- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't have a clear trajectory at all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.
- Articulated
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- Nov 07, 2020
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.
- Endowment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 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 because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an amazing thing out of it.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system and letting that system go. That's kind of where the text paintings came from.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020