Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you.

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

I'm only the third artist who's ever drawn at Gitmo.

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.

I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. 'Shell Game' is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year.

When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people.

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban.

My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.