Hollis Sigler 1983: An Interview

Chicago-based painter Hollis Sigler discusses the influences and development of her work, from her early huge paintings of underwater swimmers to the wild, explosive, scratchy, dramatic autobiographical paintings of interiors for which she is known. “The sexuality that exists in the drawings isn’t meant as a focus, except for the feeling part of it. How it’s read by other people I never intended to be important. Some people look at them and wonder if it is a man and a woman or a woman and a woman—what’s the sexuality of these people? I can only say that sexuality enters into every relationship... whether it is with our parents, our siblings, or our friends. They are all like love affairs,” Sigler says in this interview with Kate Horsfield.

A historical interview originally recorded in 1983 and re-edited in 2005.