Q&A with Cheryl Wassenaar
2020-11-13 •
The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs, installation view of a multi-media collaborative exhibition with Stephanie Schlaifer, 2018
What is your favorite tool, material, and/or process?
A drill, fully charged.
What is the best advice you’ve ever received about your work?
Go take a walk and then see what you think.
What is the best advice you’ve ever given to someone about their work?
Try it, then decide.
Where do you make work?
My garage turned studio.
What do you listen to/watch while you work?
My old mixed-tape cassettes.
What’s your top studio jam?
Silence, when I don’t notice the music stopped playing an hour ago.
Best studio hack OR the skill you’d be most lost without?
Ability to weed vinyl with a mini-tweezers.
What food can be used to bribe you?
Brownies.
Do you have a studio uniform? Please describe.
T-shirt with about a gallon of dried glue on the front.
It’s the 11th hour before your opening. What are you doing?
Warning the babysitter.
Who or what has had the biggest influence on your work?
My dad.
A book you’ve read more than twice is..
Goodnight, Moon. (2 kids).
How do you stay motivated?
Deadlines.
How do you procrastinate?
Organize my tools.
Early Bird or Night Owl?
Somewhere in between.
Do you have pets? If so, what are their species and names?
Leo the cat.
Biggest pet peeve?
When something with a screen doesn’t work.
What is your favorite thing about St. Louis?
Walking around Soulard.
Epoxy, mineral spirits, or Command-Z?
I like them all.