Willem de Kooning:  The paint looks as if it is still moving.
Robert Rauschenberg:  He broke boundaries and transformed junk into
material poetry.
Philip Guston:  Painterly paintings painted with paint.
Picasso:  The good, the bad and the ugly!
Jasper Johns:  Specificity. Every action has
consequences.
Gustave Courbet:  He painted the truth. Beautifully.
Judith Scott:  Her wrapped and layered clumps of string
exude such power.
James Ensor:  Freaky and emotive.
Cy Twombly:  I’m transported by his chicken scratch and
scribble pictures.
Sterling Ruby:  His ceramics look like bizarre ritual
artifacts.
Tal R:  Lots of approaches, but one unique
sensibility. Misbehaves in the best ways.
Monsters:  Movie monsters were scary as a child. They
now seem like old friends. 
Rocks and minerals:  I collected them as a teenager. Mother
Nature’s eccentric abstraction. 
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