Vera Iliatova recalls the last days of the Soviet Union and adapting to life in New York in relation to her paintings, which depict teenage girls caught in a maelstrom of nostalgia.

Hugo Montoya details how a lifestyle of beachcombing and photographing led to a discipline of making simple, gestural sculptures out of common materials and found objects.

Ben Gould tells how a recent diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome precipitated a career shift to performance art, through which he mines the expressive potential of his body's unpredictable energies.

Mary Chatham explains her process as discovery through materials, leaving preconceived ideas at the studio door, and embracing the in-between.

Anne Lindberg talks about the temporal effects of landscape, literature as confidence, and discipline as generators for her work.

Coversations with Tabitha Soren, Carroll Dunham, Hugh Hayden, Lesley Lokko, Cheryl Donegan, Kevin Bewersdorf, Nanette Burstein, Mark Dion, Elaine Mayes, Olaf Breuning, Heidi Ewing, Chris Martin, Luc Sante, Laurie Lambrecht, Chelsea Culprit & Mary Carlson.

Culprit talks about the expectations placed on female identity and visual strategies for overturning gender stereotypes.

Carlson shares her enthusiasm for the lives of female saints and their various depictions in Medieval and Renaissance art.

Lambrecht elaborates a mindset of careful observation, knitting, and playing with the edges of the natural and social orders in which we live.

Sante discusses teaching writing, anarchist legacies, and valuing histories of everyday life--including his own--through old photographs and ephemera.