But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
—
Nari Ward
The Artist on Holiday by Geralyn Donohue
- Jane Alexander by Stuart Spencer
- John Leguizamo by Stanley Moss
- Mary Shultz by Tod Wizon
- Alan Uglow by Alain Kirili
- James Merrill by Thomas Bolt
- Chuck Connelly by Anney Bonney
- Vito Acconci by Richard Prince
- Amos Poe by Joel Rose
- Jill Eisenstadt by Ethan Silverman
- Ann Hui by Lawrence Chua
- Mira Nair by Ameena Meer
- Joachim Ernst Berendt by Randall Morris
- John Wesley Harding by Andy Craft
Interviews
- The Almanac Branch by Bradford Morrow
- In The Station by Deborah Eisenberg
- There’s Something Very Male About Me by Dodie Bellamy
- The Day Will Come by Maggie Estep
- Teeth. by Max Blagg
- From Another Desert by Agha Shahid Ali
- Till the Crows Turn White by Amy Gerstler
First Proof
- Untitled Drawing by Li Trincere
- Project for Bomb Magazine by Pat Steir
- Untitled Drawing by Richard Nabhan
- Two Paintings by George Mead Moore
- The Artist on Holiday by Geralyn Donohue
- On Our Ten-Year Anniversary by Betsy Sussler
- Three Pyramids by Jacki Ferrar
- Two Drawings by Jeanne Hedstrom
- Little Statuette by Kay Rosen
More
Geralyn Donahue, The Artist on Holiday, 1991, black and white photograph. Courtesy of Postmasters.
Related
This First Proof contains flower images, Memory of Loss by Amanda Means.
This First Proof contains four poems titled “An Intersection of Leaves not Likeness” and “An Intersection of Leaves not Loss.”
Originally published in
BOMB 36,
Summer 1991
Featuring interviews with Vito Acconci, James Merrill, Mira Nair, John Leguizamo, John Wesley Harding, Jill Eisenstadt, Chuck Connelly, Jane Alexander, Amos Poe, Alan Uglow, Mary Shultz, Joachim Ernst Berendt, and Ann Hui.
