Occupation: Artist Birth: January 26, 1945
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words..
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor..
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to constru….
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means ….
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous an….
I've always been very tied to language..
I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. W….
The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is al….
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the contex….
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot ….
It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and refle….
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean..
Memory is your image of perfection..
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative..
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Ever….
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment nev….
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans..
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to….
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements..
I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe n….
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and night….