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LOCAtION I am now in Kamiyama, Shikoku
Island, Japan, doing an artist-in-residence
for three months, but I usually reside in New
York City.
bIrth pLACE Transylvania
whAt INspIrEs yOu? Outsider and visionary
artists inspire me; also my husband Adam
Gurvitch, who is very much part of every art
project I do; living in New York City; traveling;
Rabbi Nachman’s stories; ’70s space-race and
propaganda images.
hOw dO yOu stArt yOur Art? My work
usually starts with a personal experience.
I guess it’s because I have the strongest
feelings about things I experienced personally. whAt Is yOur fAvOrItE MEdIuM? Right
GArdEN INsIdE
I typically don’t work with an audience in now it’s drawing and photographing models
MANtIs IN thE CIty
mind; I make art mostly to contemplate and I build.
sILvErCup sputNIk
process experiences, to make sense of my dO yOu ENjOy tEAChING Or CrEAtING
NAdIA ON thE brIdGE
life. However, I also believe that through the MOrE? I enjoy both. The two complement each
personal the universal can be reached, but other very nicely. Teaching allows me to articulate
that’s not why I do it. ideas, look at art from a different perspective,
It can start with either, but at some point and work with very interesting people.
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concept and medium have to come together in whO ArE yOur fAvOrItE LIvING ANd
ANdrEA thrOuGh hEr wEb sItE,
a natural way for the project to really work. dEAd ArtIsts? Dead: Martín Ramírez, Henry
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Diversity of media is not my goal, but the Darger, Adolf Wölfli. Living: Fred Tomaselli, Ben
ChECk Out hEr stOp-MOtION puppEt
fact that I have never animated won’t stop Wilson, Francis Alÿs, Nicole Eisenman
ANIMAtION thE dEMON brIdEGrOOM
me either, if the project I envision can be best whAt hAs bEEN yOur MOst MEMOrAbLE
At st. ANN’s wArEhOusE IN duMbO,
done in that medium. I’ll take classes, read ACCOMpLIshMENt? Perhaps Community
brOOkLyN, At thE LAbApALOOZA
books, talk to animators, and learn to animate Garden, my mosaic in the subway (4 Line,
fEstIvAL jANuAry 9–11.
to do that particular project. Some artists Bedford Park Blvd). It got a lot of press.
collaborate with teams of specialists in an whAt Is sOMEthING yOu hAvEN’t
unfamiliar medium they plan to use, but I like ACCOMpLIshEd yEt, but LOOk fOrwArd
to work alone and engage with every aspect tO dOING? I look forward to finishing shooting
of the project from concept to finished piece, and editing my animation The Demon Bridegroom
so learning the medium, technique, or craft is when I get home from Japan.
what I have to do.
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