All Great Contemporary Artists, Schooled Or Not,

All Great Contemporary Artists, Schooled Or Not, Are Essentially Self-taught And Are De-skilling Like Crazy. I Don't Look For Skill In Art... Skill Has Nothing To Do With Technical Proficiency... I'm Interested In People Who Rethink Skill, Who Redefine Or Reimagine It: An Engineer, Say, Who Builds Rockets From Rocks.

Our Culture Now Wonderfully, Alchemically Transforms Images And History Into Artistic Material. The Possibilities Seem Endless And Wide Open.

The Forties, Seventies, And The Nineties, When Money Was Scarce, Were Great Periods, When The Art World Retracted But It Was Also Reborn.

In Some Ways Lawler Is A Conceptual Diane Arbus. She's A Stalker Who Takes Advantage Of Situations. She Pulls Back Curtains, Causing Normal Things To Look Freakish And The Freakish To Turn Mundane.

Urs Fischer Specializes In Making Jaws Drop. Cutting Giant Holes In Gallery Walls, Digging A Crater In Gavin Brown's Gallery Floor In 2007, Creating Amazing Hyperrealist Wallpaper For A Group Show At Tony Shafrazi: It All Percolates With Uncanny Destructiveness, Operatic Uncontrollability, And Barbaric Sculptural Power.