Interview
Beer With a Painter: Sangram Majumdar
“There is no time in painting. A microsecond can last forever.”
Beer With a Painter
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Beer With a Painter: Leslie Baum
“After the 2016 election, my work changed. I wanted to immerse myself in beauty and connect with something larger than the present moment, to not lose perspective.”
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Beer with a Painter: Richard Hull
“My lifelong project in my painting has been to locate myself.”
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Beer With a Painter: Brenda Goodman
“The thing that’s fascinating me now more than anything, is when a painting is right. What makes a painting right?”
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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: 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.