Part of the thrill of making art is discovering how your audience interacts with your work. In our conversations with artists in numerous disciplines, we've asked: What's the most surprising response to your work you've ever received? Kathleen Volp, visual artist I have been under the impression that the subject of many of my pieces was a deeply textured cantaloupe. I was … [Read more...]
What Makes for a Good Day Job as an Artist?
As an artist, is it better to earn your living in a field related to your creative work? Unrelated to your creative work? Solely through your creative work? In our conversations with artists, we've asked: What's the best/worst day job you've ever had? Artists' answers often provide insight to the conundrum of how to make money while thriving as an artist. Among some of … [Read more...]
Nano-Interview with Kathleen Volp
By combining her love of precision and geometry with the rendering of identifiable objects of everyday life, Kathleen Volp has created a highly personal body of work with her current solo exhibition, Meridians and Parallels, at Bromfield Gallery. What artist do you most admire but work nothing like? Jim Nutt. What do you listen to while you work? Oh, I love this … [Read more...]