Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.
I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.
I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.