In this book of interviews, Heidi Zuckerman, Director of the Aspen Art Museum, opens up the studios and practices of more than 25 prominent contemporary artists through personal and illuminating conversations. A perceptive, sensitive interviewer, Zuckerman offers the reader refreshing insights and access to some of the most engaging artists making work this decade. The range of artists appearing in Conversations with Artists testifies to Zuckerman's wide-ranging interests: artists featured include Lutz Bacher, Darren Bader, Walead Beshty, Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, Alice Channer, Cheryl Donegan, Tony Feher, Sergej Jensen, Liz Larner, Adam McEwen, William J. O'Brien, Rob Pruitt and Pedro Reyes. Before arriving in Aspen in 2005, Zuckerman previously worked as a curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Jewish Museum, New York, organizing shows with artists including Lutz Bacher, Darren Bader, Walead Beshty, Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, Alice Channer, Cheryl Donegan, Tony Feher, Sergej Jensen, Liz Larner, Adam McEwen, William J. O'Brien, Rob Pruitt and Pedro Reyes. In Aspen, Zuckerman has transformed the Aspen Art Museum into a pioneering, risk-taking institution showing artists like Danh Võ, Mickalene Thomas, Lutz Bacher and Lorna Simpson, and in the process, made a name for herself as one of the leading museum directors in the US. Thanks to Aspen Art Press (Aspen). 244 pages, 15 x 23 cm, hardcover, Aspen Art Press (Aspen).
