Andrea Bowers, 2010

Narrator: Andrea Bowers talks about sitting for this portrait in Taylor’s Chinatown studio. 

Andrea Bowers: Henry and I are friends, so I was over there all the time. So it was like, "Okay, I'm going to sit here." I don't know, it was probably like, probably five sessions or something, but for kind of long periods, he kept working on it. I'm sure everyone has told you that he makes really funny faces when he draws? [Responding to silent head shake] Oh, okay. So, Henry's really famous for that, the intensity that he gets on the face and the speed at which he's looking and recording, looking, recording, looking and recording, with this kind of squint, and real intensity with one eye. And the other's he's squinting with. So that's really fun, because he's so in it, and he's so focused. And you can see it. You're just constantly aware of being recorded, This is real work he's doing. It's really interesting and fun.