![]() Any advice or thoughts you’d like to share with prospective artists?įirstly I want to say that I have always faced financial challenges. Nonetheless, we all have bills and responsibilities, and many aspiring artists are discouraged from pursuing art due to financial reasons. This excites me tremendously.Īrtists rarely, if ever pursue art for the money. I also feel as if I am living simultaneously in my past, present, and future in the most fantastic non-linear way. When I am working with clay, I feel a sense of childlike wonder and experience great joy. I have recently returned to making ceramic sculpture. I am revisiting ideas and processes that were a vital part of my practice over twenty years ago. Recently I have been shifting my primary focus to working with materials that are more stable, enduring and permanent. When I put my artwork out there in the world, I set it free. I hope viewers find meaning in my work or perhaps discover a shared moment, experience or feeling. In much of my work, I seek to hijack and subvert the male gaze and the hegemony of a patriarchal power structure (although often times I mask that intention with humor, so it’s not always readily apparent). I create intimate and psychologically complex worlds that generate pleasure and challenge the viewer to question the status quo. However, as I have gotten older, I have learned to find a better balance. When I was younger, living an art-life (including living and working in frenetic art installations I built) made my daily experience incredibly messy and complicated. I practice a holistic approach to my art and my life- I cannot separate one from the other. I am inspired by my life and motivated by my passion and will go wherever that takes me. I create drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, poetry, prose, ‘zines, music, websites, films, and videos. The form or medium chosen for each piece or project is determined by its intention and purpose. I make personal, intuitive works using a variety of materials. ![]() The strangest and most stressful job I’ve ever had in Los Angeles was cooking Christmas dinner for Ringo Starr and his family in their fabulous Beverly Hills home.Ĭan you give our readers some background on your art? ![]() Since graduate school I have worked many jobs to support my art practice: set dressing, props and background talent on TV, movies and rock videos web developer production designer and director of commercial pornography creator and director of a documentary movie about porn stars and their pets featured performer on a reality TV show and various positions with not-for-profit arts organizations. However, this is not always easy, as I still have to work a “day job” too. I am as driven today as I was in my twenties and I will never stop. I have been making art every day for nearly thirty years. In between my two degrees I made art, performance and videos while living on the Lower East Side of New York and working as a dominatrix in a notorious commercial dungeon (Belle de Jour), a chef in an upstate summer acting school (The National Shakespeare Conservatory) and a freelance assistant to my former professor who wrote ceramic textbooks (Susan Peterson). I completed a BFA in Sculpture from Kansas City Art Institute when I was 27 and an MFA from Cal Arts in Experimental Film when I was 34. I was a bit of a late bloomer and always had to work jobs, so it took me a while to finish my art degrees. This is when I first began visiting art museums and galleries. At Hunter, I discovered my love of modern art, psychology, and philosophy. Soon after, I fled the toxic suburbs and moved to Brooklyn and Manhattan where I worked as a production ceramics fabricator, ceramics teacher, and catering chef while attending the City University of New York’s Hunter College. I took many art classes as a kid but had a difficult adolescence and almost died from a drug overdose when I was 19. Lipchitz that was installed in front of the public library. I grew up climbing on his sculpture “Between Heaven & Earth,” a gift to the village from Mr. The cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz had a studio in my hometown twenty miles north of New York City. Margie, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far. Today we’d like to introduce you to Margie Schnibbe.
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