Artist Interview: Jeff Faerber, New York, NY

10 Questions // Jeff Faerber: New York

1. What inspires you these days?

Curry, chocolate, Lars Henkel (with whom I will have a 2 person show in Berlin this summer), seeing other people’s art.

2. Who are your heroes?

Spiderman, Russ Feingold.

3. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Chocolate, sleep, gittin’ jiggy wid me shorty (ahhhh yea!).

4. What scares the hell out of you?

Girls.

5. What makes you laugh hard?

Watching my cats. Stacey (my girlfriend). Playing spaceship cat with my cat. Stacey’s (my girlfriend) reaction to me playing spaceship cat with my cat.

6. Who are your favorite artists of all time?

Rembrandt, Jenny Saville, Giacometti, Kent Williams.

7. What is your guiltiest pleasure?

Is this a family magazine?

8. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

Six pack abs.

9. What’s your favorite thing in the world?

Is this a family magazine?

10. What comes to mind when you think of Brooklyn?

This may be a clichéd answer but the first thing I thought of was the Brooklyn Bridge,…. or playing spaceship cat (as I’ve never played spaceship cat out of Brooklyn)

/// See more of Jeff’s work here.

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