Kevin Burzynski is a Brooklyn based artist who specializes in photography, film, and collages. The following photos are part of his series “two”. Following the piece is an interview of Kevin Burzynski conducted by “Melt” correspondent Cory Loomis. Check out his website http://www.kevin-burzynski.com
KB: I’m ready Dr. Loomis
CL: Okay, to be completely true to the piece, I will start it by asking two questions.
Last I knew you were living in Brooklyn, are you still living there?
and what brought you out that way?
KB: I’m still out here. I moved here to work in the tv and film industry right after college. Still doing it up. It was easier to move to than LA.
CL: Do you believe there are “high” forms of art and “low” forms of art? Or are all mediums equal?
KB: Well there’s definitely “low brow” and “high brow” art, but a lot of times the low bro stuff is much better and creates a bigger impact, but it’s hard to rule if one piece is better than the other, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
CL: Yeah a lot of collage artists seem to go for shock value where you take a more minimalist approach which I find refreshing. Do you consciously take a more minimalist approach to avoid being considered low-brow?
KB: Thanks! Is my stuff minimalist? I guess I take a minimalist approach in a way, but definitely not to be considered high brow or to avoid being low brow. I think a lot of my pieces are simple/minimal in a way because I’m trying to portray an idea, adding a million different cutouts is going to look cheesy; it looks like vomit to me. I don’t really want it to look like something people are gonna look at on acid in their dorm room. I like everything to be well-calculated and thought out beforehand. I usually think about a collage for a couple months before I actually start making it. And then the actual process of making it only takes a few hours usually.
CL: That’s a pretty high brow approach. Collages to me kind of fall under the “pop art” umbrella. What do you think about artists who use celebrities as subjects in their pieces?
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