“Pathways”(Jacob’s Ladder), 2017-2022, pencil/watercolor,  13.5”-12”. From the “(Human)Nature Drawings”. This piece and others in the series were done while being at home without a studio but I wanted to give them the weight of paintings. The pencil became like a brush dipped in oil paint. It felt as if what it must have been like to have been Moses crossing an unknown desert with only a staff of wood and a jug of water. Sometimes you learn something from being a little hungry about what you can’t have.

The painting wall in my studio in 2012. The painting “Chosen Paths”(Adam/Eve) is shown here. I left my studio in 2013 after painting there for thirty seven years. The wall tells all.

 

Three very short videos from my mini retrospective of small shaped paintings on wood(1981-2011) in June, 2020 at the Boston Street Gallery in Philadelphia.

 

 

 

   A wall in my former studio where I painted for thirty seven years. I called this "The Wall of Fame". It featured photos of paintings, composers, musicians, actors and comedians. Some of them were: Giulietta Massina(La Strada), Cezanne, Thelonious Monk, El Greco, Samuel Beckett(obituary), Moondog, Jack Benny, a Fayoum portrait, the planet Saturn, "The Honeymooners", Matisse, Buster Keaton, Bob Dylan, Morandi, Morton Feldman, Charlie Chaplin, Malevitch, John Waters, Fra Angelico, Monet's palette, Anton Webern, Captain Beefheart, a baby shoe, and a toy blue rhinoceros. All these images kept me painting over the years. Every studio should also have it's own toy blue rhinocerous. Please click on the photo to enlarge it.