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Ok, first off- just for curious reasons-about how long have you been growing your beard? Since October or so. Over a year now, but i’ve had a beard in some variation or the other. Well you know, for the last 5 years or so. its been a constant in my life. Its been strange to watch the beard, I mean when I first moved to eattle, it was a very disturbing aesthetic to some people. And within the last year or so, people have been really into them. Its been strange to watch the tides turn so drastically.
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Age 40 and currently living in Los Angeles, California.
What made you want to decorate public utility boxes? I responded to a call for public art to the city of Culver City. They wanted to decorate boxes and I had this idea.
Where do you go to get the pictures printed to be glued on? Do the people working there think you’re crazy for blowing up random street pictures? I use a printer that usually does car wraps and billboards. I think they must think that it is a mistake.
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Characterized by his use of colors, Hideyuki Katsumata’s artwork is melodramatic as well as hectic in the way that his forms and different characters are placed in-between, around and in front of each other. Seemingly unorganized, Hideyuki’s pieces have a sense of a dynamism that is all juxtaposed with familiar color palettes. We were able to ask this Japanese artist a few questions in hopes of untangling his artwork.
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“Hype can be scary.” Oliver tells us, “I know I’ve reacted badly to it when it’s happened to other bands in the past. If I feel a band has been forced on me in any way I kind of don’t want to listen to them, just to prove I can think for myself.”
It’s a familiar phenomena, band’s being disregarded purely because they’re ‘the next big thing.’ But this reaction is something that Oliver, and his band The xx are going to have to get used to quick. Only recently they were virtually unknown (and subsequently very cool) and now they are receiving rave reviews for the eponymous new album and are embarking on a world tour. If they are relying on their underground kudos, they’re not going to have much left when they get back home. Hopefully they are going to prove to the world they have more to offer.
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Tell me a little bit about your background. Born in South Korea, I received my MA in Studio Art at New York University in 1997. I currently live and work in New York City. My drawings have been exhibited in South Korea, the United States, and Europe
How did you become interested in art? As far as I can remember I love to draw and paint, and also look at various visual images since I was little.
Before becoming an installation artist, what other mediums did you use? Cut canvas to spread on space, wire to draw in space, draw on papers with ink and pen (still do) and performance as well. By the way, I wouldn’t call myself an installation artist. To me the masking tape drawing that people call Installation, I call it Space Drawing or Sculptural Drawing.
Where did you get the inspiration to use black masking tape to create artwork? I found masking tape after my search of seeking directness of the action ‘to draw’ and one day the material masking tape pops in my mind. My work is “sculptural drawing” because it incorporates two-dimensional drawing on three-dimensional structures.
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I read somewhere that you were already messing around with recording software at age 13. Mhm.
What got you into music so early? I was always in the music program. I was in band since 4th grade playing the saxophone and clarinet. And then in high school I joined the drum line. But I actually got into dj’ing, when I was 13 and I was spinning hip-hop and drum n’ bass. I had a friend that had an older brother who was into dj’ing and I would always go to their house and mess around with the turntables and thought that was pretty cool. I think it was just natural progression for someone who was into dj’ing/production. I had a lot of older friends in freshman year of high school, and one of them gave me a bootleg copy of this production software, so I installed it on my dads computer and just didn’t go to sleep after that.
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How have your relationships and life around you affected your work? Our surrounding physical environment has always influenced our work, much more so than personal relationships or things like this. It is a lot about the immediate space in which we work - our workshop, the city and country we live in. But we always have a lot of projective fantasies in this regard as well: we think a lot about places we have traveled to, and places we long to be at. We are living in New York, but we grew up in Germany. So we are probably dealing with some sort of chosen geographic translations and displacements in the last few years, questioning an idea of “home”.
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How did you get involved in costuming? It was by accident. I had moved to NYC and I was working at a stored called Antique Boutique which used to be where American Apparel is now on Broadway. The store carried a lot of small designers and I just figured that I could design too so I gave it a shot. I started off creating one of a king tees which I sold at a store called Timtoum on Orchard Street and then I basically moved up from there creating one of a kind prom dresses. Karen O saw one of the dresses and asked me to make one for a show the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s were playing at the Cooler here in NY and then it just sort of took off from there. That’s how I got my start.
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Looking at your current and past paintings, I get a sense of empowerment for the Jewish community. With this said, your art has created a voice for the Jewish community (past and present) and has generated a sort of memorial to the Jewish Diaspora. Besides art, what is another way you would have liked to do so? (ex. music, film, poetry) and do you think it would have been as successful as your inspirational paintings? Recently I gave a talk at the Jewish Museum of Florida and someone said, “But there is so much more in the paintings then what you’re telling us.” Painting is my job and it is what I do best. If I did something else? I would like to bring more fashion into the painting. I think costume and veneer is a beautiful thing, especially when you begin to strip away the layers. I’m actually doing a lot of that in my new work, “The Great Americans.”
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A little about your background, please. I grew up in a small California town called Clovis. I was a sophomore in High School when I started taking photos and spent the next two years in the dark room. Then I went away to film school. Then I came back to photography and have been shooting steadily for the past 6 years. But aside from my high school photography classes, I haven’t had any formal education.
What inspired you to study film? It was just one of those things that ‘clicked’ for me as a teenager. It instantly grabbed me and gave me something to hang on to during those dark, dark teenage years.
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