“How Jennifer Rubell found her place at the table as an artistby first catering it.
Becoming a conceptual artist ‘was a huge leap of faith on Jennifer’s part,’ says her mother. ‘Just imagine your parents thinking you’re the bad artist in the family.’ After all, her parents were far too knowledgeable to be able to be unconditionally supportive. ‘For years we said, “It’s so difficult to be friends with an artist whose work you don’t like,”‘ says her father. It would be hard for Jennifer not to internalize this. Besides, ‘Look at how many collectors’ children are artists,’ she says. ‘It’s a number approaching zero. And because of my parents, even if I was half-decent, I knew people would think it was handed to me.'”
(Via nymag.com: Art.)