Cy Gavin
4/20/202649 min
Cy Gavin is a painter whose work resists easy categorization, moving between figuration and abstraction, landscape and memory, and exploring perception through material, atmosphere, and inquiry. In this live conversation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he joins to discuss his unconventional upbringing, his shift away from drawing, and what it means to embrace uncertainty in the creative process.
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First 90 secondsCy Gavin· Guest0:01
There's what you're trying to do and then what you actually did do, and if you're even fussily trying to put paint down in an exact way, it's still communicating that you're a person who's probably out of control.
Debbie Millman0:10
[on-hold music] From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, a conversation with artist Cy Gavin about his career and about why he stopped drawing when he makes his paintings.
Cy Gavin· Guest0:37
Why not just eliminate that step entirely and just be yourself?
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