Featured Artist: Boz Schurr

Name and/or alias(es):

Boz Schurr

Hometown:

Portland, Oregon (pronounced OR-ih-guhn)

“Day job”:

Hale Wainani Hall Director, Honolulu Academy Art Center Screen-Printing Instructor and ART113 Graduate Assistant

Latest book/movie/music you’ve consumed:

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan and Video Art by Michael Rush

Website or artist you think is worth checking out:

www.Danielpapke.com, anything by Chuck Close, Bill Viola, Kihende Wiley or Fay Ku

Greatest accomplishment yet:

Supporting myself through graduate school and living my dreams after a lot of hard work!

Inspirations:

Personally: My fellow M.F.A. students, my film group Complementary Colors Cinema and my family. Artistically: the same, plus abnormal psychology, astronomy and art history.

Details or notes regarding any of your featured works:

Humans can experience inner multiples: personality, emotions and states of mind, in relation to who we are; who we think we are and why we do the things we do. These different realities or states of being do not always display themselves externally but can present internally in the form of our subconscious, daydreams, or inner self-communication. One inner communication will be different from another, but hopefully through the general symbols we share there can be the start of a relationship and an exchange of ideas between your multiples and mine.

Suggestions for fellow artists:

Realize that you will never stop learning and embrace all the knowledge that’s out there. Then share it with someone new.

Artistic weapon(s) of choice:

Acrylic and oil paint, digital video, collage, pencil, pen, paper, Xerox transfers screen printing, honesty and twenty-five straight days of music on my computer.

People can see more of what you do:

Please e-mail me at www.Bozschurr.com. If you are interested in the arts or the M.F.A. program, I would love to meet you! If I am in, my studio door is always open, feel free to stop by!