In The Studio: Fall 2026

“Photography came to me through my paintings. My studio practice already began with found photographs, and after years of deciding what an image holds onto and what it surrenders, it made picking up a camera feel like the same question approached from the other side. Shooting in Sam's studio was the easiest I have ever felt behind a camera, partly because I love them and partly because their work, even at its most spare, already functions as a kind of portrait. The room was doing half the describing before I framed anything. These images matter because they hold a version of someone I care about that no one can really pose for, which is the same thing I look for in paintings – an image that keeps a trace of both the person and the process that made it.”