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It’s one thing to admire an artist’s work; it’s another to get a real feel of the person behind the work. In these pages you’ll get a close-up look at 50 painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and mixed-media artists who are living and working on the famed East End of Long Island, New York. Photographer Jaime Lopez has captured each artist both in revealing portraits and at work in their studios, and journalist and curator Coco Myers has contributed insightful interviews. The East End has long been a magnet for artists who are drawn to the inspiring nature of the landscape – the light, the fields, the farms, and of course, the expansive sea. And while the legacy of artists like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, and others remains strong, the area continues to be rich in talent today. Lopez’s photographs and Myers’s text reveal the creativity, intelligence, and humor of these 50 artists as well as the vibe of their workplaces and the tools of their craft.
Born in Peru, Jaime Lopez studied graphic design at Parsons School of Design. His fashion photographs have been widely published, in Elle, Marie Claire, Telva, Hola!, Woman, and Cosmopolitan, among other magazines. Jaime continues to pursue his passion photographing artists, writers, models and the world around him.
Coco Myers grew up in East Hampton among the Abstract Expressionists, many of whom were family friends. After earning a B.A. in art history at Princeton, she worked in Manhattan as a magazine editor and writer at Elle, Mirabella and Allure. In 2015 she started folioeast, an online gallery and art–consulting business highlighting East End artists. Myers is on on the board of Wings Over Haiti for which she organizes an annual charitable art auction of work by Hamptons Artists. She lives in East Hampton.
Mónica Ramírez-Montagut is executive director of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York.