I know you came out to California, specifically Santa Cruz, from Oklahoma with your family a few times beginning in 1949, but it seems that …
Vito Acconci shouldn’t need any introduction. His body of work is so extensive and influence so widespread it renders recapitulation redundant. That said, it can …
Tom Sachs is an American artist, based in New York City, with a talent for putting unlikely things together with a deep antipathy to verisimilitude. …
This interview was originally published in SFAQ issue 11 (November 2012–January 2013). In 1968 Paula Cooper opened the first commercial gallery below Houston Street in …
In early 2015, I approached Laura Owens about doing an exhibition of new work at the Wattis Institute. The Wattis, I remember telling her, would …
For the past year, Jordan Casteel, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, and EJ Hill have occupied the studios on the third floor of the Studio Museum in Harlem, …
This interview was originally published in SFAQ issue 9 (May–July 2012). I wanted to meet Anna Halprin due to my interest in Fluxus. George Maciunas, …
This interview was originally published in SFAQ issue 9 (May–July 2012). She arrives about an hour late, dressed in all black except for a denim …
Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, developed an interest in Bruce Conner’s work soon after relocating to …
As we discuss in the interview, I’ve never seen Leonardo Drew’s works in person. I’ve never been “in” them in the ways that their scale …
There is an old Chinese proverb that tells us: There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the …
Visiting your website is like going down some weird interactive worm hole with endless possibilities. I somehow lost track of about 20 minutes stuck in …
Why did you come to New York? Where are you originally from? I got a Fulbright scholarship to continue my postgraduate work at Temple University’s …
A fragment on cultural influence: I was sitting with about 10 high school students in an empty taco shop on Avenue A—they were in an …
Born in Seattle in 1943, Terry Fox came to San Francisco in the 1960s, and lived and worked between the Bay Area and Europe until …
Devin Troy Strother knows how his work can be perceived and he’s not afraid to talk about it. I joined Strother in his LA studio, …
Lowell, the good folks at SFAQ have given us 2600 words to summarize your colorful life in the art world. Can we do it? You …
In 2014, Lisa Rybovich Crallé and I had an ongoing conversation about combining her sculptural practice with my movement practice to make hybrid, site-specific pieces. …
CAPITAL was founded by Bob Linder and Jonathan Runcio in January 2015. Located in Chinatown in San Francisco, the space was notable for its small …
Since 1979 Evie Leder has been looking at things you are not supposed to. In our conversation, she discusses objects, portraiture, butterfly collections, ghostly presentations, …