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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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