Current Favorite Artist:

So, right now I've been really digging Richard Prince, specifically his Nurses series. These are the kinds of paintings that inspire me to create. "Tender Nurse," especially, not simply because it sold for a higher price than any of his others ($2,256,000 at a Phillips de Pury auction last November), but because it is such a gorgeous painting and I have had the distinct privilege of seeing it close-up. In fact, I removed it from its stretcher, folded it, wrapped it and delivered it to its new owner, then re-stretched it and hung it for him.



Hard to say that it required any particular technical drawing skill, but it is so simple and evocative, so precisely what the best Prince paintings are, that it really does it for me.


I'm really hoping that this move to Baltimore, among other things, helps re-ignite my desire to paint and draw. I know I'll miss the interaction with top artists that I had in NYC, but I really feel that the accessibility of the art scene here, combined with its gritty vibrance, is what I need to kick myself in the pants and start producing again.


So, who's your current favorite artist?