To say “my practice” implies a continuum that may be of an ordinary routine. For me, art is not that. It is not a day job. It goes beyond that, and the art produced should, too.
The most important quality in an artist is a willingness to risk identity and give distinctive, formal expression to it.
The quality I most admire in an artist is the ability to be emotionally open in what can be a cruel, dismissive world.
The best thing about art in the era of social media is that art will outlast the era of social media.
The guidelines provided by Robert Smithson’s instructors at the Art Students League of New York, virtually the only formal art education he received, were essential to his land art.
I’ve never painted a painting without listening to jazz.
Becoming an artist was never a deliberate decision. It just crept up on me slowly and is still skulking around the corners of my life.
What an exhibition of over one hundred New York City scenes amassed by a real estate scion captures of the city and reveals about the collector.
There are at least two poles in Lennart Anderson’s work, poles that you see him gravitating towards and veering away from throughout his life: Anderson the dogged and humble observer of nature, but also Anderson the formal constructor and inventor.
I narrowed down the options by choosing the path I felt right. I can’t recall the paths that I didn’t choose.
B.Z. Sacks owned a gallery in the subway arcade at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue in 1949. It was called the Tribune Subway Gallery. She was twenty-five years old.
To me traditional art materials are burdensome: they point to themselves, or other points in history. I like to use a material that tells a different story and has a different history, often outside of art.