The one thing that I am sometimes clear on in my own work is its roots, courses, and ideas—the ones that seem important now—are the ones that hit me on a gut level early in my art education: Newman, Pollock, de Kooning, Still, Rothko.
Interview with Victoria Boone, 2004
The Artist
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