As The Spectacle of Excess revives from its slumber (it’s been a year, hasn’t it??) we are thrilled to present a new interview in our Art of Wrestling series. Lindsay’s wrestling art caught my attention because she captures so much magic with such a challenging mix of media. Spray paint, ballpoint pen, acrylic, colored pencil–it takes all this to get these paintings just so in a very nuanced and subtle way, and that’s what’s so…
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I’m pleased to present a great new find for our wrestling artist interview series! Steven Fain creates remarkable portraits of remarkable wrestlers—often in the bold medium of Sharpie on paper! Fain makes sure we know he’s an untrained (though I prefer “self-taught”) artist, but I say it takes great talent to capture such precise lights and shadows with one of these iconic but blunt, indelible markers with which I for one have messed up more…
I’m excited for this new addition to our artist interview series! Darius Chanthavong creates compelling portraits in multiple medias that have been catching my eye all year, most notably this bloody yet determined Roman Reigns piece called Fortitude. Darius answered our questions just a few days before Roman Reigns’ heartbreaking leukemia announcement, but instead of asking for an update, I thought it poignant to read the thoughts of an authentic fan and talented artist written…
The next artist in our interview series creates beautiful, mesmerizing wrestling portraits and T-shirt designs. After you read insight from Alex Mahoney, please take a look at the first wrestling artist two interviews (here & here) as well, as now that we are on number three, we are really start to see the range of aesthetic and purpose in wrestling fan art . . . Spectacle of Excess: Why is wrestling art? And why does…
For the second interview in our fan artist series, cruiserweight aficionado and all around awesome gal Justine Colla (who you may perhaps know on Twitter as @pastasauca) answers our questions about art and wrestling, and talks about some of her favorite pieces. This series will read best, I think, if you’re admiring the dramatic contrast of aesthetics and approaches from one artist to the next, so be sure, also, to check out our first interview with Punkrockbigmouth and…
I’m excited to be launching an ongoing series of interviews with wrestling fan artists on The Spectacle of Excess. To kick off the series, the fabulous Punkrockbigmouth has given us her wise insight about wrestling as art and art about wrestling. In that wrestling fandom is a microcosm of the bigger picture, PRBM is our great political cartoonist. I asked her five questions and to show and tell about her three favorite wrestlers to draw…
@HerzogBooks is a reclusive member of the IWC who emerges occasionally to tweet as though notorious brooding German filmmaker Werner Herzog himself is commenting on WWE. He has his own fictitious Herzog-themed wrestling promotion, and does Herzog/wrestling mashups on YouTube that explore the more cinematic gestures of wrestling. I invited this curious character to The Spectacle of Excess for an interview to see if I could make sense of the whole cool thing. Andrea G: Your…