“Look, life is ridiculous. Nothing means anything, really, when you get right down to it. Besides, we’re all going to die. We all know all that. But, can’t we have a little fun along the way?”
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DADA
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Robert Frank
Every artist, of whatever skill or level, can point to the very specific moments when they saw work that…
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Joseph Cornell
The central metaphor of art is transformation… Turning one thing into another is where art starts.
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Alexander Calder
Seeing a piece by Calder is always a fresh and delightful experience. His work is not really “around that much.” Unlike the work of some of the recent, super-popular artists like Warhol, or Koons, or Basquiat, whose work seems to show up every time you turn a page, or click a link, you sometimes go …
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Borders Bookstore
It might seem strange to list a bookstore as a big influence on my directions as an artist. But, Borders was really important to my development. I
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Ansel Adams
I first got interested in photography in middle school, in the 1970s. Some friends showed me there was a small darkroom at the school, and they showed me how to develop film, and how to make enlargements.
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The City by Michael Heizer
The City, by Michael Heizer, has been getting a lot of attention lately.
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Hilma af Klint
Like a lot of people in the artworld, I first became aware of the painter Wilma Af Klint in the last few years.
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Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha’s paintings had a huge effect on me when I first saw them when I was in high school. They opened me up and made me realize art could be nearly anything. It could be funny. It could be sarcastic. It could be about ordinary daily life. It didn’t have to be all that …
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