Harmony Korine

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Fleectardo, 2014, House paint , acrylic, oil, and collage on canvas

back to painting

photography by HARMONY KORINE in his nashville studio
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM

 

OLIVIER ZAHM — When did you start painting and drawing?
HARMONY KORINE — When I was a teenager. There was a car wash by my house that I used to work at, and sometimes people would pay me to draw murals inside their trunks or detail the insides of their rims with model paint. I once painted a neon dragon inside Roy Orbison’s trunk.

OLIVIER ZAHM — Can you describe your studio space in Nashville?
HARMONY KORINE — It’s called the Voorhees Building. It has a nice barbed-wire fence around it. I work in a place that was a practice stage for a local blind ballet company in the ’70s. It’s next to a swinger’s club and football stadium….