"In the paintings where it's there—the tenderness—I work for it. I'm not afraid of it. If I could put my bleeding heart in there, I would."
Installation view at UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2000)
Installation view at UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2000
Mixed media, dimensions variable Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
Courtesy Deitch Projects, New York
Mixed media, dimensions variable Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
Courtesy Deitch Projects, New York
"There's a lot of talk of how damaging graffiti is and the destruction that happens with graffiti, but there's actually no damage. It all can be removed or painted over with a roller. So there's the media's idea of damage and destruction, this thing that's slightly askew. To me, if there's commercial jingles from the '70s or '80s that I remember and that are stuck in my head, that's damage to me."
- Barry McGee
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