How does this show (at Amara Yoga & Arts, Urbana) reflect that?
One of my favorite painters is Don Pollock, who teaches at the School of the Art Institute. He did a Lincoln series based on old photographs – some portraits and some landscapes. He did a huge series of 30 paintings. Q: What kind of series are you working on now? A: I’m going to work on this civil rights/slave series until I think it’s done. I took old pictures of slaves and pixelated them and changed the colors. I pixelated them to make them anonymous. If you’re a slave, you have no name. I think when I finish this series, it will be the only black culture/civil rights work I’ll do. Q: What other themes interest you? A: With my themes and ideas I try to stay as contemporary as possible. For my next series, I want to do paintings of scrambled Internet videos so they look like abstract paintings, but they’re not really abstract. I think more and more people are watching things on the Internet. Q: When did you start making art? A: As soon as I was old enough to pick up a pencil. When I m
