Archive for August, 2010

Jesse Brown.

Jesse Brown.

FROM YOUR DESKS: Talk about your desk and its objects. JESSE BROWN: I have a serious need for objects around me to be aligned in a way that works for me visually, sometimes this gets in the way of making new work, but I should also say thatthese photographs make it seem that my workspace is always [...]

Promila Shastri.

Promila Shastri.

“My “office” occupies the landing of the loft-like house I share with my husband.  It’s a fairly wide space, open on both sides, with a lovely view of our wooded property. The light that enters this space throughout the day is ever-changing, but somehow always perfect, and this is primarily where I do my blogging, [...]

Christina Vantzou.

Christina Vantzou.

“In this case my desk is my dining table.  I’ve opted for the home studio for the past ten years and only have occasional moments of self analysis about whether I get out enough due to the home/studio overlap. I have a desk in my bedroom where I work on music, and I often work [...]

Gloria Baker Feinstein.

Gloria Baker Feinstein.

“I have several different workspaces. And none is very neat or orderly, which is weird because oh you should see my sock drawer! (It’s a bad habit we Virgos have.) This is my main desk. The office is a little pocket in our kitchen. I am surrounded mostly by pictures of my family. These photos [...]

Tish Cohen.

Tish Cohen.

“This desk is a trunk made out of ancient barnboards. It is in the living room of my cottage, up in the Muskokas, Northern Ontario” Born in Toronto, Tish Cohen spent her childhood in Montreal, Toronto, and her ditch-high-school-and-head-to-the-beach years in Orange County and Los Angeles, California.  As an adult, she moved back to Toronto to attend college and [...]

Lauren Gibbes.

Lauren Gibbes.

“My husband (Jason Weatherspoon) and I recently moved back to Asheville, NC after 3 years in NYC. We are still getting settled in, but my desk is actually one of the few areas totally set up.  I got it from my grandmother a few years ago and really love it.  I’m mostly painter but I [...]