Mary Jane Jacob

From the back cover:"The Studio Reader pulls back the curtain to reveal the activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their entire lives? This forward-thinking anthology brings together artists, curators, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually at the center of an art world that increasingly crosses institutions, markets, and disciplines."

The studio as resource. Buzz Spector -- Rochelle Feinstein -- Shana Lutker, "Index: dream studio, 2003-2006" -- Michael Smith, "Recipe: perfect studio day" -- John Baldessari, "In conversation" -- The studio as set and setting. Howard Singerman, "A possible contradiction" -- Frances Stark -- Robert Storr, "A room of one's own, a mind of one's own" -- Bruce Nauman, "Setting a good corner" -- Michael Peppiatt and Alice Bellony-Rewald, "Studios of America" -- Annika Marie, "Action painting fourfold: Harold Rosenberg and an arena in which to act" -- Kimsooja -- Barry Schwabsky, "The symbolic studio" -- The studio as stage. David J. Getsy, "The reconstruction of the Francis Bacon Studio Dublin" -- Art & language, "Art & language paints a picture" -- David Reed -- Thomas Lawson -- Charline von Heyl -- Svetlana Alpers, "The view from the studio" -- Rodney Graham, "Studio" -- Joe Scanlan, "Post-post studio" -- Carolee Schneemann, "The studio, June 22, 2009" -- Daniel Buren, "The function of the studio" -- Daniel Buren, "The function of the studio revisited: Daniel Buren in conversation" -- Carrie Moyer -- Marjorie Welish -- Marjorie Welish, "The studio visit" -- Marjorie Welish, "The studio revisited" -- The studio as lived-in space. Mary Bergstein, "The artist in his studio: photography, art, and the masculine mystique" -- Rachel Harrison -- Lynn Lester Hershman, "The studio present" -- Brenda Schmahmann, "Cast in a different light: women and the 'artist's studio' theme in George Segal's sculpture" -- Karl Haendel -- Brian Winkenweder, "The kitchen as art studio: gender, performance, and domestic aesthetics" -- Glenn Adamson, "Analogue practice" -- Amy Granat, "1107" -- David Robbins -- James Welling, "Polaroids, 1976" -- The studio as space and non-space. Jon Wood, "Brancusi's 'white studio'" -- James Welling, "Paris, 2009" -- Caroline A. Jones, "Post-studio/postmodern/postmortem" -- Courtney J. Martin, "The studio and the city: S.P.A.C.E. Ltd. and Rasheed Araeen's Chakras" -- Katy Siegel, "Live/work" -- Suzanne Lacy, "Beyond necessity: the street as studio" -- Walead Beshty, "Studio narratives" -- Andrea Bowers -- Judith Rodenbeck, "Studio visit" -- Lane Relyea, "Studio unbound".

The ARC Digest is meant to archive in print the activities of Chicago’s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to the exhibition and an extension of that project with interviews by Dan Gunn, essays by Abigail Satinsky, The Pond, Scott Speh and John Neff, Mary Jane Jacob and Lori Waxman, and an accompanying audio program by Bad At Sports featuring an interview with Temporary Services and a panel of Chicago artist-run media organizers.

An institutional history of the Hyde Park Art Center published on the occasion of its relocation into its quarters at 5020 S. Cornell Ave.