Occupation: Painter Birth: 1977
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have ….
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..
I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend..
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'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work..
I guess art is in the eye of the beholder..
I love being a portraitist..
I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well..
If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type….
How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?.
I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together..
I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the….
I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random strangers any given day - who's….
What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and ….
I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus….
In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the ….
Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fru….
I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestin….
And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically oriented, positivistic, leftist….
Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, ….
There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe..