New York-based artist Hope Gangloff — whose downtown-friendly, primarily pen-and-ink work you might recognize from the pages of the New York Times or My Open Bar’s newsletters — has a show opening tonight at Chelsea’s Susan Inglett Gallery. (Random interesting side note we learned thanks to The Rumpus: Hope’s father in law, Bruce Degen, is the original book illustrator for the Magic School Bus series.) We asked her to give us the back story on one of our favorite pieces, the portrait above. The dramatically different finished version, along with more featured works from the show, after the jump.

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