Summer

Summer. I make most of my paintings in the summer. I always have since I was a little kid. I can still smell the roses in my uncle Jack’s backyard. I like to paint outside. My studio doesn’t have a roof on it. I can see better, get further away from the paintings, see them in radically different light at different times of day. The weather affects the paintings too, stains, rain, mildew, bleached by the sun, accidents, blown by the wind, nature, at first a distraction interfering then helping. It is an activated system. Freedom of materials set in water and daylight, every summer.

-Julian Schnabel

from JULIAN SCHNABEL SUMMER

PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES 1982 - 2007