Rashid Johnson

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.