Tony Fitzpatrick : The Lunch Drawings: with Hannah Chavez, Sierra Severson, Owen Spryszak, Messejah Washington

"When I was a young man I read a collection of poems by Frank O'hara entitled Lunch Poems. He wrote them on his lunch break while working at the Museum of Modern Art selling memberships. Every lunch he would go out, and he could go anywhere in the world in his poetry.

I began these over 10 years ago, the first ones simple and small -- completed in a couple hours. Now they take a little longer than that, but we never start them before noon. They may not end at Lunch but they always start at Lunch. It's also a return to making work in the way that I made work as a kid. Just doing whatever the fuck I wanted to. They're drawings that can't be captured or planned, these are the drawings where I'm free."