Q&A with Michael Byron

What is your favorite tool, material, and/or process?
Collage Wet & Dry

What is the best advice you’ve ever received about your work?
Don’t stop but take time to slow down… speed bumps make one look around

What is the best advice you’ve ever given to someone about their work?
Get comfortable with failures they tend to be the invisible path to success

Where do you make work?
In dreams & any available space borrowed or rented

What do you listen to/watch while you work?
Bad movies & silence

What’s your top studio jam?
What’s a jam??? Lately Anodyne by the Bavarian composer Angel

Best studio hack OR the skill you’d be most lost without?
What’s a Hack? The opportunity to watch, wait and wonder.

What food can be used to bribe you?
????

Do you have a studio uniform? Please describe.
Shop coat & glasses on a lead

It’s the 11th hour before your opening. What are you doing?
Waiting for midnight

Who or what has had the biggest influence on your work?
Kurt Schwitters/Ree Morton…..Francis Picabia/Rosemarie Trockel….Alice Neel/Philip Guston…..Dieter Roth/Mika Rottenberg

A book you’ve read more than twice is..
Beauty & Sadness by Kawabata.

How do you stay motivated?
Habit

How do you procrastinate?
With a calendar

Early Bird or Night Owl?
Early Bird

Biggest pet peeve about St. Louis?
It has a world-class workhorse river but no ocean

Epoxy, mineral spirits, or Command-Z?
Glue stick

Tell us something we forgot to ask:
What’s next?