Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process - Softcover

Trigg, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616891327 ISBN 13: 9781616891329

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Synopsis

Artist and writer Sarah Trigg embarked on an ambitious field expedition across the United States in 2009, interviewing more than two hundred artists in their studios. Through conversations with a wide spectrum of painters, performance artists, sculptors, photographers, video artists, and others, Trigg set out to investigate contemporary artmaking practices. The result is Studio Life , a fascinating photographic and written account of visits with one hundred of these artists, including William Wegman, Pat Steir, John Baldessari, Carol Bove, Rashid Johnson, Peter Halley, Fred Tomaselli, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw, Michelle Grabner, Tauba Auerbach, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Dana Schutz, David Altmejd, and many others. Trigg asks her subjects to share the stories behind significant objects and working habits, focusing on six categories: mascots, collected objects, rituals, makeshift tools, residue, and habitats. These talismans and behaviors provide a framework for artists to reveal insights into their practices and the nature of the creative life. Intriguing and often humorous anecdotes emerge-of one studio's mysterious sealed vault, another's resident bunny-and countless sources of inspiration are unearthed: vintage comics, purses, and kitschy figurines; faded yearbooks and treasured cards and letters; and one handwritten reminder to Quit Feelin' Sorry for Yourself." In addition, a visual index provides an image and biographical information for each artist. Accessible and relevant for amateur aesthetes and art-world professionals alike, Studio Life offers an insider's view of the artistic process, an alternative approach to understanding art, and a compendium of today's most compelling work."

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Trigg is an artist, writer and, for the past three and a half years, she has been photographing and writing for The Goldminer Project (www.thegoldminerproject.com), which served as the springboard for Studio Life. Her work has been exhibited widely in venues in New York and across the United States, including the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY), and the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, North Carolina). Her work has recently been featured in Modern Painters, The Art Newspaper, Art and Auction, The New York Times, Cultural Politics, Artinfo.com and in the book Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies (Polity Press).

From the Back Cover

In 2009, artist and writer Sarah Trigg embarked on an ambitious field expedition across the United States, interviewing more than two-hundred artists in their studios. She sat down with everyone-from painters to performance artists-to investigate a wide range of art-making practices. The result is Studio Life, a fascinating photographic and written account of one hundred of her most illuminating visits. Trigg asks her subjects to share objects and working habits in six categories: mascots, collected objects, rituals, makeshift tools, residue, and habitats. These talismans and behaviors provide a framework for artists to reveal insights into their practices and the nature of the creative life. Intriguing and often humorous anecdotes emerge-of one studio's mysterious sealed vault, another's resident bunny-and countless sources of inspiration are unearthed: vintage comics, purses, and kitschy figurines; faded yearbooks and treasured cards and letters; and one handwritten reminder to "Quit Feelin' Sorry for Yourself." Accessible and relevant for amateur aesthetes and art-world professionals alike, Studio Life offers an insider's view of the artistic process as well as a snapshot of the most interesting work being produced today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616891327
• ISBN 13: 9781616891329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256