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….

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….

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]..

You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's something that I, you know, pinch ….

As a twin, I operate with twin desires..

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American..

Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the p….

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thin….

For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This ….