For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share
I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum.… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share
Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands. — Shea Hembrey Copy Share
