- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art class was my safe haven.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've forgotten a lot of things. I've forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
- Paintings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paint paintings of people.
- Directive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go to a museum unless I say we have to go there. That's why I really feel like it was something I was supposed to do because there was no directive that pushed me in that direction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
- Introvert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a very verbal person.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be human is to be visible.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In sociology, they call it 'code switching.' I can feel just as comfortable in a room full of people who don't look like me because I understand the social cues of class and race.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
- Conceptual
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- Nov 07, 2020
My approach to portraiture is conceptual.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.
- Empathize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020