Mark and I are such rare birds over here that we are often causing a
stir. Americans are so much more likely to speak out and it was just our luck to be, even as Americans, rather opinionated.

Believe me this is not the best attribute for Switzerland.

We’ve done a number of back and forth art review/critic chatter which
was fairly comprehensive because together we’ve covered a lot of territory; we’re sort of art gym rats. {Maybe gallery/museum/artfair rats would be more to the point.}

We have also retained an attitude of excitement for painting as the
source of much expression, conception, and imagination in the visual arts; source and potential for the future, which has never wavered.

What little of my Vitæ I’d like to mention is that in 1986 I showed
with Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne; in 1990 I was in Chris Dercon’s
selection of Special Projects at P.S. Museum; & in 2008 I showed with
David Zwirner Gallery in N.Y. There’ve been many other shows I’ve been
proud to be a part of, but
this evening these arise in my memory.

These comments are mine, and I’d like them added. I’d like to add that
Mark and I will be making another, probably two exchanges, so if
this one was of interest please be on the lookout for the second.