Stephen Shadley
“Now we're getting into the muddy waters”
"I respond to Glankoff's color, so much. And I love intense dark brooding kinds of color. And even though he uses pink, I just feel like it's a brooding pink.
I really am drawn to the abstraction, more than the figurative. But I love the sort of kinetic feeling that you get from some of these images…they just “suggest” without ever going there.
I think what really inspires me about his work is that...he just did the work, he didn't seek fame. He didn't care about anything, but doing his work. Maybe he didn't even have a level of understanding of how great his work is...at the time. For him it was just, "this is what I do."
There's such a consistent point of view in terms of what he does. It seems playful. I love the idea that the big works really are mosaics of smaller pieces of paper. And that that's the way he worked because he had a small studio. You realize there are no limitations to being creative. There are people who just do it because they are driven to do it, and that's all they can do.
To me, Glankoff is the definition of the really gifted artist. Somebody who just does it, because they just have to do it. It's important that they make the work. Not that he even wanted to sell it. Or show it! That was the weirdness of it all. For him, he just had to do the work. And that's the beauty that comes through in this work."
Architectural Digest and Stephen Shadley
