Best advice you’ve been given • Maggie: There is no one right way to do something.
Jesse: Make artwork every day.
Goals/Aspirations • Maggie: To further explore representing something through a process of taking out everything unnecessary.
Jesse: Push my own limits through collaboration.
Favorite artist • Maggie: Chris Verene. His images uncover the complexities of family.
Jesse: David Hockney and Sean Scully: Hockney for his unusual perspective and scale and Scully’s seemingly straightforward, yet complex, compositions.
What are you reading • Maggie: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Jesse: Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925 MoMA
Hope to learn how to • Maggie: Think in Spanish.
Jesse: Build a boat.
You spend a lot of time thinking about • Maggie: The issues addressed in whatever podcast I just finished listening to.
Jesse: What’s next in my never-ending list of things to do.
Favorite musical artist • Maggie: Dave Brubeck
Jesse: Phish (Much to Maggie’s chagrin)
What do you do when not creating art • Maggie: Making unhealthy meals from my collection of 1950’s cookbooks.
Jesse: Fixing things around the house.
