“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
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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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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Paul Klee
The artwork of Paul Klee is so imaginative and playful, I think of him as just floating along on a cloud of pure inspiration!
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Wassily Kandinsky
When I first encountered Kandinsky, it was the German Expressionist style he worked in when he was part of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.
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