Artist Charisse Weston Opens Up Her Studio and Explains How a Curator's Hilariously Unkind Remark Told Her She Was Doing Something Right | Artnet News

The Queens Museum is hosting Weston's first institutional solo show.

The Houston-born, New York-based artist Charisse Weston’s work is not meant to be easy. Combining text, glass, collaged images and the like, it explores the “reticent poetics underlying Black life,” according to the Queens Museum, where her first solo institutional exhibition, titled “On the occasion of the show, we spoke with the artist about her use of glass, who she calls when she feels stuck on an artwork, and the latest Dia Foundation show she can’t stop thinking about.

Lastly, I’m starting a fellowship at Bard Graduate Center, so I’ll also be doing more research on black archives of resistance, intimacy, and architecture. How many hours do you typically spend in the studio, what hours do you work, and what activities fill the majority of that time? If I’m working out of my apartment I usually have the news on as background noise. If I’m in my studio I’m usually listening to audiobooks—I just finished Marlon James’sWhat tool or art supply do you enjoy working with the most?

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