Brookes, Mary, Jess, Amelia, oil on canvas but sometimes paper maybe?
"The Artist is Absent" was part of my solo show where I was available to paint portraits during spare days at Tribes Gallery. Sometimes these were commissions from community members that ended up with the subject, as with the first two, and other times it was persuading one of the collection of young, pretty, unpaid white girl art interns that collected around Steve to sit, as in the second two of these.
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Mainly using this to chost a #retrospective of my artwork from the last uh 3 decades. Occasionally new art and rechosts. Pretend I put some fun gifs here.
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.