Author Archive | Paul D'Agostino

View Inside: Zaun Lee

by on June 6th 2017

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  Yesterday I visited Zaun Lee in her studio on the Upper West Side. Given the logical cohesion and conceptual rigor that characterizes much of her generally drawing-based, structurally reflective work, it seemed very fitting for her space to be so orderly. Zaun walked me here and there and back and forth through the thoughts [READ ►]

View Inside: Liv Mette Larsen

by on February 5th 2017

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    I recently visited painter Liv Mette Larsen in her Bushwick Studio to have a look at some of her newest works before she ships them off to Asker, Norway for a large solo exhibition at Trafo Kunsthall. One of the particular joys of becoming acquainted with Liv’s work over the past six or [READ ►]

View Inside: Jim Herbert

by on September 10th 2016

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    I had the good fortune of running into Jim Herbert while I was out skateboarding around Bushwick over Labor Day weekend, and we got to talking about summer, about art, about shows, and about the then-yet-forthcoming season of new exhibitions. We also talked about how it had been a while since the last [READ ►]

View Inside: Peter Scibetta

by on August 27th 2016

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    For some reason I find that one of the most effective ways to make a very busy week feel less busy is to incorporate into it a few extra things I really want to do, to offset the various things to which I’m variably obligated. Yes, this is tantamount to making myself busier [READ ►]

View Inside: Don Voisine & Oriane Stender

by on August 2nd 2016

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  I was out of town for a little while last month, and one of the very first things I did upon returning a couple weeks ago—rather than engaging in the more or less logical act of unpacking my bags—was spend an afternoon doing studio visits with Oriane Stender and Don Voisine in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [READ ►]

View Inside: Erika Ranee

by on July 2nd 2016

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  I’d been looking forward to visiting Erika Ranee’s Bushwick studio for quite a while before finally doing so a few days ago, just a couple weeks after the closing of her solo show at LMAKgallery, Gasoline Rainbows. Erika showed me a few older pieces and some transitional work before we started discussing a number [READ ►]

View Inside: Anne Russinof

by on June 19th 2016

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  I biked over to Anne Russinof’s studio a few days ago to bring her a painting and see what she’d been working on of late. It turns out she’s been working on a lot of new pieces at once, exploring a few new forms of compositional parametrics, and just generally infusing the world—per her [READ ►]

View Inside: Jonathan Quinn

by on May 28th 2016

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  Yesterday I visited Jonathan Quinn in his Bushwick studio to have a look at lots of new paintings and photographs before he ships most of them off to Laguna Beach, California, for his forthcoming solo show at Townley Contemporary. While Jonathan shuffled through and showed me a wealth of recent works, some already partially [READ ►]

View Inside: Karen Marston

by on May 11th 2016

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  Last week I visited Karen Marston in her studio to get a preview of some of the works that will be in her forthcoming solo show, Demeter’s Wrath. It opens on May 20th at Owen James Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. While Karen and I looked around at her most recent paintings, we chatted about [READ ►]

View Inside: Bo Berkman

by on May 3rd 2016

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  Tom Butter and I recently took a little post-pedagogical field trip from Parsons to Tribeca to visit Bo Berkman’s studio. It so happened that the building I was teaching in that day—just as I was wrapping up my class, and therefore just as I was getting ready to meet Tom—was being evacuated for some [READ ►]