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Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates

American Artist

Born: 1973

About Art Between Creation Me Where

Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in. Theaster Gates

Creative People Sometimes Other Pitch Creating Creative People Platform

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing. Theaster Gates

Reality People Opportunity Live Other Neighborhood Kind Reconcile Constantly Sharing Around Leave Dynamic Either Against Engaged Who Flow Need

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live. Theaster Gates

Opportunities Live Think Willingness About Where Fully

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things. Theaster Gates

Time Creation Spend My Time Between Ideas Want Things

I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment? Theaster Gates

Art Sometimes Related About Objects Point Ideas How Am Current Where Should Moment Challenged Imagine

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast. Theaster Gates

You Creative Experience Ride First Sit Cold Dip Pretty Because Got Tar Quickly Get Heavy Then Really Fast

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