The Paris Review Print Series: Shara Hughes
Shara Hughes, The Paris Review, 2023, etching with aquatint, spit bit, soft ground, and drypoint on Hannemühle Copperplate bright white paper, plate size 18 x 14″, paper size 27 x 22″. Made in...
View ArticleLSD Snowfall: An Interview with Uman
Uman, Snowfall: winter in Roseboom #4, 2016–2020 (detail). The Paris Review‘s Winter issue cover, Snowfall: winter in Roseboom #4, by the artist Uman, looks from different angles like a field of...
View ArticleInfinite Dictionaries: A Conversation with Marc Hundley
Marc Hundley. Photograph by Na Kim. Marc Hundley, whose portfolio of posters appears in the Review’s Summer issue, first moved to New York City in 1993 to model for Vogue with his twin brother, Ian....
View ArticleThe Distance from a Lemon to Murder: A Conversation with Peter Nadin
Peter Nadin’s exhibition “The Distance from a Lemon to Murder” is on view at Off Paradise until June 23. The painter Peter Nadin was born in 1954 near Liverpool, the son of a sea captain whose family...
View ArticleDon’t Delete: A Visit with Billy Sullivan
Billy Sullivan’s studio. Photograph by Lauren Kane. Billy Sullivan’s studio, a fifth-floor walk-up on the Bowery, has a comfortable, elegant dishevelment. Hanging all around the space are some of the...
View ArticleReading Upside Down: A Conversation with Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie, Hold the Right Rail, 2021, oil on canvas in two parts, 184 x 311 cm. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner. Rose Wylie, whose watercolor Two Red Cherries appears on the cover of the...
View ArticleInside Dawn Clements’s Studio
Dawn Clements, Peonies, 2014. Photo: S. Alzner On a cold and rainy Sunday last autumn, I visited Dawn Clements’s studio in Greenpoint. Before it was converted into art studios, the building was a...
View ArticleA Photographic Memory: In the Studio with Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson. Photo: Menelik Puryear After we summited the ridges high above Aspen in late July of this year, the artist Lorna Simpson and I finally had the occasion to speak at length. Simpson, in...
View ArticleLong Story Short: In the Studio with Aidan Koch
Photo: Amanda Hakan On Aidan Koch’s cover for our Summer issue, six panels depict a woman lounging and reading and ruminating at the shore. Each panel exists both as a discrete event—here, she looks at...
View ArticleHovering Hippie: In the Gallery with Gary Panter
I’ve twice visited Gary Panter’s studio, a large room tucked away on the third floor of his house in Brooklyn; the table at which he works—he lays his canvases flat to paint—sits roughly near the...
View ArticleSigns and Wonders: In the Studio with Hayal Pozanti
My first encounter with artist Hayal Pozanti was the lucky happenstance of a predetermined seating arrangement: she was placed across the table from me at a dinner celebrating Jessica Silverman...
View ArticlePainting with Fire: A Visit with Betsy Eby
Sanguine II, 2009. Encaustic means “to burn.” The ethereal quality of Betsy Eby’s encaustic paintings belies the labor-intensive process of their making—an ancient method involving heated wax, damar...
View ArticleAnthony Cudahy
Cudahy in front of his painting Untitled (Vanessa). I was first introduced to artist Anthony Cudahy in 2011, when I interviewed him for Guernica. I was moved by his fleeting scenes of silence—a woman...
View ArticleDavid Opdyke
David Opdyke’s studio is, at the moment, mostly emptied of his intricate, deceptively beautiful sculptures, though it is filled with neatly organized boxes, helpfully labeled with the names of the...
View ArticlePirate Queen: In the Studio with June Glasson
Years ago, while biding my time at a doctor’s office, fortuitously flipping through a stack of well-exhausted magazines, I spotted an article on affordable portraiture. June Glasson was one of the...
View Article“The Rat Is a Hero”: In the Studio with Emily Mayer
Children are posing near Damien Hirst’s large intestine. A young couple is engaged in a shoulder rub, the recipient with a bracing hand on what may be the sigmoid colon. Upstairs, caterers put flowers...
View ArticleInside Dawn Clements’s Studio
Dawn Clements, Peonies, 2014. Photo: S. Alzner On a cold and rainy Sunday last autumn, I visited Dawn Clements’s studio in Greenpoint. Before it was converted into art studios, the building was a...
View ArticleA Photographic Memory: In the Studio with Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson. Photo: Menelik PuryearAfter we summited the ridges high above Aspen in late July of this year, the artist Lorna Simpson and I finally had the occasion to speak at length. Simpson, in...
View ArticleLong Story Short: In the Studio with Aidan Koch
Photo: Amanda HakanOn Aidan Koch’s cover for our Summer issue, six panels depict a woman lounging and reading and ruminating at the shore. Each panel exists both as a discrete event—here, she looks at...
View ArticleHovering Hippie: In the Gallery with Gary Panter
I’ve twice visited Gary Panter’s studio, a large room tucked away on the third floor of his house in Brooklyn; the table at which he works—he lays his canvases flat to paint—sits roughly near the...
View Article