Interview

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."

"Someone asked me during the opening if the fur was real, and I told them that it was real fake fur."

Rosales’ current exhibition follows his artist residency at the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology in Houston.

"There is no excuse for institutions to continue excluding these communities, because they are here and now."

"There is a lot of information always hidden in the making."

"Ordinary moments can seem transcendent to me. They tend to be alive with multiple meanings."

"I’m interested in who the exhibition is for, and questioning if there is a way to flip established roles and responsibilities."

"Rules are made to be broken, and borders are drawn to be crossed."

This article is published concurrently with the Spring of Latino Art and the Latino Art Now! (LAN) national biennial conference and related programming taking place in Houston during the springtime of 2019.

"I admire the reverence indigenous art forms have toward the natural world. My work explores surface design that only tries to capture the perfection that already exists in nature."

"Birds sing in the tree, but they don’t need to learn how to, right?"

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