1 Create! Magazine TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBMIT 05 LIST OF FEATURED ARTISTS Artists, makers and designers are Artists selected by guest curator Hannah welcome to apply with works in any Stouffer for the inaugural edition of medium: painting, drawing, film Create! Magazine stills, sculpture, fiber, textile, collage, drawing, photography, woodwork, ceramics, mixed media and etc. JANUARY 2017 PRINT ISSUE GUEST CURATORS Erin and Justin Nathanson: Southern Gallery, Charleston, SC 09 INTERVIEWS Exclusive interviews with CREATE BLOG Ashley Longshore, Adam Wallacavage, Danielle Krysa, We welcome submissions to our blog! Kim West, Portia Makoma, E-mail your best work to and Hannah Souffer. [email protected] SUBSCRIBE Please visit our online store at www.create-magazine.com to subscribe to our publication FOLLOW US 37 CURATED SELECTION twitter.com/createmagazine_ Vibrant and diverse section featuring the work of artists chosen www.facebook.com/create.art.magazine by Hannah Stouffer. instagram.com/create_mag 2 3 Create! Magazine FEATURED ARTISTS JAIME BRETT TREADWELL 5 2 BRIAN SPOLANS 5 8 ASHLEY BEVINGTON 6 2 ALLISON BAMCAT 6 6 ANNA BELLEFORTE 7 0 BEN WILLIS 7 4 BROOKE LILIA NASSER 7 8 YURIA OKAMURA 8 6 DONNA FESTA 9 0 ANNE CECILE SURGA 9 4 VIRGINIA CHIANG 1 0 2 GARRY D HARLEY 1 0 6 DIANE PRIBOJAN 1 1 0 EVIE ZIMMER 1 1 4 FENG GUO 1 1 8 JOSHUA FLINT 1 2 2 KEN WOOD 1 2 6 KIRINI KOPCKE 1 3 0 LEE MUSGRAVE 1 3 8 LING CHUN 1 4 4 MATHEW TUCKER 1 4 8 MICHAEL DRUMOND 1 5 2 MOLLY CATHERINE SCANNELL 1 5 6 NERS NEONLUMBERJACK 1 6 2 RACHEL STRUM 1 6 6 REBECCA RUTSTEIN 1 7 0 SHANNON FANNIN 1 7 6 STELLA DIMING ZHONG 1 8 2 SID DANIELS 1 8 8 GUDRUN LATTEN 1 9 0 HAYLEY-QUENTIN 1 9 6 4 5 Create! Magazine EDITORIAL EDITOR: Dear Reader, Ekaterina Popova DESIGNER: Welcome to the first edition of Create! Magazine. We are excited to share a diverse array of Shelby Schena art, design, and interviews in our colorful issue. We launched this publication to promote fresh, unique work of creatives from around the ASSOCIATE EDITOR: world. Each edition will be filled with vibrant contemporary art, craft, design, and inspiring Amanda Yamayev stories of the makers behind it. Going forward, the magazine will be released bimonthly in a limited edition print and digital format. GUEST CURATOR: Our first issue contains two different sections: interviews with incredible individuals from Hannah Stouffer the creative field and a curated section of artists hand-picked by our guest juror, Hannah Stouffer. FIND US ON We hope you join us and dive into this issue, which is packed with groundbreaking artists and twitter.com/createmagazine_ makers who will leave you feeling inspired. www.facebook.com/create.art.magazine instagram.com/create_mag Yours Truly, GENERAL ENQUIRIES: [email protected] EKATERINA POPOVA Editor-in-Chief SUBMISSIONS FOR BLOG PUBLICATIONS: [email protected] 6 7 Create! Magazine — INTERVIEWS We’ve taken several creatives and picked their brain about what inspires them! Please enjoy these exclusive interviews with Ashley Longshore, Adam Wallacavage, Danielle Krysa, Kim West, Portia Makoma, and Hannah Souffer. 8 9 Create! Magazine ASHLEY LONGSHORE ASHLEY LONGSHORE is a Louisiana-based painter, gallery owner and entrepreneur. She is the owner of the Longshore Studio Gallery, located on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Longshore’s art focuses on pop culture, Hollywood glamour, and American consumerism and has been compared to the artwork of Andy Warhol. She has been recognized as a “modern Andrea Warhol” by the New York Post, and was on Brit + Co’s list of “16 Female Artists You Should Know.” www.ashleylongshore.com — BRIEFLY DESCRIBE YOUR ARTISTIC BACKGROUND . WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU WANTED TO BECOME A PAINTER ? Honestly, I was such a wild, dramatic, hyper-energetic child. My mother had me in every extracurricular activity you can imagine, except for painting because I don’t think she thought I could be still enough to do it. So, funny enough, when I was 18 years old I went and got a paint set and a drum kit. I sat down and immersed myself in painting and drumming. I have to tell you, seven hours went by before I even knew it. It was very meditative. I guess the answer is that I was born an artist and it just took me two decades of my life to realize that this was the craft I wanted to pursue. And now I love it, and it is my most favorite thing I do. My time on my easel is sacred. — WHAT WAS YOUR EARLY WORK LIKE ? HOW IS IT SIMILAR AND / OR DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW ? Right out of the gate, my work was very colorful, figurative. Of course, you are talking about a difference between an 18-year-old girl and a 40-year-old woman. Now I have a much better definition of who I am, of where I stand in society, the country that I live in. I am much better traveled. I have a much better hold on what I am saying with my artwork than I did in the beginning. But if you go back to the start, my work was still very colorful and bold. My art is not what you get to match the throw pillows on your sofa. I have collectors who buy my art, and then they build a whole damn house around it! 10 11 Create! Magazine ASHLEY LONGSHORE Applause Self Portrait Applause Self Portrait — WHEN WOULD YOU SAY YOU EXPERIENCED A BREAKTHROUGH IN YOUR ART CAREER ? WHAT WAS THAT LIKE ? I knew from a very young age that I did not want to work with galleries and did not want to go the traditional route with my career. I had so many galleries tell me I was not marketable. At this time the internet was coming about, and all the sudden we had social media. ASHLEY LONGSHORE Very early in my career, I was using Mailchimp and Constant Contact. I would have art shows in people’s houses, people who were friends of my family. I would start to build up my email list. I knew if I began to build my foundation this way that I could make a lot more noise. My Skinny Jeans Are Trying To Kill Me Kill To Trying Jeans Are Skinny My I think it’s been the same amount of hard work and not giving up as it has been opportunities coming in my direction because I wanted them. I’ve gone out seeking them. I’ve been this hunter out in the art world trying to find my way in an industry that is quite fickle. When I first got the opportunity for Anthropologie to use my artwork as a collaboration, that was very exciting for me, and I knew these opportunities would only validate the current clients I had. Meaning that if somebody had bought a painting from me that cost $150, how excited would they be to know I was chosen by the brand for this collaboration? I’ve worked every day in my career making sure that these people who are spending their hard-earned money feel really good about the investment they made and about living in their homes with my thoughts painted on their walls. It’s a very intimate thing. — WE ARE INSPIRED BY YOUR POSITIVITY AND INCREDIBLE SENSE OF HUMOR . HOW DO YOU HANDLE BAD DAYS AND MOTIVATE YOURSELF ? We all have bad days. I have been moving very quickly lately and had a lot of opportunities, and an artist gets tired! When you have all of this inertia built up, you just have to find a way to motivate yourself. I find now, in this world of social media, that sometimes I post things and am talking to myself. I’m giving myself a fire-up. To see people’s reaction, it gets me even more motivated to get my ass out there and make something happen! “Action solves The other thing is, I travel all over the world. There isn’t another country in the world where a female artist has as much opportunity as I do in the United States of America. - A.L. It would be very much of injustice to sit around crying, scratching a broke ass, being upset when there is so much to do and so little time to do it in. It ain’t hard for me to get a lot of issues” motivated. There is too much for me to be positive about, so I have to pick my ass up and work! Work changes everything. Action solves a lot of issues. 12 13 Create! Magazine "you ur " have t yo ion o m keep uit ake sure you int that — YOU WERE FEATURED IN PROMINENT PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS ea to FORBES ELLE DECOR AND INSTYLE IN YOUR OPINION WHAT r , , . s open INITIALLY GOT YOU NOTICED BY THESE BRANDS ? HOW HAS THIS EXPERIENCE CHANGED YOUR PERSPECTIVE OR APPROACH ? I think that being true to myself and unique, using every opportunity I had and not going the traditional route got me noticed by these brands. Also, what you have to know is that I live in New Orleans, which is a great city where I feel very comfortable being creative. The past fifteen years, I have been marketing myself throughout the entire world. I knew I didn’t want to live in New York City, but I knew I could get there, get noticed, hustle my way around and get people talking.