Whether I’m commenting on politics or the hypocrisy of organized religion or societal ills in general, my art is like a bullhorn used to get attention about things that concern me.
Whether I’m commenting on politics or the hypocrisy of organized religion or societal ills in general, my art is like a bullhorn used to get attention about things that concern me.
“…a new aesthetic, one of protest, full of popular longings, and that lives in the full multitude of rebellion, is strong and great and captures us with the emotion of battle — this is life.”
A moving tribute from one painter to another.
As a flâneur of insatiable curiosity, he abandoned the main boulevards for the lushness of Riverside Park, the crowds at Madison Square, the excavation site for Pennsylvania Station, the kids at play on Coney Island, the private clubs where illegal boxing could be staged for paying members, and the “river rats” of the East River.
“When you find other people who like to do what you like to do and have the same visions, you want to be with them. You feel like you’re doing something worthwhile.” – Emery Williams