q)For the people who don't know your
work - how would you describe it ?
I am a mixed-media artist with an interest in
juxtaposition of imagery and themes through various media; there is something
appealing to me in the combination of fractured or fragmented images that
coalesce into something new and different especially in that the
"rough-edges" of the units have meaning
and can't be broken down any further as
"morpheme" in language; these visual units are then put together with
other, often dissimilar, morphemes producing something between the lines, so to
speak; an alchemy beyond intention; the parts not distilled, but united with
other units of visual meaning, information producing a higher plane of
communication.
q)What
are the key themes running through your practice?
Ethnicity, topical items, separation, exclusion,
cultural absurdities, language-based gestures, art history what's in the news
at the moment or on my mind; there is a great pleasure in improvisation which
recalls my musical youth playing in all sorts of situations, the most
satisfying being jazz, space and ambient genres. Depending on the moment, the
instrument, in the case of art, the paper, to guide; to be involved in the
gesture and not an over-dependence on the brain; to trust self and the pure
intention of involvement in the process to distill everything I know into
nothing, newness, NOW toward a product that may be both beautiful and telling
all at once.
q)Your
favorite place on earth?
At the moment: the best of San
Francisco (and that preference, unfortunately, dwindles moment to
silicon moment); equally: Prague and Lecce , Italy
q)What influences your work?
Time, feelings, joy, space,
opportunity...Rauschenburg, Romare Bearden and Basquiat ...necessity.
q)What music are you into right now?
Always Miles; Henry Threadgill a composite tape
FUNNY COLORED MONEY, Jack Bruce/Carla Bley: ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL, Eno.
q)Describe your thought & design process...
I like the vertical right side beginning...do not
know why. When I began to commit to mixed media, I had (had) a reliance on
geometry and division of space which guided the visual direction of a piece.
These days, that process is probably ingrained and I am less conscience about
the math (upon later inspection of a work-in-progress, however, that tendency
seems to remain intact). I quiet the inner critic as best I can and bounce
between a series of techniques to get the work done. Self doubt and the sheer
ridiculousness of making art comes up a lot before, after, and during the
process and I have learned to gently tell myself "do it", without
judge and jury deliberating too much. It is exciting to shift the weight of
self-criticism and carry on especially if from time to time the end result is
satisfying.
q)Which emerging artists are you looking forward to
seeing more of?
Katrien de Blauwer a great collagist from Belgium
Jeffrey Thompson, Lorna Crane, Akiko Suzuki,
Kathleen Migliore, Joan Stennick Margaret Glew, Vered Gersztenkorn; all
brilliant artists who lay claim to a unique vision and a committed practice.
q)Favorite place on the internet?
most visited is Face Book for reasons of
"business", as well as Art News Daily, Black Art in America
q)Do you have any upcoming projects/exhibitions we
should know about?
Finishing up KNEE(jerk) Fragmentation (mail art)
Project, which began in 2011 as a face book online process; attracted 500
artists from all over the world and has resulted in 3000 pieces of art mailed as
one-for-one art exchange beginning with large original works, cut-up,
fragmented and mailed to participants, repeated, with some echoing the process,
others designing a single card (A5 or 5" x 7") and receiving one from
submitted works or one of my fragments in return. This opened up many of the
artists to work in a manner or medium unfamiliar to them, to play with an
aspect of mail art, to collect work from diverse international artists and to
create ongoing offshoot collaborations with artists that they would not have
encountered otherwise. We have participant commomerative works for all, working
on traveling exhibitions, participant catalog and limited edition book to
document a fun and exhausting project.
q)Tell us something we don't know - but should...
Art makes it all worth while.
q) Where can people see more of your work on the
internet?
http://ahiceglie.blogspot.it/2013/04/garage-21-carl-heyward.html
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