Interview

The first installment in Glasstire's video and audio podcast series, Artist on Artist, in which Glasstire's News Editor Christopher Blay, also an artist, hosts Texas-based artists and art professionals in one-on-one conversations.

Here Lauren Moya Ford is in conversation with curator and artist Jesus Treviño and artists Cande Aguilar, Jessie Burciaga, and Samantha Isabel García about how a current show at UT Austin speaks to the Borderlands and its soulful hidden currents.

"Every day try to be more human, and less of a consumer." 

The Dallas-based artist and curator of experimental film and new media is off to Cairo to teach for two years! Christina Rees chats with him about the adjunct teaching racket, opportunities for American artists overseas, and how his new city may influence his work.

"'Offerings' needs to be shown literally across the street from a police station. It deserves it."

"The moment we listen, we care about ourselves. How resistant is that?"

"It takes all of us, but as individuals we need to stand up, open our eyes, be brave and realize this is not the America we should be living in."

Porch Swing Orchestra has the feel of a personal experience, a recording you would make for yourself and not something to be shared for "likes."

Christopher Blay's May 22 video check in with Letitia and Sedrick Huckaby at Huckaby Studios. The artists and educators talked about studio work during the Great Lockdown of 2020, family, and their students.

"I would argue that it shouldn’t be looked at as tagging or graffiti, but a political utterance that is actually really fucking smart, and is an artful intervention, you know?"

Houston-based artist Tierney Malone talks to Glasstire about Willie Nelson, the importance of family, and the politics of our current moment. 

Christina Rees talks to Zeke Williams about him contracting COVID-19 in March, about his going to grad school after his art career started, and the essence of getting business done in the art world.

Sterling Allen talks to Christina Rees about the seduction of graphic design, using a parking lot as a gallery, and being a sculptor with a preoccupation with flatness.

Brandon Zech talks with artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed about Austin’s art scene, finding the perfect paintbrush, and the abundance of deadpan humor in his work.

Christina Rees and Emily Peacock chat about Emily discovering her inner painter, how her work takes on the ideas of crisis and emergency, and how much they both miss driving.

Christina Rees and artist Celia Eberle go dark and honest in this chat about postponing projects, how the sky is falling, and a party for the end of the world.

Christina Rees chats with artist Jon Whitfill about his leaving schoolteaching behind, the charm of Lubbock’s art scene, and his scientific attraction to spheres and why he makes them into art.

Christopher Blay and Scott Winterrowd talk about museums having to improvise on the fly, Scott's collection of other artist’s works, and an unusual fact about his painting in the Glasstire auction.

Christopher Blay talks with Brandon Thompson's about his love for art, his disdain for graphic design, and making peace with (and working through) the lockdown.

Christopher Blay chats with Giovanni Valderas about the Moss/Chumley Award winner's connection to his Oak Cliff neighborhood, meteors hurtling toward us, and piñatas and politics.