“The thing that’s fascinating me now more than anything, is when a painting is right. What makes a painting right?”
Author Archives: Jennifer Samet
Jennifer Samet, Ph.D. is a New York-based art historian, curator, and writer. She completed her dissertation at the CUNY Graduate Center on Painterly Representation in New York: 1945-1975. She has lectured at universities across the country on the subject of “The Role of Empathy in Art.” She curated major historical exhibitions on Jane Street Group, the history of the New York Studio School, and “Reconfiguring the New York School.” She is particularly interested in the voice of the artist, and has published numerous interviews with painters. (@jensamet)
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Beer with a Painter: Richard Baker
“No matter what I tried, what fit best was work that involved my love of something small-scale and intimate.”
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Beer with a Painter: Doron Langberg
“There is an emotional narrative to the way that the paintings are touched,” the artist tells us. “If my body touches the surface aggressively or lightly, smearing or sanding, it creates different emotional notes, different speeds, and different focal points.
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Beer with a Painter: Judy Glantzman
“Although I think authorship is questionable, I am interested in inventing my own language.”
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Beer with a Painter: Fred Tomaselli
“There is an outer world of violent chaos, and an inside world that is the paradise of being an artist.”
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Beer with a Painter: Joan Semmel
“How could I make work that was sexual from a woman’s point of view, that would not turn a woman off, as so much of pornography did?”
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Beer with a Painter: Alfredo Gisholt
“I look at where things accumulate, where people leave things. Every house has a corner like that.”
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Beer with a Painter: Joyce Pensato
Pensato’s work is about grand gestures and not backing down.
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Beer with a Painter: Helen Miranda Wilson
Wilson warns me that her studio never looks impressive — a hazard of making meticulous, intimately scaled work.
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Beer with a Painter: Steve Mumford and Inka Essenhigh
Essenhigh and Mumford — who live together and work in adjoining studios on the Lower East Side — are unafraid to make declarations about what motivates the other.
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Beer with a Painter: Tom Uttech
Uttech tells stories through the metaphoric possibilities of paint.
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Beer with a Painter: Suzanne Joelson and Gary Stephan
An artist couple talks about paintings with a punch line and a street full of rats.