Art permeates every aspect of my life. I have been a professional fine artist for ten years, a tattoo artist for one year and am now specializing in henna art as well. It is my desire to succeed at whatever medium calls to me. I am skilled with oils, acrylics, watercolor, graphite, and my latest love, markers. Every medium creates a different style within me and broadens my artistic abilities.In 1996 I was awarded a scholarship to Belmont University. I studied there for a year and then moved on to hone my skills at Watkins College of Art and Design for two years. Finding it irreverent to have a degree in fine art, I took every art and studio class available, won two awards for sculpture and left school behind.
My career accelerates with persistence. Since the beginning of 2008 I have twice been featured on Juxtapoz.com, a very well known art website for pop culture, for my marker drawings and to showcase my portrait of "Barack Obama" titled "Metamorphosis." I've also been featured on Redbubble.com twice and deviantart.com once. My work has been shown throughout the hemisphere, from my home state of Tennessee to the Northeast, California, and the Caribbean. I have participated in shows at venues such as The Belcourt Theatre Gallery, Muse Haven, The Art and Invention Gallery, The Ninth Life Gallery, and MuseX Bazaar where I was the resident artist. I have filled two model homes with commission work for Haury and Smith Contractors as well as the hotel, Steeple Chase Inn and have been active in donating art to the AIDS foundation "Artrageous." I was also the featured artist at Edgehill Studios, a cyber cafe that opened its first location in Nashville and I am a core member of the "Nashville Craft Apocalypse" a large group of artists who show and sell our work around Nashville.
For the past three years I have been working on a series of work done entirely in sharpie, prismacolor, and bic permanent markers. I have over 70 pieces completed now. My pieces are available for limited edition prints and standard prints. I have two websites where I sell reproductions of my work as prints, t-shirts, mugs, magnets, puzzles, greeting cards etc. It is my wish for everyone who would like to have my art hanging in their house to have access to it in some way. Not everyone can afford the originals. I love the digital world because of this.
I am continuously commissioned to paint and draw portraits. These have an essential impact on each individual's self-objectivity and self-acceptance. I am expanding this awareness with my series "Real Beauty", depicting the natural beauty of the female body. So far, every woman I have painted or drawn has cried when she has seen my interpretation of her. It is very rewarding. I'm also working with my seven year old son, Josiathe, on a series called "The Child Within", a spectacular body of work showcasing the talent and freedom of the art of a child. He and I draw the pieces together and I complete them. These are beautiful and whimsical. He is my greatest inspiration.
Art is my passion. It is the way in which I understand myself, others and our world. Through my creations, I find answers and revelations. I am able to see the world in its inspirational truth. Every person's eyes have a story, every tree and flower is a mystery. The world around me is a perfect intricacy. I am in constant awe and appreciation. I feel honored to be a channel of such a vast loving perfection.
Interview
What drew you to become an artist?
I've always drawn but never actually thought of myself as an artist. I received a scholarship to Belmont University for pre-med. I had always planned on becoming a doctor. Growing up I watched my father have epileptic seizures. I took care of him a lot when he was recovering from car crashes, split open heads, chewed up tongues etc... This is what first inspired me to become a doctor. Later in life, I had severe mental problems and attempted suicide. I was then put into a psychiatric hospital where I was treated like a number instead of a person. This experience led me to decide on psychiatry. I planned on changing the way psychiatrists interacted with their patients. But on my first day of college I heard my inner voice tell me to turn around and change my major to fine art. So, I studied fine art instead of medicine. I have been an artist ever since.
Though I didn't become a medical doctor, I have been studying a new form of therapy called Chord Therapy. It is cellular reprogramming. It deals with the entire being on a cellular level rather than just symptoms. It heals on many levels and restructures DNA. I firmly believe that this form of therapy will completely wipe out psychiatry eventually.
What is your inspiration?
Everything. People and life. Artists, musicians, movies, my son, my husband, my emotions, my thoughts, my own healing. I really cannot think of anything that isn't inspiration actually.
Is there one recurring theme in your work?
The reoccurring theme happens in my titles. They are always about healing and love. My subject matter varies, but the purpose behind the art is always in the title. And if the title is a person's name it just means that the person is the inspiration and love I am projecting.
Also, I draw myself constantly. A large portion of my work is self portraits. And most of the time I'm naked in them.
What is your preferred medium?
Right now its markers. I've spent the past three years creating a large body of work done in markers. I have over 70 pieces completed now.
Do you have any art available in shows/galleries at this time?
No, I do not. I sell prints, t-shirts etc. over the internet and I do a lot of commission work. I'm also a tattoo artist so I make steady money with that. Concerning my originals though, I have most of them. And the ones I sell are usually commission work. I paint and draw nude women extremely well and am hired to do these often. As far as having my work in galleries I am constantly turned down for some reason. Perhaps its because I'm in the bible belt and that is where I've been submitting my work. Its time to submit to Los Angeles, San Fransisco and New York. Nashville just isn't ready. When a gallery finally does pick me up they will be in for a treat because I've got a huge, awesome body of work ready to show.
Who was the first artist that made an impact on you?
Salvador Dali and I draw him often.
Is there a contemporary artist that knocks your socks off?
There are so many that knock my socks off. And most of them are not famous. But they will be.
If you could have any artist paint your portrait whom would it be?
I would have loved for Frida Kahlo to paint me but she is dead so... no luck there.
What is your next painting going to be?
I'm working on two. One of Abraham Lincoln and one of Pablo Picasso.
Do you think formal training or not having formal training helped your art?
Formal training absolutely helped my art. I was a rebel though. I didn't follow directions. And I think thats apparent in my work. But as an artist, you have to apply the rules to your own style. You have to break them or your work will always be generic.
What is the one thing they can't take away from you?
My integrity.
-Angelique Moselle Price
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Gandhi
