I have been a busy bee! Several art fairs, a couple of solo shows, a bunch of group shows. There’s a momentum with demand for my work, and I have the energy to paint, so I’m practically living and breathing oil paint.

Pretty much immediately, there was attention from all over the world. I’ve gotten in touch with so many wonderful curators, galleries, and most importantly, other artists. I’m forever grateful!

I am still inspired by New York City. Things have been hard lately and we fantasize about leaving, but then I realize where else can I just take the subway and see Holbein? Matisse? Cecilia Vicuna? The other night, we went to the Metropolitan Opera to see Akhnaten. It was the last performance, so who comes out to take a bow? Philip Glass! We walk out into Lincoln Center Plaza and there’s Silent Disco, a free Summer event where people are dancing their butts off to the music coming through rented headphones with a giant disco ball spinning in the center. Where else can you get that?

"Damaged Goods" by Gang of Four, "Paroles Paroles" by Dalida & Alain Delon, "If My Friends Could See Me Now" by Linda Clifford, "Schoner Fremder Mann" by Connie Francis, "I do, I do, I do" by Abba, "4:44" by Jay-Z, "Angst In My Pants" by Sparks, "I Want to Be Like You" by Louis Prima, "Starless" by King Crimson, "Souvenirs" by Voyage, "Je Cherche Un Homme" by Eartha Kitt, "Back In Love Again" by Donna Summer, "Amarcord" by Nino Rota, "Trans Europe Express" by Kraftwerk, "Sanssouci" by Rufus Wainwright, "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" by David Bowie, "Only Yesterday" by The Carpenters. Oops, I can’t stop!

I'm looking forward to the Yaddo artist residency in July. In August, I will be going back up to Brattleboro to do a community project, “Chalk on the sidewalk.” I will station people throughout, and they will create whatever drawing they wish. Meanwhile, I will draw something–some kind of connector, like branches, conduit or veins to connect them all. We will have a crazy entity/tree-like form at the end. My bucket list place is Morocco and we are going in October for my birthday. I have total cabin fever and wanderlust from Covid hell!

Duncan Hannah’s (RIP) 20th Century Boy. Re-reading Lucy Lippard’s From the Center.

Cut-offs, top and bottom. Birkenstocks.

I’ve been busy! I’ve had a few shows, most recently New Lands with Josh Lilley in London. It was great to show there again. The last few were COVID-disrupted. Other than that, you’ll mostly find me at the lake with my little daughter, Ada.

It was such an interesting global experience. My first real involvement with a virtual platform and it was incredible to see the international engagement. I had lovely messages from around the world, and one of the works ended up doing a huge tour and ending up back in Berlin!

I’m looking forward to being with my family in Devon in July. We’ve all been apart a lot and live in various places, and it will be amazing to all be reunited. I can’t wait to meet my twin sister Maddy’s first baby, Opal. Seeing our little ones together will be a magical moment.

Looking very closely at a ladybird with Ada’s magnifying glass, seeing my boxing coach Ferdi Pilz destroy his opponent in the second round and diving into cold water with good mates in Cava Grande, Sicily.

"Father Time" by Kendrick Lamar. "On My Mind" by Jorja Smith. "I Drink Wine" by Adele.

I’m excited to be in New York again soon and in Nice with a good friend.

Fat City by Leonard Gardner.

Football shorts, T-shirt, slides.

Making pencil drawing studies for future paintings.

Enjoyed seeing my work in the good company of others.

Looking forward to create more value, not only $$$ value but cultural value as well.

Taking candid photos in my neighborhood in the morning light and making small series of images with titles like RED HOT & GREY NUN.

I'm Free at Last by Hank Williams.

Nights on my rooftop with friends.

Le Pouvoir Absolu by Damien Malige.

Barefoot and boxer underwear.

I am looking forward to showing new paintings at the Armory Show this September with Sargent's Daughters. I’m also looking forward to going to Long Island this summer with my five-year-old son and husband.

I've been looking at Francis Picabia's machine drawings from the 1910s, especially the ones he did for the Dada publication 291. I am experimenting with reimagining these drawings through today's lens.

Since we're doing a '90s theme, one of my favorite summer songs is "Saints" by the Breeders.

I’m excited to lurk in the shadows and air-conditioned spaces away from the sun and heat.

I am reading Pure Colour by Sheila Heti, which you'll love if you enjoy crying.

Jean shorts, T-shirts, gold jewelry, giant sunglasses.

I’ve been working in the studio on new ceramic sculptures and drawings for my solo show, Significant Otherness, that was at Mother Gallery in Tribeca last month.

I’m excited about the 8th Biennial of Contemporary Art, organized by the Fundación ONCE in Madrid, which is a group show of women artists, many of whom I admire. I have a sculpture included, and I hope to visit Spain for the first time to see it when it opens.

"California" by Angel Olsen.

Just being outside in the sun.

I have a lot on my reading list—books by Georgina Kleege, essays by Joan Didion, and short stories by Karen Russell.

My Maison Kitsune tee with an embroidered rainbow fox head on its breast.

The last 12 months have been very busy with shows, and so far in 2022, I’ve had two back-to-back solo presentations. The most recent, Here Comes the Night, with Spencer Brownstone Gallery closed on April 30, and this also marked the conclusion of an extensive two-year work process through which I reconnected with my European heritage–in particular Early Renaissance painting.

Thank you very much for both invitations to participate. It’s an honor and great pleasure working with you. I’ve been enjoying each month’s dense selection and wide spectrum of international artists a lot.

I’m fascinated to see how my work is presented, and how context gets built through images, features and questionnaires–very inspiring, and for sure I learned a lot.

My current travels. I just got back from Florence, where I revisited many of my favorite Early Renaissance paintings, such as Botticelli’s Primavera, Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Uffizi Gallery (I went two days), Fra Angelico’s frescos in the Museo of San Marco, and the Giottos in the Basilica of Santa Croce. It was astonishing to see these paintings in real life, after living and painting through them in my imagination for so long in my studio in Brooklyn. They played a crucial part in my making of the past years, and three of these historical works are directly referenced in my current presentation on Platform.

I also love the Italian enjoyment of life, and the meeting of their nonchalance and their profound tradition of art, which is everywhere you look. On the contrary, Germany, especially the rural side where I’m from and am staying right now, is quiet and rather empty. I especially notice this now, having spent the last two years in New York City due to the Covid pandemic travel ban. It’s important for me to be connected to my roots, for all kinds of growth, and it’s crucial for the European-American crossover of my work.

"Faith" by George Michael, and it’s always good to have an Italian pop song in the mixI pick "Azzurro" by Adriano Celentano.

I can’t wait to be back to my studio in Brooklyn, loaded with ideas from traveling.

I’ll be surviving NYC’s heat painting next to the AC. Even though I’m not made for the hot humid summer at all, I love the laziness of August in New York City.

I’m currently enjoying the cool summer weather and long days and nights in Northern Germany–the endless hours of sunset with twilight still happening at 10:30pm at the moment. I love these varying blues and when the last ray of light finally fades out, the birds suddenly halt their singing. But just before ending they become louder and louder the darker it gets and really give their all, as if there won't be a tomorrow.

I’ll definitely read Joan Didion’s Blue Nights in the original English. (I just reread it in German after I found it in the attic in my storage boxes.)

I’ll probably be living in my oversized lilac linen dress, so good that this “tent fashion” arrived–very friendly for the northern lights like me, breezy and spacey. I hope this trend lasts forever.