Colleen Franca and I met over Zoom to chat about her latest show at Bowery Gallery. Though the focus of our discussion was on several individual works that she was planning on including in the show, the conversation expanded beyond the works, themselves. We talked about her decision making while painting, the differences in the experiences of painting the landscape versus still life, and how she sifts through all of her work in order to curate a complete, cohesive body of work.

Eileen: So now here's a question that every artist grapples with: When you look at all of the work you have done since your last show, I think you said at one point that it was about 50ish, paintings, how do you know which ones really feel like they deserve a spot in the show?