I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.