Escape Into Life

Anthony Cudahy

Untitled, normal series, 2010,  33 x 44 inches

Untitled, normal series, 2010,  33 x 44 inches

Untitled, there will be another series, 2010

TERROR, 2008

Tame, 2008

Untitled, normal series,  33 x 44 inches

you don’t know, 2008

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Interview with Anthony Cudahy

At which age did you start creating art? And why do you feel compelled to create?

When I was very young I remember drawing imaginary houses I wanted to live in, consisting of too many rooms piled on top of each other, using page after overlapping page. From then on I was always drawing in sketchbooks or making comics.

It wasn’t until sometime in my junior year of high school that I really began to take art seriously. It became more personal then, with me expressing my own personal mythology in my pieces. I used a lot of symbols like birds and oceans, never venturing out from the extremely esoteric. It became a continuous part of my life, developing and growing as an artist.

I’ve thought a lot about why I feel compelled to create. I’m not sure exactly when it began, but now if I am not working on something, I can’t function. I’m always thinking about what I should be doing, how I should be working.

When I first started painting, it was the challenge of it that made me continue. It’s not something I’m naturally good at in the least. I wanted to be a painter so I worked and worked. Once I began to get more satisfied with my skills, it became the excitement of certain color combinations and how they felt to me. I’ve sort of moved away from painting somewhat now, focusing more on line and drawing. I think it’ll always be moving back and forth between the two, but I’ll always be creating.

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