How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

I love being able to have a team.

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

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.