All About You...Sarah Nakano answers our questions!

1. What is your first art related childhood memory?

i remember drawing on the bottom of my lisa frank shoes when I was around four. me and a couple kids would sit around in this gym drawing on our shoes listening to smash mouth's 'all star' waiting for our moms to finish their aerobics class upstairs. good times, man. (i still draw on my shoes too...)

2. As an artist, who is your biggest influence?

people like lewis chaplin, sandy kim, olivia bolles, and juergen teller are some of my favorite photographers. but hmm overall i think my biggest influences over the past year have been ryan mcginley's moonmilk series and basquiats paintings.

3. What did you listen to in the studio while creating this show?

the black keys, sonic youth, snoop dogg, and loads of tv shows.

4. Name three unexpected items one would find in your studio.

lasers, a stone cauldron i bought for a dollar, 30+ types of tea

5. What is your least favorite famous work of art?

i wouldn't say its my least favorite but i have a hard time understanding how the mona lisa is worth over $700000000. (but then again i have a hard time understanding how ANYTHING is worth over $700000000.)

6. What art do you have hanging on your walls?

pictures of california, album covers, music posters, to-do lists, etc etc

7. What are you working on now?

surviving high school

8. What will the title of your retrospective at MOMA be?

i'm not sure but it would involve colored smoke machines, huge hollow glass sculptures, mini trampolines, lots of photos, and some type of collaboration piece with snoop dogg and/or oprah. also it would be in a zero-gravity room. i hope it happens someday.

THANKS SARAH!!!

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