"Cage", 2001, oil/wood, 19"-15". This painting was made around the time of 9/11. It was shown in a Russian artists show close to the site a few months later. The gallery was located way under ground in the basement of a Russian bar two blocks from where one of the jet engines landed. The gallery was named Artyama, "yama" meaning cave in Russian. I only noticed later that the black and white patterns were similar to the pseudo Islamic arches on the lower part of the Trade Centers.

"Blue Notes", 2002, oil/wood, 19"-18".

Babies Marc and Andre Salz with their father Sam Salz, art dealer, near a Renoir(1952). This Renoir is now in the Museum of Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Years later I was lucky to visit the Durand-Ruel family home in Paris where Renoir's two paintings, "The Dance in the City" and "The Dance in the Country", were hanging in their dinning room. There are no Renoirs in our own home. Just paintings by friends, teachers and my own work (posted Father's Day, 2010).

  “Things Grow", 2001, oil/wood, 20"-24". A painting fro the "Narrative Abstractions" Series. I was thinking about what to do with the darker pink vessel shape on the right when I passed a man at a bus stop who had a large almost ball size growth on his neck. Things grow.

“Scribe", 1999(revised 2002), oil/wood, 19"-22". From the "Narrative Abstractions" series. This series was shown at the Design Arts Gallery of Drexel University, Philadelphia in December 1999-January 2000. 

"Celeste's World", 1998, oil/wood, 21"-30". From the same series, this one is dedicated to my cat named Celeste who lived for eighteen years.

“Funny Fruits”(for Carla Bley) 2005, watercolor/gouache, 12”-14”. For jazz composer and musician Carla Bley(1936-2023).