Gayle Kabaker (GK): Thank you! Not really; but I used to do the Women’s Times covers for two years. Once, I did a February cover image of a bunch of women holding hearts. It could have been taken either way. I do a lot of women’s health and fashion.
JH: I believe that the arts, media, and the entertainment industry has a strong role in shaping the public opinion on a variety of social movements. What do you think people will take from your creation?
GK: Well, the reason I named it “June Brides” was so it would be open to interpretation. Maybe it's two gay women or maybe it's just two brides about to be married. Maybe it's two sisters having a double wedding, but the single bouquet kind of defines it more as a gay couple. I really was just trying to make a beautiful painting of two brides.
JH: Is there one artist or other individual that primarily influenced you when you were in your twenties?
GK: The fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was my hero when I was in art school, in addition to Mats Gustavson. Gladys Perint Palmer was my teacher at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She came to teach towards the end of my four years there, so I would have been around 21 or 22, and her crazy, wonderful, and loose style totally inspired a small group of us students; she was a huge influence on me. I teach fashion drawing now for the online degree program at the school and she developed the class. It’s been wonderfully inspiring to me this past year.
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Make sure to check out Gayle Kabaker on her website and become a fan of her work on Facebook. To see what a terrible artist I am, check out my painting of Kurt Cobain that I did after a few glasses of wine.
JH: Is there one artist or other individual that primarily influenced you when you were in your twenties?
GK: The fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was my hero when I was in art school, in addition to Mats Gustavson. Gladys Perint Palmer was my teacher at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She came to teach towards the end of my four years there, so I would have been around 21 or 22, and her crazy, wonderful, and loose style totally inspired a small group of us students; she was a huge influence on me. I teach fashion drawing now for the online degree program at the school and she developed the class. It’s been wonderfully inspiring to me this past year.
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Make sure to check out Gayle Kabaker on her website and become a fan of her work on Facebook. To see what a terrible artist I am, check out my painting of Kurt Cobain that I did after a few glasses of wine.
This article originally appeared on Generation: (WH)Y?
