30 juni 2013

Ron Mueck #3






Ron Mueck's small studio is based in North London. (bron: Design Porteur)

29 juni 2013

George Condo

Artist George Condo, in his studio in Manhattan. (bron: Wallpaper, foto: Matthu Placek)


George Condo in his studio. (bron: Financial Times)

28 juni 2013

Tom Otterness










National recipients of the 2009 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards visit Scholastic Art Award 1971 alum Tom Otterness' studio. (bron: Art & Writings Awards' photostream)

27 juni 2013

Philip Pearlstein #2






An Inside Look at Philip Pearlstein's Studio. Philip Pearlstein invited award recipients on a tour of his studio. Students were treated to an up close look at a professional artist's studio, and had a discussion with Pearlstein about his work, influences and career, New York, 2009. (bron: Art & Writing Awards' photostream, foto's: Jarret Verga)


Philip Pearlstein, uit de fotoserie "Respecting My Elders". (bron: fotovisura, foto: Ellen Wallenstein"

Philip Pearlstein


Philip Pearlstein, New York, NY, 1966. (bron: Afterimage Gallery, foto: John Loengard)


(bron: Lookbooks, foto: Jason Schmidt)

Tracey Emin #4


Tracey Emin in her east London studio. (foto: Karen Robinson)

Mamma Andersson #2


Mamma Andersson: We Work So Closely Without Even Knowing It, 2005.

Mamma Andersson

(bron en foto: Ulla Montan)

"Hi Christian,

It’s very late, as usual, as I sit down at my computer. Thank God no one else is here in my studio. It’s so easy to get stuck here and forget the time.

I think you have a much clearer head than I do. Every time I try to figure out what’s going on in my pictures, I get lost in strange sidetracks. That’s probably why I don’t actually understand how or why I paint. When I work, I try to have the confidence to follow an inner voice—to take away things that bother me, even if they are beautiful or technically good. I paint and repaint, and try to surprise myself without losing course, balancing with one foot in madness and the other in a sensible shoe. What upsets me most is when figures in the paintings sabotage the vibrations. Also when I work too long on the same painting, and the nitpicking gets me stuck.

I often use black spray paint as a sign of bad atmosphere or unspecified threat. In the paintings, time flows together. It is at the same moment both now and then and in the future. Even the subject can be both the observer and one of the elements in the picture at the same time. This is probably because when I’m working, I am everything and everyone at the same time, just as when I was a child playing by myself, I played the parts of all the dolls and their mothers at the same time. I find it easy to slip into other people’s identities. If someone tells a good story, I start fantasizing and find myself right in the middle of it. The same thing happens when I see a good movie: I believe I’m the main character until I find myself back out on the street again. Likewise, when a painting is done, I leave it, even emotionally. I find it difficult to recall what I thought then, at the time I was making a painting, if I think about it now.

My clearest thoughts are mostly around pure painterly formulations, for example, am I going to paint with a thick or thin transparent yellow, or yellow in combination with gray-lilac, or should I work with contours or use a black covering, and so on. My themes come and go, but I don’t believe I control them any more than a psychiatrist controls a patient.

When I start from a photograph, it’s usually the graphic qualities as compared to the atmosphere I feel I can read in the photograph I touch. I’m not sure other people can see what I see in a photograph, but I hope they see it in my finished painting.

Here I go: I’ve wandered onto a sidetrack, and I have no idea what I’m trying to explain. It’s just as sensitive as a turtle’s neck—he tries to protect it as well as he can, and if you try to pet him, he draws in his little head right away.

All the best,

Karin

P. S. On Saturday, snow fell in Stockholm. It’s wonderful, so crystal clear and beautiful, I hope the color stays for a while."
Deel van correspondentie tussen Christian Hawkey en Karin Mamma Andersson tussen 2006 en 2007, gepubliceerd in BOMB magazine 124. (bron: BOMBSITE)

25 juni 2013

Rachel Whiteread #2


Rachel Whiteread in the studio. (bron: BBC, foto:Marcus Taylor)

Rachel Whiteread


(uit: Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios, uitg: Thames & Hudson, foto: Robin Friend)


Rachel Whiteread's studio, 2010. (bron: Phaidon, foto: Nigel Shrafan)

(bron: Culture24)

Acme Studios at Carpenters Road


"Between 1986 to 2011 the former Yardley’s Factory on Carpenters Road, was used as artists’ studios. They were managed by Acme Studios and at the time were the largest single block of studios in Europe with over 500 artists having had studios there during that period. The building was demolished prior to the development of the Olympic Park.
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Over the life of the studios, artists of all ability and success found space to work here including Rachel Whiteread, Fiona Rae, Fiona Banner, Grayson Perry, Jordan Baseman, Simon English, Antony Malinowski, Kate Davies, Andrew Stahl."




Grayson Perry's Studio, 1994.


Jordan Baseman's Studio, 1994.




Rachel Whiteread's Studi0, 1994.


Simon Edmonson's Studio, 1994. (bron: Greatlengths2012, foto's ateliers: Hugo Glendinning)

> Acme Studios

24 juni 2013

Bram Bogart #2


(bron: Loretta Howard Gallery)



"Al 22 jaar woont Bram Bogart nu in Kortenbos, na verblijven in Parijs, Rome, Cannes, Brussel, Ohain,… en nog elke dag werkt de schilder in zijn atelier." (bron: kunstinlimburg)
Lees ook het uitgebreide interview (hk).

Brice Marden #2










Brice Marden's house is located at the backside of the port on the Greek island of Hydra. It was first the residence of the Kriezis family. The house along with its garden covers 0,15 hectares. (bron: DLux Images)

23 juni 2013

Kees Verwey #4


Atelier van Kees Verwey.

Kees Verwey #3


Kees Verwey: Kees Vewey in eigen atelier. (bron: Caput Ovis)

Francis Gruber

Francis Gruber: Atelier, 1946.

22 juni 2013

Charley Toorop #3


Charley Toorop in haar atelier, 1932. (foto: Eva Besnyö)

Brice Marden


Brice Marden at his studio in Tivoli, N.Y.


Studio in Tivoli, N.Y. (foto's: Toni Cenicola)


Brice Marden's studio in Hydra, Greece. (foto: Brice Marden)


Brice Marden in his studio, Eagles Mere, 1995. (foto: Nan Goldin)




Brice Marden in his New York City studio. (foto: Tony Cenicola)




(bron: The New York Times)