Neoteric Art: What made you decide to be a painter?
Sangram Majumdar: It’s quite a few things really. When I was a kid growing up in India, I remember a painting that used to hang in our living room that my dad had painted. It was a mountain peak covered with snow. I remember being mesmerized by the white impasto against More…
Neoteric Art: Why is painting important to you?
Karen Appleton: Painting makes me consider everything and helps me explore on canvas what is going on around me and within me. It is my internal dialogue, my journal. Even more specifically, painting in a representational manner is important to me because it forces me More…
Paul Klein is the Art Curator for the 2.5 million square foot expansion of McCormick Place and former owner of the Chicago art gallery Klein Art Works. Paul is also a collector, arts writer and corporate art advisor. He lives and works in Chicago. More…
Neoteric Art: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Bruce Thorn: Born and partially raised on the South Side of Chicago. The other part never raised. I earned a four year BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago back when the school was in the basement of the museum. Later, I scraped by an MFA from Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago. More…
Neoteric Art: Your path on becoming an artist was not typical. Share that with us.
Roland Kulla: I’m on my third career. I spent ten years in the seminary studying to be a priest. I made a lateral transfer to social work, a career that kept me busy for 30 plus years as a practitioner, administrator, teacher and consultant. But throughout it all I have always been More…
Neoteric Art: Give us some background history on yourself.
Matt Ballou: I grew up in way upstate New York. I’d always been a creative kid – drawing, building elaborate LEGO sets, burning things, running around in the woods, etc. Being raised in the boondocks and beneath the poverty line meant that I had to, in large part, create my own More…
