Former METALLICA Bassist Jason Newsted On New Art Exhibit - "The Mentality Was The Same As My Approach To Writing Music"
May 8, 2010, 14 years ago
The opening party for former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted's (VOIVOD) first public art exhibit was held at Micaëla Gallery in San Francisco, CA last night (May 7th). The exhibit runs through June 27th.
"I started out figuring out what techniques would allow me to draw and paint while my arm was in a sling, so I threw things at the canvas using a spatula, with one hand," Newsted told Rossiter Drake from Sfweekly.com , whose show features just six of his roughly 1,000 paintings. "It was purposeful. I wanted each piece to mean something, and I wanted to paint a picture each day, as a reflection of what I was living and breathing at that time. The mentality was the same as my approach to writing music."Newsted has no plans to hang up his bass and he still plays at least once a week.
"There are some people who are not going to like what I do, and they already made up their minds beforehand," he says. "They see another musician who paints, or another writer who paints. That's fine. I saw some people making fun of the paintings tonight, but it didn't bother me. I don't want everyone to like my stuff."Read the entire interview here.
For more info about Newsted's exhibit visit Micaela.com.
