Rafael de Soto, one of the best pulp practitioners, once said, “If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, because I like you,’ that's fine art. If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, but it's a hundred bucks,’ that's commercial art.”

“The way my eye works is to look to the city as a body.”

The New York artist finds his place in the canon