one last show interview by DAVID NOLAN and ENEAS CAPALBO portrait by RACHEL CHANDLER All images courtesy of David Nolan Gallery, New York American artist Richard Artschwager’s particular talent combines craftsmanship, intelligence, irony, and playful attitude toward life and art. His style has been variously associated with Pop Art, because of his remodeling of everyday objects (Artschwager also built the Formica-surfaced sculptures of one of Pop’s primary founders, Claes Oldenburg). His work is also connected to Minimalism, because of his elegant, starkly colored, loosely representational “specific objects,” to use Donald Judd’s term. However, Artschwager has always defied categories and reductive descriptions. He may have had a Pop Artist’s wit, but he didn’t combine labels into a hybrid art. As the interview reveals, he sought originality using elements of life that he’d happened to notice. Born in 1923, Artschwager spent most of his childhood in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He studied…