Inside Out: NEXT UP: Juan Amaya
From left to right: Susan Metrican, Juan Amaya, 2012. Dear everyone, Please meet Juan Amaya, graphic designer turned visual artist. His images seem at first a familiar mash-up of YouTube…
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Susan Metrican
Susan Metrican is October's artist in residence on Big Red & Shiny's blog series, Inside Out.
Inside Out: Signed Curtain
Matching Mole, Signed Curtain, Matching Mole, 3:06, 1972 The Living on One Side, The Departed on the Other, Acrylic on Canvas, 44″x116″ (Diptych), 2012 Study at MFA with Onlookers, Acrylic…
Inside Out: Stripes
Without realizing it, I think my first idea to paint stripes inside a box were a way to break out of my habit of painting still lifes with black backgrounds.…
Inside Out: Coloured Objects
Goethe’s Theory of Colours is the book that I’m toting around in the Profondo Yellow video. I got a little obsessed with it a few years ago. It’s laid out…
Inside Out: Sourcery
Here are some of my recent source images. Sometimes it’s enough to scroll through them, but lately I like being able to see them laid out in a little grid.…
Inside Out: Stagey
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone), 2000, Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng Fah Talai Jone is one of my favorite films, and I just realized it’s found a way…
Inside Out: Starry Night
Last night I dreamt I was painting a tiny copy of Starry Night. It was one of those canvases that’s about an inch and a half tall. Sean accidentally bumped…