Dear Friends, I am honored and delighted to be showing a collection of 12 large and medium-sized contemporary oil paintings at Frank + Lola’s gorgeous, luminous Salon space in Oakland, California. The first series of six paintings was installed in April, and the second series will be ready for viewing September 7th onward till the end of…
Continue Reading →Dear Friends, I am so happy to share that my painting “Monika, the Rabbit & the Holy Ghost” will be included in the wonderful Fashionistas Fight Back group show, curated by Shana Nys Dambrot and held at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art from October 3 to November 14, 2015. If you are in…
Continue Reading →Dear Friends ~ I spent the better part of this afternoon listening to an interview with screenwriter Paul Attanasio (Donnie Brasco, Quiz Show) and soaking in John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (both versions). I have been working on, or I should say listening to, a new book that came through a while…
Continue Reading →This is the first painting I am creating inspired directly by a dream. A dream directive. And it might be the first piece I have ever started with a sketch in hand. I have been working on it with glee, in a trance for several hours each week for the past month. Gessoing it took…
Continue Reading →When I start to paint, what makes me happy or is troubling to me, I paint to resolve or shed clarity and light on: relationships with rare and incomparably sweet people, including family, friends, wonderful strangers, animal spirits, angelic guides. More and more these days, I am guided by the latter, these light beings, these…
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