I introduced my friends Molly Crabapple (who’s work is pictured above) and Ana Finel Honigman recently in Berlin, and this lovely interview was the result. It also marks the first time one of my “Long Portraits” has been used as an illustration, and I think it works perfectly as an example of what you can do online that both relates to and supersedes what you could do in a print magazine (or alternately, what a 5th-gen Kindle might add to the magazine-reading experience).
“ANA FINEL HONIGMAN: Do you see a separation between your fine art and illustration?
Molly Crabapple: Not really. Not so much now that people hire me for my style and they know that my name has a following. But the type of work I do, which is often called “Pop surrealism,” is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art. Even though this year Shepard Fairey, who I have shown with in gallery shows, is probably the most famous artist in the world. Or at least the creator of the most famous image in the world. If you think about, the Sistine Chapel was Michelangelo doing a client assignment for a very powerful man. He was told what to paint. All the old masters did that. Most fine artists were people doing assignments for clients until relatively recently.” (read interview)