Neoteric Art: Give us some background history on yourself.
Ruprecht von Kaufmann: I grew up on the Bavarian countryside. When I first came to Los Angeles, I loathed the place. Leaving Munich very blue eyed, I was not prepared for a city that vast and hot, and that lacked any form of decent public transport. I was not prepared for a place Read the rest of this entry »
Neoteric Art: You are a self-taught painter born in Canada where you still live and work. Along the way have you ever considered art school?
Holly Farrell: When I began painting it was to alleviate the stress of day to day dealings of an emotionally draining job. I was heavily influenced by folk painting/tole painting which was Read the rest of this entry »
Neoteric Art: In your current work you construct homes and buildings in very precarious situations. Discuss your intent.
Amy Casey: I think the work reflects my perception of the nervous state of things. The world has always been in some kind of agitated state, but now we can get up to the minute Google alerts on it! From my point of view, the work has been following a little Read the rest of this entry »
Neoteric Art: You graduated and worked in Civil Engineering in the construction industry for 4 years before pursuing your career in the visual arts. Why the change?
Pamela Michelle Johnson: Art is something that I have always loved and wanted to do. Growing up, I was raised to believe that art was not a real career option, so as a result I got a degree in engineering. Even though there are aspects of engineering that I enjoyed, through out college Read the rest of this entry »
Neoteric Art: Your “day job” is driving a cab. Does that influence your work in anyway?
Dmitry Samarov: As with any “day job” concerning an artist, the primary way that it influences me is to cut into time that could be spent making pictures. That being said, it does provide opportunities to watch people in all sorts of situations. There’s a fly-on-the wall aspect Read the rest of this entry »
Neoteric Art: When did you determine that you were going to be an artist?
Ted Stanuga: I remember clearly the time when art became the center of my life. I was 11 and there was a lot going on in the press about Jackson Pollack and abstract expressionism in general, most of it trying to be humorous and all of it derisive. Read the rest of this entry »
Neoteric Art: Give us some background history on yourself including why you became a painter.
Daniel Bodner: I went to school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and studied psychology three years before switching to drawing and painting. I always liked to draw, but when I began painting in oil, around the time I was introduced to the work of San Francisco Bay Read the rest of this entry »
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 Read the rest of this entry »
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 Read the rest of this entry »
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. Read the rest of this entry »
