We visited Altoon at her home in rural Vermont, where she has lived and worked in a 200 year old farmhouse since 1994. We learned about her process, making paint and traveling to a nearby farm where she photographs machinery for source material for her paintings. We discussed her career, her inspirations, and her life. 

Despite a 50 year career and a CV as long as your arm, Altoon Sultan has managed to maintain a vibrant curiosity, consistently pushing her work to new and interesting places.

Her work, meanwhile, defies easy categorization. Drawing on a wide range of traditions from Minimalism, early Renaissance painting, Egyptian sculpture, and American craft art, she has alchemized her own very particular dialect of painting. Altoon has generously made a group of prints available at Visiting Artists that are made from rolling ink onto rigid cardboard which she cut her images into.

She is truly one of one, and we are so happy to share our visit with you.

Click the video above to watch our visit with Altoon, and to see the works she has made available for us.