Art Animal » interview

On the Ground with War Photographer Lalage Snow

Setsu Uzume — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:51:32 +0000

When disaster strikes, there’s no time to think. Bullets fly, cars burst into flame and the only way to escape is to run. Lalage Snow is one person who runs toward danger, her camera capturing the surreal chaos of conflict – tear gas hovering over Bangladesh streets, and Russian jets screaming across the sky – [&hellip

The post On the Ground with War Photographer Lalage Snow appeared first on Art Animal.

Review: Women of the Underground: Art by Zora von Burden

Julie Davis — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:41:34 +0000

A collection of in-depth interviews, Women of the Underground: Art takes an inside look at the work of 24 female artists who are “cultural architects, influencing generations with art that is innovative, pushes boundaries, and dares to question, investigate and redefine society in the spirit of the underground.” Perhaps because of these general parameters, Women [&hellip

The post Review: Women of the Underground: Art by Zora von Burden appeared first on Art Animal.

Interview: Filmmaker Riley Hooper

Mallory Nezam — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:30:25 +0000

“Most people will tell their story if they have someone to listen,” said Riley Hooper, a young documentary filmmaker living in New York. Hooper happens to be a particularly good listener. At only 24, she snagged the Grand Jury Prize in the Shorts category at the DOC NYC festival in November for her film, “Flo”. [&hellip

The post Interview: Filmmaker Riley Hooper appeared first on Art Animal.

Interview with Beverly Buchanan

Angela Son — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:43:04 +0000

Throughout her three-decade long artistic career, Beverly Buchanan has painted and sculpted wooden shacks of the American South. Her latest exhibition, All in the Family, celebrated its opening last Friday at GalleryDAAS at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, featuring a series of Buchanan’s structures and paintings. Buchanan was born in North Carolina but grew up in [&hellip

The post Interview with Beverly Buchanan appeared first on Art Animal.

Interview with Virtuoso and Activist Christen Lien

Setsu Uzume — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:14:06 +0000

Christen Lien has been alternately called an activist, virtuoso and musical samurai because of her incredible performances on the viola and passion for civic responsibility. I first saw Lien perform during the Revelations: Myths + Meditations event at the Soundwave ((5)) HUMANITIES festival in San Francisco. Held in the city’s Episcopal Church of St. John [&hellip

The post Interview with Virtuoso and Activist Christen Lien appeared first on Art Animal.

The Animated Life of Grasiela Rodriguez

Julie Davis — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:21:42 +0000

Describing Grasiela Rodriguez as an artist requires more than just a few words: she’s a graphic designer, webmaster, illustrator, painter and gallery manager. She creates chalk art and maintains a blog of her work at festivals, such as the recent Pasadena Chalk Festival. Finally, as founder of Not Your Friend Comic Books, Rodriguez is also [&hellip

The post The Animated Life of Grasiela Rodriguez appeared first on Art Animal.

Interview with Artist Kristine Campbell

Angela Son — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:51:36 +0000

The dress has long been a symbol representative of the female form. Why is it that a simple piece of clothing has been charged with such strong gender identification? After all, men oh-so graciously shared the privilege of wearing a nice pair of pants with women, but, alas, women never returned the favor; thus men are [&hellip

The post Interview with Artist Kristine Campbell appeared first on Art Animal.

Interview with “The Barbs” Artist Deborah Colotti

Elizabeth Coleman — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:57:35 +0000

Seeing a wall of 200 naked, altered Barbies might be a little off-putting for some. But not for assemblage artist Deborah Colotti, creator of the series “The Barbs,” which features assembled Barbie parts with a twist on social commentary. Her work is often humorous, attempting to highlight and dismantle what Colotti calls “the pervasive, yet strangely [&hellip

The post Interview with “The Barbs” Artist Deborah Colotti appeared first on Art Animal.

Interview with Artist Françoise Pétrovitch

Alison Kjeldgaard — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:50:16 +0000

French artist Françoise Pétrovitch’s work is something of a balancing act. At first glance, viewers may be inclined to smile (one of my favorites being a wall drawing of a girl curtsying with rabbit ears on her head); however, upon closer inspection, her work invariably contains an unsettling duality that lingers just beneath the surface [&hellip

The post Interview with Artist Françoise Pétrovitch appeared first on Art Animal.

Interview with Comic Writer MariNaomi

Alison Kjeldgaard — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:54:02 +0000

MariNaomi is one of those unique comic artists (and writers in general) who can lead you into a dark abyss and bring you out laughing. “Despite having loads of opinions about most given subjects,” Mari admits in her artist’s statement, “I am utterly passionate about not taking myself seriously.” A self-taught artist who grew up [&hellip

The post Interview with Comic Writer MariNaomi appeared first on Art Animal.