your piece? What are the unique possibilities and challenges that this medium offers? My work is performative, whether live or in video. Typically, I enact ambiguous gestures using my own body in the video format, and are based in visual metaphors of some central theme or […]
Search for Contemporary Identity: Conall Cary
Your artist’s statement discusses a recent focus on the damage outdated conceptions of “masculinity” can have on contemporary young men. Does the theme of inherited identity present in this new focus have a connection to the exhibition on Irish identity? Why or why not? In Ireland I think that traditional masculinity and traditional ‘Irishness’ both […]
Connecting Physically and Psychologically: Q&A With Jackie Hoysted
Jackie is the curator of June 2016 exhibition “Repression, Resurgence, Reemergence,” and the head of Visual Arts Programming for Solas Nua. As the Director of Visual Arts for Solas Nua, the only non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to contemporary Irish arts, what is the most rewarding aspect of your position? I really enjoy […]