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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.

Barbara Kruger

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.
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Cities Country Culture Production
I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I’m interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.
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Better Knowing Mixing Thinking
Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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Belief Doubt Sanity
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Artist Culture Irony
I’ve always been very tied to language.
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Always Language Tied
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Language Pieces Stealing
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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Artist Degrees Trying
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.
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Ambition Art Understanding
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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Illustration Stereotype Violence
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
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Fashion Fun Mean
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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Artist Rehabilitation Tactics
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.
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Political Sound Term
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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Made Real Technology
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
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Night Space Thinking
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
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Careers Rumor Tragedy
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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Artist Opportunity Space

What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.

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