Interview

Christopher Blay talks with Dallas-based artist Liz Trosper about her work, her students (she is a lecturer at the University of North Texas), and our perspectives on what comes next.

Christina Rees checks in with curator and writer Leslie Moody Castro, who is sheltering in place in Mexico. They talk about the true meaning of being an introvert, the beauty of studio visits, and their attempts to keep a handle on art across the whole state of Texas.

Christopher Blay talks with Denton-based artist Annette Lawrence about working with what you have in your studio, jurying art you can only see online, and art as essential work.

Brandon Zech talks with Marfa-based artist Camp Bosworth about small towns, Dairy Queen, and why root beer floats are the perfect snack. 

"I started to think about the gallery as a huge studio that allowed for these gestures of gravity to really be taken to an architectural scale."

"Draw something every day, read an art history book a week, make art about your life, and just crank it out."

Purcell spoke with mother and daughter on why they’ve chosen to open a second space, the differences between the two cities’ art worlds, and the surprising ways in which they overlap.

"We love this work and are trying to figure out how to manifest more hours in the day." 

"Do we seek to embrace or to dominate? Do we seek a thoughtful exchange of ideas or simply to impose our own?"

By examining what is so often overlooked, the artist exposes what is often most deeply embedded — historically, culturally, even geologically.

Part of Culpepper’s appeal, for critics and audiences alike, is a patent ability to marry technical, craft-focused mastery with a self-aware jolt of absurdism. 

"I have always loved fantasy. I create images of things I want to see — or do not want to see."

A Q&A with the artist Andy Coolquitt on his inspirations and motivations for his exhibition 'PINTO BEANS' at Bale Creek Allen Gallery in Austin

"You can see how many different people come in. Recognizable writers from all over the nation and some from other parts of the world have stopped by."

"This thing all of a sudden became this intense obsession of doing something. I just hit it hard and fast and wanted it."

"My goal was to pick an orchestra of works that provide an international, intergenerational, and intersectional exchange of artists who are working to redefine the constructs of performance art and identity." 

"When I first encountered performance I felt the power and impact that it can create."

"For me, beauty has the potential to give you a strong existential feeling that makes you wonder what it can mean to be alive and conscious."

Painter Ana Segovia of Mexico City has been in Austin through July, participating in the Unlisted Projects Residency as hosted by the Museum of Human Achievement.

"An ongoing goal of the project has been to introduce the local audience to work that they are not likely to see in other venues."