Lynn Hershman Leeson in "San Francisco Bay Area"
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Maryam Hoseini's Every Day Abstractions
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An Artist Walks into a BarAki Sasamoto
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From the Executive Director: Behind the Scenes with the Production Team
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New Video: Maryam Hoseini Explores Spaces Between Painting and Drawing
In a new film from our “New York Close Up” series, Maryam Hoseini explores the spaces in between painting and drawing, figuration and abstraction, and the personal experiences embedded in her work and the multiple interpretations viewers can bring to it.
Louise Despont
Stephanie Syjuco
“That’s what my work is about…seeing the facets of happiness and sadness all in one place.”
Raúl de Nieves
“The most toxic combination in the world is…the certainty of being right and a monopoly of power.”
William Kentridge
“The most important part is the process. It is the actual living and doing and making.”
Barbara Kasten
“Art isn’t a material, it’s not a medium—it’s not a certain product. It is the choices I’ve been able to make.”
Liz Magor
“Drawing is like practicing the piano, because the first ones that I do often don’t come out so I have to practice.”
Joan Jonas
“Beauty is just kind of an accident. Beauty is just a happenstance. Beauty is the remainders of being a painter.”
Kara Walker
“The studio is a sacred place that you come to do some bigger reflection and thinking.”
El Anatsui
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