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“THAT’S NOT ART. EVEN I CAN DO THAT!” ANA AND MIA: CAITLIN CARTER PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON BEAUTY STANDARDS IN HER SENIOR SHOW.

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INSIDE A SKETCHBOOK: SEE THE PROCESS OF IRVING JUAREZ

NOT “ART POP”: Q&A WITH GARET BULLARD OF DISPOSABLE DREAMZ

FILM IS NOT DEAD: HOW ANALOG IS MAKING A COMEBACK & WHY

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of CONTENTS 03 NOT A POP ARTIST Garet Bullard’s Drawings & Dreamz

08 IRVING JUAREZ Inside His Sketchbook

16 ART FROM CANADA Dany Reede’s Surreal Reality

20 FILM IS NOT DEAD The Revival of Film in the Digital Age

25 THE WOMEN OF ART ROCK Breaking the Barriers of Sound

SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE: Caitlin Carter’s Art on Beauty and Mental Health

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HELLO: Thank you for picking up the very first issue of Eraser. This issue’s theme is: That’s Not Art: “Even I Can Do That!” Have you ever heard someone say this in response to someone’s drawing in a gallery?

Who get’s to say what “art” is? This issue brings together many artists of different mediums and styles, hopefully showing how art is what you make it, not what someone else says. As long as you are creating and having fun, then don’t stop because someone thinks it’s less superior than a Renoir. Enjoy this issue, and hopefully you will look forward to the next one.

CREDITS: Eraser Magazine

I do not own the rites to “Artists Away” Series photography or content, or the “Art Rock” copy. All other material is mine or used with permission from the artist.

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ARTISTS HERE GARET BULLARD, Myrtle Beach, SC ANDREA ST. AUBIN, Rock Hill, SC IRVING JUAREZ, Myrtle Beach, SC

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WHEN DID YOU FIRST BECOME INTERESTED IN ART?

I’m not sure of a specific age but I know it was very early on. I remember my first drawing (Or at least what I can recall as my first drawing) of a T-Rex puppet I had. I was probably... 5 or 6?

Sometime when The Lost World first came out. As I got older, art just became more and more of an escape for me.

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WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECTS TO DRAW? I LOOKED THROUGH YOUR WORK AND SAW MANY PIECES INFLUENCED BY WES ANDERSON FILMS AND OTHER MOVIES/TV SHOWS. WOULD YOU SAY HE, AND OTHER FILMMAKERS ARE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR YOU?

Right now I’m really trying to get better at portraits and making people look how they look. It’s really hard. I go through phases though so who knows how long I’ll be on this one. There is a common theme of movies and tv shows though! I love movies.

And characters. Anderson’s movies are beautiful to me visually (mainly the color schemes and attention to details) and he is definitely one of my favorites. I’m working on a series right now that’s going to be 11x17 pictures of my favorite childhood movies.

I’m trying to play around with different styles on each as well.

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HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE?

I don’t really know? I’ve been called “Pop Art”, which kind of bummed me out, but I guess it is true. Hopefully someone will speak up and give it a better title after seeing this. Please do.

WHAT ARTISTS COULD YOU SAY YOU RESEARCH OR TAKE INSPIRATION FROM?

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Honestly on this I would say people I grew up with doing art together. Those are my favorites and I have a pretty large collection of art from friends and people who aren’t really known as artists or have much attention on them. Max Glazier, Oliver Watters, Derrick Rosado, Irving Juarez, Alex Benjamin, Aaron Frobase, Zach Westcott, Robert Caruso, Alexis Jackson, Jessi Smith, Brenden Goodcuff, and you as well! I could go on and on telling you people I know that deserve way more recognition.

that hopefully we can do something more with.

Maybe a little 6 minute or so video? Just keep up with it because it’ll be something better one day.

Also thanks to anyone who has bought a shirt so far! Brendan would kill me if I didn’t drop the site link and the Instagram account as well so here it is: disposabledreamz.bigcartel.com and @disposabledreamz on Instagram.

TELL ME ABOUT DISPOSABLE DREAMZ??

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE AS OF LATE?

Disposable Dreamz is me and Brenden Goodcuff’s idea of a small clothing company. As of now we’ve only done t-shirts but hopefully once I get a little more stable we can branch out into other things.

We put out a new shirt every other month or so. To be honest, it isn’t my focus right now but hopefully soon I can give it a lot more attention.

We have a few friends on our “skate team” as well

I’m not sure what you mean by this, like favorite things? Places, Movies? Um, Dellz Deli, Foxcatcher, Dave Eggers, HUF shoes, traveling when I can, Mr. K’s Used Books, Whole Foods cookies, Why?, Sk843 video, Jurassic World has me really excited, Aaron Goure video parts, Dr. Dog, and Rooney Mara. I’m starting to think this is not what you mean. But I like all of those things right now.

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Andrea ST. AUBIN WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU DO?

My name is Andrea St. Aubin, and I am currently an editorial assistant at MTM Publishing, a book packager, in New York City. I graduated in December with a master's degree in book publishing, and it is a dream of mine to work with children's picture books. Doing arts and crafts are two of my most favorite things in the world along with books.

WHEN DID YOU FIRST GET INTO MAKING CHARMS/DECODEN?

I first started making charms and doing decoden in 2011. That's when I really got into YouTube and started seeing all these other crafters posting videos about their charms. I had always loved the kawaii, or cute, Japanese culture, so these crafts just spoke to me.

HOW BIG OF AN INFLUENCE IS JAPANESE CULTURE IN YOUR ARTWORK?

It is so hard to choose just one! I think out of my epoxy resin charms, I love the one I made for my dearest friend of her cat on a galaxy type background.

For decoden, I most love my Adventure Time style box adorned with the characters made out of polymer clay.

WHAT OTHER ARTS AND CRAFTS PROJECTS DO YOU DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT MAKING CHARMS/DECODEN?

I love to sew quite a bit; everything from hair bows to skirts to pillows. I also love making flower crowns. I made one recently to wear to the Sakura Matsuri festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. I used cherry blossom flowers and pink roses to adorn the crown. With a hot glue and a little magic, the crown came to life.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

My YouTube channel began as a way for me to show off some of my own crafts and make tutorials of them. I definitely wanted to emulate the crafters I loved to watch on YouTube. My most popular video is actually of a DIY fairy house!

It was a spur of the moment video.

I’m surprised it has as many views as it does. In the end, I just try to make my channel an extension of myself rather than trying to get tons of views.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO STAY ARTSY/ CRAFTY/CREATIVE?

Doing crafts and being creative is an incredibly important aspect to life and staying balanced. It is the best way to escape the repetitiveness of everyday tasks. When you create a piece that means something to you and to those you love, it is truly a wonderful feeling unlike any other. It is both calming and and fun while being both frustrating and exciting. You never know if what you're making will turn out exactly how you envision. Though when it does, you feel like everything has fallen into place. When it doesn't, you know that the next time you try, it will be even better. It teaches you to never give up.

But even if you do, there will always be something more to create. The infinite possibilities are what make crafting even more amazing.

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It is a huge influence! Everything from creating kawaii faces on my polymer clay charms to using Japanese character stickers in my epoxy resin charms.

The mori kei fashion subculture has been a big influence on my ideas as of late. It focuses more on nature and is quite refreshing after living in the city.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIECE YOU HAVE MADE SO FAR?

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A mixture. a mixed media thing where a sketch quickly becomes a graphite piece, or playing around with a color quickly turns the drawing into a marker piece. But naturally I’m drawn to watercolor and try to incorporate that into my art as much as I can, even If It’s on crappy sketchbook paper. The bleeding of the marker on the next page, or the run of watercolor can create something cool within itself: Almost as art itself.

I feel like a lot of people are afraid to draw because they think they are not good at drawing. and I think that’s crap because technically I am not good at drawing. The point is about putting your creativity on paper. It’s not some talent show. Every person has their own thought and concept, and all they have to do is put it down on paper. it just has to be executed and

YOUR ADVICE TO YOUNG ARTISTS:

I draw based on the mood I’m in, and most of the time it may be a restless mood. certain body parts (ike hands or eyes) can portray that mood better than other things. I like drawing (since it’s my sketchbook and not graded artwork) things I’m into, like pastries, animals, cookies, ribbons Because it doesn’t have to have any definitive purpose other than putting my thoughts down on paper.

The sort of mood I’m in, typically if I’m stuck at home, or if i should be doing something else, I feel inspired to work in my sketchbook, because it’s carefree. I view it as a productive way to procrastinate.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE TYPE OF MEDIA TO WORK IN?

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING TO DRAW?

WHAT INFLUENCES YOUR ART?

Irving JUAREZ I’m going to school for graphic design (computer arts). Hopefully I will end up somewhere there. I’m probably not going to be successful because I find that my best work is something I can physically hold and screw up permanently instead of on a screen where I can click “undo”. I feel more in touch with my physical art work.

Hopefully they can teach me how to link the two so that I’m not doomed forever.

Career wise: No matter where I end up, I always want to have a studio or some sort of art desk where I can always revert back to painting and physically creating my art.

WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE PLANS:

the more you do it, the better you get, and then slowly you will realize that you really are an artist.

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ARTISTS AWAY TAUBA AUEBRACH, New York, NY ELLEN VAN DUSEN, New York, NY DANY REEDE, Manitoba, Canada ANA KRAS, New York, NY

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Tauba Auerbach’s elegant, methodical compositions deconstruct the conventional ways visual and perceptual information is conveyed. Auerbach is best known for her Op art-inflected paintings that play with perceptions of space. In her early career she created graphic sign paintings, producing abstract renderings of typography and calligraphy, but in recent work she has developed a signature practice of ironing creases into her canvases and using industrial paint guns or hand-painted Ben Day dots to create the illusion of three-dimensional folded fabric, in images that appear almost digitally rendered. She describes these “Fold” paintings as occupying “a liminal state between two and three dimensions.”

Auerbach has also worked in other mediums such as photography, sculpture, artist’s books, and performance. One of her book pieces, the RGB Colorspace Atlas, presents the colored world in an 8 x 8 x 8-inch hard-back page-by-page medium. A digital offset print on paper with airbrushed cloth cover and book edges create a colorful reference volume of all the colors in existence. The special binding was co-designed by the artist herself in collaboration with Daniel E. Kelm, and were printed at Wide Awake Garage, an independent bookbinder, with help from Leah Hughes.

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VAN DUSEN Ellen Van Dusen was born in Washington, DC and raised by architect parents in a vibrant, creative home. As a child, she sponge-painted her own clothes with her mom; as a teenager, she altered and re-dyed thrift store discoveries.

After graduating, she founded Dusen Dusen, a line of universally flattering basics driven by the prints she creates from scratch each season. Her inspiration is drawn from far-flung and unexpected places, like mid-century resort architecture, Italian industrial design, Scandinavian textiles, Google maps and handwriting.

After interning for Norma Kamali and working for Mary Meyer (another textile genius), Ellen decided it was time to start crafting her own collection and trying to get it into stores. Within no time, she was picked up by the New York boutique Duo and was knee-deep in orders. “I was constantly sewing— back then I was doing all the sewing myself,” she recalls. “That went on for like four months, until I decided that I had to do it full-time.” No big surprise here: The pace hasn’t slowed since.

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For Dusen, the Brooklyn-based designer behind Dusen Dusen, it’s always been about the textiles. “I loved to search for them. I could never make them small-scale because it’s just way too expensive,” she explains, “but it was always something I wanted to do.”

It took Ellen a while to wrap her head around the idea of going into fashion, though. Unsure that she could actually survive making clothes, she took a more intellectual road into the design world, creating her own major at Tufts University that allowed her to learn about how we experience aesthetics.

“I basically studied the visual system from as many different perspectives as I could,” she says.

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Dany REEDE Dany Reede is a visual artist living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He currently facilitates workshops instructing children different mediums of art.

He is mostly self taught, with the exception of two years that he spent attending fine arts classes at University of Manitoba. “The process of creating art is mostly for myself, but it is also important to me that people can take away what they want from the work I am releasing.

While my work is autobiographical in my own weird way, people can identify with it. I like getting messages from people that are inspired by my art because maybe I am helping them feel empowered to make their own paintings, or zines or anything really” Reede says. Making art is also a habit for Reede, a constant, and, “something that makes sense to me as much as drinking water when you are thirsty”. Creating work is a way for him to stay productive and cope with social anxiety, depression, and addiction. “I think the art I make is simple, or naive. I am not an intellect, and rarely conceptual and I believe that it connects with Untitled. Mixed Media. 2013.

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are getting ideas from something I put out there.

It means that people are having that same spark I had as a young person getting motivation from my favorite artists”. Reed states that his art inspirations are vast, and there are way too many to rattle off in this interview. “There was an old graffiti crew in Winnipeg called 26. They

used to do these prefab paintings on little pieces of wood, and then use staple guns and nails to apply them to any surface they could. It was super interesting to see when I was a kid. I didn’t really understand it and I think that is why I was so attracted to it. One of the artists was Shaun Morin, who’s characters stood out to me and

irreversibly impacted me”.

Also, his work might not reflect it, Reede likes to go on walks or hikes, and finds them to be super stimulating as far as creativity goes. “I like to collect little things like beach glass, bones and fossils. I feel like my collection rituals are reflected in my artwork with my characters and weird settings.

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people on a basic human level. It isn’t really special and often a bit repetitive, but it is honest”. Reede explains how he gets a lot of messages from younger people trying to navigate their own lives, telling him that his art is influential to them. “This is important to me because as much as I wallow in self-deprecation, it means that people

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"I’m from Serbia, but I was always really attracted to Japan as a child.

When I was 15, a modeling agency offered to send me to New York and Paris, but I didn’t want to go because I wasn’t really that interested in modeling. Then I got the offer to go to Tokyo. I felt it was the only chance I had to see Japan, so I did. I loved it. I felt grown up for the first time; I would work and do shoots every day. The second time I went, though, I was just like ‘OK, this has been enough.'

Modeling is just constant waiting—it can be really boring as a job.

Imagine just always waiting in line on a casting, for the shoot to start, for makeup… I mean, of course sometimes you get to work with someone interesting, or end up in a beautiful location. But otherwise, you go crazy.

I’m 29 now, so that feels like almost a lifetime ago. I wasn’t really the type of person that was going to have a big successful modeling career anyways, so I went back to Serbia to study at the University of Applied Arts. After university I spent some time in Milan, and then I was traveling for work to places like Paris, Berlin, and Italy. I do furniture design and I guess what you could call 'art'—it’s weird to say that. I do drawings and painting and photography, too. I moved here to New York because I met a man and fell in love.

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FILM IS NOT DEAD: The resurgence of analog THE WOMEN OF ART ROCK: Breaking sound barriers SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE: Caitlin Carter’s Senior Show

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THE WOMEN of

ArtROCK These upcoming artists are pushing the limits of music and sound, making reminding all of us that music should be considered one of the fine arts. These ladies are pusing genres, breaking genres, and culminating them all together for us to hear some groundbreaking tunes. How is it like to be a woman in the music industry? “It’s fucking awesome”.

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Annie Clark of St. Vincent When faced with the question of what it’s like to be a woman in the music industry, Annie Clark replied, “It’s fuckin’ awesome.” Fearless, sarcastic and endlessly eclectic, the artist more famously known as St. Vincent is a musical dream. Clark, who has been playing guitar for nearly two decades and making studio albums for seven years, is known not only for her eccentric musical stylings and innoinno vative sounds, but also for her subversion of the traditional “female performer” role. She is, as TIME once called her, “a new, old-fashioned rock star.”

After teasing fans late last year with hints of a new record, the singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist released her newest, self-titled album in 2014 and began a 30-date North American tour the next day — giving a whole new group of fans the chance to see firsthand why she’s one of the most badass musicians — male or female — around. Clark refuses to be pigeonholed by the music industry. She once said, “Growing up, I was never made aware of the idea that because I’m anatomically female, my fingers and brain don’t work as well. I never did feel like I was constantly having to overcome, ‘I’m a girl but I can play.’ That’s just silly.” - Michelle Juergen

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Angel Olsen Even in her early solo career, Olsen’s work has largely focused on the themes of desire, time, and the active state of thinking, but 2014 was the year of reckoning for long-standing Angel Olsen fans. From the release of her 2011 EP Stange Cacti and 2012’s debut album Half Way Home, she’s established herself as a presence of major proportions for the folk scene and beyond. For all the loneliness contained on her sophomore record Burn Your Fire For No Witness, Olsen has drawn quite a crowd into her corner. She’s got one of those voices that never dede mands, but instead beckons, leading the listener toward its modest prophecies. Olsen’s lyrics are sheer poetry paired with chords that complement nicely. - Noisey

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Marril Garbus of tUnE-yArDs There’s a lot to unpack in the songs Garbus makes as tUnE-yArDs — contemplation about issues like freedom, power and racial tension, as well as more introspective musings about feminism, self-confidence and beauty standards. Across three albums, the most recent of which, Nikki Nack, she has mixed complex tribal rhythms to produce some of the most unique indie pop around. Her current touring band ought to be an inspiration to women starting out in music: a quintet– piling fierce, danceable layers of voices upon rhythms, with drumsticks for everyone and loop pedals enabling a glorious Jenga tower of sound. “We hired Dani [Markham] partly because we were looking for a female voice with the right timbre, but more importantly she was a badass drummer. Little girls growing up should see some role models and think, ‘Oh yeah, I could be in a band’. For me growing up, rock ’n’ roll meant dudes with guitars.” She’s thoughtful about her role in a business that still caters overwhelmingly to the male gaze, and is feeling positive about its future. “Change is on its way for women in the music industry, and I get to be a part of that.” - The London Easy

Andrea Estella of Mr. Twin Sister Long Island, New York-based indie pop quintet Twin Sister make music that is dreamy, yet danceable. The five members of the group -vocalist Andrea Estella, bassist Gabe D’Amico, drummer Bryan Ujueta, keyboardist Dev “Udbhav” Gupta, and guitarist (sometimes vocalist) Eric Cardona -- crossed paths while playing in their respective bands, ultimately befriending each other and forming Twin Sister in 2008.

In 2011, Twin Sister signed to Domino Records and released their first full-length, In Heaven, that September. The group underwent some drastic changes in 2013: not only did Twin Sister part ways with Domino, but Andrea Estella was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and a car crash while on tour in Tallahassee, Florida left them lucky to be alive. After taking time to recover, the quintet recorded its second album with the help of producer Jon Low and members of Ava Luna, and rechristened themselves Mr Twin Sister. Their darker, electronic-driven self-titled second album arrived in September 2014. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi

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SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE: NAUSEA, DIZZINESS, INSOMNIA Caitlin Carter, a recent graduate of USC, talks about her senior work on body issues and mental health.

WHO ARE YOU/WHAT DO YOU DO?

I'm an emerging book artist with a BFA in Studio Art from USC. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CONCEPT BEHIND YOUR SENIOR PROJECT. HOW BIG OF A ROLE DID FEMINIST IDEALS ABOUT BODY IMAGE, AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH PLAY THROUGHOUT THE SERIES?

Top left: Off to the Races Mixed Media on Yupo.

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The show I developed for my senior series dealt mainly with perception and with iconography. Each piece used well known symbols (a goat for religion, teeth for anxiety) combined with a snapshot of something I was currently facing treating mental disorders and struggling to escape the stigma of becoming mentally ill, the perception others had of my role in society as a woman versus my own ideals. So, essentially, because feminism and mental health are important to me, I showcased them in my work.

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What it Feels Like for a Girl Mixed Media on Yupo.

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WHAT OTHER SUBJECTS AND/OR THEMES WOULD YOU LIKE TO TACKLE IN YOUR FUTURE WORK?

I'm currently working on a series on questioning the book as a medium. Much of my work has become more process-based. That said, of course things that interest me and that are important to me will influence what I make and how I approach any given piece.

ARE THERE OTHER ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND CREATIVES WHO INSPIRE YOU?

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All the time! Creativity, in nature and in other people, is one of the things that inspires me most.

Book Arts especially tends to borrow from other media, like fibers or drawing, and I love seeing how other artists work with books.

WHAT OTHER CRAFTS OR HOBBIES DO YOU ALSO DO?

I love to read. Every year I try to read a hundred books. I also enjoy crocheting, board games, history, good food, and travel.

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thankYOU WHO MADE THIS PROJECT POSSIBLE:

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Andrea St. Aubin Garet Bullard Caitlin Carter Julie Gorcesky Irving Juarez

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