I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place.

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Abstraction ·Allowing ·Because ·Become ·Drawn ·I See ·Image ·Painting ·Place ·Pure ·Quality ·Rather ·See ·Shapes ·Take ·Than ·Them ·

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Yoko Ono ·Andy Warhol ·Jean-Michel Basquiat ·Kevyn Aucoin ·Edward Hopper ·Georgia O'Keeffe ·Jackson Pollock ·Andrew Wyeth ·

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I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place.

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