Process
It seems to me that one of the failures of art today is that so many artists need instant gratification. They are in a big hurry to get to the […]
Patterns
Last week, I compared this painting to Manet’s because it is the inverse of his famous ‘Dejeuner sur l’Herbe’ – here, the nude is male while the female is fully […]
Feminism
I never thought about being a feminist because I never felt discriminated against as an artist. Of course, I never worked in aconventional workplace so I didn’t know how women […]
Skin in the game
When my husband Yehuda and I left Israel and came to Los Angeles – it was right at the beginning of the 60s – he wanted to make a documentary […]
String of pearls
Someone asked me about a comment I made in the little video posted here – what did I mean by ‘ the pain becomes a pearl’? That has to do […]
Making faces
Sometimes people ask me, Why do you paint mostly portraits? That’s not an easy question to answer, but I think it’s because faces just lead me to everything about nature. […]
There are no rules
The more layers you build up the flatter it gets – the stuff is underneath, so it’s not the same thing as putting it down flat. You’re working in the […]
Rothko
I’m discovering Rothko. It doesn’t make me cry, but it is astonishing. Rothko didn’t have that archaic message that Jung talks about at first. . .but he discovered late in […]
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
Vermeer? I think it’s not quite understood how powerful he is, how powerful those paintings are and how they totally reach out to you and tell you everything you have […]
in my studio
A friend made this little video of me in my studio about four years ago:
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