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You best watch out, ’cause printmaker extraordinaire, Drive By Press veteran, and all around cool kid Katy Seals just rolled into Norman all the way from hometown Temple, Texas. She is the new grad student for the OUPD (not the po-lice, the printmaking department), so keep your eye out for some sweet new woodcuts and other cool stuff that will most definitely be turning up in shows around town.
Where are you from?
Texas, but now I stay in Norman.
What do you do?
I make images, cook things, shoot guns, and enjoy life.
Who or what do you use for inspiration?
Hillbillies, dreams, Lisa Frank, Mucha, Pushead, Robert Crumb, Edward Gory, Dirty Printmakers of America, Amazing Hancock Bros, Dennis McNett, Sean Starwars, creepy photos, Ed Wood, Joseph Velasquez, My fam, Jon Benne Ramsey, and mermaids.
What artists do you respect right now?
Camille Rose Garcia, Mike Giant, Clayton bros, Bill McRight, DeWitt, and Katherine Polk.
What are you sick of?
Trendy art, bruises, and flaky folks.
What music are you listening to recently?
Warren Zevon, T-Rex, Scarface, Z-Ro, Super Joint Ritual, and the Sword.
What is your first creative memory?
Drawing with vine charcoal on the walls of my parents house, and also using a stamp with a bear wearing a tutu. I was destined to work with a repeated matrix.
What is your favorite food/drank spot in Norman?
Well seeing as I’ve only been here for a week I’m no judge but so far it’s the Diner and Himalaya for food and Blu for a drink. It’s stumbling distance from my house.
Anything else?
Don’t marry a sailor, keep your nose clean, and don’t put all your eggs in one basket, and help free the west memphis three.
Jared is one of the hardest working artists I know. What’s scary is that he is also so talented. His band Gentle Ghost is probably one of my favorite locals acts. They were one of three bands that I got to see at Norman Music Fest, and they tore it up, as expected.
Where are you from?
918!
What do you do?
Well, I like to make things. Specifically lately wood cut prints, figurative work. Low brow?
Who or what do you use for inspiration?
The internet is a crazy clusterfuck of cool shit. So much amazing cutting edge work especially street art can be seen on it… it really propels me to constantly set my personal bar higher and higher. My professors and peers in the school really are a wonderful source of motivation. Imagery wise, my inspiration comes from the younger kids, mainly those who are really just carving their own ways and just doing creative things (skateboarding alot) because just getting by isn’t enough to them. I recently started using the mono-char ‘useless’ because allot of my work is dealing with things that are widely viewed as bullshit or waist of time but to the ones doing it, it means the world and is a path to personal salvation from the boredom of suburbia, midwest, whatever.
What artists do you respect right now?
Ed Timpleton, Denis Mcnett, Chris Johanson, Berry Mcgee, Marc Gonzales, Armsrok, Swoon. I’m really respecting the hell out of Joseph Valesques for the opportunities and support he’s given me, not to mention the motivation.
What are you sick of?
The idea that alright is good enough.
What music are you listening to recently?
An embarrassing amount of Mogwai, The Locust, Earth…
What is your first creative memory?
Figuring out that you can draw a pretty cool figure with two circles and 4 lines.
What is your favorite food/drank spot in Norman?
Food: the Earth. Drinks: Pepe’s for reading, blu for big groups and cheap drinks.
Anything else?
Yeah, just do something that you love and you’ll be alright.
