Create! Magazine • August 10, 2022

Putting What Makes You Different in the Spotlight: Interview with Andy Vible

In this interview, Andy Vible tells us about messages from his childhood, the deep connection he has with the work of Salvador Dali, and the importance of putting what makes you different in the spotlight.

Sixty Inches From Center • June 30, 2022

Approaches and Strategies within Hospitality: An Interview with Curator Sylvie Fortin

Earlier this year I spoke with the 2019-2021 curator-in-residence, Sylvie Fortin. Originally from Montréal, Canada, Fortin is an independent curator, researcher, critic, and editor whose work focuses on the notion of hospitality as well as its relationship to art. What is notable, radical, and affecting, Fortin applies hospitality to how she approaches curation, her research methodologies, and more specifically, her exhibition "I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality."

Create! Magazine • June 13, 2022

Deepening Intimacy Through Portraiture: Interview with Nina Baxter

When painting the figure, an artist may see the person as purely subject. The body can be symbolic, a stand in for a concept, idea, or experience. For London-based artist Nina Baxter, her figurative portraits are a gateway to intimacy, a way to deepen her relationship with friends and acquaintances. For her, the portraiture process allows her to celebrate those brief moments of intimacy.

Create! Magazine • May 12, 2022

Honoring Our Caregivers: Interview with Leni Whitford

In this interview, Leni Whitford tells me about the long line of creatives in her family, her experience as a nurse, and the joy she finds in the details of realistic paintings. Inspired by her own experience working as a nurse, she began creating portraits of these caregivers to lift up and shine a light on the life-saving work that they do as well as the mental toll it takes during our current pandemic.

Create! Magazine • April 25, 2022

Admitting Your Passion: Interview with Heidi Brueckner

Heidi Brueckner blends together layers of texture and color in order to create her vibrant portraits, which range from friends to strangers met during travel. Each one pulsates with the energy of her subjects, capturing details that may have gone overlooked in a day-to-day interaction.

Create! Magazine • February 15, 2022

Say It Loud with Fashion! An Interview with Celine Gabrielle

The clothes say it all! Canadian artist Celine Gabrielle captures the endless variety of personality and personal expression embedded within our clothing. For her, fashion holds memories, traditions, beliefs, opinions, and presence. They can be a way to fit in or stand out--and for her subjects, they surely stand out in the crowd! Gabrielle's paintings show her subjects owning the space, each one standing proud and saying it loud through vivid, bright colors and gorgeous fashion.

Create! Magazine • January 25, 2022

The Importance of Putting Yourself Out There: An interview with Katty Huertas

In this interview, Katty Huertas tells us about how she fuses together analog and digital processes, the work that makes her most proud, and the importance of putting your art out there—even if it isn’t perfect!

Create! Magazine • January 24, 2022

Chains, Links, & Connection: Interview with Adi Avidani

Adi Avidani is an Israeli artist and designer based in the UK. Fascinated by the clear connection she finds between clay and people, Adi uses clay to portray human relations. You can usually find her working on her pieces in the studio, around the clock. She has been exhibiting her work in galleries in the UK and Europe.

Create! Magazine • January 19, 2022

The Answers Found in Nature: An Interview with Jodi Kitto-Ward

Jodi Kitto-Ward paints mainly in acrylic and derives inspiration from nature, the city ,and everyday life. Strongly influenced by line, color, and expression, Jodi has a style that is representational, vibrant, and simplified in form, evoking influences of Pop Art and Art Deco. Along with offering original art, Jodi also offers commissions and children's book illustrations.

Create! Magazine • December 1, 2021

Finding Special Moments in Ordinary Situations: Interview with Joanna Pilarczyk

Arriving 10 years ago in London from her native Poland, a country she describes as "grey and non-multicultural", Joanna Pilarczyk fell in love with the city immediately. Amazed and entranced by the many cultures and the vibrant life of the city, she took her sketchbook everywhere, indiscriminately and discreetly recording people on the streets, in parks, and in cafes.

Create! Magazine • November 17, 2021

Wondering into the Unknown: A Conversation with Jennifer Cronin

Chicago-based painter Jennifer Cronin paints worlds full of magic and mystery, filled with moments of familiarity with something askew. Eerie and uncanny, Jennifer masterfully finds that specific place that is right on the border, and in between place that sits right on the edge of reality and dream.

Create! Magazine • November 14, 2021

Exploring Life's Mysteries: Interview with Nuno Serrão

Join us in conversation as we talk to Nuno Serrão, who captures cinematic moments in time. Each photograph he creates hold an intense air of mystery, a fog that is wrapped in the never-ending eerie. Recently featured in Issue #27, Nuno tells us about his first time holding a camera, his attraction to all things minimal, and the beauty he finds in life’s mysteries.

Create! Magazine • November 9, 2021

Becoming An Artist & Savoring the Process: A Conversation with Megan Elizabeth

Obsessed with light and shadow, artist Megan Elizabeth fully gives herself up to nature, to growth, and to continuously becoming who she truly is: an artist. Join me in conversation as Megan tells me about her brand new solo exhibition Water, opening at Gallery B on November 11, which features her most personal paintings to date!

Create! Magazine • August 3, 2021

Repave Magazine: Connecting Art & Mental Health

I am thrilled to introduce Repave Magazine, which not only promotes ways of healing and coping, but does so by connecting it to art. Based in Portland, OR, editor and founder Emmi Greer explains that art has been her greatest healer. Launched during the pandemic in 2020, Repave Magazine embodies this notion of making as a mechanism of care.

Create! Magazine • July 6, 2021

Sasha-Loriene of BLACK GIRLS WHO PAINT: Always Tell Your Story

Sasha-Loriene is a Maryland based contemporary artist who captures her thoughts, feelings, and interpretation of the world in every piece. The goal of her art practice is to tell a story and create a personal experience that encourages viewer introspection. Sasha-Loriene uses bold colors, shapes, and subject matter to highlight the human experience and the intersectionality between identity (who we are externally), self (who we are internally), and purpose (who we are intrinsically).

Create! Magazine • May 25, 2021

The Color of Nostalgia: Interview with Rachel Gregor

Each of Rachel Gregor’s portraits is a soft, warm breath. They are light to the touch and delicate in nature. Her palette reminds you of a childhood story, her use of paint brings to mind the sensation of blushing, her rendering of light like sun through a scattering of fall leaves. Gregor’s paintings bring on a rush of sensations all at once through subtle and painterly beauty. In this intimate interview, the artist and I discuss the different versions of herself in her work, the color of nostalgia, and how “time finishes all work.”

Create! Magazine • May 19, 2021

Using Glass to Explore Strength & Fragility: Interview with Silvia Levenson

Join us in conversation the artist tells us about the hardships of her past, her experience emigrating, and why using glass as a material is the perfect way to convey her message in her art. Plus, the Silvia shares with us a meaningful encounter with artist Louise Bourgeois and how it shaped her outlook and life path.

Create! Magazine • May 4, 2021

Forever Focused on Growth: Interview with Hannah Webb (The Obanoth)

My work focuses on technique in application and dynamic color stories, usually with a focus on organic subjects such as animals or body parts. My paintings are layers of independent shapes, stacked with precision to imply light, texture, and form. With a balance of careful color shifts and loud punches of contrasting hues, the end result is harmonious and vibrates with life

Create! Magazine • April 22, 2021

Finding Your Medium: Interview With Sandra Apperloo

I create all my ceramics by hand from my studio located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. I love colors and patterns. I have a weak spot for pastel shades, I like to sculpt tiny eyes, paint weird freckles, and I challenge myself to try out new fun things all the time. From the biggest vase to the tiniest dish, I put love, thought, and effort in every single piece I create.

Create! Magazine • April 20, 2021

Exploring Strength & Fragility: Interview with Annette Bukovinsky

Annette Bukovinsky is an artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her practice explores the intricacies of humanity’s relationship with nature with the aim of searching for a new ecological philosophy that can address the challenges threatening the vitality of our planet.