Part of the MFA program at my school is picking an artist to meet for advice on my thesis project. The artist I picked and am very excited to be working with is Spencer Finch. I want to share an interview that Susan Cross had with him back in 2007 on his solo exhibition at Mass MoCA. He speaks about representation and his feelings on abstraction.
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6221&Itemid=174
An Excerpt:
“Spencer Finch: There’s a line from Freud where he talks about Kant, who said that there were two things—a moral thing and a natural thing—that continued to amaze him: the night sky and the goodness in the hearts of men. Freud was very dismissive, and said, “Oh yes, the night sky is quite beautiful.†I think it’s those two things, the idea of images that can straddle the space between abstraction and representation, and then also subject matter, that produces a sense of wonder and approaches this idea of the sublime. “