This is an artist’s take.
An artist interviewing artists.
The questions I want to ask.
I love process. It is a personal obsession of mine and gives me great joy. I love to know the questions people ask themselves. What drives them. What they look at. What they see. I talk with different artists, writers, and people who inspire me about their personal processes in these interviews.
VIVIANA M. CARLOS—A Latin American narrative: on palm trees as immigrants and an archive as a conversation after death.
The book is delicate and small, the quality of the paper is like a palm…
PERSPECTIVES: ALEX NICHOLS
How the journey began — The Artists’ Space by Alex Nichols
PERSPECTIVES: KATE NICHOLS
Kate is a painter—she follows the tradition of the 15th century recipes mixing and making…
PERSPECTIVES: TRUONG TRAN
his studio is filled with repeating materials because for him “art repeats itself.”
PERSPECTIVES: QINMIN LIU
“I am an unstoppable body.” That is the title of her work—and it strikes me…
PERSPECTIVES: ANDY VOGT
When Andy says—“I am examining the threshold of the wall”–he opens a wall—pulls the material…
PERSPECTIVES: DENISE LAWS
she is paying attention—to the interior quality of our everyday use—and reminding us of its…
PERSPECTIVES: LEXIE BOUWSMA
‘Bee eater’ and ‘Cereal dumper’—eventually the large drawing on the table will gain an official…
PERSPECTIVES: ADAM BARRY
A thousand pages of ink—is practice—and the physicality of his vision and passion for material…
PERSPECTIVES: LAUREN MARCHETTI
“I like the flaws—all the inclusions… you never know what is inside until you open…
PERSPECTIVES: ELLEN ROSENTHAL
It is intimate to hold a book of images the size of your palm—as if…
PERSPECTIVES: DANIEL LICHTENBERG
Dialogue is a specific material—and Daniel is looking at what is captured in a person’s…
PERSPECTIVES: ANONYMOUS
Often we resist endings—not wanting to exit the familiar structure we have inhabited for years—because…
PERSPECTIVES: JEFFREY MARTIN
Illusion—even when we know that what we see is not real, we still experience it…
PERSPECTIVES: RICK D’ELIA
Actions precede understanding—sometimes we need to act— that action helps us understand our intention.
PERSPECTIVES: LUCINDA BUXTON MARTIN
She is struck most by is these “women who are fearless in making their way.”
PERSPECTIVES: AN EMPTY SPACE
As an artist “seeing” is the practice. But it is not so simple. For example,…
2015 Feature on Alex Nichols and STUDIO 17: The Artists’ Space
Nichols and the artists of Studio 17 are working to let their story be heard,…
ALEX: PERSPECTIVES IN PRESENT TENSE 