He started with modest-sized pieces and built on the vocabulary he developed then. He's now broadened it much more to, dare I say, something operatic. |
He worked harder than anybody. But he was never plagued by the kind of preoccupation with style and the idea of how an artist in New York should be. He was never concerned with being appropriately hip. |
With those paintings, he really connected to looking at himself and the place he was from and what he could say about that. |