AG: The other day when I asked you how long it took art followers to catch up with you, you replied that you weren’t especially approachable when you were young, and had a hard time being serious. You mentioned that early on your supporters were not audiences, per se. Can you expound on that?SK: I really liked humor in sculpture, painting, and conceptual art, so I was fine with being pretty inaccessible. I had learned a lot in art history classes: if you do art secretly, and you don’t initially have a lot of luck, people will explain what you do, people who can explain it better than, say, I can.
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I bought the suit as a costume, and the wig and moustache. It was a “life drama”; I was still outside, looking in. As Clyde Dillon I would go through that artist’s progression, occupying two careers at one time [his and mine]. More than 35 years later he finally got a one-person show at Another Year in LA.
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