MARKING TIME AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST SIERRA SLENTZ AND LEIANN HUDDLESTON July 1, 2021 | Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
SIERRA It’s kind of yellowy…citron…glaze. It still surprises me. It’s actually an old glaze. Do you remember, at the Cosmo, the P3 studios? That’s an old glaze from when I did my residency there. It’s a pop of bright colors. I hadn’t used this in a really long time. LEIANN Right. SIERRA So, I did. I had a couple test pieces that were left over from my old project. And so, I tested and was like, “Ooh! I wanna work with the hot pink.“ I wasn’t sure if I was going to use the hot pink and the teal because I used those in my last series. I got rid of a couple colors, and then I replaced it with the citron. LEIANN When you said you used it in the last series, was that the Landscape series? SIERRA Yeah, the Landscape series. I wasn’t sure if I was going to completely change the colors, but I kept those two and I got rid of the purple. It was called “Mojave dusk,” it was a purpley brown. I got rid of that color and started using the citron. I came in and—Poof! I like that color! LEIANN Do you have that experience often? Not only with this color, but you see one and you’re like, “Oh I really like that one!” SIERRA Yeah. When you’re posting things on Instagram, I’m like, “That’s cool!“ There was a video you guys posted the other day. It was a real intense close up, and I was like, “Oh! I really like that,” and then I was like, oh, “That’s my piece!” It was this weird thing! Then, I had a student message me like, “I saw your work at the museum.” And I was like, “Yeah, I told you guys I had a big show.” LEIANN They came down and saw it right? SIERRA They came in and saw it. Then my neighbor came in and saw it. And my mom, she came in, she was like, “So that art - did I miss the art opening?” And I’m like, “No! We’re not going to have an art opening. I think there’s gonna be an art closing.” She was like, ‘When is that?” And I’m like, “When I’m in Lake Tahoe.” LEIANN I know you said that you used some of these glazes from your previous series with the Landscapes. You view them as completely separate, right? SIERRA Each one was representing a memory of going through the desert. Or a time MARKING TIME Interview with artist Sierra Slentz and LeiAnn Huddleston 1