Preface -- The painter's studio : an artist's questionnaire -- Gregory Amenoff -- Ross Bleckner -- Chuck Close -- Will Cotton -- Inka Essenhigh -- Eric Fischl -- Barnaby Furnas -- April Gornik -- Jane Hammond -- Mary Heilmann -- Bill Jensen -- Ryan McGinness -- Julie Mehretu -- Malcolm Morley -- Steve Mumford -- -- Philip Pearlstein -- Matthew Ritchie -- Alexis Rockman -- Dana Schutz -- James Siena -- Amy Sillman -- Joan Snyder -- Billy Sullivan -- Fred Tomaselli -- Joe Fig interviews Joe Fig -- Acknowledgments -- About the artists