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“Three Questions” — Rachel Collier 
April 10, 2026 · V2, Issue 22 What if painting holds contradictions instead of resolving them? Rachel Collier uses painting to give shape to intensity without reducing it—where image and object, visible and invisible, all stay in play. Forms shift across scale, building spaces that feel both familiar and unstable. The invisible isn’t depicted. It’s activated. Full interview at gideonsbakery.net and see her show at @hairandnails_nyc #GideonsBakery #ThreeQuestions #RachelCollier #painting estions #RachelCollier #Painting

“The dopamine hit of finding a painting is delayed—but always worth it.” Painter Jennifer Coates on discipline, attention, and working through resistance. New Three Questions interview at Gideon’s Bakery. 
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“I’m always looking for ways to trick a painting into existence.” Samuel Windett on frustration, emergence, and the moment a painting starts affecting the nervous system instead of the intellect. Three Questions — Gideon’s Bakery #gideonsbakery #samuelwindett #contemporarypainting #artistinterview

Three Questions — Kevin Ford Vol. 2, Issue 19 is live. Kevin Ford on painting’s basic absurdity — and why sincerity matters more than irony. On swearing in the studio. On taking a joke seriously. On what can unfold in five quiet minutes of looking. If you care about commitment, presence, and the stakes of colored mud, this one’s for you. Read it at gideonsbakery.net #GideonsBakery #ThreeQuestions #PaintingToday

New 3 Questions interview! Painter Matt Bollinger on why individuality in painting can’t be forced—and only shows up through process. From paint alchemy and problem-solving to following side paths when the work starts to shift, this Three Questions conversation is about how paintings slowly become themselves. Volume 2, Issue 18 
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Amy Winstanley reflects on balance not as harmony, but as an uneasy, intuitive state—one that remains open in both the studio and the viewing experience. The conversation considers how paintings can hold space for uncertainty, familiarity, and flux without resolving into fixed meaning. Read the full interview at Gideon’s Bakery
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Painting, for Ben Styer, is not just an image-making process — it’s a way of being present, a way of risking something real. In our latest interview, he speaks candidly about fear, freedom, and why the studio can feel like one of the last places where attention still matters.
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New on Gideon’s Bakery! Painter Catherine Haggarty talks with us about painting as a call-and-response, a forever language that stays alive in the studio and beyond. She reflects on wood grain and folds, slow growth and sudden interruption, and the echoes between forms that never quite settle. Full interview at Gideon’s Bakery (link in bio). #CatherineHaggarty #GideonsBakeryInterviews #ContemporaryPainting #PaintersOnPainting #ArtistInterview #ArtProcess #StudioPractice #BrooklynArtist #NYCArtScene #ArtDialogue #WomenPainters #ArtCommunity

“Painting is the closest I’ve gotten to the subconscious in the waking world.” This week on Gideon’s Bakery, painter and curator Julie Torres (@julieatorres ) opens up about painting as a healing force — a place where impulsivity, impatience, and rage find rhythm, texture, and meaning. She shares how she builds dense, crusted surfaces through a process of layering, destruction, and rediscovery. Read the full conversation at gideonsbakery.net — and get lost in the flow. #JulieTorres #GideonsBakery #PaintingInterview #ArtistInterview #HudsonNY #LABspaceGallery #AbstractPainting #StudioProcess #WomenPainters #ArtDialogue

“Painting, for me, has always been about searching—through form, color, and history—for a glimmer of meaning. I look backward to understand where I stand now.” — Beau Gabriel In our latest interview, painter Beau Gabriel speaks with Emily Sussman about Blackberry Rondo (Carvalho, NY 2025): a series that braids Renaissance memory, California light, and the strange persistence of family history. 
From Pontormo’s restored Deposition to the flooded pastures of Marin County, Gabriel reflects on art as an act of inheritance—personal, cultural, and imagined. 🎨 Read the full conversation at gideonsbakery.net #GideonsBakery #ThreeQuestions #BeauGabriel #EmilySussman #ContemporaryPainting #Pontormo #RenaissancePainting #CaliforniaLandscape #MemoryAndPlace #BlackberryRondo #CarvalhoGallery #EmergingPainter #ArtInterview #PaintingLives

✨ Three Questions with Clare Kambhu ✨ September 30, 2025 · Volume 2, Issue 12 “Painting lets me slow down and alter how I see, process, and interact with everything around me.” In this new interview, Clare Kambhu reflects on how painting turns the ordinary into possibility and play, how kinship with other painters sustains her, and how painting becomes a way to experience and record time itself. Read the full conversation now at Gideon’s Bakery (link in bio). #GideonsBakery #ThreeQuestions #ClareKambhu #ContemporaryPainting #ArtistsOnInstagram #PaintingLife #ArtAndEducation #StudioPractice #LightAndTime

Gideon’s Bakery: Three Questions with Aviv Benn “When I was first asked what I like about painting, my immediate reaction was: I don’t like painting!” From there, Aviv Benn describes her practice as both a love affair and a Sisyphean struggle. The hypnotic immediacy of a great painting across the room, the obsessive battle in the studio, the restless reworking — for Benn, this tension is what keeps the work alive. She likens painting to a long relationship: sometimes ecstatic in its lightning-bolt moments, other times sustained through daily chiseling and steadfast devotion. In her words, “It is the love affair that makes the daily work worthwhile, and it’s the never-ending pursuit that keeps what drew me in alive.” Benn’s reflections trace the lineage of painters like Rothko and Guston, whose journeys reveal the years of searching behind the succinct clarity we now associate with their work. Her own pursuit insists on this same honesty: letting paintings shift and breathe, even as the artist grows alongside them. Aviv Benn is a London-based artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, with recent residencies in Berlin, Portugal, and East London. #avivbenn #gideonsbakery #painting #contemporarypainting #studio