“The glimpses that Seemel has illustrated of the real wildness of the natural world [in Crime Against Nature] are fascinating.”
“The issues at play [in Crime Against Nature] are hefty and potentially uncomfortable, but the book itself is light, playful, and pleasantly un-preachy.”
“My hat is off to Gwenn Seemel for embodying so well the ideals of the free culture movement!”
still from a video by Mark Martinez
In 2012, artist and curator Gabe Flores interviewed me for CubFluffer about some of the ways that I am privileged. The video of our chat is here.
“Artist Gwenn Seemel’s post ‘How I make sure my art doesn’t get ripped off on the Internet’ is a wonderfully calm, sensible, and practical approach to living as a 21st century artist in an age where reproduction is a given.”
“[While] the recession has left plenty of bruises, Seemel said it could result in more thought-provoking work.”
In 2010, my work was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Oregon Art Beat. The segment was filmed in September 2008 and it features Apple Pie as well as part of the interview behind these two portraits.
“[Bernstein and Seemel share] an ability to see their portrait models as more than just flesh and figure.”
“[The] artist is up to something unusual in her paintings.”
“No lover of art, surely, could begrudge [City Commissioner Randy] Leonard’s boost to rising star Gwenn Seemel’s career.”
photo by Stephanie Yao with the Oregonian
“Although her portraits might be of other people, stare at them long enough and you’ll find they have an interesting way of becoming as much about...her own hunger to understand the world.”
“[The subject] is eager to see how Swollen captures her interior and exterior changes. Regardless of what she thinks about the finished product, Seemel hopes for a strong reaction.”
photo by Ross William Hamilton with the Oregonian
