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them is difficult to consider.
In her living room hangs one of her favorite
paintings — though this one wasn’t
made by her. It’s a portrait of Schultz walking
down the street. Her friend, Paul Aquino,
a Chelsea-based artist, took a photo
of her walking one night after the two had
dinner in Greenwich Village. He turned it
into a portrait and gave it to Schultz as a
housewarming gift when she moved in last
year. That one isn’t framed, but she said
she’s never selling it.
When she does sell a piece, a hole appears
where the sold artwork once hung.
That’s when she either rearranges the remaining
pieces or makes something new.
“I don't like when things are out of order,”
she said. “So it's a little hard for me to
leave things open-ended.” But generally,
she rearranges the artwork every three
months anyway.
And even though it’s an artist’s home,
there is little evidence besides the hanging
pictures that an artist actually resides
there. Schultz stores most of her art materials
in large woven baskets above
the kitchen cabinets. Her paintbrushes,
though, remain in sight if you’re in the
bedroom, where they stand in a pencil
holder.
“I leave them out because I love seeing
them as daily reminders of what I do,” she
explained.
The baskets remind strapped-for-space
New Yorkers of the creativity city residents
must have when it comes to finding stor