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    Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    by Christine Wong Yap

    Each of the profiles of contemporary artists in Calvin Tompkins’ The Lives of Artists (2008) includes a story about arriving in New York. But every arrival in New York implies a departure from elsewhere. For me, the cliché about artists “making it” in New York wears thin quickly. The change in location is still registering with me; I feel like a Bay Area artist living in New York. I am trying to establish a new community, network, and locus of activity because I need tangible evidence of a practice; it is my campaign against a fuzzy sense of limbo.

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    Conversation with Kim Anno

    by Bruno Fazzolari

    Being an abstract artist, you're always asking the viewer to participate in the experience of looking at the art work or being with the art work. Any kind of ambiguity causes the viewer to be a participant, and in certain ways, a collaborator of the art work.

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