Louisville Magazine

OCT 2013

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Chris Radtke, 66 Favorite medium: nylon mesh chrisradtke.org "Ghost" moves and breathes. Like much of Radtke's work, it is also autobiographical — literally if not literarily. For example, "Ghost" uses "mesh cubes 
sewn to the artist's body dimensions." My favorite tool to work with is . . . "scissors. I keep subtracting things until the least amount of information is left standing." If I weren't an artist, I'd be . . . "a car mechanic, according to a test I took in high school back in the day." My frst piece of art was . . . "in my second-grade class. (We had to) draw a barn and paint it. When I looked around, everyone else had made a red barn. I had painted mine chartreuse. For a seven-year-old, it was a good moment." When you look at my work . . . "think of yourself as a container. A container, by its nature, divides the universe into that which is inside and all the rest. There is you and there is all the rest. But the 'you' that is 'contained' is really just part of all the rest." Chris Radtke I get inspired . . . "alone, driving." "Ghost" installation and details of walls (nylon mesh).

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