>> We called him the rubber stamp boy, [inaudible] up close to the stage,
he's going to give you a peak at just how elastic he really is, so go ahead
and show how your skin stretches just like a rubber band.
>> What I love about the [inaudible] USA is the first genre of painting I worked
in that allows me to both my training, all the many years I spent training to become an artist
as well as my past because my [inaudible] involved in the [inaudible].
And I, I think to be able to look out the window and see all kinds of people looking at my work,
people that have never been to a museum, people that have degrees
from CUNY or Yale, look at my paintings.
It's really a blast.
I always wanted to make work that would hit across lines.
I often paint real people.
The performers at the show are real.
So they think that about the images the way an actor thinks about it.
I remember one year I was painting the amazing blazing Tyler Myer,
and I wanted to show some perspective.
So in perspective one arm would be bigger than the other.
Tyler came up and looked at my painting and he says my arms aren't equal.
They're not unequal, so I had to figure out a way pictorially
to please the actor and show his arms equally.