November 2025 - Hyperallergic
Barkley L. Hendricks’s Studio Was a Wonderland of Inspiration
A photo book documenting the late artist’s colorful, cluttered studio shows an amalgamation of decades’ worth of inspiration.
It seems like there’s nothing you cannot find in the studio of the late painter Barkley L. Hendricks. Feathers, shells, drums, and CDs pile up in heaps. Take your pick from dozens upon dozens of sunglasses or high heels. The monograph Piles of Inspiration Everywhere is a tour presented through photographs of Hendricks’s bursting studio, which spanned most of the top floor of the Victorian house that he shared with his wife, Susan Hendricks, for 35 years. During that time, she says in the book’s introduction, she was the only person permitted to cross the studio threshold; friends and curators alike were turned away from that section of their Connecticut home.
Hendricks died on April 18, 2017. The labor to begin Piles of Inspiration Everywhere started just weeks later, while the studio was still as it was at the end of his life, his wife says. The book came together through a partnership between Susan Hendricks and David Katzenstein, photographer and managing editor of the Barkley L. Hendricks Photography Archive, who studied under Barkley Hendricks at Connecticut College.
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