Book Projects

Race Face

"Many of my drawings of heads aim to reveal how we are haunted by the projections others mask us with and use to deride us, how our self-images are altered by violence, paranoia, shame, and dread. So often we feel compelled to hide our authentic selves behind masks." –Art Paul

Talking Sketchbook

“I think I am fundamentally a storyteller, a trait that has been useful in my editorial work. In my sketchbooks, stream-of-consciousness sagas are a vehicle for exploration. I let every visual whim and insight take wing, becoming images, words, sequences, whatever they want, without censoring. As I write upon my drawings it seems as though the images have become real to me and are talking back.”  –Art Paul

Every line is a road

"Sorting Art's work, I began to realize how many of his recent drawings related to the onset of his macular degeneration, the shock to an artist of having his eyesight so compromised. Yet the work was not just despite the challenges of age and loss but about them. And technically, it was a victory of 'going with' the twists and turns of his compromised sight, resulting in work with a marvelously released, exploded quality and as much whimsy and surreality as ever: the apex, for me, of his growth as an artist." –Suzanne Seed, author, art critic, and wife of Arthur Paul