In the Painter’s Studio, a collection of interviews by artist Joe Fig, explores the practice of 24 contemporary painters by delving into their quotidian habits and customs. Beyond some fascinating insight into the head space behind the easel, we’ve also gleaned a few tidbits that would make for interesting trivia. To wit, Will Cotton only uses six colors of paint on his canvases — white, “a really cold” red, yellow, orange, blue, and sometimes a little green in place of black. Composer Philip Glass was Richard Serra’s only paid assistant in the early days after Yale. Eric Fischl only works on gigantic easels; his partner April Gornik isn’t that kind of artist who sloshes paint on the floor. And quite a few of our favorite contemporary painters never, ever worked as someone else’s assistant. After the jump, we have a pictorial preview of the book plus some questionnaire sound… Read More