1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
Maybe a wandering date farmer, or could still be cooking eggs in that greasy spoon on Main and Broadway.
2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
I generally pay attention to ones that get me stoked rather than ones that don’t.
3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
Animal from the Muppet show or Dizzy Gillespie in his Heyday
4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
futureislandism.
5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
Wow! my! Now that’s his brain you know!
6. And the dumbest?
Yo Kid why you paintin dem Euro Stylez if ya West Kizzy Son?
7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
I find ripping myself off or rather Out works the best, but im really feeling Tal R, Stefan Marx, Tjorg Douglas Beer and Thomas Sheibitz.
8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
Im a happy camper if I can make a living with my art but I could really use a banging live/ work studio in Iceland with my own solar farm and an indoor skate park so I might have to hike the prices up in the near future.
9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
For me the image is an idea composed of many interactive elements
which are balancing upon and challenging one another. Information is
translated through form, space and color into a sort of visual mapping system. Anything and everything in my immediate environment can
effect this filtration process and the visual perception. Hopefully my work mirrors my habitats, the human condition and the time we live in.
10 Are you a political artist?
Some work is a response to the System and borders put up around us more so than being politically charged.
11 How do you start the process of making work?
Make a splodge, pull er out nice and easy, have a ponder, than a tight kink depending on which way she’s hanging, erase, ponder, make tea.
12 What next?
A Kayak trip through Scotland to brighten up those abandoned fishery units.
13 If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
They do not exist yet, might give birth to them this year.
14 Complete the following sentence “Blessed art the artists, for they shall…...poop, scoop, and troop with not even a chute”<15 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the curators, for they shall…float in the moat in a flourescent life boat”
16 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the art critics, for they shall….drink tea til their 90 while keepin it jiggy”
17. What is your favourite cheese?
Pyrenees Mountain Cheese
18. What’s next for you?
See Gabriel at Edel Assanti:FAD
