featuresStudio visits
Monday, October 1st, 2018
Her exhibition at Theodore: Art runs through October 7 ...
Friday, September 28th, 2018
Natasha Wright, The Believers, 2018. Oil on canvas, 50 x 44 inches. Courtesy of the artist
Her recent show, Les Biches, was seen on the Lower East Side ...
Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
His public sculpture, Spot, is at NYU’s Hassenfield Children’s Hospital ...

Sunday, June 1st, 2003

Ashik Mene and Rino Stephani

Ashik Mene, a Turkish Cypriot artist living in the north part of Nicosia, was welcoming and unsurprised when he heard American English on his mobile phone. In a typically Cypriot way, word had already arrived that a foreign artist wanted to speak with him. It happened when he was waiting at the border crossing from … Continued

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

Melissa Meyer

Melissa Meyer is big in Japan. Not in the euphemistic sense applied to rock stars, but literally. She has just completed her largest paintings to date there. Tokyo’s newest skyscraper, the Shiodome City Center, designed by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo, and Associates, is also, at 43 floors, the tallest. Ms. Meyer has created a pair … Continued

Wednesday, January 1st, 2003

David Brody

You have said that your paintings are “family disputes between order and derangement.” Can you talk about that? That’s just a metaphor that came to me; it doesn’t reveal itself in the final product in a literal way. It’s something that happens in my brain, the working out of the painting process. And I guess … Continued

Damon Lehrer, Portrait of Richard Estes
Sunday, September 1st, 2002

A Dialogue between Richard Estes and Gregory J. Peterson

I wanted to convince my friend, the photorealist artist Richard Estes, to consent to this interview. We were at dinner, and I said to him, “Richard, I shall lead the story by saying ‘Among the giants in the world of Contemporary Realism Richard Estes is a god.’ How does that sound?” I suppose it worked … Continued