by Erik | Sep 3, 2023 | Art making
When I visited the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., last June, I took some snapshots of a guard in the exhibit “The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions.” I told her about my project “Subject: Guard,” painting museum guards. “Why don’t...
by Erik | Aug 15, 2023 | Art making
Guards in museums and art galleries fascinate me. They are there guarding the art on display to ensure we don’t look with our fingers, or touch it with our breath. They are the one fixture in the room that moves, and moving in rotation with their colleagues, from...
