Occupation: Artist Birth: January 26, 1945
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience..
Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear..
I have no complaints, except for the world..
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun..
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted way….
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power….
Doubt tempers belief with sanity..
Memory is your image of perfection..
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….
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not..
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt th….
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficult….
I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishf….
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….
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual..
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans..
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle..
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….
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary..
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….
It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it.