Stephen Cefalo
What are your thought's on Damien Hirst? There has recently been a broadening gap between the “Art World” and the world of skill-oriented painters, sculptors, and draftsmen, which is holding its own, and quickly gaining importance. Hirst is a celebrity artist in the “big art” industry, and to me that’s an entirely different game for a different audience, and has very little to do with love, skill, and craftsmanship. It is my belief that while these two disciplines will both continue to thrive, they will find different names, and even separate schools and institutions. I think that’s already happening.
What medium do you work in, and what attracts you to it? I am an oil painter, and anything else I do is pretty much about painting in oils. It’s an addictive feeling to paint in oil, especially human skin. The medium itself is so much like skin, and to imitate flesh in buttery piles of oil color is better than a big piece of birthday cake. It is pure bliss.
How would you describe the ambiance of your studio space? I have a home studio in the country and now a spacious studio in the back of 7th Street Tattoo and Salon in downtown Little Rock. My downtown studio is where I hire live models and take on private students. Its ambiance is quite professional but not very private. My home studio is terribly messy, quiet, and intimate, and the ambiance is like floating in a lost space capsule. I usually play no music and receive no visitors. I love both spaces and need them for different reasons.
A hundred years from now what do you hope people say when they talk about you?
I once had a student who told me
that he stepped into an exhibition of my paintings and cried because there was so much love in the room. I can’t imagine a better compliment, and hope the work will always touch individual viewers that way. If my children speak of me as a good father, then I’ll feel even more accomplished.
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