Jason Polan - Every person in New York. Volume 1

Thank you mom, dad, Jamie, Jennifer, all of the Polans and Turells, Julie and Michelle, Omar Ahmad, Jake Brege, Inga Brege, Fritz Swanson and family, Mara Cazers, Rich Jacobs, Michael Worful, Eva Rogers, Mike Lovato, Meredith Zielke, Walter Green, Robin Cameron, Alec Soth, Kristen Wiig, Hans Seeger, Katie McDonough, Michael Silverberg, Andy Spade, Anthony Sperduti, Dan Karmel, the Maisners, Cassie Frank, Emily Forland, Melanie Flood, Tod Lippy, Christina Amini, Charlie Ward, Angie Wolney, Dan Wroblewski, Mia Pearlman, Sue Chapman, Paola Antonelli, David Senior, Shannon Michael Cane, Jeremy, Heidi and Abigail Sanders, Ofer and Billie, Jay Ryan, the Silvermans, the Goldmans, Phil Aarons, Peter, Hannah, Hazel and Joni, Brette Warshaw, Priya Krishna, Chris Ying, Rachel Khong, Eli Horowitz, Andrew Leland, Steven Katz, Todd Selby, Jordan Bass, Andi Mudd, Brian McMullen, Julia Colavita, Huy Vu, Gary Panter, Bruce Vilanch, the Hoffmans, Elizabeth Crane Brandt, Matt Singer, Janelle Sing, the Levines, Derek Erdman, Derek Fagerstrom, Lauren Smith, Starlee Kine, Liana Finck, Kristen Joy Watts, Sam Valenti, Elaine Bleakney, Tara Wray, Colin Matthes, Makeal Flammini, Jacque Schiller, Eric White, Jason Porter, Daniel Davidson, Tricia Keightley, Jen Bekman, Nion McEvoy, Jennifer Daniel, Kate Cunningham, Kathleen Henderson, Tonya Douraghy, Kathy Ryan, Stacey Baker, Bill Burgard, Robert Mankoff, Ted Lasala, Roberta Smith, Jerry Saltz, Bill Powers, Jack Pendarvis, Mary and Matt, Erik Heywood, Mordechai Rubinstein, Stefan Marx, Nancy Ford, Chris Ware, the Beckers, Sarah, Eric, Kim, Alec, Fumiko, Angie, Shayne, Susan, Lee, Abbey, Janet, Brettand everyone at Criterion, the Headlands, Helen Cho, Josh Safdie, John Gall, Dave Kloc, Richard Renaldi, Silvia Killingsworth, Nicolas Neubeck, Ursula Liang, Bowman Hastie, Abby Clawson Low, Andy Beach, Lauren Douglas, James Sterling Pitt, Amanda Hakan, Mark Gonzales, Amy Stein, John Gordon, Jenny Tondera, Katie Hatch, Noah Kalina, Shawn Creeden, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Jason Kottke, Tom Slaughter, Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Peter Sutherland, Andrew Sutherland, Maia Ruth Lee, Dustin Hostetler, Lele Saveri, Cara Levine, Linda Cyrus, Alicia Hamilton, Jason Fulford, Tamara Shopsin, Leanne Shapton, Richard McGuire, Nick Robinson, Lee Smith, Victor Kerlow, Joana Avillez, Tom Sachs. Emily Sugihara, Jane Mount, Angel Dormer, Porous Walker, Jocko Weyland, Wade Oates, Aviva Michaelov, Brian Rea, Taco Bell, Anthony Spadaro, Javas Lehn, Ruba Abu-Nimah, David Strettell, Betsy Clifton, Miwa Susuda, Sarah at Colette, Max Fenton, Marcel Dzama, Tucker Nichols, Dakin and Nancy Hart, Ben Shahn, Jack Kirby, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, William Steig, J.D. Salinger, Don DeLillo, Saul Steinberg, C.S. Ledbetter III, Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner, Ryan Waller, David La Spina, Jen Snow, Mollie Edgar, Ashley Gates, Susan Hootstein, Jordin Isip, James Ulmer, Matt Leines, Brain Belott, Taylor McKimens, Jeff Maser, Kyle Garner, Sue Chan, Christina Tosi, Marguerite Mariscal, Jen Bilik, Marco Garcia, Tauba Auerbach, Harrison Haynes, Chloe Seymore, Daniel Arnold, Fabiola Alondra, Leigh Graniello, Larry Clark, Johan Kugelberg, Brian Paul Lamotte, Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Mike Slack, Tricia Gabriel, Kevin Lyons, Russ and Daughters, Gina Amante, Gabrielle Bell, Joe Brainard, Glenn Horowitz, Jerstin Crosby, Jim Goldberg, Geof Darrow, Alex Toth, Moebius, Carrie Thompson, Rick Boven, Graham Tolbert, Danielle Mericle, Ron Jude, Ed Panar, Brad Zellar, Bill Thelen, Sara Distin, Eric Elms. I hope I didnt forget to write your name on this list. If I did I am probably thinking about you right now.

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They are the perfect reflection of the beautiful and unique people of this city. Seeing a spark in someone as they hustle by or just sit on a bench in the park for hours... If we stop to catch these moments, its very easy to remember why we love New York. And this book is full of those moments. This book is those moments. Kristen Wiig

I drew every person in the art school and showed the work in a grid at a gallery in Ann Arbor. It consisted of about 800 portraits on individual sheets of cream-colored paper. I tried to be accurate with drawing the people I knew, but I didnt know what a lot of the people looked like so I made things up. Each portrait was labeled with a students name, so each student had one (whether it looked like them or not). the drawings were available for $10 each, and if the piece sold, the $10 went to the person whose portrait it was. I ended up losing money because i paid the people whose portraits sold $10 and the gallery took a cut of the $10 before paying me for the sold works.

Not too long after I moved to New York, I made a book called The Every Piece of Art in The Museum of Modern Art Book. I love the museum and wanted a job there. I thought I would prove how serious I was about it. I drew every piece of art that someone visiting the museum would be able to see (without going into the archives I think I would still be working on the project if I had). I didnt end up getting a job there, but I learned a lot about the museum: the works; the space; the people visiting it; and the people working in it. I ended up doing the project again seven years later and learned even more.

I then made a book called An Entire Bag of Popcorn. I popped a microwavable bag of popcorn and poured it out on the kitchen table at my parents house. The big pile was in front of me and to the left. I would place the individual piece of popcorn in front of my paper to draw and after I drew it I would move the piece of popcorn to the right. I really liked how the undrawn pile on the left got smaller as the drawn pile on the right got bigger. I drew all of the kernels that were popped and all of the ones that were un-popped and then drew the bag.

The project took me about three hours. We got to go to Skykomish, Washington, when I was with the Artrainan art exhibit housed in four vintage rail cars run by a non-profit organization from Michigan. I found out that the phone book for Skykomish was a front-and-back piece of paper that had been compiled by my friend Linda. I loved this. I think the population was about 217 at the time. as I had done with the art school project, I drew as many people as I could as accurately as I could (from memory) and the rest I made up (though in this case I used one of my parents old yearbooks as a source of possible faces). as I had done with the art school project, I drew as many people as I could as accurately as I could (from memory) and the rest I made up (though in this case I used one of my parents old yearbooks as a source of possible faces).