I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
—
Li Young Lee
Two Drawings (Two Heads) by Kerry James Marshall
- Paul Chan by Nell McClister
- Susan Wheeler by Robert Polito
- Allan Sekula by Edward Dimendberg
- George Steel by William Wegman
- Luc Tuymans and Kerry James Marshall
- Miranda July by Rachel Kushner
- Tony Conrad by Jay Sanders
- Carolyn Cantor by Betsy Sussler
- Heather McHugh by Mattea Harvey
Interviews
- The Portrait by Mary Morris
- Nine Come by Elana Greenfield
- Two Stories by Peter Orner
- Waters of Forgetfulness by Mark Swartz
- The Horse Thieves of Rockaway Beach by Mark Magill
- Three Poems by Patricia Spears Jones
- The Proposal by Michael O'Keefe
- Money and God by Susan Wheeler
- Heather McHugh by Mattea Harvey
First Proof
- Beth Campbell by Don Shillingburg
- Paul Ramirez Jonas by Saul Ostrow
- John Newman by Laurie Simmons
- Sue de Beer by Nancy A. Barton
Artists On Artists
- Godlike by Richard Hell by Alan Licht
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn by Lucy Raven
- Daniel Clowes’s Ice Haven by Paul W. Morris
- John Convertino’s Ragland by James Merle Thomas
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady by Lawrence Chua
- Harry Mathews’s My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Brandon Stosuy
- Bill Carter’s Fools Rush In by Jim Breithaupt
- Jim Hodges’s Look and See by Dan Tranberg
Editor's Choices
Kerry James Marshall, Drawing (Two Heads), (study for vignette), 2005, ink on board, 20 × 16 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.
Related
MOLLY, MERCY, MADELINE,
MYRA, MAGGIE, MEREDITH,
MARLEY, MAGDA, MARGARET,
MINDY, MILLIE, MAGDALA,
MYRNA, MOIRA, MARIANNE,
MARLA, MAURA, MARIGOLD,
MEGHAN, MARY, MILLICENT,
MAITE, MAPLE, MITZI.
Martin Wilner is an artist and psychiatrist. For his ongoing Case Histories—a series of portraits each completed over the course of a month—subjects send him daily dispatches that are woven into the drawings. Novelist Francis Levy calls the process “a mini analysis of sorts.”
Originally published in
BOMB 92,
Summer 2005
Featuring interviews Edward Dimendberg and Allan Sekula, Luc Tuymans and Kerry James Marshall, Nell McClister and Paul Chan, Sue de Beer and Nancy A. Barton, Heather McHugh, Susan Wheeler, Miranda July and Rachel Kushner, William Wegman and George Steel, Tony Conrad and Jay Sanders, and Carolyn Cantor.
