Kevin Reed // Focus on the Artist // Brooklyn 2019

Transcription à partir des sous-titres YouTube (en).

[00:00] Queer for me is just anything. That's not straight That's not part of the patriarchy the existing heteronormative structure of the world So it encompasses both sexuality and gender fluidity Welcome to my studio My partner and I share this space and he has a studio downstairs and I have a studio in the back my work is a Amalgamation of my whole life starting with Drafting and drawing and moving through Everything that I'm inspired to make with my hands, so whether it's things with wood things we have found objects Anything really as you come in this stuff on the walls is kind of the stuff that I've been working on For the past two or so years in my old space, which was a lot smaller and so I was working two dimensionally and

[01:07] small because that was kind of what I was restricted to and we moved here and all of a sudden I Realized that I had been missing a large part of my studio practice. And so the Sculptural work that you see here on the floors is the newest stuff. These are all individual pieces that I Cut out by hand with a jigsaw and a drill And then they get assembled together on the floor and then eventually make their way up onto the wall you'll have Super detailed paintings. This for example is based on a Photo that Edward Weybridge did in the early 1900s as part of his motion series and at the time it was the beginning of photography and He used these two new male wrestlers just because he was photographing athletes

[01:55] But if you take those images and you put them into the context of my work Suddenly the queer nature of it becomes way more apparent than in the original work so I think that the the lens of a queer artist helps to to kind of redefine and reshape things that we've been seeing for a hundred to two thousand years in the Canon of art But in a subject that hasn't been talked about in terms of alternative sexualities So here you can kind of get a sense of the full spectrum of my studio practice. So it begins with these drawings Which can be finished pieces or sometimes sketches for larger pieces And then over here is the painted version of these drawn color is added. There's more of a Universe being created so everything starts with drawings like this

[02:45] So here's an older one. This is the one the newest one that I'm working on right now and I basically will start with I'll draw the Geometric element that I have. So in this case, it was this circle and then I'll just kind of fill things in as I go Based on the current images. I'm looking at and the The subject of the current work. So in this case, it's this sassy little skeleton And then I add them in according to the drawing like the scale of everything and then from there I base all of the sculpture on the original found element and then how big everything should be in order to match the drawing as closely as possible and then behind me here is the door to the outdoor area where I have like the outside part of my studio and there I'm able to

[03:35] Drill cut spray paint and do all these things to kind of turn. What would be a small drawing into a full-sized sculptural work that exists in the space with you and then I'm hoping that this will be a way for people to Envision and imagine the the real big work that I'm looking to do which is installation work and large-scale sculpture So it kind of translates the drawing into something more real and more tangible and I think that part of the strength of my work and the queerness of it is even is that it's it's all so intimately done by hand everything from the moment that I start a sketch to the the moment that I finish a sculpture and I hang it on the wall or I finish a Installation and in the exist in this space is all done by hand by me these two hands from front to back