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I try not to censor myself at all.
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I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.
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Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores.
Marcel Dzama / Artist
Bookstores
Me Day Find
Secondhand
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The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.
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Body
Humans
Process
Fascinates
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I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.
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I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.
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Art
Careers
Expected
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I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.
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Black And White
Silent
Wizards
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I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.
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Boston
Madrid
Museum
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I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.
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Art
Drawing
Inuit
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I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.
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Artist
Outsiders
University Degrees
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I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.
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All Kinds
All Time
Kind
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I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.
Marcel Dzama / Artist
Men
Heartless
Tin
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The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.
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Color
Wall
Yellow
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I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.
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Art
Important
Shows
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I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.
Marcel Dzama / Artist
Connect
Primarily
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Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.
Marcel Dzama / Artist
Break
Now And Then
Visual
Arts
Visual Arts
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My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.
Marcel Dzama / Artist
Art
Royal
Together
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When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.
Marcel Dzama / Artist
Kids
Drawing
School
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I've always remembered 'Where the Wild Things Are' so clearly, which isn't the case with most other children's books. 'Wild Things' was a favorite from the start.
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Remembered
Wild
Case
Clearly
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When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my own comics about my teddy bear, whose name happened to be Ted.
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Drawing
Lots
Bear
Comics
Ted
Whose
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I don't go digital. I was never good with technology. I didn't have a cellphone until I moved to New York. My gallery was like, 'What? How are we supposed to contact you?'
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Contact
Digital
Gallery
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I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.
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Ceramics
Figures
Film
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Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
Marcel Dzama / Artist
Computers
Intimate
Rebellion
Almost
Drawings
Small
Medium
Saying
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I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment.
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Cameo
Smaller
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Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.
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Art
Believe
Character
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I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.
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Beer
Color
Ideas
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I find that I'm constantly drawing. Even when I'm on holidays or when the baby's sleeping, I'll just start doing some automatic drawing, something like that, and then it will turn into a piece, even though I thought I was just doodling.
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Drawing
Automatic
Holidays
Sleeping
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Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.
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Albums
Cds
Track
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P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.
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Guitar
School
Song
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My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.
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Artist
Character
Real
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I'm always interested in seeing how other artists work. I want to know what their working patterns are. I even like to know if they listen to music when they draw or what time of day they draw, even materials they use, what they research, if they use photographs.
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Materials
Patterns
Photographs
Work Time Music
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I only learned about Darger a couple years ago, when I kept seeing his name in reference to my artwork, so I looked him up. I wouldn't consider him an influence because I'd already established my current style before learning about him, but I enjoy his work a lot.
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Artwork
Established
Couple Years
Current
Reference
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After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.
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Art
Home
School
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I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base, because it seemed like an interesting idea, and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink, I started using other colors that would complement it, like grays from Higgins black writing ink and, more recently, Dr. P.H. Martin's olive green and vermilion.
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Beer
Complement
Dull
Green
Ink
Base
Colors
Dr
Drawings
Interesting Idea
Martin
Olive
Recently
Root
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