Occupation: Painter Birth: 1977
I think that I'm increasingly aware of the fact that in order to work towards any statement that's radically global or universal, you have to start i….
Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so Lacanian and, like, mirrored, so as to b….
I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of cla….
I love being able to have a team..
When the fat lady comes out to sing, we don't know how she feels that day. We don't know if she's suffering from a cold or is mourning a death or fal….
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would s….
[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature an….
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not becaus….
There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This ….
I love being a portraitist..
I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what is the word that I'm looking for? - metaphoric….
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….
[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..
For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence..
I guess art is in the eye of the beholder..
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….
In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 ….
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that pointing in and of i….
Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political s….
I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play..
All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've al….