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If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw.

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My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.

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I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

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Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock every day, is what gave me this sensibility and drove me to explore my fascination with art.

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What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

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I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you were doing there.

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The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

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By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.

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If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

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Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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