Craftsmanship

Jason talks about learning the craft of spray coating technology and paint science from his early career as a painter at Jeff Koons’s Studio. Now the owner of the renowned shop Alchemy Paint Works, he discusses the language choices used with clients, the process of filing a patent for a specific coating he invented, the gap between an industrial process and a contemporary art application and being flown around the world. His favorite tools is a German engineered spray gun called a Sata.

Matt Dilling, the owner of Lite Brite Neon Studios, talks about the history of neon and how it’s entered the contemporary art visual language. He describes working with both commercial and art clients and how to tackle and learn from positive problem solving with such an exacting material.

Matt discusses being the Estate Manager for the artist/photographer Sarah Charlesworth which involves overseeing the continued printing of unfulfilled editions, the replacement of damaged artworks and the translation from defunct and non-archival printing processes into more stable, digital techniques and materials. His favorite tools are the slide carousel and the Nikon FMZ camera.

Anders talks about being a fabricator that specializes in glassblowing and how a handful of legal cases involving intellectual property have raised interesting question within his glass and art communities. His favorite tool is the New York Times.

Matt talks about the tension between being both an artist and a fabricator in the contemporary art world and the different dynamic when working for a fabrication company vs. working closely with only one artist. His favorite tool is an angle grinder.