“Memories Byõbu” Verso 1991

August 3, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. @Bernice Steinbaum.

“Memories Byõbu” 1991

August 2, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. Bernice Steinbaum collection. My friend Marty Amt rescued these wooden cores for this byobu from the dumpster behind the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery. The were sugi (Japanese cedar) at least 200 years old and they sat inside a beautiful black lacquer box. The cores are the skeleton of […]

“Freedom” 1991

May 13, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Mixed media with acrylic and newspaper on paper, 48”x 60”. Collection of Eric Colbert. Wash., DC. I built a life size coffin to do the drawings. later it was gilded with gold to use in “the E & O Line an Electronic Blues Opera produced by Bill Warrell and District Curators

“Silver Cage with Grave” 1991

March 22, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil and silver gilding. 108″ x 96″. Collection of David Teplitsky. The cages (& there must be about 20 or 30 of them) were done in protest of the US intervention in El Salvador and Nicaragua. I saw a picture of the remains of a bus that was attacked by solders on a jungle road. (a note) […]

Installation: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery 1991

March 21, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Left to right: “Cage With Stick” byobu screen 72″ x 144″, “Giotto Revisited” 72″ x 84″. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (later Steinbaum/ Kraus Gallery was my first solo in NY. It was a classic cast iron loft building on Greene Street in Soho. This show included about six of my large paintings (and one screen) with […]