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Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There's an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.

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Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.

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Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

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I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.

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Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

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I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

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I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

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I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

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I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

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I don't have assistants and things in the studio.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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