I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything.

All art is self-portraiture.

He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that my work set up certain type of precedent, that allowed for great institutions, museums and viewers to see the possibilities of painting culture to be a bit more inclusive.

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.

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