Welcome to Two Houses. Two Painters. Two Parents.

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Mimi Weisbord. Two Houses. 1975. Oil on linen. 24 x 30 in. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ©Estate of Mimi Weisbord

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“Two Houses is so powerful and wrenching! What a story you’re telling.”
- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships

"You're a brilliant and indefatigable detective, and I'm fascinated by what you've found here."
– Joan Larkin, recipient of Lambda Literary Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Poets

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Welcome to stories and paintings gleaned from life with my parents, long-divorced New York City painters Mimi Weisbord and Lennart Anderson, and the life they had together that I never knew.

Since my mother’s pandemic death in 2020, I’ve been excavating her Soho loft, seeking answers to questions I didn’t know I had about divorce, art, marriage, grief, time, and living across eras as American painters. I’ve drafted a memoir (yet to be sold), and I’m continuing the excavation here beyond the boundaries of that manuscript.

I’m filling gaps in knowledge formed by barriers my parents’ divorce had erected, stitching together fragments of memory and conversation with notes found in journals, articles, letters, photos, art, and artifacts.

Thanks to my parents, these newsletters are gorgeous and may be surprising. Many know my father’s work. Few know my mother’s.

Subscribe to explore and travel with me between their houses.

“I came to see the damage that was done/ and the treasures that prevail.”
- Adrienne Rich, from “Diving Into the Wreck”

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