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I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

Kalup Linzy

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Kalup Linzy
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 23
Artist
Photographer
Television Producer
Clermont
Florida
Kalup Donte Linzy
Trying
Emotion
Respond
World
Head
Release
Felt
Emotions
Art
Realized
Stills
Criticism
Grad
School
Exercise
Lingering
Still
Works
Entered
Even
Pieces
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Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.
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If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.
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It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.
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I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.
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I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.
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You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, How would this person see it, or that person see it? So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.
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Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.
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If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.
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I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.
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