![]() I would just plow through them and try not to make judgements about the work until a couple of sessions afterward. I would set up tasks that I could accomplish in a single sitting by focusing on making a specific number of images. This was really crucial and it allowed me to build a fairly consistent schedule. Practically speaking, however, we hired a nanny for two mornings a week. Every time I think I have some kind of structure nailed down something explodes in my face… whether if it’s by my own doing or life just giving me the finger. I don’t take a lot for granted and when I get the chance to be in studio I try to be as efficient as possible. I think I’ve just chosen to accept that things will always be evolving, and disorder is just the name of the game. Rusty: Well, honestly, I’m not sure that I have. I have been her primary caregiver since she was 3 months old.Ĭultural ReProducers: How have you found a workable balance between your artistic work and raising Margot? Any strategies you’d recommend to other artists in the same boat? She likes to jump off of things and dance. Rusty: Margot Rae Shackleford is a little over 2 years old. Keep an eye out for his recent projects in two upcoming exhibitions at the Ukranian Institute of Modern Art and at Glass Curtain Gallery, both in Chicago.Ĭultural ReProducers: To start, tell us a little bit about your daughter. This is not the case in Rusty's family: over the past two years his artistic practice has been shaped in part by the unpredictable time-space of intensive fatherhood, and we're very lucky to have him share his perspectives here. While men and women increasingly share the work of parenting, the assumption persists that it will be mothers - not fathers - whose careers will be reconfigured as their partners return to work. ![]() He’s also the primary caregiver for his young daughter, Margot. He has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center and Harold Arts. His work is represented by Cindy Rucker Gallery in NYC, and has been reviewed in Modern Painters, Beautiful Decay, Flavorpill, NewCity and Art F City. Born in Montgomery, AL in 1978, Rusty Shackleford creates vibrant hybrid images that merge the oozing materiality of painting with the crisp flatness of digital media. ![]()
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