Occupation: Painter Birth: 1977
While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood sport..
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the r….
Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an oppo….
There are just so many different types of people that come into my studio, and secondarily, there's the idea of ideation, like, "Who are you and what….
I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll become closer to this index that I'm referring ….
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces ac….
When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to think about professors, where I didn't ha….
It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and just ….
What's interesting about my project recently is that I'm going out into broader global spaces but then isolating at the same time - sort of pushing o….
My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a g….
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist..
I try to create a place of disorientation..
I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work..
The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale]..
The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the bac….
I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognize….
He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well..
What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or a….
When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative..
In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it allowed for me to get outside of ….
Mel [ Bochner] held large-form meetings with students. But the stronger points came through when we had the one-on-one critiques. And that's the syst….