Beer with a Painter

08/26/2017

https://hyperallergic.com/397698/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.

05/01/2017

"I want my wobbly, uneven life in the work. An artist with a solid base under him or her can make a work that is, as Schnabel said, “a bouquet of mistakes.” It’s like — I broke up with the wrong woman; I was in love with the wrong woman; I was a fool. The fool can make the painting. Why edit the fool out? Why edit out the bad luck? Why edit out the heartbreak? Why edit out the joy and the ecstatic?" -- Peter Acheson, Beer with a Painter, in Hyperallergic
https://hyperallergic.com/375624/beer-with-a-painter-peter-acheson/

Acheson does not care about trading niceties or being ingratiating. He would rather propose and debate philosophical ideas.

02/06/2017

"A painter should create a room to get lost in, a room to debate, a room where you lose names. You had a name when you looked at a painting, but after watching, you forgot the name. You start inventing the world again." -- Tal R, new Beer with a Painter in Hyperallergic.
http://hyperallergic.com/356273/beer-with-a-painter-tal-r/

Tal R talks about “watching” paintings — not just looking at them. It might be a language tic, but it also feels specific.

05/31/2016

"In graduate school, a professor selected a book he felt was the go-to source for documenting the most important artists in the country. There was only one woman (Cindy Sherman) and not a single African American artist represented. Some other students and I brought it to his attention, and he challenged us to name any significant black artists. We started to name names – like William H. Johnson, Bob Thompson, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Minnie Evans, Martin Puryear, and Alma Thomas. The professor remained defiant." -- Erika Ranee, new Beer with a Painter interview in Hyperallergic.
http://hyperallergic.com/302065/beer-with-a-painter-erika-ranee/

I met Erika Ranee last summer when I took students to see a pop-up exhibition she curated in a Brooklyn studio, arranged around the theme of imagery of the eye.

04/09/2016

Bill Scott talks about the color pink, having beer and chocolate cake with , living in 's house, kindness in painting, and never apologizing for beauty. 💕🍻🎨💕
In Hyperallergic today.
http://hyperallergic.com/289572/beer-with-a-painter-bill-scott/

Last summer, Bill Scott and I were invited to participate in final critiques at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Critiques are usually predictable affairs, but I was surprised by Scott’s interaction…

01/18/2016

"Paintings are alternate worlds – worlds unto themselves, manifested by each artist to satisfy a desire to fill a void." --GREGORY AMENOFF, new Beer with a Painter in Hyperallergic!

http://hyperallergic.com/268572/beer-with-a-painter-gregory-amenoff/

“I love it here, but this isn’t my true home,” Gregory Amenoff says, looking out the window of his studio in Ulster County, New York. “Too green,” he declares.

12/06/2015

"In making these more complicated scenarios and groups of figures — these clusterf**ks — I got glued to the thing that I thought I would never be interested in, which is medley, of schizoid emotional states. How low can I go? I’m going to stand up and do a medley for everyone. That’s worse than admitting I love Fragonard. One of my paintings is called 'Fagonard,' by the way." -- Angela Dufresne in Hyperallergic!
http://hyperallergic.com/258926/beer-with-a-painter-angela-dufresne/

Angela Dufresne had a couple of beers cracked open and ready when I arrived at her East Williamsburg studio. It was an old-school painting studio – which somehow surprised me, perhaps because Dufre…

11/09/2015

"All the other things in my life are hard but painting is not." --Lucy Mink Covello, new Beer with a Painter in Hyperallergic.

http://hyperallergic.com/251543/beer-with-a-painter-lucy-mink-covello/

Lucy Mink Covello lives in New Hampshire, not too far from where I spend a couple of weeks every summer. We met at my friends’ farm, spread a blanket under trees in the apple orchard, and shared so…

09/26/2015

"I am collapsing the image, and not thinking about what I’m doing until the last stages. I am trying to not pay attention, so that my brain doesn’t get in the way. For a long time it is a crazy mess of painting. I am waiting until the painting calls me to attention, and something is there that I can grab onto."
--Lesley Vance, Beer with a Painter on Hyperallergic.
The finale of the Los Angeles Edition of Beer with a Painter!
http://hyperallergic.com/239657/beer-with-a-painter-la-edition-lesley-vance/

LOS ANGELES — “We are drinking beer, right? Because I’m celebrating, “ Lesley Vance says to me when I arrive at her house in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

09/16/2015

“Go ahead; you can write whatever you want about me,” Jonas Wood says. “Everyone knows I’m a stoner,” he adds, since beer has been mostly displaced by California’s drug of choice during my Los Ange...

08/25/2015

"When you first start, you think you are going to be a great artist. You get older, and it just doesn’t happen. And then you calm yourself by saying, “Rembrandt didn’t care either.” You just keep going. I’m stuck with who I am and I do the best I can. I do have hopes that it hasn’t all been a waste of time. And I don’t think it has been. But it is not for me to worry about." -- Charles Garabedian.

http://hyperallergic.com/231386/beer-with-a-painter-la-edition-charles-garabedian/

LOS ANGELES — “I can barely remember doing all this,” Charles Garabedian says to me as he flips through the pages of his own museum exhibition catalog, which I have brought along.