John Newman and Adrianna Campbell artist talk response and reflection

This artist talk had a little bit of a different format than the others before, John Newman was interviewed in a way by Adrianna Campbell, an expert in American art. John Newman described his training as unconventional, he started out wanting to be a poet. Something that he said about his work that really spoke to me is that "binary relationships aren't working anymore... everything is multiplicity" and that he was making art in that multiplicity. That there was not simply male or female, painting or sculpture, that there were in betweens. He said that he is "trying to make something I've never seen before" and that is what drives his current work.