For our second installment in an ongoing series of discussions between artists and their dealers, The Ministry of Artistic Affairs invited Mixed Greens Gallery director/artist manager Heather Darcy Bhandari to interview artist Joan Linder.


Joan Linder is a Buffalo- and Brooklyn-based artist who is best known for her epic-scale quill-pen and ink drawings. Her works are at once highly representational of the real world yet slightly adrift, reflecting her own anxious perspective of the current direction of culture, politics and the products that create the fabricated urban landscape. She strives to capture the contemporary world as she sees it yet because she draws everything by hand in a relatively quick and loose manner, her drawings are filled with minor errors, random drips of ink, and elegant transpositions of line, resulting in quirky and human snapshots of life and the world that surrounds us. Through her personal scrutiny of her immediate surroundings, she seeks to examine the American experience.

Opening this Thursday evening, Mixed Greens Gallery presents "Tuesday", their first exhibition organized by an independent curator. Amani Olu takes the reins and unites an impressive mix of emerging artists to explore and deepen our understanding of the everyday in contemporary art.

Downtown, A Love Story
It's absolutely mutual between Ghislaine Viñas and the owners of this house in TriBeCa

Ghislaine Viñas and Paige West call themselves sisters. These two vivacious women share no DNA, but they connect on every conceivable level, from a madcap sense of humor to a shared passion for color. One recent afternoon, as Viñas dismounted from the orange bicycle that she rides around town and parked in front of the town house she'd designed for West, the pair were delighted to discover they were both sporting Opi's Shrek nail polish, Viñas in green and West in blue. "We're at the stage. . ." the designer begins-before her six-time client interjects ". . .where we finish each other's sentences!"