New Updates: Rodney Dickson

So it's been quite some time since you saw any truly new interviews from me. Well, I'm back at work on another interview, this time an update with Rodney Dickson. Rodney wanted to talk with me about the changes he has faced in the recent times and how they have affected his paintings.

We are working on adding more to the film, so it'll be a few days before it gets online.

Thanks for your interest. If you want to help, we accept all methods of monetary donations at the link to the right. 

Filmed on a Canon 5DMK2 with a Zoom H4n for audio recording. Edited in Final Cut X. Made on a Mac. 

Cheers.

Jeffrey Collins

Director

Liv Mette Larsen in her Bushwick Studio January 2014

Liv Mette Larsen is a painter that I met through my friendships with a number of previous interview participants who became friends. The minute I saw her work in her studio I was enamoured. It took me a while longer before I asked her if I could interview her. We met up in January 2014 when I was house-sitting for a couple friends. I spent a few hours with Liv, talking about every aspect of her work. From her use of Egg Tempera as a paint medium to how she gets her ideas from right outside her windows. She uses what she has around her in such a unique way that with every painting, I wanted to look outside and see if I could tell where she gets this or that shape from. It's such an involved way of painting that it makes you pay more attention to the world around you and not in an obvious way like Rauschenberg, but a much more subtle way that works on your mind after you see it in person.

Enjoy the clip I have prepared for you.



http://livmettelarsen.com/

Thanks Liv!!!

Jeffrey Collins
Artist/Filmmaker

Michael Brennan and a Knife.

In 2012 I began my filming that has continued since on painter Michael Brennan. I've been infatuated with his work since I first learnt of it. His ways of thinking about painting and ideas about how one creates. Which truly came to fruition in his 2014 exhibition at Minus Space in Brooklyn NY. Michael has a deep connection through films and literature into his paintings and I believe parts of this film shine light on that. Michael is a professor of painting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and if you are of college age and want to study painting, he is definitely one I would want to study with.



Thanks for watching. I hope you got a lot from it.
Jeffrey Collins
Director

Loren Munk AKA James Kalm Talking about how history has helped him.

August 2013 I sat down with the Painter/Historian Loren Munk AKA James Kalm (The Guy on the Bike) in his Brooklyn Studio to talk about his work as a painter along with his work as a historian. In this interview he speaks of a paper he wrote and what happened after the paper was published. It's quite the amazing story. Dig in.

For a link on the article Loren speaks of in this interview, here you go... http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/09/artseen/brooklyn-dispatches-the-lies-we-tell-children



Thanks Loren and Thanks Kate!

Jeffrey Collins
Director

Michael Brennan Talks about painting while priming a canvas in Brooklyn,...

I don't share very many clips from Michael Brennan on here. I don't know why that is, being that I have had many many wonderful conversations about painting with him. He is a wealth of information about painting and paintings history, more in tuned with the contemporary history of painting, which is the type I am more interested in. I decided to share this section from our second interview as I felt it was germane to the situation here. Plus you get to see something you don't see very often with painters. How they prime their own canvases. This seemingly banal subject is one many of us take seriously and with pride.



Thanks Michael for allowing me to film your world of painting. Looking forward to the next session.

Sideshow Nation

Saturday night I was in NY for my first official exhibition in a NY gallery. I feel so honored to be in a show with so many wonderful artists. Here's just one persons view of what was going on that night. Kinda wish I had been more into the investigative journalism thing that night, but oh well.

I love the beginning.



Cheers.
Jeffrey

James Panero at Storefront Bushwick speaking about the art world.

I got to meet and hang out with writer James Panero on Sunday the 18th of November. We met up at a gallery James likes to visit called Storefront Bushwick. We spent some time talking about the paintings inside and the role of Bushwick in the future art world. I'll turn this over to James to tell you the rest.



Thanks and enjoy.

Jeffrey Collins
Director.

Frosty Myers Interview Clip.

I got to hang out with Sculptor Forrest 'Frosty' Myers in his studio on November 11th. Had a wonderful time talking about his work and all he was doing with his art. Here's a wonderful clip you definitely won't see anywhere else. Frosty playing one of his sculptures.



Hope you enjoyed that. Plenty more to come.

Remember if you would like to help, you can always donate by clicking on the box to the right.

Thanks Frosty. I had a wonderful day hanging out with you. Looking forward to the future.

Thanks to all who have been involved and helped me get to this point. Cheers to you!

Jeffrey Collins
Director.

More interviews in NYC.

My time in NYC is almost up. Got just a couple days to go before heading back to Columbus via Syracuse. Going to do some more filming with Darryl Hughto and Susan Roth.

So far I have had the pleasure of meeting many more people from this journey. And even got a few more interviews done. One more to go tomorrow, which will be the writer James Panero from the Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion. 

This trip I got to meet and film...

Forrest "Frosty" Myers in his Brooklyn Studio.

Louise P. Sloane in her Great Neck Studio.Dennis Hollingsworth in his Brooklyn Studio.Matthew Deleget in the offices of Minus Space in Brooklyn.

James Panero in Storefront Bushwick, BrooklynThanks to all that have helped me get to this point. Your contributions are going to some very informative and thought provoking art documentary filmmaking. This archive and film is going to be available for many many people over the decades to come, and you are helping make it possible with your donations.Cheers.Jeffrey CollinsDirector.

Michael Brennan Interview Clip

A short clip from my interview with painter Michael Brennan where he is speaking of his interest in Josef Albers. There is so much more to this section, but I wanted to keep it unseen until the film is done.

Michael Brennan on early fame.

A new interview with Painter Michael Brennan on early fame and how it can haunt those that receive it.



Keep focused for more interview segments. So much more is available, the film itself is going to be awesome.