-a lot of his work was about scars, the body, rearranging the body.
- Started working on art around 18
- Ran away from home at 18, lived on friends couches, streets of Manhattan
- lived a life separate from the art world.
- Started as a street artist- constantly overlapping
- inspired by his childhood
- uses words in art, marking out
- Jazz as an inspiration, constantly painting while listening to jazz
- used multiple different things in his work
Untitled (Skull)
-street map
- quilt
- fr
ankenstein
- cave paintings
- interest in anatomy
- ugly/brutal in art
- questions beauty and relationship to art
- rooms
inside the brain
- responds to rules of art making
-layers
Untitled
- distortion of the male form (?)
- expression of angry person
- Interest in the history of art
Other images
(quality meats for the Public, 1982, Trumpet 1984)
- interest in crowns,
- jazz music
- signs
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