Oh my God I was tearing my face off trying to stay awake for this lady.
And I got this vibe from her that she was one of those artists that spent so much time in the art community, that she had lost sort of this touch with normal people. She's like really out there. I hope I never get to that point because by then I'd just be talking in circles, making art that has no relevance.
I liked her figurative work best. The ones she thought were too illustrative. Like the Two Girls, sitting on a table blind folded. And I liked all the nature-reference constructions as well that she openly said she'd prefer not to talk about. I mean she was going through all her art in the last ten years, its understandable she wouldn't like some.
I did pick up some valuable construction tips though. She talked of painting a sculpture, and how she makes this mix paste of gesso and slip. The slip, being clay, becomes absorbany later. So when she paints over the primed sculpture, the skin of the sculpture sucks it into itself, instead of being inside a shell of paint. Also, if I want to make transparant sculptures, I should work with acrylic plastic instead of resin.
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