From crocheted fiberglass to laser-cut acrylic sheet. In November 2015, I began planning repairs on the front wall of my studio. One problem led to another and I was unable to use the space where all the fiberglass work happens for a full year and a half. Mid 2016, I was introduced to a laser […]
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Yvette Kaiser Smith – Crocheted fiberglass and math structures
How did your signature process of crocheting fiberglass begin? Yvette Kaiser Smith: In 1992, first quarter of MFA school, I started making sculpture that dealt with abstracting narratives of identity, constantly trying new materials, never committing to one. Sheet metals, wood, wire, rawhide, beeswax. In 1994, for my MFA show, I used fiberglass matt, fiberglass […]
Yvette Kaiser Smith – math art
From laser-cut acrylic assemblage to mixed media on acrylic sheet. Majority of my past works are indoor, wall-based, crocheted fiberglass constructions. In 2016, I was introduced to a laser cutter and have since focused on developing a body of wall-based works, using laser-cut acrylic sheets separated by vinyl spacers. . The crocheted fiberglass work utilizes […]
Interview with Ingela Wallgren Lindgren
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Ingela Wallgren Lindgren: To me, art is humans opportunity to create additional dimensions of existence. Also interesting how communication as with the recipient of the art which creates on the inside through their own psychological projections. […]
Visit in Jelena Antic’s Studio
Interview with Roser Segura
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Roser Segura: What is art for me? simply a vital necessity. It is what I think of every day of my life, since I have memory; it is a journey within oneself, which results in images […]
Interview with Blanka (Blinx) Križ
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Blanka (Blinx) Križ: To me, art is a way of living. I need the art to live, as well as I urgently need the air to survive. Art is something that gives me a strong sense […]
Interview with Olivier Bourgin
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Olivier Bourgin: Since my adolescence I express myself by painting. Very often the creation of a new collage is an adventure. I know what I start with, but I do not know what it will become…… […]
Interview with Francesca Borgo
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Art is my way to feel connected with myself, to feel I know who I am. Every color and movement in painting affect me and I love who I am when I am creating. O-A: Who […]
Interview with Barbara Krupp
O-A: Who or what inspired you artistically; a person, artist, event, experience. Barbara Krupp: I am going to answer this question one subject at a time and I will begin with a person. I never had a specific thought to become an artist. When I thought about the future there were many exciting things to […]
Interview with Terry Beard
O-A: Who or what inspired you artistically; a person, artist, event, experience… Terry Beard: I lived Uganda from the age of 9 to 16. This had a lasting influence on my work and in particular my affinity with colour. An artist called Geraldine Robarts took me under her wing, introducing me to new media and […]
Tobias Tovera painting
As an artist, I try to challenge our everyday perceptions by offering new images that reinterpret our visual world. My art experiments with alchemical processes in search of what I call “transmuted spaces,” places where energy can shift, change, or renew itself. From the chemistry of water reacting with minerals to a magic that I […]