off the path of high concept stuff, these are portraits I painted in 2009 of some of the most important people in my life to date: my father, my sister, the first long-term lover I had with whom we both felt like adults, and Steve Cannon, blind gallery owner, poet, professor, and driving force of A Gathering of the Tribes and the East Village slam scene, who let me run the gallery part of his home-based nonprofit organization.
