Art
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.”
Jennifer Samet
Jennifer Samet is an art historian based in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
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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.
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Beer with a Painter: Emily Cheng
The forms in Emily Cheng’s paintings are suggestive of the most primary elements: the landscape, the body, and religious iconography.