As luck would have it, some wonderful Chicago collector friends invited me along on their visit to the studio of Amanda Ross-Ho and her husband, Erik Frydenborg. Amanda is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York, Shane Campbell in Chicago and Cherry + Martin in Los Angeles. Probably best known for [...]

Jay Shinn has studios in both Dallas and New York and I have been interested in seeing his work for some time. Since the second grade Jay has known he wanted to be an artist. He experimented using oil, tempura, and pencil to make both figurative and abstract works, however, it was in the ninth [...]

Tim is a friend to everyone. From the moment he picked me up at the train station, I felt like I had known him for years. Born in Malawi, Tim grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts in a family full of artists. Always extremely curious, Tim has been photographing since he was a child though he [...]

Originally from Southern California and Phoenix, Arizona, Laurel attended Boston for her undergraduate degree. Initially Laurel was interested in dance but at 15, she made the switch to the visual arts and attended an arts high school in Southern California where her family now lives. After dabbling in drawing, photography and painting, she knew she [...]

My initial reaction upon entering the studio of the young artist Juliana Romano is that I was struck by how much I like her paintings. I am always a bit leery when it comes to figurative painting, especially portraits that so intimately capture the sitter. However, in Juliana’s case, there is no sitter, only images [...]

On a perfect day at the end of July the artist Jonathan Prince and his lovely wife, Bridget, invited a handful of people to their home/studio in the Berkshires for a sneak peek at the four pieces that will be included in an upcoming exhibition he is creating for the Sculpture Garden at 590  Madison Avenue [...]

Born in Tripoli, Fawad Khan has lived in Pakistan, Baltimore, and now New York. His environs tremendously impact his artwork; his oeuvre includes drawings with ink and gouache, paintings, wall drawings that incorporate video and installations.
His powerful work, which has most often included subject matter related to suicide bombings and the violence that has become [...]

On a beautiful summer day in June I headed to Grayson Cox’s studio in Bushwick. Originally from Indiana, Grayson moved to New York for a summer residency at SVA about seven years ago. In college he studied Japanese woodblock prints and actually moved to Japan for two years. He also traveled to China, Germany, and [...]

On a rainy Saturday in April I made my way to Chuck Webster’s studio in Bushwick. I had first met Chuck a few years ago at Dieu Donne when he was completing a residency there.
Originally from Binghamton, NY, Chuck learned how to make paintings through copying and experimentation. Up until about 1995 he painted portraits [...]

Mr. Serrano’s home is also his studio and he graciously invited the Junior Associate group of MoMA to come for a visit in early April. As you enter the magnificent space, you can’t help but feel like you are walking into a church. An avid collector of 17th century religious imagery, pietas and pews and [...]