I was always a colorist. I’ve always had a phenomenal love of color. . . . I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that’s where the Spot paintings came from—to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color.
Tim Marlow, director of exhibitions at White Cube, defended the spot paintings. "They're incredibly original and counterbalance the decline of originality in the history of painting," he said. "It's taking something that looks machine produced but is actually painted by hand. What we see is not what we see."
