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Spraygraphic Interview with Artist Atticus Adams
By Spraygraphic | July 20, 2009
Spraygraphic Interview with Artist Atticus Adams
SG: Please tell us about yourself?
AA: I grew up in a small town in southern West Virginia exposed more to crafts than fine art. My early installations were structures out of blankets, cardboard and green apple tree. I was also influenced in a major way by a grandmother that had 2 Flamenco dancers painted on black velvet, red and blue lava lamps and a cement cupid fountain.
SG: Where do you currently live and work?
AA: I live and work in Pittsburgh, PA
SG: What mediums do you work with?
AA: I work mostly with metal mesh and metal fibers or wire.
SG: Describe your working process when creating a new work.
AA: I guess I play - in a serious way with materials I find inherently beautiful. There is very little sketching or drawing - it is more like creating by intuition.
SG: What kind of things do you do when you get blocked or find it hard to create something?
AA: If I get blocked it’s because I’m trying to please or be cool or more intellectual (conceptual). If I’m playing I’m fine.
SG: What kind of factors hold you back when you are creating an installation?
AA: Rain and birds. My only two experiences with installation outside ended up looking so bad: one birds crapped all over and the other became a drooping soggy mesh from a torrential rain storm.
SG: What kind of process do you go through when trying to secure a gallery or museum for one of your installations?
AA: It’s funny - the galleries or museum opportunities that I’ve applied for have turned me down. So I wouldn’t take any tips from me. But I have been fortunate to have been offered spaces out of the blue that have been great experiences.
SG: Where are you currently finding your inspiration?
AA: I have been finding great inspiration by certain passages of “Walden” by Thoreau.
SG: Where has your work been seen?
AA: I’ve shown mostly in Pittsburgh; recently an installation at the Mattress Factory Museum. I’ve also taken some baby steps nationally with groups shows in Philadelphia and San Francisco this past year.
SG: Where will it be seen next?
AA: I’m supposed to be in a show at the Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tuscon this September.
SG: What is your dream art assignment?
AA: My dream assignment would be to be given a wonderful empty space in a Venetian palace and be able to live in it as I created an installation using metal mesh and crushed glass from Murano.
SG: What is your favorite color?
AA: yellow
SG: Who is your favorite artist? And Why?
AA: Rauschenberg He freed my mind to accept lots of materials as worthy of making art.
SG: What book/magazine are you reading this week?
AA: “If on a winter’s night a traveler” by Italo Calvino - I’d say more this month instead of week - it’s a thin book but not a quick page turner for me.
SG: Any final words of advice?
AA: I would say do your art and be ready for the opportunities when they come. I make stuff. For conceptual artists I would say think your art and be ready
Topics: Art Installations, Artist Interviews, Sculpture Art |
October 21st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I am your cousin, your great Aunt Kate’s daughter. I love your art! I am an artist also.