Artist Interviews
Joseph Domjan: Hungarian Woodprint Artist of Tuxedo Park
Marlea Liguori recently graduated from SUNY New Paltz and loves art, music and writing. She’s going to be checking out local art galleries and events throughout Orange County and the Hudson Valley, and writing about them here at ArtSpace. She’s also going to be profiling well known artists, past and present, that have lived... »
Video Artists Shawn Strong/Umar Mutakbbir: 10 Questions
Phanatiks Entertainment (Shawn Strong, Umar A. Mutakabbir) Video Production www.phanatiks.com What’s better then having both respond? Shawn’s answers are first, with Umar’s after the slash ‘/’ UPDATE:... »
Watercolorist M.E. Whitehill: 10 Questions
M.E. Whitehill Artist, Watercolorist www.mewhitehill.com What is your favorite word? Joy What is your least favorite word? Sorry What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? The natural beauty of mountains, flowers, trees, birds, animals, insects, ocean,etc. Tell us about your earliest memory that led you to becoming an artist. Artists seemed to have a special insite to living freely. My Great Grandfather was... »
Fluxus Artist James Lorubbio: 10 Questions
James Lorubbio pen & ink (sometimes mixed media) www.frontiernet.net/~lorubbio/blurt What is your favorite word? blurting What is your least favorite word? abnormalities What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? I think it was John Cage, who once said “a good artist is a good observer.” I observe, and free form doodle (that’s the fluxust in me), and ideas happen. I’ll... »
Collage Artist Jonathan Talbot: 10 Questions
Jonathan Talbot Painter and Collage Artist www.talbot1.com What is your favorite word? amparo What is your least favorite word? stop What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? invention, contemplation, and concern. Tell us about your earliest memory that led you to becoming an artist. Before I could write my mother would ask me to tell her about my drawings and she would... »
Punk Artist Jeff Flaster: 10 Questions
Jeff Flaster is an artist in Middletown whose work puts a deep focus on his life as a gay man involved in the punk scene. Unafraid and uncensored, Jeff is very raw whose work borders the line of brash and intimacy. Jeff Flaster punk street art Queer Punk Artist Forum http://nomadicempath.deviantart.com What is your favorite word? empath What is your least... »
Photographer Peter Quinn: 10 Questions
Peter Quinn Photographer www.quinncophoto.com What is your favorite word? Yes – Anyone can say no, saying “yes” is what it takes to make things happen. What is your least favorite word? No – Not much of a surprise there is it? What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Good music, sunlight, and having time to do things the way I want... »
Mixed Media Artist Billie Robson: 10 Questions
Billie Robson a/k/a Art by Canace Mixed Media Collage, Assemblage, Photography, Graphic Arts, Web Design, Etc. Art by Canace – www.canace.net What is your favorite word? “Eclectic” – It encompasses such a widespread feeling of acceptance in design. Assemblage is my heartfelt favorite so to marry items that are otherwise different is exciting. What is your least favorite... »
Visual Artist Jacquelyn Carter: 10 Questions
Jacquelyn Carter pastels; acrylic, conte; oil crayons at present; digital illustration/graphics Manager of the Pine Bush Farmer’s Market What is your favorite word? Om What is your least favorite word? Yankee What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Singing or playing the tambora or harmonium and singing Kirtans. Color, light reflections, silence, inner stillness, natural rhythm and beats…movies of artists... »
Drummer Steve Rubin: 10 Questions
Steve Rubin drummer. Jazz, world, blues, R&B, soul www.musicianspage.com/musicians/1139/ What is your favorite word? Louise What is your least favorite word? No What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Natural improvisation. A moment arising from honest inspiration. Shared connection of sympathetic minds and souls Tell us about your earliest memory that led you to becoming an artist. A drummer, winking at my... »