Inside the Artist's Studio - Softcover

Fig, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616893044 ISBN 13: 9781616893040

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2015

Synopsis

A follow-up to Inside the Painter’s Studio: 24 thought-provoking interviews with artists from a range of disciplines: painters, sculptors, photographers, and video artists. Fig has created a sculpture or painting of each artist's studio that accompanies each interview.

About this title

About the Author

Joe Fig is an artist born and raised in Seaford, Long Island, New York. After college, he lived for three years in Woodstock, New York. At age 23, he was the youngest member elected to the Woodstock Artists Association Board of Directors in its seventy-year history. He lived in Central Pennsylvania, Amish country, for a time, and spent a summer in Europe studying sculpture and art. He lived in New York City for twelve years before moving to Connecticut, where he currently lives with his wife and two boys. Part craftsman, humorist and historian, Fig creates intricate and realistic sculptures of artists and their studios, which reveal insights into their personality through their working style and practice. Fig's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States. He is the recipient of The Space Program, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Grant; a Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visual Arts; a Lucille Blanch Award, Woodstock Artists Association; and a Francis Criss Award, School of Visual Arts.

From the Back Cover

What was your earliest childhood artwork that received recognition? When did you first consider yourself a professional artist? How has your studio's location influenced your work? How do you choose titles? Do you have a favorite color? Joe Fig asked a wide range of celebrated artists these and many other questions during the illuminating studio visits documented in Inside the Artist's Studio-the follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 book, Inside the Painter's Studio. In this remarkable collection, twenty-four painters, video and mixedmedia artists, sculptors, and photographers reveal highly idiosyncratic production tools and techniques, as well as quotidian habits and strategies for getting work done: the music they listen to; the hours they keep; and the relationships with gallerists and curators, friends, family, and fellow artists that sustain them outside the studio.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616893044
• ISBN 13: 9781616893040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256