Episode 97 - w/ Courtney Blazon (Visual Artist)
On this episode of W.E.S.G., we head to Missoula MT to talk to pen and marker artist, Courtney Blazon ( www.courtneyblazon.com/ ).
Courtney Blazon is an artist and illustrator living and working in Missoula, MT. She is a graduate from Parsons School of Design, where she received her BFA in Illustration. She's shown in Missoula at the Brink Gallery, Dana Gallery, Missoula Art Museum, and outside of Montana, she has been shown in Seattle, Portland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and most recently at the Center for the Arts Theater Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (Western Edition), Studio Visit Magazine, and juxtapoz.com. She received a Montana Arts Council Artists Innovation Award in 2011. She is represented by Radius Gallery in Missoula, MT.
Courtney Blazon’s pen and marker drawings reference fields of science, history, cultural studies, myths and fairy tales. Her images take us someplace between the known world and dreamscape, a surreal marriage of naturalism and fantasy. The results can be simultaneously whimsical and grotesque, witty as well as disturbing. The tension of these unions suggests our own struggle to achieve balance in a chaotic world.
On this episode we talk about process, making time for her own work while being a working artist, and her sleep schedule.
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