How boring, her work suggests, to have perfect skin. Katarina Riesing paints with dye on silk — and then embroiders it, by hand, for up to four months — rendering acne, scars, and blemishes the way other artists render flowers. The spots of pigment are gorgeous and gross at once, which is also, of course, what bodies are. We talked to her about process, the quiet productivity of rural New York, and why she really should have been a fashion designer.

In her world, food becomes a material that can be modelled — to which a meaning can be given. Julie Rothhahn does not start with a recipe. She starts with an image impulse, an association of ideas, a question about form. Her studio works with brands and companies on experiences, installations, performances, and immersive dinners. She co-coordinates the Master's in Design & Culinary at the Reims School of Art. A dish, in her view, is first a thought.

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Spanish painter Gemma Alpuente on her own chemical process technique, abstract art as freedom, the corruption of the art world, and the book she is writing for artists about emotional management and getting started.