From the Publisher: "Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work."--Chuck Close. Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physic…
Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these "cruder," more mundane aspects of a painter's daily routine that motiva…
Inside the artist's studio
by Fig, Joe, Altfest, Ellen, Campus, Peter, Carey, Ellen, Coyne, Petah, Cvijanovic, Adam, Donovan, Tara, Drew, Leonardo, Dunham, Caroll, Friedman, Tom, Gilmore, Kate, Grooms, Red, Harkness, Hilary, Kim, Byron, Kronschläger, Alois, Otterness, Tom, Oursler, Tony, Paine, Roxy, Pfaff, Judy, Ryman, Will, Simmons, Laurie, Sussman, Eve, Taaffe, Philip, Tschäpe, Janaina, Rydingsvard, Ursula von
Twenty-four painters, video, mixed- media artists, sculptors, photographers reveal highly idiosyncratic production tools, techniques, quotidian habits, strategies for getting work done: music they listen to; hours they keep; relationships with gallerists, curators, friends, fami…