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Spontaneity Over Precision: Q&A With Dominie Nash
What inspired you to experiment with the process of printmaking? Who is your favorite printmaking artist? It happened sort of by accident many years ago. I had been dyeing fabric and yarn, and a friend suggested we try to do batik. We got some books and muddled along until we figured it out. Eventually I […]
Conceptual Character: Q&A With Sascha Hughes-Caley
As a multimedia artist, with the No Joke installation at Hillyer featuring performance documentation, sculpture, and video work, how do you ensure unity in your pieces? I trust that formal and conceptual unity will be there. It is important for me to see how each piece works in conversation with the other. For No Joke, […]
Collaborative Viewers: Q&A With Heloisa Escudero
How did you begin creating installation artwork, and what has the medium allowed you to do? I began doing installation artwork in graduate school in 2001. The medium allows me to interact with the space, which makes it easier to connect with viewers who after all interact with the space and the art. What are […]
Lively Awareness of Ourselves: Q&A With Christina Shmigel
Why did you choose an installation piece to convey your experience moving to Shanghai? Installation is my preferred way of working: I’m inspired by the places where I live and by the spaces in which I present my interpretations of those places. I think of my installations as creating a kind of theater space in […]
World of the Senses: Artist Q&A With Lina Alattar
Your new body of work explores identity, and how the surrounding world effects this self-exploration. Why do you think it is important to explore these deeper themes through art? Art, to me, explores the deeper themes of our lives. It makes our experiences richer and deeper and in doing so, nourishes us on a deeper […]
Intuition and Creation: Q&A With Nicole Fall
Your mom is also an artist, through both you and your mother’s experiences in the DC art scene, what major shifts or changes have you observed? Growing up with my mother, artist Dorothy Fall, I was exposed to the DC art scene from the 1960s onward ( my childhood). I would be taken to DC […]
Branches of Work: Artist Q&A With Marc Robarge
In discussing your recent work on your website, you note that the pieces are focused on two directions, one discussing life and death and the other commenting on cultural, societal, and environmental issues. What message do you hope people will take away when viewing these two themes together? Yes, recently, my work took a new […]
Stripped Elements: Artist Q&A With Alex Porter
You mention in your artist statement that you want the viewer to create their own emphasis out of the pieces. What drew you to wanting this more interactive and interpretive response? My impression has always been that the experience of seeing the landscape varies from person to person, and that there are many ways of […]
Chee-Keong Kung: Adjacent Amplitudes
Chee-Keong Kung begins each piece with the intention to capture the spontaneity and immediacy of the painting process. Washes, brush strokes, or lines are laid down as stimuli for subsequent moves. Kung responds to surface qualities, material characteristics, and the activity of mark-making in developing the work. Accidental drips, smears and fingerprints become impetuses for […]