Can you tell us a bit about your background and how you became interested in becoming an artist?
I recently gave a talk about my work at the New York Studio School where I spoke about being the child of two painters and that none of us thought I’d be an artist myself. It didn’t really occur to me. It was after working in film for a while that I figured out that I wanted to wake up and make something directly instead of working in such a collaborative industry with so much waiting around time. I grew up in downtown New York City and spent a lot of time on the East End of Long Island.
Can you tell us about some of your most memorable early influences?
Because my mother’s studio was at home, I got a close up understanding of how artists spent their time. I watched her mix paint intuitively and observe the rhythms of the day and I was lucky to visit a range of studios of my mother’s artist friends and see what those practices were like. I spent a lot of time with my friends wandering outdoors in the farmland around our house in the country, kind of a free range childhood. That time in flat open spaces would prove influential to the paintings I make now.
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