Let’s start with title. Are you bothered
when people use terms like call cool and sexy to describe your work?
No.
I agree most of the work is very cool and sexy.
So why does you work use so many young
female models?
Koons
has his balloon dogs, Warhol has soap cans and Brillo boxes. I prefer live
models.
Your work is very popular with young
millennials and people who usually are not usually into art. Why do you think
that is?
We’re
very popular on social media. Especially Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. And I
think younger people can relate more to the subjects of my pieces. But, my work is starting to catch on with
older collectors now. Many because it was recommended by a cool younger dealer
or gallery and they see it as a good investment. I’m not sure the older
generation can really related to the themes.
Your last sculpture series sold to a Berlin
art collector for use in his nightclub. Are you going to visit anytime soon?
It’s
a very exciting new club and I’m hoping to get out to Berlin early next year.
We have a gallery exhibit opening there around the same time. I’m hoping to go
in the spring. Germany is too damn cold for me in the winter.
Your newest solo exhibition is in Times
Square next October. Will you be showing any new works?
We’ll
have lots of new pieces from my latest collection, “Erotic Dreams”. Some new
films work and prints. Also some sculptures and a few of my earlier works. It’s
going to be a bit of a retrospective with lots of new cool works and music and
sound elements added. Should be a lot of fun.
What will you be doing after your Times
Square show?
Spending
some time in my studio working on a new series. Also, have the Art Basel who’s
in December and working on an exhibition with a Miami gallery and planning a
show with a gallery in LA and maybe Paris next year. I’m also working on
developing an experimental film festival here in NYC and also producing a few
more of my own art films. I’m going to be very busy!
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