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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
~ Ori Gersht
All My Life
Conflict
Ethnic
Life
Lived
My Life
Part
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I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
~ Ori Gersht
Each
Even
Life
Look
Moment
Opportunity
Pleasure
Problematic
Take
Very
You
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
~ Ori Gersht
Bicycle
Decided
Film
Little
Messenger
Photography
Study
Then
Worked
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
~ Ori Gersht
Collapse
Constantly
Edges
Either
Employ
Information
Much
Photography
Point
Reduce
Working
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
~ Ori Gersht
Absurd
Around
Commentary
Direct
Much
Observation
Open-Ended
Us
Work
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
~ Ori Gersht
Associations
Bleed
Bullet
Causing
Fruit
Going
Imagining
Initial
Masters
Old
Painting
Started
Symbolism
Through
Were
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
~ Ori Gersht
Almost
Also
Attractive
Beauty
Cathartic
Created
Destruction
Erased
Grotesque
How
Intensely
Interests
Live
Me
Moments
Painful
Side
Simultaneously
Times
Two
Very
Violence
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As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
~ Rashid Johnson
About
Always
Art
Artist
Collective
Comfortable
Domestic
Familiarity
Felt
Guess
Help
Inform
Kind
Materials
Most
Our
Outside
Store
Supply
Talk
Trying
Us
Whole
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As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.
~ Rashid Johnson
Across
Came
Chicago
College
Columbia
I Came
Show
Television
Television Show
Then
Watched
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Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.
~ Rashid Johnson
Actor
Agency
Because
Clay
Complex
Dealing
Decide
Done
Give
How
Incredibly
Like
Oftentimes
Pieces
Teller
Them
Then
Want
You
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For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
~ Rashid Johnson
Come
Employ
Materials
Me
Objects
Personal
Space
Specific
Very
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Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn't a radical home. You wouldn't find these in a Black Panther house. There's still a strong allegiance to Christianity.
~ Rashid Johnson
Allegiance
Black
Chicago
Christianity
Display
Figure
Find
Growing
Growing Up
Home
House
Jesus
Panther
Particular
Radical
Still
Strong
Type
Up
Very
Would
You
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I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.
~ Rashid Johnson
About
Attempted
Could
German
How
Idea
Just
Move
Movement
Particularly
Started
Successful
Thinking
Time
Yoga
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I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.
~ Rashid Johnson
Bring
Components
Different
Get
I Can
Marry
Them
Viewer
Who
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I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.
~ Rashid Johnson
Any
Art
Artists
Choice
Embodied
Gave
Mean
No Choice
Options
Other
Passion
Really
Say
Skills
Some
Specifically
Them
Very
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I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.
~ Rashid Johnson
Aspects
Bodies
Decisions
Informs
Investment
Make
Marks
Material
Understanding
Way
Well
Work
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I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
~ Rashid Johnson
Always
Artist
Been
Bring
Calling
Condition
Employs
Essentially
Ideas
Life
Me
Mediums
Order
Say
Several
Specific
Suffer
Way
Whatever
Where
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I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.
~ Rashid Johnson
Just
Kind
Off
Pulled
Shelf
Started
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I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.
~ Rashid Johnson
African-American
Art
Art History
Artists
Beyond
Concerns
Deal
Far
Formal
Go
History
Influence
Just
Material
Me
Very
Wanted
Which
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I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.
~ Rashid Johnson
About
African
After
Away
Birth
Blocks
Border
Born
Chicago
City
Father
Finishing
Her
History
I Was Born
Mother
Moved
North
Parents
Park
Side
Soon
Split
Three
Time
University
Which
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