“The thread that [Resnick] holds on to is often short and frail – it is dropped many times. He has said that for him, painting is no more than sustaining an emotion long enough to make it visible.”
The Milton Resnick and Pat Pasloff Foundation recently opened to the public in Resnick’s former studio and home at 87 Eldridge Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The building’s exhibition spaces are now open to the public. In this entrancing video, we watch as Resnick paints a work on paper in 1998 in his summer studio near the Shawangunk mountains in the Hudson River valley of New York. The audio is from a 1967 radio interview with Resnick in Madison, Wisconsin, where he was a visiting professor of art.