Doug Safranek on "Gridlock", Part 2
Posted by NW Museum of Arts and Culture at 7/24/2009 11:04 AM 
Categories: artist interview
Tags: Gridlock egg tempra
Categories: artist interview
Tags: Gridlock egg tempra
You are listening to an interview with artist Doug Safranek recorded on July 1, 2009 at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. The interview is divided into two sections. In section two, Art Educator Heidi Arbogast asks Safranek about his piece, "Gridlock", which is on display in the Museum's "Stories Within" exhibit.
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Excellent interview. Intriguing to listen to even knowing little to nothing of tempera. The artist articulates with such alacrity, it grabs and engages the imagination to dive in. Clever to juxtapose the grit of deep urbanization with the medium and techniques perfected through centuries of trying to render portraits of divinity that were to motivate a person to prayerful meditation. It reveals how possible it is to redeem matter, even something as hard scrabble as a Brooklyn intersection, by focusing the conscience into a suspended animation. I liked his example of not needing to portray a beautiful unspoiled wilderness in a painting as it is already in a sacred state, but rather by focusing the attention on what at first appears somewhat decrepit, one can begin to sense a grace in what at first glance smacks as corrupt and in decay. Doug Safranek delivers an engaging interview. I would love to have him as my tour guide through his world of classical art.
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