Peru-born, New York-based artist Diego Montoya gives us a glimpse into his life as a costume designer, installation, performance, interactive, artist extraordinaire. We found Diego through instagram while searching out #wearableart. His work, while diverse seems to build upon itself, creating a unique and in-depth world. Where in Florida did you grow up and what…
Clare Szydlowski is an Oakland-based printmaker and art educator. She received her BA from UC Santa Cruz in 2006 and her MFA from San Francisco State University in 2009. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the Bay Area including Kala Art Institute, The Lab, Interface Gallery, and The Compound Gallery. Where did you grow up? How did…
Antler gallery is located in the vibrant Alberta Arts District of Portland, OR. Artists Susannah Kelly and Neil Perry founded Antler to showcase high caliber contemporary art and innovative craft from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. They took the time to talk with Venison about their experience as artists running a gallery, and let us in…
Margaret speaks with us about her work which is inspired by a topic that got thrown under the bus this election season: climate change. “Understanding the cycles of life are core concepts in my practice. Ideas regarding vulnerability, growth, strength, powerlessness and transformation fuel my imagination and stimulate the creative process.” Growing up in Canada on…
Adriana Villagran interviews Angela Gram, a painter, writer, and educator living and working in New Jersey. She received a MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is also a co-founder of the blog Quantumartreview, a source for art criticism, essays, and interviews that investigate the intersections…
From the artist – “I make objects that behave like bodies. Teasing out the slippery relationship between desire, intimacy and power, these sculptural bodies are non-binary. They shift and meld into different categories, questioning what is masculine and feminine, plant and animal, cultural and natural.” There are certain places in the USA and in the…
Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who makes drawings, installations and embroideries. Amanda uses thread as a mechanism for creating delicate three-dimensional “drawings” that explore the connections between textiles and the body. In this article, Adriana investigates her enigmatic embroidery process, her transition in and our of academia, and how it effects her artistic process….
Jonathan Odom is from Louisiana but live and works in the Bay Area with his artist- wife Clare Szydlowski. (Who we interviewed in Spring 2015) Jonathan attended Venison Camp, our adult camp for art professionals. It was during his Labs session (like Critiques) that we got to talking about world building, the sci-fi, and what his…
Your work investigates the body as form, as sculpture, as living composition. The work seems to bring dance, yoga, and daily movement into the conversation. How and when did you start investigating these themes? I initially started investigating these themes while in undergraduate school. I was studying psychology at the time at Wesleyan University. My…
Evan Holm is a kinetic installation artist who utilizes sound and music machinery to make sculptures which speak towards nature, tradition, music, poetry, time, and movement. His work has a poetic quality which is a must see through his beautifully documented videos on his website When and where were you when you first started incorporating…
