‘Being an Artist Is a Pursuit of a Feeling of Freedom’: Watch Avery Singer Combine the Digital and the Analog to Put Her Own Twist on Painting

At the time of her “New York Close Up” interview for Art21 back in
2017, Avery Singer was an emerging star with a loyal following,
maybe best known from her outing in the 2015 New Museum Triennial.
In the short years since, her stock has dramatically risen. Today,
it’s fair to say that now the 31-year-old painter, who was raised
in New York City to painter parents who advised her not to
become an artist, is one of the most in-demand of all contemporary
painters.

Most recently, Singer had a turn in the international
spotlight at the 2019 Venice Biennale exhibition,
“May You Live in Interesting
Times.” Curator Ralph Rugoff has said that her unique painting
style appealed to him for the zeitgeist-defining event because he
was looking for art that defied “the usual cookie-cutter type of
thinking.” Singer’s hard-to-place imagery certainly fits that
bill.

Her offbeat contemporary sensibility is evident in the Art21
video, where Singer describes how she combines gesso paint with
digital techniques, including Google’s SketchUp software. The
resulting works on canvas blur the lines between digital and
analog, abstraction and figuration. “I don’t want to reproduce
other people’s paintings,” she tells Art21. “I want to make my own.”

Watch the full segment, which originally appeared as part of
the “Art in the Twenty-First Century” television
series on PBS, below. “May You Live in Interesting Times” is on view
at the Venice Biennale through November 24, 2019. 

This is an installment of “Art on Video,” a collaboration
between artnet News and Art21 that brings you clips of newsmaking
artists. A new season of the nonprofit Art21’s
flagship Art in the Twenty-First
Century television is available now on PBS. Watch full
episodes and learn about the organization’s education programs
at Art21.org.

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