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INTERVIEW WITH
JEREMY KORTLEVER, CORVALLIS, OREGON ARTIST |
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THIS MONTH'S FEATURED ARTIST IS JEREMY KORTLEVER. AN ACCOMPLISHED ARTIST RELYING HEAVILY ON LINE, JEREMY IS ALSO AN OSU STUDENT AND VOLUNTEERS AS A BARISTA AT A LOCAL COFFEE HOUSE WHERE HE SERVES COMPASSIONATELY THOSE WHO HAVE DIFFICULTIES STARTING THE DAY WITHOUT THE 'FIX'. |
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entire page Started? I started drawing while sitting in those uncomfortable church pews. We went to church every Sunday. Luckily the church seemed to provide a blank peice of paper within the weekly bulliton, me and a late friend would draw funny pictures on them in attempt to crack each other up during the sermon. Sometimes it worked to well. I guess I was in grade school then. |
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Where?
I lived in Siletz from the 8th grade
until I graduated high school. Before that I lived all over the northwest. Siletz was really fun. Lots of swimming, I still dream of the rope swing. It got torn down by people who bought the property. My father was a BIA agent but there was no tension at all with the native Americans that I can recall. |
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| Above:
Jeremy's first cartoon, character, created by his friend Ryan and
developed by both. -------------- |
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Siletz?
In Siletz we went swimming or played sports with
friends. I remember a lot of mud football and basketball. We played pool at the pizza pub sometimes
too. When I got older we usually drove to newport to skateboard at the "PAC"
and harrass tourists on the bayfront. That was the time of my life. we did drive-bys
photographing tourists taking pictures of the ocean. I would stop my 74 nova in the street, stare at the tourist untill
they looked at us, then my friend would snap a photograph and we would peel out to make our quick getaway. That got us a lot of scowls. It was
hillarioius. |
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| Jeremy's second cartoon character, a little better known, created by his friend Lenny and developed by both. . The resemblance to, and legacy from the earlier character is evident. |
| Toledo? During the freshmen year it was pretty segregated between Toledo kids and siletz kids. There was some sort of fued between the two towns that I did not understand having only lived there for a year. All of my close freinds from siletz went to highschool in toledo, some went to newport high and some just seemed to dissapear. |
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Line
Drawing? I still have't
gotten away from line drawing, I don't think. I try to shade and stuff but it just seems redundant to me.
Lines have this energy that I am unable to get with shading. I began to paint in my freshman years of
college i guess that is when I found out that paint was easier to shade with. Shading takes to long to
keep my interest, however, with paint it is really fast. I like to use big blocks of color in prints
tough. Probably just to take up space. |
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The place of
art? There will always be religious art. I don't really know the status of "Fine Art" in the world right now. I have never been to new york. I think that art serves its purpose to those who will let it. |
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grafitti on the wall at the river?
I like looking at the wall. Sometimes it is kind
of redundent though. Once and a while you see something new looking. I like the stencil ones around town a lot. I hear that they caused some rucus but I
cannot tell you for sure. |
| The war? I think it saddens me. It makes me suspicious. |
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| Conscription? Oh dear. . . I hope they don't try to draft us. I am not willing to go, so please don't try to make me. |
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