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![Joyce Kozloff on Miriam Schapiro](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860124924-TFWJFSLBWZCZCF7W7787/image-asset.jpeg)
Joyce Kozloff on Miriam Schapiro
Among Miriam Schapiro’s works, the black paintings are my favorites. Although she often used color ecstatically, I never felt it came to her easily.
![Virginia Wagner on Doron Langberg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1707194894013-RLETMIW4UD845ZWBEJ4G/doron_landberg_sleep.png.4.2x.generic.jpg)
Virginia Wagner on Doron Langberg
We know that, under those rough, hasty marks, the scene exists in all of the intricacies of life.
![Peter Saul on Paul Cadmus](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1708531619500-201RRE8K48HKTBMT6S8C/coney-island-paul-cadmus.jpg)
Peter Saul on Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus’ Coney Island was the first picture I ever saw, in 1939 when I was 5 years old.
![Phyllis Bramson on Henry Darger](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860121026-AE5PJCT9FASL0MR98POQ/image-asset.jpeg)
Phyllis Bramson on Henry Darger
Henry Darger is a self-taught artist whose life's work was discovered in his Chicago apartment in the months before his death in 1973.
![Joan Semmel on Lisa Yuskavage](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1706133224998-7DK6IRCW2I9WL6DBIEIO/yusli0393-100-600x440.jpg)
Joan Semmel on Lisa Yuskavage
Young women’s yearning to regain their lost childhood without losing the sexual freedoms gained in the new independence is perfectly symbolized in Yuskavage’s images.
![Martha Edelheit on Georgia O'Keeffe: A Reminiscence](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860119336-UTPG9OREOTUOF05V5HIX/image-asset.jpeg)
Martha Edelheit on Georgia O'Keeffe: A Reminiscence
It's 1965. I'm daydreaming in my studio about all the famous, inaccessible artists alive in the world. I think of Georgia O'Keeffe.
![Jason Mones on Leon Golub](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860115326-ZISKBOJGL85OE52SNBLT/image-asset.jpeg)
Jason Mones on Leon Golub
I had the honor of joining Leon Golub and Nancy Spero to preview a Max Beckman show one evening in 2003. Leon needed help physically getting around at this point in his life and I was honored to lend him a shoulder to lean on.
![Benjamin Britton on Julie Mehretu](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860115238-LUUJW7S5O4JW7Z88KHCS/image-asset.jpeg)
Benjamin Britton on Julie Mehretu
I decided to write about Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts): Part II by Julie Mehretu. Although I’ve followed her work for a while, it has become the piece of hers I have seen in situ the most.
![Tony Robbin on Joyce Kozloff](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860114625-GMJN1G8RAKG9QYZDA3T8/image-asset.jpeg)
Tony Robbin on Joyce Kozloff
Joyce Kozloff’s If I Were an Astronomer (Tasman), 2014, has a magical, rich, nocturnal silver-blue light that unifies the work and allows an exuberance of imagery to be seen as a whole.
![Ed Valentine on Ivan Albright](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860114197-QIQU3D45FE6B3CFVWQAC/image-asset.jpeg)
Ed Valentine on Ivan Albright
The first time I saw an Ivan Albright painting was as a sophomore art student, in an art history class at The Columbus College of Art and Design. That was 1970.
![Elizabeth Glaessner on Karin Mamma Andersson](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860110537-CFW9Z9S11UCH3UK0Y92M/image-asset.jpeg)
Elizabeth Glaessner on Karin Mamma Andersson
I discovered the work of Karin Mamma Andersson as an undergraduate while scanning art magazines in the library.
![Matt Bollinger on Gregory Gillespie](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860110430-I60JO9E6NRQLUO34DSKA/image-asset.jpeg)
Matt Bollinger on Gregory Gillespie
In Self-Portrait on Bed, made in 1973-74, Gregory Gillespie paints himself as a not-quite young man, some years older than I am as I write this. He sits on a mattress that sags toward the floor.
![Meena Hasan on Robert Gober](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860110324-M3D53W19P25NBPK5IIOP/image-asset.jpeg)
Meena Hasan on Robert Gober
I recently visited Robert Gober’s The Heart is Not a Metaphor at the MoMA, and at the core of the exhibition was a dark room with Gober’s Slides of a Changing Painting.
![Barbara Friedman on Lisa Yuskavage and “Harnessing Shame”](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860110122-SZPCZ1IAHHFL2ZZUVLCZ/image-asset.jpeg)
Barbara Friedman on Lisa Yuskavage and “Harnessing Shame”
“Okay, go ahead and look all you want, but it's going to be unpleasant for both of us.” - Lisa Yuskavage in an interview with Mónica de la Torre in Bomb magazine[i]
![Anoka Faruqee on Bridget Riley](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860110025-KAS7HRZUJPVXFIDH07Y0/image-asset.jpeg)
Anoka Faruqee on Bridget Riley
Bridget Riley described the experience of viewing her paintings as an “active, vibrating, pleasure,"[i] and was surprised and annoyed that others considered her work painful to look at.
![Margaret Atkinson on Louise Fishman](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65ac2528b17a5502351d9d60/1705860109724-ZRA6QD9BVTE5ACKJCRNV/image-asset.jpeg)
Margaret Atkinson on Louise Fishman
In my memory the painting is titled, “Me and Joe.” It is small, maybe ten by fourteen inches. I am looking at the painting from behind the backs of several classmates who stand clustered around it.