My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.