With the current solo show Inside the Artist’s Studio at Cristin Tierney Gallery in Chelsea and an eponymously titled book, recently published by Princeton Architectural Press, Joe Fig was a natural choice for the Art Talks at the 92nd Street Y.
Joining the ranks of Jewish Museum Deputy Director Jens Hoffmann, Serpentine Gallery Director of International Projects Hans Ulrich Obrist and New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz, who will all be speaking at the Y later this fall, Fig put together a panel of artists that he interviewed in the book for a talk this past Monday.
When Fig visited the studios of the 24 artists featured in the book, he was less interested in the work hanging on the walls than he was in their practice itself. Taking photos and talking to the artists, he focused on how they made the work, where they made it and the daily routines that produced it.
