Larry Poons: Remembering Light

Larry Poons in Conversation with Karen Wilkin. The following interview was produced in collaboration with MediaCombo to complement "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975," an exhibition organized by the AFA. Recorded in New York in 2007, this interview-divided into eight episodes-features painter Larry Poons in a rare conversation with the exhibition's guest curator, Karen Wilkin.

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eys and sold my soul to the family who rejected him and he rejected and cocaine and alchol. i was left to suffer at hands of cannabalistic scavenges who pre me in street and rod and totured me ala hostel , snuff. while my cries were shut out by persons who told me to open my mouth vigilantly if i was in danger.that was a sin.
i escaped my fate, rose up and began to become the artist he could or they could not be. Clement greenberg had said i had charachter. he died before i got to prove it.