NYLON - January 2009 - (Page 136) WHAT ELSE DO YOU DRAW INSPIRATION FROM? I’m a pretty nostalgic daydreamer. I come up with creepy characters and luxurious scenarios while walking every day. I’m inspired by words overheard, songs on the record player, colors splashed across a room. I love looking at interiors and thinking about who would live there, and what art would look good gracing the halls. I’m into mysteries and ghosts. WHO ARE THE WOMEN IN YOUR PAINTINGS? They are always changing. I like finding expressions in photos and imagining Redon flower vases at eight Kime Buzzelli’s oneiric what just happened in the years old. I was also really watercolors conjure a subject’s lives, or what may into making hanging mobiles. occur later. I tend to be rose-colored Belle Époque. It’s as if the nymphs she attracted to the vulnerable HOW DID GROWING UP IN OHIO paints in décolleté dresses side of the characters, too, INSPIRE YOU AS AN ARTIST? and feathered headpieces yet always want to find what It’s sort of a crafty state. I have loosened the laces of makes them act tough. think it’s the perfect place their corsets and let their to nest and read books sensuality spill out onto the WOULD YOU SAY YOUR WORK canvas. Their eyes are heavily and dream of going places. FLIRTS WITH FEMINISM? There’s this fighting spirit lined, and thoughts like Many of my paintings in Cleveland. Growing up, I INSIDE I’M DANCING OUTSTANDING depict women as strong, always had a desire to travel sexy, curious creatures. A hover above them. Their and try new things. I became feminist can still want love silhouettes melt into the obsessed with fashion washed-out world around and daydream about pretty magazines. I had this sense things. All I know is that I them, which is cluttered that something outside of with cartoonish critters, adore drawing women. As my Ohio was happening and wild flowers, spider webs, girlfriends the Belles of the and geometric shapes—the that someday, maybe, I Black Diamond Field [Sarah could be a part of it. aesthetic is carried through Sophie Flicker and Maximilla to Buzzelli’s Echo Park, Los WHY DOES FASHION INFLUENCE Lukacs] say in their manifesto: Angeles, vintage boutique“Soft is harder than the YOUR WORK SO MUCH? gallery, Show Pony. Between I have always thought of hardest hard. Sweetness is collaborating with fashion stronger always. These are clothing as costume—I collective Blood is the New love that it can be changed difficult realizations for any Black, art rock supergroup dramatically with the simple human being, but what it is to Broken Social Scene (on addition of some flair. I don’t be strong and female means concert T-shirts), and to be brazenly feminine, like symmetry; I like the Urban Decay (on holiday not merely to imitate or absurd. With vintage, packaging), Buzzelli will show I love finding the things that be the counterpart to the her latest work at this winter’s tell a story. Any article of masculine.” Art Basel, in Miami Beach. clothing that seems like it’s WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE been danced in, torn in NYLON: WHAT WAS THE FIRST FROM YOU AT ART BASEL? a passionate kiss, and then THING YOU EVER PAINTED? I am creating a lot of larger resurrected with mismatched scale paintings that are darker Kime Buzzelli: I remember stitches is divine. painting lots of paperdolls. and moodier than some of my As far as a real painting, other work. I’ve been heading I used to try to duplicate into some heavy darkness; I Picasso women and Odilon can’t help it. the feminine mystique KIME BUZZELLI PAINTS THE GIRLS OF HER DREAMS, AND LIKELY, YOURS TOO. BY SAMANTHA GILEWICZ. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ORLY OLIVIER buzzelli lives atop her boutique, show pony, in echo park, l.a.
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