John Currin (b. 1962)

‘It’s always me remembering an old master and combining it with contemporary ad images,’ Currin explained to Robert Rosenblum, ‘those are the two things that compel me. The misery and the damnation of the images that got into your head without your permission, the PC imagery and all these tableaus that are planted in your head about the way things should look: children, women, men, white people, black people, rich people, good people, evil people’ (J. Currin, quoted in R. Rosenblum, ‘John Currin’, in BOMB Magazine, no. 71, Spring 2000).