“Table of Losses” with Jesse Draxler | AD 178

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About Jesse: Jesse Draxler was born in rural Wisconsin, studied in Minneapolis, MN, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. A formal mixed media & inter-disciplinary artist, Draxler has exhibited extensively both domestically and internationally. 

Draxler had solo exhibitions in New York at the Booth Gallery in 2017 and 2016, and has been in exhibitions across Europe at galleries in Munich, London, Paris, Hamburg, and Berlin. Draxler collaborates with brands including Hugo Boss, McQ Alexander McQueen, and Ferrari, with original artwork appearing in Elle, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among other publications. 

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• The path of friendship 
• The intentionality behind social media 
• Thinking about the motivations behind what you are doing 
• Dedication within your craft 
• Artists relation to sports 
• Mental fortitude and willpower 
• The meaning behind Jesse’s latest show, “Table of Losses” 
• Letting artwork play itself out 
• The payoff of patience 
• The sense of urgency that comes with social media 
• Having a sense of mental separation between yourself and your artistic practice 
• Ego death 
• Copying yourself and it equating to an artistic death 
• Jesse continually re-inventing himself 
• The emotional weight behind the artwork 
• Taking criticism as an artist 
• Modern and Post-Modern art 
• Moral limits, and how art challenges your morals 
• Finding inspirations within everyday life 
• Jesse’s music project “Reigning Cement” 
• Jesse’s “Love, hate” relationship with his environment 
• Collaborative pieces of art being influenced by the environment 
• The concept of a suffering artist 
• Success and drive 
• Understanding and creating from a place of purpose 
• Setting goals within life

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