Melissa Stern
To me the most powerful of emotions are mixed emotions. We all harbor deeply contradictory feelings about our world, about our lives. As adults we may feel like old children. Our loved ones are often targets of our greatest anger. As the song goes, “there’s a thin line between love and hate.” What’s dark is sometimes funny, and this is how we face our greatest fears.
Scott Grodesky
One of the things I like about the subway and this psychology is that it provides a place to introduce race into the painting without it solely being about that. I see the subways somewhat as a randomizing machine. People get on and mix and it is always changing. So, I’m happy that we have that in NYC, this open and mixing society. I’m also struck by the clothes and colors and how these, on a formal level, can be applied to a painting.
Jude Tallichet
“I understand the steps in the process in a way I can never know the essence of the object I’m trying to transform. My labor newly haunts the object I re-create, rendering it non functional! So the new object has the old stories of its function and the new story I made of its nonfunction. It becomes a sensuous thing. In the end, I want to pay homage to the spectrality of the object, with hope and optimism in the outcome.”
Colin Thomson
Emotionally, I try to center on what’s working and follow it as best I can. Decisions about what gets saved – what gets covered come from a fairly unconscious and spontaneous place. I’m constantly on the lookout for a scale to join color and structure. When that appears, it gives me room to see the image and how its built. From that point on, the choices become much clearer.
Carol Hepper
It was horrifying and absurd, yet illuminating to see the way nature pulled personal worn and treasured items into its grip and entangled shelter, clothing and industry with trees, grasses and stones into a frozen gesture. I started to incorporate ideas from these forces and their collided results as I saw how disparate, absurd and revealing the juxtapositions could be.
Donna Moylan
My paintings these past few years point out the fragility of our common home. It seems we are on the cusp of big decisions, how to manage our ecology, how to live gently on earth.
Jeanne Silverthorne
You are right that the studio is a stand-in for the self—-its walls like our skin, its wiring and plumbing analogous to our entrails. But as the walls crumble so the boundaries of identity erode.
Steve Keister
Steve Keister was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1949. He received an MFA from Tyler School of Art in 1971, and a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1973, the year he moved to NYC. Steve Keister had his first solo exhibition at the Pam Adler Gallery on 57th Street in 1978. In 1981 […]
Susan Bee
Susan Bee is an artist living in Brooklyn. She has been a member of A.I.R. Gallery (in NY) since 1996. Bee has published sixteen artist’s books. She was the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G from 1986-2016. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA in Art from Hunter College. Bee won a Guggenheim Fellowship in […]
Ward Shelley
Ward Shelley works as an artist in Brooklyn, New York. He specializes in large projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Utilizing eclectic influences and a variety of media, Shelley’s installations defy classification. Over the last twenty years, he has concentrated on bizarre functioning architectural pieces in which he lives and works during the exhibition […]
