In this video, Spanish-born artistJuan Miguel Palacioswho is now based in New York speaks to NY1 TV (in Spanish) about his experience of moving from Madrid to NYC and setting up his studio in Bushwick. He shares how he feels a greater sense of freedom in his artistic practice and how for him, painting acts as a refuge.
My proudest moment during lockdown has been…although the world stopped, Iwas proudthat I could spend my entire day working in my studio. Usually, I spent my weekends going out and relaxing, visiting my friends, spending time at the local bar where there were always great performers with beautiful musicians. Due to pandemic lowdown, in the blink of an eye everything disappeared so I am now much more likely to spend time at the studio than at the regular normal days.
During this interview, you get a unique insight into how artist Gabriel Moreno carefully draws to create one of his fascinating works. Gabriel also discusses (in Spanish) his approach to drawing which, as he says, is constantly evolving.
At the moment I am working on… in a series of big, circular drawings about the isolation, and learning a new technique to include water in my graphite drawings.
Artist Lantomoshares with us what she has been up to during the period of lockdown.
London based painter Nicole Tijoux answers our lockdown special Q&A. She has also been busy working in her studio and has a new online exhibition,'Quarantine'.
Right now I am... excited to be back in my studio after lockdown.. working on getting my mojo back
At the moment I am working on…taking off the dustsheets and re-promoting my Solo Show which started one-week before lockdown. I have taken the opportunity to shoot video & photographs of the show to create in a virtual tour/gallery.I think this is becoming the norm for promoting /showing work alongside physical shows & art fairs.
Over the course of lockdown, I have challenged myself to… tidy up my digital artwork files on my hard drive so that I have a comprehensive catalogue of my finished work.. I have had to work through 3TB of what is effectively a digital scrapbook.. I am still only half way through!
My biggest mistake this year was…laughing at a friend who bought 100 facemasks at the beginning of March.
We recently spoke with artist and photographer Gavin Mitchell on the occasion of his exhibition'This Was Then, This is Now'which you can explore onour website.
Gavin's work explores the juxtaposition and clash of cultures from a variety of different eras, most recently in his collection, ‘East Meets West’, which is featured in this exhibition.
