Your look is very unexpected for an art student — you look very classic.
I was trying to go against the eccentric art student stereotype. I guess the show Mad Men has a lot to do with it. I always liked the aesthetics of it.
Is that where you get a lot of your fashion inspiration?
Yeah. I'm the only person that I know that [dresses up] on a regular basis. And also the art work I make feels a lot like my suits — I do a lot of drawings with people in suits, and a lot of it stems from looking at fashion magazines and ads in GQ and stuff.
Do you dress up even for class?
It depends. I've been known to wear a suit to the studio. Part of it was being inspired by artists. When you see pictures of artists in their studios in the 1800s through the '40s and '50s, they were in a suit. Whether they posed in a suit or actually wore it, I liked the idea of an artist dressing up to go work.
What kind of feedback do you get?
People would ask me why I was dressing up; everybody would ask if I had an interview that day. Now, people are kind of used to it. I'm complimented on it.
