I play the piano — not the drums.
At the top of this page is my unfinished, symbolic, larger-than-life painting installation in the Whitney Museum ISP, May 1990. I composed these paintings — alone — in less than nine months...so there are a few rough areas in the symbolic self-portrait and the gray-scale painting...I also created numerous small-scale paintings, one of which is in the collection of Hal Foster, who asked to purchase it at the end of the Whitney Program.
Because my Whitney ISP painting installation was not published in the 1990 catalog, it is necessary to say why: The trifold of my three, larger-than-life paintings that I had proposed was blocked, because curatorial fellows Sarah Morris and Julia Reschop — Jeff Koons's studio assistants at the time — were in charge of organizing the catalog, and, the night before it was going to the printers, they blocked my proposal. While I was down the hall in my studio, painting — Sarah and Julia were conducting their final catalog meeting in the seminar room. Sarah shouted angrily about my trifold proposal: "It will get too much attention." That was her excuse for blocking it.
Because my Whitney ISP painting installation was not published in the 1990 catalog, it is necessary to say why: The trifold of my three, larger-than-life paintings that I had proposed was blocked, because curatorial fellows Sarah Morris and Julia Reschop — Jeff Koons's studio assistants at the time — were in charge of organizing the catalog, and, the night before it was going to the printers, they blocked my proposal. While I was down the hall in my studio, painting — Sarah and Julia were conducting their final catalog meeting in the seminar room. Sarah shouted angrily about my trifold proposal: "It will get too much attention." That was her excuse for blocking it.
