Artist to Artist: Spencer Sweeney and Peter Doig | Gagosian Quarterly

Peter Doig visits Spencer Sweeney’s studio and the two discuss automatism, ambiguity, and anguish in the creative process.
In addition to making paintings, drawings, and collages characterized by infectious exuberance and raw materiality, Sweeney produces immersive multimedia environments that transform gallery spaces into open workshops and performance stages, exposing the traditionally private realm of the artist’s studio to public scrutiny: on.gagosian.co...
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Artwork © Spencer Sweeney; video: Pushpin Films
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[@akaHORUS2000]

the thing i enjoyed most about this was the matching loafers

[@haret0n]

deck shoes? boat shoes? i preferred peter's shoes as the light colour is unusual. the sweeny guy has such terrible style. hair... hat... and paintings. wow. his whole expression is so slippery and trash. peter is a total genius fox as always. can he really believe the sweeny guy is cool? surely not.

[@mattbray_studio]

excellent conversation. peter's questions are very well aimed and provide great jumping off points for sweeney's insights. thanks

[@billd6069]

Enjoyed this. I really like the observation about Matisse’s Boy at the Piano being a suggestion, and linking that to Sweeney.

[@raineterno8370]

That Egyptian chair in the background is very eye catching.👀 Nice conversation.👍

[@blastsucarta1068]

Crazy eyebrows

[@Chron_Dawg78]

how the heck does he have this studio in NYC?!

[@champagnepaci]

Probably has had it for 40 years and has that rent locked down or owns at 1980's prices.

[@Vatche-o7g]

Plop art

[@051963mf]

Let’s go to the points-what do we see here? Two not very remarkable painters talking about a discipline that by now we know lost any capacity to make waves and to be interesting. These two dudes are there because they have a deal with a big gallery to see how they can make good money-nothing, absolutely nothing else is there.