“I feel like I can be a little braver here because I can shut the door, it’s just me. I don’t feel like there [are] all these eyes on every decision that I make,” Baxter explains. “It’s nice to have that privacy so you can make a really ugly painting and not worry about it. There’s a freedom here that I really like.”
“I kind of like having a house that’s equal parts studio, school, storage facility and, I don’t know, lair in the super villain sense,” Michael Oatman. Photo by Richard Lovrich.
“The show itself is not so much about just skateboarding, but about the community of it and how there are so many creators and artists involved in the skate community,” curator Belinda Colón says.
“This piece is called ‘Journey.’ It is about immigrants. I wanted to show the positive side of immigration as a whole journey because I feel like the image we get is very negative that doesn’t paint the whole picture for me. There is hope, there are dreams, there is some beauty there and I wanted to communicate that here,” Arzu Fallahi. Photo by Richard Lovrich
“It’s been tremendously inspiring,” says Greenblat on living in Catskill. “I think in New York City there is so much pressure there from every angle and you don’t even notice it. Photo by Richard Lovrich.
Despite his efforts at control in his work, there is the sense that a random moment in a process has been frozen, its progress stayed by his intent. Photo by Richard Lovrich.