Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
My art became very public.
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.
I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
All my album artwork is body painting.
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.