I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black….

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….

I had no idea about where I was going. I had no sense of art as anything other than a problem to be fixed, you know, an itch to be scratched. I was i….

It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You….

Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that and get that down in some way. This is - thi….

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that you expect fro….

Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of looking at these paintings is,….

People who - and I think that's been a huge education for me. I think it's a - it's a privilege to be able to meet such a broad cross-section of New ….

I love being able to have a team..

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting..

I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line..

I try to create a place of disorientation..

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings..

I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad..

I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but als….

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to wor….

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born..

Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract - the idea that paintin….

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef..

I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity t….

The artists ultimately respond to the public..