Work in Progress: Speakers Series (Art Talk), 2004 - 2024.
In 2003 I began to document talks given by people in the art world — artists, writers, curators, museum directors, academics and collectors — drawing them, courtroom-style, while also taking notes on their words. I ended up with more than 100 drawings, which in aggregate convey the range of opinions in circulation in the institutional art world of a certain era. The drawings speak of that world’s aspirations, and limitations, from the point of view of the people who run it, and of the people who provide its form and content –– the artists.
This project, now 150 drawings, is now being formatted as a book, with a proposed finish date of December 2025. I will be looking for a publisher.