My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance, me and my sister, when we were little, we would compete to see who could eat… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know. — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance,… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
If dark matter and dark energy are 95 percent of everything, shouldn't we all be asking questions about that? What does that look like? — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
