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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.
- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest is in completing an image that is spectacular beyond belief. My fidelity is to the image and the art and not to the bragging rights of making every stroke on every flower. I'm realistic.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've fished everywhere I've traveled.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
- Early Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020