Artist Interview: Sabine Tress | Space Oddities

Words of the day: gesture. vulnerability. consciousness. Zero gravity.

For this episode Sabine Tress returns to the podcast, from her studio in Cologne, Germany, to discuss the work in her solo show Space Oddities. 

This conversation acts mostly as a virtual tour of Sabine’s exhibition. It details the relationships between the actual exhibition space, the paintings, the viewer, and the painter herself. Somehow I make my way into the mix as well. 

I did not know this interview would journey in the direction it did, it wasn’t until editing did I realized how these states were apparent. This recording creates a virtual venue where the show takes place for those who can’t make it to the brick and mortar space, and yet helps make it a show not to miss in person. Listen below...

Blizzard

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in

acrylic on canvas

2021

Teddy

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in

acrylic on canvas

2022

Ma Vie Sous Marine

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in 

spray and acrylic on canvas

2022

 

Audio interview with the artist:

Ahtcast · Sabine Tress | the Space Oddities interview

 

 

The artist's website: Sabine Tress

 

  Space Oddities runs through February 12th 2022

at Esther Verhaeghe Art Concepts

Brussles, Belgium

 

More info on the show: Esther Verhaeghe Art Concepts

 

  Esther Verhaeghe and Sabine Tress!

instagram: 

@sabtress

@esthersartytrail

She's vague

180 x 140cm/70 x 55in

acrylic and spray on canvas

2021

Sabine Tress,...congrats and thanks for the conversation!

 

 

(Original intro song by David T Miller and Phillip J. Mellen)

Artist Interview: Sabine Tress Revisited

Words of the day: pink. zen. sad. challenge. change. contrast.

Sabine Tress, painter based in Cologne, Germany returns to ahtcast for this episode. Having originally been interviewed back in 2013, I thought it was time to check in with Sabine to talk about changes, feelings on the studio, paintings, methods and materials, relationships to other artists etc.
You'll find this recording to be more of a collaboration between Sabine and myself. Custom questions were brought to the table on this one that investigate collage, color, nature, dead painters...and more. Listen below...

Small format paintings by Sabine Tress:

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Works by Phillip J. Mellen:

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Audio conversation:

Sabine Tress' website: Sabine Tress

Artists etc. mentioned in the conversation:

Agnes Martin

Philip Guston

Richard Tuttle

Lois Dodd

Howard Hodgkin

Gerhard Richter

matt pond PA - The Green Fury album 

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Thank you for listening! 

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Artist Interview: Sabine Tress

The rush, the hassle, the anxiety, the battle, the surprise, are all things that drive Germany based Artist Sabine Tress. "Now, I really know this is who I am, and this is what I want to do for the rest of my life." Join ahtcast in this conversation where the subject is on the perils and high points of painting. Also a special episode where Sabine Tress turns and asks me the very same questions I posed to her. Should be a really enjoyable "double-interview." Listen in below!

Abracadabra

2012

150x150cm(59"x59")

Acrylic paint and spray paint on canvas

Ice Rain

150x140cm(59"x55")

2010

Acrylic paint and spray paint on canvas

Thanksgiving

2013

160x160cm(63"x63")

Acrylic paint and oil paint on canvas

Hunted by a freak,

2013

Acrylic paint on canvas

160x220cm(63"x86")

Get to France

2012

120x80cm(47"x31")

Acrylic paint on canvas


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Works by myself:

Sometimes pink is a good color
12" x 12"
acrylic on canvas 
2012

 Monologue (construction) with Yellow and Purple
13" x 5"
acrylic, foam and wood
2011


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The Artist's website: Sabine Tress 

Audio interview with the artist:

 Sabine Tress in her studio.

Artists etc. mentioned in the conversation:

Paul Behnke

 Charline von Heyl

Christopher Wool

Philip Guston

Jean Dubuffet

Dr. Martin Stather 

Ellsworth Kelly

Sean Naftel (Nonesuch)

Bon Iver

Caleb DeJong

Joseph Cornell

Jasper Johns

Robert Rauschenberg

Brice Marden

Tim McFarlane

Jean-Michel Basquiat  

David Hockney

(Original intro song by David T Miller and Phillip J. Mellen)