Hello everyone! This is Jackson and welcome to the tenth interview for my blog, 3 Art Questions With Jackson. This time I interviewed Christina Alderman. I met her when I was little and she worked at the Walker Art Center. She was probably my first art friend and I miss her. That is me at the bottom right of the Walker poster above. Christina organized the group and it was fun. We had pizza. Thank you for reading! Let me know what you think!
Jackson: Do you miss the Walker Art Center? I miss seeing you there.
Christina: I miss the Walker very much because I met so many amazing people like you! It’s a part of my life that I will treasure and never forget. I continue to watch the Walker from afar, so I continue to see the many amazing thing it does.
Jackson: What kind of art is your favorite and why?
Christina: It’s hard to have a favorite because my job always keeps me learning about so many new kinds. This summer I have been spending a lot of time learning about ancient polychrome. Many of the ancient marble sculpture and statues we see in museums were painted all sorts of colors. They had golds, bright reds, blues and more. It was amazing. It’s been fun to wander galleries and imagine what these statues might have been like.
Jackson: If you could meet any artist who would it be and why?
Christina: So many artists, but I am going to have to go with Mark Rothko. I am not sure I would have my job or even care about art if wasn't for Rothko. When I started college, I was convinced to take an art class. We went on a field trip to the Albright Knox museum in Buffalo, NY, and I saw Rothko. I stared and stared, and then I cried. I had no idea why, or no idea what it meant, and I was crying. It changed my life. That was the moment I wanted to spend my life around art and began my quest to figure out how to work at an art museum. So, if it wasn’t for Rothko I might not have even met you and so many other things in my life would have never happened. I would like the chance to say thanks.
Hello everyone! This is Jackson and welcome to the ninth interview for my blog, 3 Art Questions With Jackson. This time I interviewed J. Wren Supak. She is a very talented artist. I have met her and she is really nice. Thank you for reading! Let me know what you think!Jackson: How old were you when you first became really interested in art?
Wren: I cannot remember not being interested in making art. I thought I was a Master Abstractor as a toddler. I thought I could play the violin, dance and play piano like a virtuoso, and I wasn’t embarrassed or anything, I felt proud and confident.… Now I feel like a kid with only so much to learn. Funny, hm?
Jackson: How do you get the ideas for your paintings? Mine just seem to pop out of my brain.
Wren: I read and research history, stories, feelings and memory, and try to imagine what those things would look like if I could not use words or anything, but I could only SHOW the concept. I ask myself what does so and so look like? And then I try to create that picture— I try to show not tell an idea.
Jackson: If you could meet any artist, who would it be and why?
Wren: I am an avid art historian as well as artist and I commune with my favorite artists by studying their paintings, process, biographies, and of course doing studies of their work. I feel that they are my friends and that I am their friends. They’re my heroes. I would like to hang out with so many artists, including; Hilma af Klint about why she kept her abstract paintings and why she kept her abstractions a secret, Georgia O’Keeffe and look at her earliest experiments with ink abstractions, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, JMW Turner, James Whistler to look at Nocturne in Gold together, my Australian grandfather who played a dozen instruments, who died before I met him, Alfred Stieglitz to talk about Equivalents, some writers I admire, musicians, designers, etc., etc., etc., I could literally just go on and on. But I narrowed it down to someone I might actually meet in person someday. I choose Megan Walch. I have studied her work, her style and her process on-line, but I would like to see it in person, truly I would like to study with her for a chunk of time. She works in Tasmania, we have corresponded several times, from way over there, through digital communication, she helped me through a creative block on a painting or two. I think I could learn a lot from working with her.
