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I've fished everywhere I've traveled.

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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.

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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.

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The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

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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.

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Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.

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What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as a black man in the American streets. I know what it feels like to walk through the streets, knowing what it is to be in this body and how certain people respond to that body.

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One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

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I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.

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My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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