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“At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.”

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The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely…

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My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened,…

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I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

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It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and…

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We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's…

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Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

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There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

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I think, something that you might be able to locate in the work that I'm creating today: the ability to look at a black…

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I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black…

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I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

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