Laila Pedro

Laila Pedro interviews painter Joan Semmel whose works were recently on view at at Alexander Gray Associates, New York. Semmel remarks: "I talk about [political and cultural] issues because they’re motivational. But I want the work to be seen as my painting, and the painting has been an essential and complete involvement for me, all

Laila Pedro interviews painter Carmen Herrera on the occasion of Herrera's retrospective Lines of Sight at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The show will be on view from September 16, 2016 - January 2, 2017. In her introduction Pedro notes: "that [Herrera refers to her works as] not paintings, they’re not sculptures—they’re