I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
Art helped give me confidence.
Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.
The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.
I'm interested in power.
