Alison Judd,
Nighttime Reading, oil on canvas, 40″ x 30″ 2023
“I don’t know why exactly, but I’m attracted to gaps and injustice and have a missionary conversion complex that refuses to tolerate the bland, the banal, and the boring. I have some bizarre flaw that wants the world to be perfect. And colorful. And interesting. And fun.” -Steve Van Zandt, Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir Wouldn’t it be exciting if every day were
filled with joyful surprises? If every moment, we could expect things to take the path of what is right and what is intriguing? Alas. Life is, at the core, rather banal much of the time. And yet, I would argue, this is perhaps what makes it great. After all, if everything we did was a spectacle of vibrancy, those moments would become mundane themselves. I posit that the big moments are so wonderful because of the slow, normal rhythm of life. Esther Sibiude sat down with us to chat about her show, The Big Crunch, which recently ran at Entrance in NYC. The title comes from the scientific theory of compression in opposition to the big bang. Also a writer, she found the combination of words appealing and a humorously dramatic title to a show that contains somewhat modest colored pencil drawings. To learn more about Sibiude,
including her work as a writer and harpist, listen to the complete interview. Alison Judd joined us to talk about the group show Vitality on view at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery until August 20. Three of her paintings appear in the show. Judd tends to be quite intuitive in her work and works with memory quite a lot. Though she works in oil, she thins the paint down so that it almost becomes like watercolor creating an effect that almost glows. To learn more about her process, work and other things, listen to the complete interview. Read the summary of this week's interviews and
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