I had Kiki Smith over when I had just finished these and she said, You know, you should approach some galleries from a revisionist point of view because usually it’s a male in the studio with a model, or a male at the easel, and here you’re a nude figure in your own studio with all your paintings and your tools around you. There aren’t many paintings like that, she said. So I thought, well that’s interesting, that’s not something I was thinking about—I was thinking about what I feel in my studio, the vulnerability.

Kathy Butterly at Tibor de Nagy, Tim Hawkinson at PaceWildenstein and Nyehaus, Julianne Swartz at Josee Bienvenu, Dana Schutz at Zach Feuer, and Rebecca Warren at Matthew Marks