Brent: Lines have been your thing from when I can first remember – and probably before that too. And for you, the lines and their infinite variety is the motivating bee in your bonnet, with a focus that is almost too obsessive, but it is what is for you – mostly. There is a … Continue reading
Brent: In painting you really do need to question why you go around the edge and paint the sides. Painting is about the face, the surface, and yes, the edge, which is not the end of the world, but is at the crossroads of a painting. The edge in painting engages the frame as something … Continue reading
Brent: Here we are in the realm of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and digital imaging. You are an artist, curator, and an agent provocateur, among other things. Where do we start? Guido: Agent provocateur? Brent: Maybe a better label would be DIY. If an opportunity is not there you organize, find a place, and do … Continue reading
Brent: While artist-in-residence in the most western point of Ireland, Achill Island, you tapped in a description of the landscape: Dramatic, With Cliffs, An Ocean, And Totally Isolated. This is your work: my first impression. There is Nature in your pieces. And it took a tough wind and a heavy sea to set this all … Continue reading
Brent: Out of location, a thing found – wonders in ways that form a new thing, in a different location – this is generally how I sense your various projects working. Patricia: It is my experience of a location or an object in a place that is important to me. I think that I’ve been … Continue reading
Hiroshi Sunairi’s sculptural installation “Elephant Dinner” at Wako From Tokyo Art Beat, originally here Sunairi’s sculptural installation “Elephant Dinner” is based on the Buddhist fable, “Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant.” When the blind men had felt the elephant, the raja went to each of them and said to each, ‘Well, blind man, … Continue reading
