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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.

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If something sticks with me for a long time, it goes into a painting.

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In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

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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.

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I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

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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 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.

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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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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.

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Artists such as Lorna Simpson, Zoe Leonard, Byron Kim and Stephen Andrews and I are around the same age, and I know them personally. The discussions I have had with them over the years have influenced the work that I have made throughout my career.

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What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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