in the boxes i received last week, the boxes with my 700 letters, was an image by marcia resnick. i collected this work in the 70's, it was a time of narrative art, the work that was close to my heart. Below, excerpts from an interview with Marcia Resnick:





For your piece captioned “She was often gripped with the desire to be elsewhere”, how did that desire take you to New York City?

MR: That desire took me “all the way” from Brooklyn to Manhattan when I moved there at sixteen years old to study art at NYU and then, Cooper Union after which I went to graduate school in California at California Institute of the Arts. That desire also took me to Europe, Mexico, Central America, Morocco, Egypt and the South Seas and Japan and China in years to come.

This work was made in 1978, a very edgy period in New York City’s history. Did your environment in any way play into the themes you are exploring here?

MR: I moved to Tribeca in 1975. I was teaching photography at Queens College and NYU. I did the bulk of the work on “Re-visions” in 1976. It took two years to get it published, during which time I frequented artist’s bars and music clubs at night and Soho art galleries on weekends. There was a palpable electricity in the cultural milieu of NYC at that time. The downtown artists scene was a hotbed of aesthetic creativity. I drew inspiration from the contemporary art and music scenes.