1980’s
These drawings aren’t dated, but I am pretty sure they are from the mid to late 1980s.
Portrait of Sandra Bernhard
Back in the day, many of us looked up to Sandra Bernhard, and were intrigued and tantalized by her relationship with Madonna. For some reason I remember her line from a live show, “Look ladies, no cellulite”. Maybe I am thinking about that now because of being in Palm Springs. The original painting is in someone’s personal collection.
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Maryanne, Now and Then
One of the more enjoyable aspects of gathering materials for the retrospective book is seeing artwork of the people who have been in my life for decades. The drawing is from the 1990s; the painting from 2024. It is true that time flies.
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Today’s work
I am happy with this just as it is but I will most likely do more work on the background ‘drawing’
Painting I am working on now
I am loving the colors in the skin tones so far. The figure behind these two men will be a drawn figure, and I am not certain how I will do that. So I am playing it by ear. This painting is 30 x 40 inches.
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From the archives
I updated the paintings page of this website, confining the work to approximately the last seven years so these images had to go. They exhibit my more expressionistic style, and some are painted collages, juxtaposing images from my personal photographs as well as those found in special collections and archives.
A recent portrait and a mythological painting
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Portraits hanging through September
at Union Coffee. I have been getting a lot of kind feedback from people. Use the contact form on this website to request a painting of your favorite pet or human. And check out the show.
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Robert Raasch’s The Summer Between
I haven’t written about books I am reading in a while. But Robert Raasch’s novel The Summer Between is great in all of the right ways. It is well written, with characters who make me want to continue reading until the end. Thus far, I am being introduced to the main character’s family and childhood. Because it takes place in the crazy yet kind (in my mind anyway) 1970s I can relate. It is bringing back some of my own memories of that time even though I was raised on Long Island, not New Jersey. I am looking forward to getting to the New York City days. The cover is well done too.
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Ganymede
I experimented with a new surface for this portrait of Ganymede. It is called Alumacomp and it is manufactured by New York Central. I purchased it from Jerry’s Artarama, where I get most of my painting supplies. The inspiration for Ganymede is the New York Mets baseball player Drew Smith.
