Gus Van Sant
Season 18 begins!!! We meet GUS VAN SANT, iconic American film director, producer, painter, photographer and musician. We discuss his deconstructed Mona Lisa series, his friendship with Derek Jarman and how he became a painter in his teens, the lasting influence of his art teacher, and how painting informed his filmmaking!!!
Gus Van Sant (b. 1952, Louisville, Kentucky), admired internationally as a filmmaker, painter, photographer, and musician, received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1975. Since that time his studio painting practice has moved in and out of the foreground of a multi-disciplinary career, becoming a priority again over recent years. Van Sant\u2019s work in different mediums is united by a single overarching interest in portraying people on the fringes of society.
Van Sant\u2019s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Mus\xe9e de l\u2019Elys\xe9e in Lausanne, Switzerland, Le Case d\u2019Arte in Milan, Italy, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, among others. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions since the 1980s, presenting drawings, paintings, photographs, video works, and writing. Among Van Sant\u2019s many internationally acclaimed feature films are Milk (2008); Elephant (2003); Good Will Hunting (1997); My Own Private Idaho (1991); and Drugstore Cowboy (1989).
Van Sant lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Visit Gus' gallery @VitoSchnabelGallery: https://www.vitoschnabel.com/projects/gus-van-sant
Feud: Capote's Women forthcoming TV series will air later this year (starring Talk Art\u2019s very own Russell Tovey as John O'Shea, longtime boyfriend of Truman Capote). @RyanMurphyProductions
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