PT: Your paintings are replete with subtle and
explicit art historical and contemporary references and quotations, closely observed
subject matter, complex spatial arrangements, visual and verbal double entendres, and a personal sense
of color, not to mention humor, melancholy, pathos, and imagination.
In 1988, Mapplethorpe's major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum
of American
Art, which included sexually explicit images depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic subjects, sparked a fierce on - going public debate in America about censorship, the public funding for the arts and the definition of art itse
Art, which included sexually
explicit images depicting homoerotic and sadomasochistic
subjects, sparked a fierce on - going public debate in America about censorship, the public funding for the
arts and the definition
of art itse
art itself.