2012 has been the longest year in memory but also the quickest: twelve months that have slipped past us as fast as they were enjoyed. Our Featured Interviews have been similar: so many, so fast, and so great. While some have been absurdly popular and others have gotten lost in local news, there have been many that we have favored because we got to interview an idol or the finished product was so great or just because the photos with it are so wonderful. Of course this is like picking favorites among your children, but we wanted to share our favorite Featured Interviews of 2012. If you haven’t taken a look at these yet, now is the time. Enjoy!
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This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Everywhere Gary goes, he takes a bunch of masks with him. He has people take photos in these masks, he has them pose in certain ways, and even has his little buddy Toby upstage these masked figures at points. This work with masks and taking on new identities is something entrenched in Gary’s work because he is constantly creating new worlds and mythologies that all of his art is a part of.
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This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Working for himself now, Gary has had to create his own system to produce his own work. He went from working with editors and producers to working for himself, a huge change in how someone works. “When I was an illustrator, you didn’t have much time,” he said. “You have to work fast. You do something for the New York Times Op-Ed: you get a story Wednesday at 11AM and you have to have an idea by 2PM. If it’s Time, you get a story on Wednesday, sketch Thursday, finish Friday, then it’s published around the world. You had to really think of the concept and how to create an intriguing image to draw someone in. Here, I have more time to think things through. Before, I was a visual problem-solver for others. Now, I’m a visual problem-solver for myself.”
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This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Toward the latter end of Gary’s time in New York, he got a call from a little television network by the name of Nickelodeon: they wanted to see if he had any ideas for television shows. “Nickelodeon called me and asked if I had any ideas for an animated television show,” he said. “I lied to them and I said I did.”
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This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Gary’s identity as an artist is something ingrained in him by his parents, who stressed that he could be whatever he wanted. As the only person in his family born in the United States, the idea of freedom and expression and being the self that you want to be is something very heavily instilled into his narrative.
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