I just really like what she's doing :)

   I was given the task of interviewing someone in the School of Art that I'm really enjoying. I picked Lucy Carey, a good friend and someone I really admire. She is very calculated, but her works after usually focused on the more natural aspects of life. Her work is grounded in nature and most often depicts the sky. I really love the juxtaposition of her meticulous process and more ethereal subject matter.


What do you hope to do with your degree? Grad school, a specific job?

1. I have no immediate plans to go to grad school. It's not out of the question for the future, though. I would like to go together with a few fellow artists and get a studio space with a small gallery/store area in the front to display and sell our work. I'm imagining a storefront on a city block with the store in front, a nice studio in the back, and an apartment above to live. This would be perfect for me, because I want to work for myself, or at least with people I know well and trust.

Who are your favorite artists?
2. I love Alphonse Mucha. I was first drawn to his female personifications ofparts of nature, such as the moon and stars and the seasons. Nature plays a huge role in my work, and he portrays it in an interesting, beautiful way. I also like Amy Ho. She incorporates images of nature in cool installations. I love her piece Skylight, where she projects an image of the sky onto the roof of a subway tunnel. Gerhard Richter does wonderful work, too.

 What first got you into art?
3. Art was always one of my favorite classes in school, and I have been drawing since I could first hold a crayon. But I really started taking art more seriously after getting excited about the anime Sailor Moon, around 6th grade. I was obsessed with it. I would constantly draw the characters and write my own stories for it. That led to my own original stories and characters and eventually expanded into what I do today.
 

 Who are your least favorite artists?
4. There aren't a lot of artists I completely hate. I try to find at least about them or their work that I can appreciate. For example, there's Milton Avery. He uses nature for his imagery, but he abstracts it in such a way that it it looks like simple planes of color. I enjoy abstraction, but not as he does it. That said, I can appreciate his approach to color. He prefers to let color be the dominant force within his work. What look like solid shapes of colors in his paintings are actually many similar colors that the eye blends together from a distance. This is very interesting and something I would like to explore.

Is there anything you dislike about being an artist?
5. I have a love/hate relationship with enjoying many different kinds of art. I practice several kind of printmaking, oil painting, digital and film photography, digital painting and animation... On one hand, I have lots of different experiences to draw from; each medium can provide a bit of insight into the other. On the other hand, exploring all of these media at once makes me a bit of the classic "Jack of all trades, master of none". Not to mention the money spent on basic supplies for all of these media.