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“If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.”

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Mychal Judge, a renowned Catholic priest, was born on May 11, 1933, and passed away on September 11, 2001. He served as a priest in New York City and is known for his charitable work and heroic actions during the September 11 terrorist attacks. more

“I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going to be exhibited. And since some of the work I do is created onsite, it requires a different type of space, versus the smaller drawings or more subject-oriented work. So that the context becomes important.”

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Author:Shahzia Sikander

“Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.”

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Author:Shahzia Sikander

“For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.”

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Author:David Altmejd

“You're not as good as you think you are.”

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Author:Eddie Martinez

“The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.”

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Author:Julie Mehretu

“The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.”

“The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.”

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Author:Julie Mehretu

“I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.”

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Author:Julie Mehretu

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