Pop

Abstract

When I was in college, I was intrigued by the work of the pop artists of the sixties. I found the approach used by Warhol, Wesselman and Lichtenstein appealing, but even more interesting to me was the choice of subject matter. The elevation of everyday images, objects, and situations caused me to look at everything differently. I related to their mechanical method, which was reassuring because it was the one that I used in my own paintings, Probably a result of an emphasis on producing images that were informative rather than expressive. Although I found this imagery and approach to be very exciting, it didn’t have any direct influence on my work until I saw an exhibition at Whitney Museum in New York in 1978.