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Name: Chad Hambright |
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When did you arrive at the Northern Warehouse? I just arrived at the Northern Warehouse earlier this week. 02/08. How has the Northern Warehouse helped you as an artist? So far the Northern Warehouse has helped me by letting me move in. There's more to come, I'm sure. What project(s) are you currently working on? Currently I'm working on a series of pieces that use video projected onto canvas. Borrowing from typical painting themes, I create still life's, portraits, self portraits, landscapes, and nudes, then record and loop them to be projected onto canvas. The result is a hybrid of art history, present, (and future?), intended to capture not just an image the viewer is familiar with but the sense of the moments that pass while the artist works. While video lends itself to movement, there is little here; and while painting lends itself to the instant, there are many here. The result is very meditative and blurs the lines of how each medium has been viewed in the past. Describe a recent completed project...what was challenging and/or gratifying about it? Recently I completed a video art piece titled Skit-Zo. It's a half hour compilation of impromptu sketches I created over a span of a few years, all of which happen to be me just being 'me' in my bedroom. The idea of the work is that we, as social people, are all schizophrenic to some extent. Given that how a person talks to their mother is different than how they talk to their father, or boss, or best friend, or co-worker, etc. This is true not just of content, but of context, diction, syntax, and even logic and emotion. No one is truly ever themselves until they are by themselves, and Skit-zo is an attempt at trying to find out all of who I am, when I felt free to be me. This was by far the most involved video project I've worked on and challenges abound from the inception of the work to it's completion, not just in obtaining the equipment to complete it but then how best to manipulate the footage once I did. But then to show it, and have people laugh and be entertained and engaged by it makes the whole process a wonderful struggle. Anything else you would like people to know about you? The majority of my work is prints. The images are created from original photos that are adapted and collaged in Photoshop and printed either by traditional photo lithographic techniques or as giclee prints. Who or what inspires you creatively? I'm inspired mostly by the moment, the possibility that anything can happen anytime. The most unpredictable thing is sitting there now just waiting to happen and blow your mind. The flash of a new idea never thought, the turning of a new phrase never uttered, the new combination of sounds never heard. That's how I roll.
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