Q&A with Carmon Colangelo

What is your favorite tool, material, and/or process?
Printmaking processes, watercolor and nice watercolor color brushes, drawing stuff and a large digital printer

What is the best advice you’ve ever received about your work?
Bigger, better, more…

What is the best advice you’ve ever given to someone about their work?
Make art that is joyful.

Where do you make work?
In my studio, renovated 19th century building and at various collaborative printmaking studios.

What do you listen to/watch while you work?
Rock music

What’s your top studio jam?
Neil Young, Tom Waits, Wilco… Dylan’s It’s all Over Baby Blue

Best studio hack OR the skill you’d be most lost without?
Drawing

What food can be used to bribe you?
Pizza

Do you have a studio uniform? Please describe.
Jeans and t-shirt

It’s the 11th hour before your opening. What are you doing?
Work is done, relaxing and starting new work.

Who or what has had the biggest influence on your work?
Luis Cruz Azaceta

A book you’ve read more than twice is..
Tamarind Book of Lithography

How do you stay motivated?
Need to visually emote, record small, eye-deas and make sense of the world

How do you procrastinate?
Long Walks

Early Bird or Night Owl?
Early Bird

Do you have pets? If so, what are their species and names?
Three little doggies, Skyler, Mr. Fitzgerald “Fitz” and Sgt. Pepper.

Biggest pet peeve?
Intolerance

What is your favorite thing about St. Louis?
Forest Park and art museums

Epoxy, mineral spirits, or Command-Z?
Command Z