I never really knew Jeff at the Corcoran - I think I graduated around the time he started teaching there, but we've crossed paths over the years. I really saw his work for the first time when G was in Georgetown - and was blown away. Of all the people in the Biennial, he was the one I was most excited to be in an exhibition with [I was excited by Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, but in the end, Jeff brought more to the table; and Colby doesn't count because we've shown together lots of times.] I think I like Jeff's work for the same reasons as I like Buck Downs' poetry:

Vernacular - like Dante, not afraid to use the common tounge.

Unselfconscious - I'm always fighting against my own uptight-ness - I aspire to the ease of Jeff's and Buck's work.

The press release described the work in part as reinvented objects. That term strikes a chord with me, given some of the things I've been working on, like the pornograhic hairbrush.