“Intimacy is important in my artworks. And not only intimacy between the audience and the artworks, but also between myself and the material. Some artists spend 15 years studying colour.…
“Taking down to street level this time, I wanted to focus in close on some of the endless layers of conflict that has us all bound together… Always locked in,…
“I’m not interested in composing a picture. I leave room for the viewer to complete the picture in the end. People get caught up in the mystery of how it’s…
“These early weavings were really about me trying to locate my place in America, in the West. During my lunch breaks at high school, as my English was very bad,…
“When I decided to go to art school, hell or high water I was going to be a subject. Some people, God bless them, are born with subjectivity. For some,…
“Patrick Sun is pushing forward a movement very close to his heart, through his foundation, Sunpride. Sunpride seeks to give equal opportunities to LGBTQ+ in the art world. Here, Sun,…
“I lived with some drag queens so I photographed drag queens. I never decided that drag queens formed a subject that I had to photograph. The work was always a…
“My work is really simple; I don’t have a lot of hidden agendas. It’s about place and identity and how they inform each other, and that includes myself; but iconic…
