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I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free to paint. But it was almost like I had a secret life, because I wasn't showing any of my work. It was just in my house. In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly I sort of "came out" as an artist.

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Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

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My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

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One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because…

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There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-gi…

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I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment when a lot of…

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Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

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I love Thelonious Monk's song "Just a Gigolo." It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of him playing it, I'm mesmerized,…

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I graduated from Wesleyan University with a b.a. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the m…

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I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

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