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\nInterview with Christopher Gray at Tourist Magazine<\/p>\n
\nInterview with Christopher Gray at Tourist Magazine<\/p>\n
CHRISTOPHER GRAY for TOURIST magazine: How is life as a minimalist?
\nCOURTNEY PRICE: Am I a minimalist? I am not so sure of this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think I am too interested in the confused\u00c2\u00a0and vulnerable.
\nCG for TOURIST: \u00c2\u00a0Are there stories behind the paintings or are they developed purely on gut feeling?
\nCP: 50\/50, I work intuitively but also have a lot of criteria\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0 I am interested in the literal and physical but also I seem to embrace the anecdotal\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a warm\/cold thing. \u00c2\u00a0 I value communication and directness in my work, but the problem is that I am studying\u00c2\u00a0unnamable things.\u00c2\u00a0 I have spent a lot of time focused on communicating and interpretation: the communication capacities of abstraction have driven my direction towards simplified, codified form.
\nCG for TOURIST:\u00c2\u00a0Has having the ability to see things in the simplest of forms effected how you see everything?
\nCP: Sounds like some sort of superpower we are talking about\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nI am a very visual person and sensitive to the things outside\/inside\/near forms as well, things like behavior and situation and context. I tend towards the scientific \u00e2\u20ac\u201c keeping a sketch book log about the way things operate, move, are built \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the colors they have, the way light hits things, the way they sit, the ingredients, elements and natures of things\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6patterns.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0What I see or notice is not always simple, there is a lot of complication to reconcile \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I actually really enjoy problems\/questions, and coming up with imperfect solutions to them.\u00c2\u00a0 I think of this as a warm math \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the solutions are not perfect and cannot be accurate but they are somehow more acceptable to me.
\nCG for TOURIST:\u00c2\u00a0It must be difficult to sketch your ideas if they are so simple. Do you ever draw or sketch? Is this reflected in your work?
\nCP: I draw a lot\u00c2\u00a0and play\/mess around with paper shapes a lot\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and with vectors digitally\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and I make many lists of useful words that create tension \u00e2\u20ac\u201c such as this vs. that \u00e2\u20ac\u201c looking at\u00c2\u00a0things between things. \u00c2\u00a0I love working in sketchbooks for many reasons that include a purity of thought process and hand and something about immediacy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I probably fill at least 3 or 4 books a year. \u00c2\u00a0 Some of the shapes and compositions that I find, or make paintings after, \u00c2\u00a0take a bit of time to find and digest\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 where they prove useful I use them.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot comes from looking at things and processing over time. \u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I become fascinated with something intuitively and immediately and need to see it on some sort of larger canvas, but often I discover or uncover ideas while drawing and processing in books \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there are many commonalities of form, structure and humor in this world, and drawing a lot helps me locate these things as shapes.\u00c2\u00a0 My sketchbooks are the absolute first thing I would grab if leaving.
\nCG for TOURIST: \u00c2\u00a0How do you see your work evolving? It must be difficult to keep a level of simplicity over time without starting to consider additional touches.
\nCP: \u00c2\u00a0 mmm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 on one hand, I think I am growing more minimal -at least more comfortable with less, but also I am getting more interested in sculpture (encountering a being) and the strange and surreal\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 maybe the more presumptuous.\u00c2\u00a0 Frames and sculpture are the newer things to my work\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 they feel like additional touches.
\nCG for TOURIST:\u00c2\u00a0What are you planning for 2011?
\nCP: More relief work\/sculpture and print and mechanical processes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I bet I will have some paintings in still life situations soon too.
\nBy Christopher Gray<\/p>\n
No matter what is going on in the world there are things to relate to, to work on and love \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I deeply enjoy working and this world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c especially plants, rock\/stone\/minerals and the way things relate to each other.\u00c2\u00a0I think this is the beauty of the mind and of life, so much to look at, interact with or sink into\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to invent, adventure in or to avoid and edit\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and to create or communicate about.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interview with Christopher Gray at Tourist Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-home-work","category-featured-projects","category-home-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricework.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}