Rachel Bubis: Your work returns again and again to Southern identity, asking what it means to be Southern. Has the process of making your work changed or clarified that question for you in any way? And looking forward, where do you feel Southern identity is evolving or revealing itself in unexpected ways? Isaiah Kennedy: The South, as an ideological construct, is polylithic in nature, not a monolith. What being Southern means to one person is completely different than what it...
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Wesley Roden: Whether by arranging drama scenes with ceramic figures and tequila umbrellas or depicting portraits of people in motion, your work conveys narrative. How do you arrange items or choose subject matter that creates parameters for imagination or a bigger story? Do you ever hint beyond the canvas or silhouette of the figure? Denise Stewart-Sanabria: The objects in paintings have to have a level of fabulousness to them. They want to pose. They want to star in something. Whoever...
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Daniel Holdridge: Your practice is anchored in drawing. Through multiple technical and material processes, you’ve demonstrated a sincere interest in what the formal elements of drawing can accomplish. What are some qualities of drawing (historically, technically or otherwise) that invite this kind of focus, for your work? Laura Cleary Williams: I think I want to say drawing was the first thing I was doing, but that’s not true. What happened was I fell in love with printmaking. Through lear...
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