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" The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry. "
Shea Hembrey
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" I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman. "
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" I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric. "
Shea Hembrey
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" I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable. "
Shea Hembrey
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" For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it. "
Shea Hembrey
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" My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets. "
Shea Hembrey
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" I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place. "
Shea Hembrey
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" I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater. "
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" If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like? "
Shea Hembrey
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Dark
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" My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance, me and my sister, when we were little, we would compete to see who could eat the most squirrel brains. "
Shea Hembrey
You
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" Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands. "
Shea Hembrey
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Everything
Hands
" How do you show what's not there? How do you show energy? "
Shea Hembrey
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" I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien. "
Shea Hembrey
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Alien
Down
" I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work. "
Shea Hembrey
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" It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know. "
Shea Hembrey
Model
Little
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