Interview

"The objects have also become significant as symbols for #BLM. It’s interesting how both sides appropriate the objects for their own use."

"I’m not interested in a straightforward depiction, or a direct transfer from my brain onto a surface. I distrust the image and I distrust myself." 

“I moved to Seattle! And the thing about Seattle is that it is the emerald city, in an evergreen state. And so you can't be there and not focus on plant life.”

"I’m out here making really brave art, taking risks. It’d be nice if I had a little help locally."

“We see this monolithic idea of what the world thinks is Blackness, but we know that the Black experience is whatever the Black person has. That’s the Black experience. And that’s the individual experience.”

"I was more interested in the high drama of the opera, combined with the irrationality of Dada’s legacy in response to the savagery in the world."

“There can’t be that divide, because ultimately I’m going to be the one getting the scrutiny; I’m going to be the one that has to answer for [the art], so my life has to reflect that, you know — walking it like you talk it.”

"I heard someone actually scream out [during a performance] 'When is she going to do a magic act?' I was trying not crack up and I thought: this is just perfect.”

Shirin Neshat's retrospective exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is made up of her acclaimed oeuvre of photography, video and film from the past 30 years.

"Architecture is always the jumping off point for me."

Watkins was recently designated by Houston Center for Contemporary Craft as a Texas Master.

Welcome to "In Residence," a new interview series that introduces readers to artists who come to Texas from other parts of the country — and other parts of the world — to participate in artist residency programs. 

“A lot of the artists [here],  you grow up with them in the neighborhood, you just go from playing video games together to writing grants together. That's the path: playing outside, playing video games, grants. ” 

"Latinx art is still waiting to be taken up by museum acquisitions and a collector base. It’s an art still in the process of legitimation."

"Living in these characters gives me a freedom to explore what it feels like to embrace emotion and let it do what it needs to — through sadness or confusion or strange sexiness or filth or isolation." 

"It's not just the content of hate speech that is problematic. It's the algorithms that have funneled haters toward more hate."

"My relationship with the border has led to the quest of understanding the space of the borders by attempting to materialize an intangible exchange."

Christopher Blay hosts Jonathan Morris, a Fort Worth Entrepreneur and community leader. They talk about the marriage of art and commerce, and how Morris' Hotel Dryce You Are Here Art Grant could help build an inclusive community in Fort Worth.

For the past 40 years, Deborah Butterfield has been creating large-scale sculptures of horses. Her work is currently on view at The Old Jail Art Center in Albany.

Christopher Blay and Bernardo Vallarino discuss Vallarino's work, which addresses the hollow sentiments of “Thoughts and Prayers” in the face of violence in society.