{"id":149829,"date":"2020-08-05T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/?p=149829"},"modified":"2020-08-08T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T14:42:41","slug":"artist-interview-travis-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/2020\/08\/artist-interview-travis-fish.html","title":{"rendered":"Artist Interview: Travis Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Contemporary American artist Travis Fish has been a rising name in the global art scene. Originally from Wisconsin, Travis lives and works in New-York City.<\/p><div class=\"ad-wrapper ad-wrapper_margin_bottom ad-wrapper_center\"><div class=\"ad ad_728x90 ad_sm-down_display_none\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- InPostTop -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5759967585279781\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4065062506\"\n     data-ad-format=\"horizontal\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div><div class=\"ad ad_300x250 ad_sm-up_display_none \"><!-- LatestNews-ResponsiveSquare -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5759967585279781\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1111596104\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Travis Fish paints catchy motifs, shirts, pants, luxury sweatshirts and portraits as if he had put them on his large format canvases in no time. His art seems childish, naive, without clear lines, with watercolor colors, random spots and deliberate mistakes: \u201cI paint as fast as I can, for fear of becoming too perfect. Spontaneity should be preserved at all costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Travis fits well in the current trend of naive painting with child-like motifs. Seen in this way also with artists like Robert Nava, Oli Epp or Katherine Bernhardt.<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Travis to talk about his artistic process and the influence of fashion to it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149908\" style=\"width: 1042px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-from-Travis-Fish_150420-page-3.png\" rel=\"lightbox[149829]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149908\" class=\"wp-image-149908 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-from-Travis-Fish_150420-page-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1032\" height=\"1375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-from-Travis-Fish_150420-page-3.png 1032w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-from-Travis-Fish_150420-page-3-769x1024.png 769w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-from-Travis-Fish_150420-page-3-768x1023.png 768w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Image-from-Travis-Fish_150420-page-3-600x800.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1032px) 100vw, 1032px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonas Wood and Travis Fish at Carl Kosty\u00e1l booth in Felix, Los Angeles, 2020<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romlevy.com\">Rom Levy<\/a>:<\/em>\u00a0To begin, can you tell me a little about yourself and your background ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/travis____fish\/?hl=en\">Travis Fish<\/a>:<\/em> I was born in Wisconsin 1989. Went to art school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After that I worked as a studio assistant for some painters I really respect. Following that I lived in Hong Kong and Korea for a few years, Then moved to New York in 2015.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your working process like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>My process is a bit manic. I feel manic when I paint, you can see it in my eyes. The painting is on the ground. I dance around it a bit, trying to reach the middle. I use really watered down paint so things might spill around, so gotta deal with that. Usually I\u2019m watching one layer dry so I can put the next layer down at the right time. Watching the paint dry is a part of it for me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class='content-img-wrap'><a href=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_installation-image-Malmo-copy.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[149829]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149981 full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_installation-image-Malmo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_installation-image-Malmo-copy.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_installation-image-Malmo-copy-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_installation-image-Malmo-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_installation-image-Malmo-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_installation-image-Malmo-copy-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s talk about your current subjects. What inspired them, and what are your source materials?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Currently I\u2019m painting jackets, sweaters, and T-shirt\u2019s. Mainly designer and grateful dead stuff. I started doing the clothes after a year of painting portraits of Migos. It started off where I would do a portrait of Offset, then Quavo, then Takeoff, repeat. I follow a bunch of fan pages that post daily. Then I started painting the clothes they would wear. I am a super fan. Fan art.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>How long have you been developing this visual language?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve been painting this way for about 4 years. It has been incubating over a decade and the visual language I am working within is a result of years of bad painting.<\/p>\n\n<div id=\"attachment_149980\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas-copy.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[149829]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149980\" class=\"wp-image-149980 size-full full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas-copy.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas-copy-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas-copy-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas-copy-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas-copy-800x532.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Offset at Malm\u00f6 Sessions by Travis Fish<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>How did your interest in fashion become such a prominent part of your creative process?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>My interested in fashion and adornment have not been lifelong. For most of art school I owned a single sweater. My interest in fashion was born out of my love for Offset. These are items of adornment that signify a certain level of wealth and mobility. This fashion is so fast. The speed at which new collections are released works with the speed of my painting. Fast fashion and fast painting. I find this contrasted with the permenance of painting, a very fruitful space to work in. From the technical perspective the sweater can give me so many different things to paint. It could be a sweater with text, or a nature scene, or a print, or whatever. There is always something there to push and pull.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Have you ever been intrigued to work on a mural \/ public art &amp; urban art ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I have made some big paintings(10&#215;15\u2019). So I think I would have some fun with a mural.<\/p>\n\n<p class='content-img-wrap'><a href=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas_installation-Malmo-copy.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[149829]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149979 full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas_installation-Malmo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas_installation-Malmo-copy.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas_installation-Malmo-copy-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas_installation-Malmo-copy-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas_installation-Malmo-copy-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_Offset-in-Paris-2019_Acrylic-on-canvas_installation-Malmo-copy-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>I am interested in the ephemerity of paintings, do you view your own work as precious? If you are unhappy with a work, do you tend to destroy it or would you rather put it in storage for a while and alter them at a later date?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I\u2019m usually pretty happy with how they turn out ha. But if I\u2019m not happy with it, I take it off the stretcher roll it up and put it away. Ive never destroyed a painting. I never rework paintings. I just like to start a new one. They are not precious when I am working on them, I have even been know to sleep under them, but when its finished it becomes a little more precious and the work becomes preserving it.<\/p>\n\n<p class='content-img-wrap'><a href=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We-Used-to-Gather-17.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[149829]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149834 full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We-Used-to-Gather-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We-Used-to-Gather-17.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We-Used-to-Gather-17-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We-Used-to-Gather-17-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We-Used-to-Gather-17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We-Used-to-Gather-17-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s talk about the work you are making for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kostyal.com\/\">Carl Kosty\u00e1l<\/a> in September. What type of works are you preparing? Does it connect to previous works, or did you try something new?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>I\u2019ll be working on the show with Carl right up until it\u2019s time to hang. Right now I\u2019m painting sweaters, but a lot could change in a month.<\/p>\n<p><em>In addition to that, Travis Fish will have an upcoming solo show at Carl Kosty\u00e1l, Stockholm in September and will be showing in Carl Kosty\u00e1l booth at Dallas Art Fair in April 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_-Croc-93-2020-.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[149829]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149831\" src=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_-Croc-93-2020-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_-Croc-93-2020-.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_-Croc-93-2020--938x1024.jpg 938w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_-Croc-93-2020--768x838.jpg 768w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_-Croc-93-2020--1407x1536.jpg 1407w, https:\/\/streetartnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Travis-Fish_-Croc-93-2020--733x800.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary American artist Travis Fish has been a rising name in the global art scene. Originally from Wisconsin, Travis lives and works in New-York City. Travis Fish paints catchy motifs, shirts, pants, luxury sweatshirts and portraits as if he had put them on his large format canvases in no time. 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