Studio visit with painter David Hornung on the occasion of his exhibition at John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY, on view through June 16, 2013.

"Objects in [Hornung's] subject matter hovers between observation and the symbolic, and he refers to Philip Guston’s Alphabet series with plain respect, and like Guston, David was reluctant to talk about image-based thinking. We walked through Brooklyn on the way get some lunch, and David said that painting is hard to talk about because the ideas come out of working with images, that the process gives painters their ideas, which is a kind of reversal, because for most people who work with ideas – the ideas generate the process."