Lisa Congdon, artist and collector – Sight Unseen
March 10, 2010
She was 33 the first time she picked up a paintbrush, and she only did so because she was taking an art class through the extended education program at Berkeley with her brother, who was a student there in need of an elective. But collecting hooked her ... I got my first one from a book vendor at a flea market in San Francisco — he's not there anymore — who had this big truck where every book was a dollar. It didn't matter how collectible or how cheap and ratty it was. ...
