In conversation with Andrea Zabric—Binding Time
For our third entry of 2025, Founder and Lead Editor André Hemer and painter Andrea Zabric sit down for a conversation in the lead-up to Zabric’s exhibition Day’s Work, the first in a series of collaborations between Painting Diary and Vienna-based gallerist and curator Alexandra Toth.
In this conversation Zabric gives insights into the unique nature of her studio environments, and how this sensory and spatial experience deeply informs her work. Shaped by time, light, and tactile experimentation, Zabric makes work that moves beyond the static, creating objects that are both shaped and changed by their place in the world.
Cannon Fodder’s Chaos—In conversation with Canyon Castator
Our second entry of 2025 is an interview between our Director and Head Writer Clare Gemima and painter Canyon Castator. This wide-ranging conversation took place at Mohilef Studios in Los Angeles in early 2025. Castator reflects on family, place, and community—and how his past and present practice weaves a multiplicity of visual language into paintings that sample and expand on contemporary culture at large.
A Conversation with||Kim MacConnel: Oral History Interview July-August 2024
Our inaugural Diary piece is an interview between our Director and Head Writer Clare Gemima and painter Kim MacConnel. The Diary section is primarily dedicated to featuring conversations with painters, and critical writing covering current and recent exhibitions around painting. Our approach is to create a conversation around painting that is both intergenerational and worldwide.SPLIT:HERE1 “hi this is a reference citation used for testing purposes”SPLIT:HERE2 Clare’s conversation with Kim delves into a five-decade long practice, spanning from the Pattern and Decoration Movement of the 1970’s through the current day.