NEW WORK
Ball, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.075.00
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Star, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.076.00
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Milk, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.077.00
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Glass, 2016
Oil on canvas
24" x 18" (61 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.078.00
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Egg, 2016
Oil on canvas
24" x 18" (61 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.079.00
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Duck, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 24" (46 mm x 61 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.080.00
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Sound, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.00
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Pearls, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.01
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Foam, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.02
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Pipe, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 24" (46 mm x 61 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.03
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Light, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.04
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Shell, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.05
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Roll, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.06
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Bowl, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.07
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Pills, 2016
Oil on canvas
24" x 18" (61 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.08
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Swabs, 2016
Oil on canvas
24" x 18" (61 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.09
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Spoons, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.10
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String, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.11
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Plug, 2016
Oil on canvas
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.12
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Lace, 2016
Lace
18" x 18" (46 mm x 46 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.510.13
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Lace pays homage to the woman who made this handkerchief. And while I was once an accomplished needleworker, I never achieved this level of excellence. I learned from my father's mother who used her skills to support the family when they first arrived in the US. She continued to work into her final decade in what capacity remained to her. Aging is not kind but the habit of work will stand one in good stead throughout the course of it.
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We live in a material world; we are physical beings; we make connections between objects through images and language. This series runs the gamut from the ordinary (an egg) to the improbable (the duck).
Most of the things are circular, round, or at least, curvilinear. The pointed geometry of Kepler's Star is essentially a sphere; the ball of string, a sloppy sphere; the drainpipe, a segment of a circle. This was not intentional—it just happened that way.
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New Work | Some White Things
New Work | My Mother, Life & Death
Young Peggy, 2016
Pencil & acrylic wash on paper
30" x 22" (76 mm x 56 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.650.69
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Regina Coeli, 1989
Oil on canvas
24" x 23" (61 mm x 58 mm)
Catalog Number: 4.900.00
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Cropped down from a more ambitious size, this picture commemorates my mother becoming a grandmother.
Peggy in the Nursing Home 3, 2013
Graphite on paper
7.8" x 5.4" (20 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: AY64SK
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With age, my mother began to resemble her own mother. Naturally due to the generational difference, I only knew my grandmother this way. The resemblance is uncanny.
Peggy, 2016
Graphite & acrylic wash on paper
30" x 22" (76 mm x 56 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.650.68
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Peggy, 2016
Blue, red & green pencil on paper
24" x 18" (51 mm x 41 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.630.01
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Peggy, 2016
Blue, red & green pencil on paper
24" x 18" (51 mm x 41 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.630.02
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Wheelchair, 2016
Ink & watercolor on paper
11" x 8.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.650.10
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My Mother, 2014
Ink on lined paper
5" x 3" (13 mm x 8 mm)
Catalog Number: AO28SK
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My Mother, 2014
Ink on lined paper
5" x 3" (13 mm x 8 mm)
Catalog Number: AO35SK
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Peggy on André's Birthday, 2015
Ink on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (22 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: BD20SK
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André was my father who had passed away a few years prior. My mother wasn't always sure if he had gone, or where.
Portrait of Peggy, 2015
Ballpoint on graph paper
10" x 8" (24 mm x 20 mm)
Catalog Number: AV01SK
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Que En Paz Descanse, 2016
Graphite on bristol
11" x 8.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.650.11
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For the last several years of her life, my mother was confined to a wheelchair. This was a terrible blow to a woman of her remarkable strength.
During the time I would sit with her, I did my best to learn what I could from her, knowing that the time was short. I'd like to think she left us peacefully.
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New Work | Sketchbooks & Diaries
Nodes & Interstices 2016
Ballpoint on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (22 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: BD28SK
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Garden Clogs, 2016
Ballpoint on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (22 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: BD30SK
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Untitled (Drama), 2016
Ballpoint on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (22 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: BD32SK
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Cat Studies, 2016
Ballpoint on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (22 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: BD31SK
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Lolita (details), 2016
Ballpoint on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (22 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: BD27SK
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Waiting for the Hurricane, 2016
Ballpoint on paper
5.5" x 8.5" (14 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: BD34SK
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Garden Path, 2016
Ballpoint on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (22 mm x 14 mm)
Catalog Number: BD33SK
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Vertical Landscape, 2016
Graphite, ink & acrylic on paper
11" x 8.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: BH25SK
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This drawing was most likely started as early as 2007 with a pencil sketch; it was altered and added to at least twice more.
Art Scene: Behind the Curtain, 2016
Ink & watercolor on bristol
11" x 8.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.640.04
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Art Scene: Standing Group (shirts & boots), 2016
Ink & watercolor on bristol
11" x 8.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.640.03
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Art Scene: Standing Group
(black cape), 2016
Ink & watercolor on bristol
11" x 8.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.640.02
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Self-portrait at an Art Opening, 2016
Watercolor and graphite on bristol
11" x 8.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: 7.640.01
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Fishermen on the Pier, 2016
Ink & graphite on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: BD43SK
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New York Harbor, 2016
Ink & graphite on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: BD42SK
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New York Harbor, 2017
Ink & graphite on paper
8.5" x 5.5" (28 mm x 22 mm)
Catalog Number: BD44SK
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Old Woman in a Hospital Bed, 2016
Ballpoint on lined paper
5" x 3" (18 mm x 8 mm)
Catalog Number: ZZ01SK
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I saw this photograph by Diane Arbus at the Met Breuer. The guard forbade my taking a snapshot, so this scribble was the only remedy; it looked so much like my mother, who had just died in her bed at the nursing home.
18/18
The usual assortment from various sources, from the standard artist's sketchbook of reasonable quality paper to the lined pages of a memo book.
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