“I wanted to make urban paintings. I wanted to make paintings about peoples’ lives.” —Mary Weatherford
With her first solo exhibition at Gagosian this September (and the next school year just around the corner), here’s a video of painter Mary Weatherford revisiting her college years at Princeton University. Weatherford (Class of ’84) explains how her artistic process developed at school—she originally attended on a theater scholarship—and how stumbling upon neon helped her capture “the complex symphony of human experience.”