Occupation: Painter Birth: 1977
I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well..
I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the ….
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. ….
Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine ….
Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but rather the respect….
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….
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We ne….
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 ….
A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon..
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..
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 ….
I have a really strong suspicion of the romantic nature of portraiture, the idea that you're telling some essential truth about the interior lives of….
I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create..
I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work..
There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe..
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….
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….
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….
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….
I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars..
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….