*Weekly Artist Post*

I want to talk about painting.

Because I don't think I could be more in love with an artist. 

Hope Gangloff ~ painter living and working in NYC. 

http://www.hopegangloff.com/drawings.html

I took a snip of Gangloff's interview with Bomb Magazine below. She's talking about what she was painting in college and her responses just feel familiar to me. She is someone who draws inspiration from the people in her closest circle, and likewise, paints them into believable/ semi-believable hyperbole states. Her work is just a step enough away from reality that the benign scenes can hold your attention for hours at a time (at least they do me.)  

YM And what were the images of?

HG Y’all—always of my friends or people I was hanging out with or liked at school or wanted to tease or get some kind of reaction out of. It was a way to communicate. It’s my sense of humor too: I do whatever I want visually and then just pretend that I don’t know what the big stink is—like people’s reactions to being teased.

Vera, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 81 × 54 inches.

YM In a way, you were monumentalizing the people around you.

HG That’s entirely accurate. I was definitely painting my artistic community, my peer group, people who I loved and respected. I was imagining circumstances that translated well into a painting.


She's a doll. Her colors, her line work, her genuine interest. I want more of my work to reflect this kind of time and care. But that is an incredibly terrifying statement to make, isn't it?