This World We've Built - Interview with Artists Abby Shahn and "Fang"
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Abby Shahn has been living and working in Maine since 1969; she is one of the state's most important and celebrated artists. Her work hovers between the figurative and the non-objective, showing that no boundaries are needed. She explains, "I believe that all painting is abstract. However, even in the most non-objective paintings, I always find there is an illusion of space that is a kind of realism." Critic Ken Greenleaf describes Shahn's ability to paint, as being like a highly-skilled jazz performer, she just picks up the horn and blows it, and what comes out has coherence, order, and emotional resonance. She sees rhythm as the basis of all art.
“Fang evokes the pleasure he takes in rescuing discarded objects, of gathering and assembling them. His work is not only about accumulating, for editing is important as well. It is also an on-going process that’s profoundly tied to his daily life. What he describes gets to the core of what assemblage as an artistic practice is about, for it is the putting together, the assembling that produces meaning.”
Fang's statement comes from Véronique Plesch, 2021, Maine Arts Journal.
to learn more about Lights Out Gallery visit www.lightoutgallery.org
Just great. Makes me feel like I'm not alone. I've always said that "being creative is like being cursed by gypsies at berth." And yet it is all we can do. So I live with my wonderful curse.
I had not heard that. I can relate. Thanks for sharing, and remember...we are not common, but we are everywhere ☮
what a beautiful presentation this is ! two fascinating daredevils brave enough to stand alone & be totally who they are ! if i could 👍🏻 this 100 times , i would ❤
Thank you so much for this video. Abby and Fang, you are two totally creative beings and somehow I am grateful that you have avoided the crush of the high end galleries at least for a lot of your lives. I am also an artist and I don't believe that I can do both: create and market. Two different sides of my life. I choose creativity! Hugs from Laara in Canada
Really interesting video. I loved hearing them talk. They are the real deal for sure. Thank you so much for creating this video!!
I love these people and this lovely video about them.
Your dedication to creativity is uplifting and encouraging, to all us fellow travelers 🎶☮❤
"When your empty your ready for anything". Absolutely! We are all so full of ourselves, beliefs, assumptions and opinions that there is no soace left within for vision which requires us to be present and see the world as it is, not how we've been taught or think it is. See everything as if it's the first time and it can be anything you choose. Very cool...these are my people 🙏💞
That's where the beauty was during the multiple times I have lost absolutely everything I had in the world overnight.
Great. I loved them and can understand their happiness. I once headed to Maine, wanted to live and work there as an artist. Too bad I couldn't find what I was looking for...
Used to go to a great photo school in Camden 30+ years ago...loved it. It has a sort of pull up there. Family lived in Lisbon. ART soothes the soul. It's whatever you make it
Great interview thank you for bringing these two and their talent to light
A fifth and a case and a weekend to hang with these guys. They remind me of an artist I knew named Terry O'shea. His house was packed with art of his. And his yard too. He was always up to something creative. I'm the kind of artist that likes to have an idea before working. Terry didn't have that problem. He'd just start stacking rocks, or hanging stuff from a tree, or put powdered graphite on the floor against the wall to track the mouse in his house. Terry was the most interesting person I ever met. RIP Terry.
LOve it! Rural Maine is rife with folks like this.We are so lucky.
cannot say how much i love this. you inspire me. thank you.
Looks like paradise! No snobs.
Let's collect everything we come across and make art. What a concept, not for everyone. Certainly seems to work for you. Enjoy !
It's about seeing the creative potential in everything. I took am an assemblage artist. It started with seeing and saving bottle caps and gum wrappers and anything rusting as a kid and always seeing them as potential art.
@@ravenofthewild Thank You for responding Ms. Wild
It works for them
my kinda peeps. Thanks for sharing!
I notice the difference between create someting with a theme in mind, or letting go, gettin started and get surprised by the process and the result. My art is always a surprise, an adventure, a child´s play (I´ve worked with oxide too!, always playing with sticks or cans hahaa). But the art market and society absurd rules cause me anxiety and depression. I need only "being" and "making", but sadly, we need to eat, to dress and those things. Huge hug for these kindred spirits♥.Thanks for sharing.
Cool folks. Minding their own business and digging it.
Upstate and western NY is so amazing in the summer-just live it
Recently I have been thinking about childhood.....as a child the tiniest leaf or pool of water was magical.....then exams and jobs begin....you pretend to be grownup and ACT like a grownup....then the tiny leaf or pool of water is ignored for grownup routines....it's easy to see how the magic goes away......the love and magic is the most important part of life not the act of playing at been grown up.
❤
Love them! They are so inspirational!
They are THE REAL DEAL!
I love everything about this.
Love your expression of self...you hold nothing back.
Makes me feel better about me having too much stuff.
Yaşamak başka şey
Sanatla yaşamak başka...
Bundan daha güzeli bir dost ile sanat yaparak yaşamak...
Sağlık ve esenlik içinde olun
Thank god for people like you. This is art, real creativity. You’d never experience this in a gallery. Your lives are so inspiring.
The video maker put stupid unnecessary “creepy “ music in. What a shame.
The music was made by Fang, whenever possible we include music that is made by the artist we are interviewing.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles; I recently befriended a few souls in the ghost town of Keeler. I was always made self conscious of my idolotry. This felt like home.
I've met these two. Been to this place a few times.
well we know where some of the sky trumpet sounds are coming from
Love these guys…never heard of them before I saw this video. Now i don’t feel so strange. Being creative and having many talents is not so bad after all…
Hauntingly beautiful and familiar!?
I just want to know, whose job is it to dust? Definitely a fun place❤
I was thinking that as well😂
attainment is a fleeting thing...
you really hit the nail on the head. intentions kind of mess up art in many ways.
I love the idea of”reanimating” pieces into art
'Show me a computer that makes mud pies' 💓
I thought they were two men? Is the person on the right Abby?
That's what I wondered ... the one with a moustache is a woman???? Geez. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I think it is 2 men.
Did I miss something?
@@robinhendrickson511 Yikes. After I read your comment, I looked up the name and believe it or not ... the one on the right IS a woman. 😲😲😲 The moustache is very deceiving. 🤔🤔🤔
Google her....there is more out there.
Does it matter?
I don’t know why someone chose to use such creepy and harrowing music while we are looking at such beautiful creative expressions.
It sounds like the sounds he was creating on that bow thing at the beginning, so I think it could be his very own music
@@xvola6888yes the video poster said it's his music he made....
It's a theriman made of found items it's amazing
Analog invention
That whole place is a piece of art. Imagine trying to find a spot at the Smithsonian and then transporting it there. Wow.
It's a disgusting health hazard
The walker guy looks like hes high as a kite
Obsession is key. If youre not obsessed with what you do, dont bother.
Where is this, looks like the tropics
This was filmed in Solon, Maine
Fine line between art, junk and hoarding
Quick question…..have you ever called in T-Rex at least a squatch with your musical musings at the beginning of this video…..👀
Just so creepy...disturbing. nothing looks pleasant or light. light as in elevated. I wouldn't like to come across this place. surely, these are two men, too.
Only one of them is a man.
To be is to be perceived
❤️👍😉
Strange ? For one of the state's most important and celebrated artists, she does not have very high Action and Sales stats regardless of how wonderful her art is.
😍👏👊
I believe we've found where the root source of those unexplainable sounds being heard time to time all around the world. 😅
Is everything art? Trash is art,noise is art,mental illness is real people…..God bless.
These are my kid of people. ❤ I love idolatry too. I love garden gnomes 😂❤
🤠👍👌🌞🎉
If drugs could talk .😅
They will bust hell wide open!
Looks like the 21st century has missed them.
She needs a shave 😮
No a lawn mower 🤣🤣🤣🤣but I ❤️the FREEDOM of their creative lifestyle❤️😎. I’m jealous!!!!!!!
I don’t think she needs a damn thing … 😘 maybe in your mind … 🥰
They are kind of unintentionally gangster. 😂
Random intoxication
🤍💛🧡💗💚💙💜🤎🖤✌
lol they creep me out
I think they are okay, but the hat over the eyes is a bit strange.
This is more crafted hoarding than art. The paintings are not groundbreaking or original. In fact, I fail to see why these two eccentrics are being regarded as artists of note.
Was this posted April 1st?
That’s not art, it’s something out of hills have eyes or Chainsaw massacre. It’s called I never had talent.
allot of hot air with little to say for itself.
Sounds like you
Maybe you lack ears to hear.
Texas Chainsaw Masacre Origin 3D Imax
These dudes are like distant cousins of The Beverly Hillbillies …
Creativity keeps your mind sharp. Your body goes to shit though.
:50 SECONDS TO 💌 🏷️
- 🫦
Bricoleurs
Stupid to Stupider to Stupidest. Stupid is not art and I am done with stupid things. Perhaps they could 'discover' a cello and 'discover' Bach.
Filth is not Art .
Yes, But art can be filthy …. Open your mind a tad 😊
All druggies talk about ‘the now’ ‘no mind’ etc …I mean come on dude!
you'll never get it.
Weird
Celebrate mediocrity
Just tiresome, tired trite and exhausting
But aside from that, you still enjoyed it, right?
really?
That's my take, too. I know art is "subjective" ... but these kinds of people and stories have become boring.
@@Quasar1111 ask the Uffizi if they would trade all the Damian Hirst's in the world for one 'David'. Art is not silly/stupid subjective.
@@sylviacarlson3561 yes, very really. I will add predictable delusional blather.
JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS ,MKAY. !!!!