I use an app called SeeSaw and map out my day. I go on gallery strolls to be alone, and just zone out and take in work. It was a third-floor walk-up railroad apartment in Bushwick. Where was your first NYC apartment and how much was the rent? I just need to be moving my body to wipe my brain. What do you do to get out of a creative rut? That info doesnвЂ™t exist anywhere else, and it has really made me start hoarding one from every new museum show I love. What would you hoard, if it stopped being produced?Д®xhibition catalogues! I keep digging for old exhibition catalogues, especially from museum shows in the вЂ™50s and вЂ™60s, when major institutions started exhibiting modern design. ItвЂ™s such a cool little pocket, being able to see the water, thereвЂ™s some old little streets, I just think itвЂ™s a very exciting place. I would really love to live in Two Bridges, in Chinatown. If you could live anywhere in New York City, where would it be? My not-so-secret mission in life is to merge the fields of art and design, and for them to be able to be sold and viewed and talked about in the same space. WhatвЂ™s one thing you would change about your field? What a great opportunity to design some wildly cool little piece of furniture. She really came to love her crate, but most of the crates out there for larger breeds are really just metal cages. I am a major dog mom and have a rescue pup named Boobie. What building or object do you want to redesign every time you see it?Дog crates. Not even because itвЂ™s the best view itвЂ™s the excitement of returning to the city. I donвЂ™t keep much on my desk, just a glass of water.Дriving back to the city from upstate. What do you always have next to your computer? ItвЂ™s a smart way of curating and bringing relevance to an older body of work. Its curator, Dakin Hart, has been doing incredible collaborations where they have contemporary artists in conversation with Noguchi. What New York City museum do you always go back to? I have too many artist-made vases - more than I could ever hold flowers in. Is there one thing you own multiple versions of? I made a whole company out of it called EZPZ Beads. In true Zoe fashion, I couldnвЂ™t just relax and take this just as a meditative process. One of my pandemic projects was beading, so I made like a million necklaces out of recycled jewelry. WhatвЂ™s the last thing you made with your hands? Her voice was not being heard as a sculptor, and although she was pushing pretty strong messages in her work, the art world wasnвЂ™t ready to hear it or didnвЂ™t want to hear it. SheвЂ™s best known for writing Sexual Politics, but she also did this incredible body of work in 1967 at the Judson Gallery that she called вЂњfantasy furnitureвЂќ - sculptures that are based on chairs, beds, cabinets and things, but none of it is functional. Kate Millet, and this is just off the top of my mind because Salon 94 Design is curating an exhibition of her work. Which New Yorker would you want to hang out with? Xceron was a Greece-born American abstract painter and art critic, and spent most of his life as a security guard for the Guggenheim. My dad inherited it from his bohemian-artist grandmother, and he passed it down to me recently. What art or artifact are you most surprised you own?ДЄ painting from 1937 by Jean Xceron. Someone once told me that green paintings never sell, so I just started kind of obsessing over them and now I have a small collection of green paintings. They thought with the word вЂњhand jobвЂќ and this sex toy, thereвЂ™s just like too much sex going on in this spread, so they ended up cutting it. It fit the project so well, but the New York Times wouldnвЂ™t print it! They were going to include the gallery in a holiday gift guide but there was a review of a new sex toy on the same page. But during that whole time I had my own gallery, too, so I would kind of say that my first job was running my own gallery, which was named HANDJOB Gallery//Store. I was working retail at a denim shop named Loren. WhatвЂ™s the first job you had in New York? This piece is kind of the epitome of my love of a simple yet intricate beautiful object. ItвЂ™s one of my favorite pieces of artwork I own, a painting by Caitlin MacBride of a Shaker bonnet from a show that we did together. Occupation: Director of Salon 94 Design and an independent curator

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