McLean Fahnestock: So what brought you to Memphis? Jesse Butcher: Corkey and I moved down -- Corkey Sinks is my wife, she's from Dallas. I was actually born in Memphis but I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. We met while we were both living in Texas while maintaining our own studio practices. Both of us were curating shows for smaller independent galleries. And then both of us did our graduate degrees in Chicago. I was teaching in Chicago for...
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The images I make are unplanned and improvised. I work spontaneously and tend to work on multiple pieces at the same time. Typically, I am terrible with organization, including but not limited to arranging my materials. Josh Elrod, Studio Visit, October 2016 Josh Elrod, Studio Visit, October 2016 What I mean by this I is rarely feel prepared to make anything, and I just use whatever I can find on hand at the moment. I'm largely self taught and increasingly my...
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Gary Yeh is a senior at Duke University studying art history and economics. He developed an interest in contemporary art after visiting an Yves Klein retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Since then, Gary has engaged more directly with the art community by supporting emerging artists, traveling to art fairs, and running an online art gallery in high school. He currently manages ArtDrunk, an Instagram account with over 20k followers and serves as a co-chair on the...
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