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It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting.

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I think I've come through the art-industrial complex - I've been educated in some of the best institutions and been privy to some of the insider conversations around theory and the evolution of art.

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When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.

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I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

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Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

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I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.

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I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

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The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.

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The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.

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When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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