Aside from the artwork itself, the studio is the most important thing to an artist.
My studio for the past ten years has been located in Building 30, part of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The building was constructed for horse carriages during the antebellum era. After decades of neglect, it was renovated (around 2000) and commercially leased to artists only. But the vestiges of…
A studio is a meeting place between heaven and earth. It is all good. My studio is located in Tribeca. I’ve been in this studio since 2009. I work usually from late morning on. The Studio of Bruce Dorfman
I moved into my studio in November 1969. Over these forty-four years I’ve painted many separate groups and series of paintings. In the early 70s, when I was showing at the David Whitney Gallery, I was making my stain/band paintings. By 1973, when I joined the Andre Emmerich Gallery, I began a group of paintings…
My studio is in SoHo, near Chinatown and Little Italy. I’ve been working in this studio for eighteen years. The studio is in a basement. It’s very quiet, but I have little daylight.
Peter Reginato’s New York Report (above) and Wildflower (below) are among a group of works collected by the artist Neil Jenney that are exhibited in Works of the Jenney Archive at Gagosian Gallery (980 Madison Ave. NYC). From March 7 to April 27, 2013.
Curator Amalia Piccinini, a former league student, presents a selection of dark paintings by instructors Ronnie Landfield (above), Charles Hinman, and Peter Reginato (below), as well as her own work, in Going Into the Dark, The Painting Center (547 West 27th St. NYC), February 26–March 23, 2013.
An artist makes art, and he demands the credentials of art. He’s investigated art, and he knows what art is. It’s not anatomy; it’s not proportions; it’s not brilliant execution; it’s not photographic likeness; it’s not journalism; it’s not individual pain. It is opening up the elements that make those pieces of art perpetually fresh, timeless.