“The spaces—the fact that some are messy and kind of crazy, it’s okay. I didn’t really get into judging them.'
“You know what’s interesting? I arrived in New York in 1986, so I was 19. I went to see the shows that they were doing at the time. That’s what brought me to the city, painters like [Andy] Warhol, like. The oil paints that I use are oil sticks, because when I was young, I was trying to make my own little Jean-Michels at age 19.
I have met throughout the years, and count among my friends, a lot of the people that were around Warhol, that were friends with him and that knew him well. Collectors, artists, dealers. In that way, I’m very fortunate, and I’m very close to people that worked close with Jean-Michel Basquiat as well. I remember reading about all these people in_ _ _The spaces—the fact that some are messy and kind of crazy, it’s okay. It’s cool because it’s who the person was, and that’s how it worked for them.
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