I started doing video work around 1973, ( some of it with my friend Sherrie Levine ). In 1976 while at the Whitney Program I started doing my video installations. Donald Judd, as well as the Whitney ( Ron Clark ) became big fans of the work. My installation at the Kitchen was one of the largest executed. Robert Longo was a temporary director at the time and Eric Bagosian was the gofer. The show was a big event, Micky Ruskin of Max’s Kansas City fame, threw the opening party at which the Talking Heads played.

I have always worked with the line, so somehow I got this idea in my head, I really was not interested in doing performance tapes, but use the camera as a tool to create situations, and it seemed to really work out well. I continued working on installations, received a CAPS grant which gave me the opportunity to do 3 installations around NY state.

Before the video and film works I was a photo realist painter, during my video work I shared my studio with Chuck Close, a fine irony. As I said, my video work was very well received, but I found myself in a very strange place, at 26 my work was really not to be part of the 80’s. My work belonged to Fred Sandback, Donald Judd, Carl Andre and others who already had a career and dated me by 20+ years. My call from Leo Castelli was already finished. Now with the resurgence of 70’s work I hope to reproduce or make new situations. I was able to reproduce one of the works for my show in London, ( Nahmad projects ), it sat well with the paintings.