Samuel Jablon
The artist talks about the genesis, composition, and execution of a recently completed work.
The artist talks about the genesis, composition, and execution of a recently completed work.
“As writers, we have the tendency to get disgusted by our own filth and start throwing it all away, spraying disinfectant and removing words, instead of using creativity to construct buoyancy.”
“You can’t tell if they’re about leisure or about horror and drowning.”
“I’m not trying to make post-Internet paintings. What the fuck is post-Internet? It’s life.”
With exuberance, Jablon’s paintings tell the story of their own making. They are what they are by showing how they got there and how they take up their subject—and that subject is text.
Samuel Jablon sits down with legendary god of space, redefiner of public, and Bronx-born extraordinare, Vito Acconci.
Samuel Jablon and Fernando Orellana reveal the secret to hacking electric toys and discuss the artistic merits of Play-Doh.
Painting fast and slow: Chuck Webster gives us a peek inside his studio.
Samuel Jablon speaks with artist Heather Morgan about scandalous women, female identity, and the “peculiar kind of intensity” that informs her work.
Samuel Jablon engages artist Aaron Sheppard in a discussion about his new work the cake in the room, Alice in Wonderland, Jesus, and Miss Havisham.
Samuel Jablon talks to sculptor Diane Al-Hadid about her monumental structures and their relationship to gravity, black holes, and “being our heads.”
“Poems are living things. Please dance with them.” Bob Holman talks to BOMB about Picasso, Kathmandu, and reading poetry as wrestling match/lovemaking session.
Sculptor and installation artist John von Bergen pulls the emotional and cerebral trigger. Samuel Jablon speaks with him here re: site-transience, urban claustrophobia, and the so-called “honesty of materiality.”
Traditional Jewish stories unfold in Ofri Cnaani’s 360-degree video projections. She discusses her latest piece, The Sota Project, touching upon a contemporary view of women’s roles in an ancient culture.
Have sculpture, will travel. Isak Berbic shares his motivations and aims for nomadic sculpture.