Girls, Girls, Girls!
“For my works on canvas, I don’t do sketches, but these billboard paintings (above) are based on drawings that I like.”
“Having to sharpen colored pencils while I’m in the middle of a drawing is a bit of a pain…”
“This is a fiberglass mold (left) for what will eventually become a sculpture in bronze.”
“My studio walls are covered with posters of my heroes: the Ramones, Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain. When I play loud music in the middle of the night, it feels like my studio is a spaceship and I’m going on a voyage in zero gravity.”
“A corner of my studio. I always have music within reach.”
“This painting is very close to being done. Once I have visualized a piece to this level of clarity, it’s relatively simple to paint.”
“The window of my study looks out onto a grassy field. In my studio I mostly listen to CDs, but here I play LPs.”
“When I’m working on a large painting, I don’t stand on a stool to reach the top, I turn the painting upside down. Sometimes, I put another finished painting next to it to refer to.”
Courtesy of Pace Gallery, New York, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.