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This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s artistic process. The fragmented commentary opens with a remark touching on the artist’s personal psychic connection to art-making. Following this comment, Neiman delves in to a brief discussion of…

This winding note from LeRoy Neiman provides a kind of off-the-cuff mediation on what it means to be an artist. The note touches on everything from personal anecdote (e.g. a design instructor at SAIC telling a student, “Sweetie, your problem is you…

This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s process. In fact, the writing serves to work against the conception the artist has a “process”. Neiman states, “Art Process / OK? / BUT!”. He then continues on to describe the dynamic role colors…

This brief note from LeRoy Neiman theorizes artistic process. He writes, “To (process) painting is to confirm / It’s not the destination / It’s the journey.” The remark then insinuates to find both painting and process, one must paradoxically…

This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s artistic process. Knitting together his work for Playboy, likeness for travel and leisure culture, as well as the causal compulsiveness with which he makes his work, Neiman provides a generalizing…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at the role of spectatorship in the artist’s creative process. Both comparing the making of his work to activities (e.g. “physical play” or “taking part in the competition”) as well as immersing himself in the hustle…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks the evolution of the artist’s process. The document is divided into three sections. First, one in which Neiman compares himself to a machine, and his work to automation. Second, a brief musing on “style”. And third,…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at the effects of aging on his vision and, by extension, artistic style.

This note from LeRoy Neiman interrogates the conceptual overlap of painting/staging portraits and self-fashioning. Neiman’s writing meanders from a mention of wearing a Panama hat when he was 25 to stating, “when painting a commissioned portrait the…

This note from LeRoy Neiman plays on the notions of portraiture and self-fashioning. Drawing comparisons between his own changing (or unchanging) appearance and at of Abraham Lincoln, the artist speaks to slippages between dress and consume.