Noel Sinclair Boyt is a visual artist, skateboarder, and a great friend. When we first met, Noel was visiting Boston during the reign of Coliseum. We didn’t get to hang around for too long, but we have been in touch for many years. I knew Noel first for his skating–the kind of creative style you can see in his video parts are easily reflective of the personality in his artistic pieces. All things considered, anything Noel’s involved in creating is worth checking out.
Lucas Blalock, a new New York based photographer, states that his work illustrates the way that falseness/mechanics in pictures can bring us closer to the world. In this interview he answers questions about how he succeeds in doing this using overlapping, patterns, mirrors, and (only some) fake fruit.
Most people know Melora Hardin as Jan Levinson, the less-than-perfect corporate boss on NBC’s The Office. Admittedly, this was the extent of my familiarity with this actress/singer/director until recently. Delving in a little deeper, I realized that Melora is in fact a Renaissance woman, and quite a cool one at that. After Office hours, she’s recorded three albums, starred on Broadway, and is preparing to direct her second film. It was a pleasure getting to speak to such a multitalented and positive-minded woman.
When I was a child, I had always dreamt of being being a professional skateboard photographer. I had looked up to these men of the industry as iconic idols. There was only one problem though: I wasn’t good enough to make it. The lighting always made the figures look like silhouettes, the composition was sophomoric at best, and the print quality caused me great ridicule. So, sadly I had no choice but to cut my losses and abandon the glamorous and ritz-crackery filled life of a photographer. However, when I saw Ryan Gee ollie into the Barcelona bank in Kalis’ DC part, I realized I could try to skate too. I couldn’t make it as a respected photographer, but I decided I still wanted to be part of the industry in one way or another. I had no choice but to settle for the lackluster life of becoming a professional skateboarder. The end.
If you say the word “artist,” most people conjure up the same image–a crazy offbeat character that paints in the dark and enjoys slicing his ear off. While we are positive that Nicholas Kuszyk doesn’t enjoy slicing his ear off (we think), he certainly is eccentric. Kuszyk is a visual artist who has just published a children’s book. Read this unique interview to find out how Odie from Garfield got him into art.
Alana Celii is an interesting young woman. The photographs she takes are about as imaginative and playful as her eclectic personality. Alana’s photographs span a wide spectrum of format and formality, while retaining her personal touch. This exceptional up-and-coming artist gave us our money’s worth in this “interview.”
David Schoerner has immersed himself in every part of the photographic process and has brought together an art form and a publishing house that explores the relationship between photographs and how they ultimately interact with one another. Between producing new prints, publishing his latest art book and having various show in New York City and Los Angeles, David Schoerner took the time to fill us in on his latest going ons.
Martynka Wawrzyniak has recently shown her series Ketchup and Kids in NYC at Envoy Enterprises, which specializes in 24-hour exhibitions. Wawrzyniak works mostly with portraits of children and exposes their vulnerability, as well as the idea of childhood vs. adulthood. She also focuses on ideas of using appropriated images in her artwork and uses both photography and video to project her message. In this interview, Wawrzyniak answers questions about her inspirations and even her own childhood, and how they affect the art she is making today.
Referring to his own work as “the scribbles of a full time derelict” on his website, multi-talented Dan Zvereff creates with a light-heartedness and animation. From photography to pen drawings and more, Zvereff’s projects focus on the natural and organic. Currently at work on a children’s book, he took a break to hobnob with Artist Advocacy.
“Fos” is a real Renaissance man, if one ever existed. He is a visual artist, the man behind Heroin Skateboards, and now the art director at Altamont Apparel, amongst other things. This jack-of-all-trades Englishman took the time to give us some insight into the life of an accomplished artist from the other side of the pond.
