Artist Exposure: Evan Wagman, cermanics
Derrick Hawkins
Issue date: 11/19/09 Section: A&E
Q. How would you describe your current work? Work in provided photo?
A. My work embodies a feeling of external strain and pressure. I try to emulate that feeling through a displaced pressure.
Q. Why have you chosen to take the path as an artist at this point in your life?
A. At this point I have chosen to be an artist to work and peruse my passion for clay. I eventually want to share the knowledge that I acquire with students who have any interest or passion in clay.
Q. What question does your work raise or attempt to answer?
A. My world is based off of a personal emotion. I attempt to capture those emotive qualities through capturing an emotion so the viewer can understand it. A window into my world.
Q. What issues either technical or conceptual have you been working with recently?
A. My current work has been dealing with the ideas of internal pressures and strain.
Q. What historical and contemporary artists are most influential to you and why?
A. Artists such as Martin Puryear, Sally Brogden [and] Don Reitz, each posses a power in their work I respect, visually and conceptually.
Q. What medium does your work fall into? Is this your preferred medium?
A. My medium that my work falls into is clay, and it is my preferred medium.
Q. What keeps you motivated to keep working? How do you get through a creative block?
A. Never being satisfied, sometimes happy, but the drive to want to be better and make stronger work is a constant for me. When I get blocked, I sketch ideas [and] try them. I'll always learn something. Either I like it or don't, and [I] use that as a platform to start a new body of work.
Q. How do you choose which pieces you use for a show?
A. I choose pieces based on what speaks to me at that moment.
Q. Do you plan on showing your work in galleries? What do you want viewers to take away from their visit?
A. I do plan on showing my work in galleries. I would like the viewer to walk away with his or her own interpretation of the work. If they can get the feeling of strain and pressure and relate it to themselves, I would be happy.
Q. What is the creative process like for you? Where does your creative energy come from?
A. The only place it can come from is within.
Q. Do you work with one continuous idea or do you have multiple inspirations for your work?
A. I try to continue on one idea, but capture that idea in a different dialogue.
A. My work embodies a feeling of external strain and pressure. I try to emulate that feeling through a displaced pressure.
Q. Why have you chosen to take the path as an artist at this point in your life?
A. At this point I have chosen to be an artist to work and peruse my passion for clay. I eventually want to share the knowledge that I acquire with students who have any interest or passion in clay.
Q. What question does your work raise or attempt to answer?
A. My world is based off of a personal emotion. I attempt to capture those emotive qualities through capturing an emotion so the viewer can understand it. A window into my world.
Q. What issues either technical or conceptual have you been working with recently?
A. My current work has been dealing with the ideas of internal pressures and strain.
Q. What historical and contemporary artists are most influential to you and why?
A. Artists such as Martin Puryear, Sally Brogden [and] Don Reitz, each posses a power in their work I respect, visually and conceptually.
Q. What medium does your work fall into? Is this your preferred medium?
A. My medium that my work falls into is clay, and it is my preferred medium.
Q. What keeps you motivated to keep working? How do you get through a creative block?
A. Never being satisfied, sometimes happy, but the drive to want to be better and make stronger work is a constant for me. When I get blocked, I sketch ideas [and] try them. I'll always learn something. Either I like it or don't, and [I] use that as a platform to start a new body of work.
Q. How do you choose which pieces you use for a show?
A. I choose pieces based on what speaks to me at that moment.
Q. Do you plan on showing your work in galleries? What do you want viewers to take away from their visit?
A. I do plan on showing my work in galleries. I would like the viewer to walk away with his or her own interpretation of the work. If they can get the feeling of strain and pressure and relate it to themselves, I would be happy.
Q. What is the creative process like for you? Where does your creative energy come from?
A. The only place it can come from is within.
Q. Do you work with one continuous idea or do you have multiple inspirations for your work?
A. I try to continue on one idea, but capture that idea in a different dialogue.
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