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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.22,0:00:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SUBWAY TRACKS RUMBLING OVERHEAD]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.42,0:00:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["New York Close Up"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.08,0:00:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s some expression:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.92,0:00:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your best ideas come to you in the shower,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.16,0:00:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in transit,\Nand as you're about to go to sleep."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.96,0:00:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven’t stopped thinking about what the\Nnext painting is.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.58,0:00:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel incredibly free\Nwhen I have an art idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.46,0:00:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being an artist is almost like
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.05,0:00:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a pursuit of this feeling of freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.33,0:00:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Avery Singer, Artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.90,0:00:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.26,0:00:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.10,0:01:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Avery Singer's Next Painting"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.14,0:01:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve been predominantly making\Nthese SketchUp models
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.78,0:01:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the computer, as a way of producing\Na sketch for a painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.57,0:01:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These sort of bad architectural models
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.72,0:01:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are these semi-figurative scenarios.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just get basic line and detail information\Nfrom that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.84,0:01:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and project it large scale,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.06,0:01:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sketch it out on the canvas,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.12,0:01:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then realize the painting using airbrush.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.02,0:01:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way that paintings are made
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.03,0:02:01.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is almost the content, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.53,0:02:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to keep it a bit more vague
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.84,0:02:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and explore things with the technique.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.62,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the technique tells its own story.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.86,0:02:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can take traditional tools\Nand employ them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.33,0:02:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the way that they’ve been intended to\Nbe employed for 500 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.23,0:02:30.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, in the next hour, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.15,0:02:33.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incorporate some kind of new technology
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.59,0:02:37.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that bears no relationship upon the gesso\Nthat is, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.79,0:02:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that's been used for however long
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.88,0:02:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and comes out of a recipe that was \Ninvented in Italy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.98,0:02:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who knows how long ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.24,0:02:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The juxtaposition of all these things \Nproduces meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.00,0:02:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to kind of put things side by side that...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.96,0:02:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may have never been seen together before
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.15,0:02:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to produce a new relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.90,0:03:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just to produce a new visual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.16,0:03:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think by 11 or 12, I was already in love\Nwith art.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.38,0:03:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then by the time I was 16, it was just,\Nlike, unequivocal.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.72,0:03:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was like,\N"I know that this is what I have to do."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.60,0:03:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I have to go to Cooper Union."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.92,0:03:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up here in New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.68,0:03:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my parents are artists as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.58,0:03:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I grew up in a loft where half of it is\Ntheir art studio--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.88,0:03:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the other half is, kind of, open-plan apartment.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.16,0:03:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.78,0:03:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my room was basically a loft bed above my\NMom's studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.41,0:03:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was how I was used to living.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.58,0:03:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My parents use Golden paint.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.74,0:03:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I only use Golden paint.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.72,0:04:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This company.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.20,0:04:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.08,0:04:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I’m like a second generation\NGolden paints painter.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.26,0:04:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.06,0:04:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The joke is: everyday of my childhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.28,0:04:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my dad would just stand in front of me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.99,0:04:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and intimidatingly, kind of,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.50,0:04:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do this, like, finger-wagging thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.04,0:04:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.04,0:04:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And say, “Never become an artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.60,0:04:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don’t become an artist."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.97,0:04:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Marry a millionaire."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.60,0:04:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[INTERVIEWER, OFF SCREEN]\NHow’s that working out?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.74,0:04:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.16,0:04:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No" on both counts!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.12,0:04:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t know what it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.12,0:04:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I just love solitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.71,0:04:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I love working alone,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.00,0:04:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and defining my own time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.58,0:04:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my own life, and my own space.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.64,0:04:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t look at the clock anymore
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.21,0:04:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then all of a sudden the sun is down
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.36,0:04:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you realize you've been painting\Nfor fourteen hours
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.66,0:05:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you have this progress in front of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.16,0:05:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is your task--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.74,0:05:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this what makes being an artist so hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.00,0:05:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I don’t want to reproduce other\Npeople's paintings.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.74,0:05:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to make my own.