Preface The painter's studio : an artist's questionnaire Gregory Amenoff Ross Bleckner Chuck Close Will Cotton Inka Essenhigh Eric Fischl Barnaby Furnas April Gornik Jane Hammond Mary Heilmann Bill Jensen Ryan McGinness Julie Mehretu Malcolm Morley Steve Mumford Philip Pearlstein Matthew Ritchie Alexis Rockman Dana Schutz James Siena Amy Sillman Joan Snyder Billy Sullivan Fred Tomaselli Joe Fig interviews Joe Fig Acknowledgments About the artists