The Artmere Journal
Stories from the studio, notes on collecting, and a closer look at the rooms art calls home.
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The paintings that survive year two
A collection of letters from collectors in the second year reveals a pattern: the paintings chosen quickly, for mood and color, often find their...
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The paintings that never leave
For every painting that leaves the Brooklyn atelier, two or three never do. They stack face to the wall in a corner I do...
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The painting after Mother's Day
In the Brooklyn atelier, the painting given to a mother almost never arrives on the holiday. It arrives on a Tuesday, eight to ten...
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Notes from the Studio
Every painting begins somewhere quieter than the room it eventually lives in. A first entry from the studio on how a piece becomes what...
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Wednesday pigment
On Wednesday morning I open the pigment cabinet, and what happens there decides the color of the next five days of painting. A note...
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The year I stopped counting canvases
For nine years I counted finished canvases at the end of December. The number was always too small and never told the truth. In...
