5 Quotes by Elisabeth Sussman

  • Author Elisabeth Sussman
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    Since Keith in the early part of his career worked on the streets and on construction sites and everywhere was a surface for his art, we wanted to give some of that sort of urban street flavor to the exhibition.

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    He was a real physical guy -- he loved the physical act of painting and painting for him was almost like a dance.

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    He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to-ceiling with his drawings. So we tried to get the informality and the kind of grandeur of that installation in our installation.

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    He painted, or made a lot of art. He must have had a premonition that his life was going to be a short one, and he just worked like a maniac.

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  • Author Elisabeth Sussman
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    He painted, or made a lot of art, ... He must have had a premonition that his life was going to be a short one, and he just worked like a maniac.

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