Birth: May 9, 1970
We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amou….
When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us….
I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue..
Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing..
We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers..
Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap and e….
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feed….
I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with….
I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby..
I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..
Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in anyone else's life, so I'….
There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand..
I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's goal is to reproduce ….
I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong..
I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white..
I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand….
Star Wars came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again ….
I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizi….
All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm try….
Photorealism was this fantastic movement in like the late '60s and '70s, because photography finally became something that everyone could produce. Ph….
I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort..