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Pearls from artists* # 6
“Quartet,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 58″ x 38″ image, 70″ x 50″ framed * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the...
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Pearls from artists* # 16
“Big Deal,” soft pastel on sandpaper * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. For the...
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Q: Would you talk about some of your early experiences with art?
Zebras in Chelsea A: I grew up in a blue collar family in suburban New Jersey. My father was a television repairman for RCA. For awhile my mother worked as a sewing machine operator in a factory that...
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Pearls from artists* # 29
“He Just Stood There Grinning,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 58″ x 38″ * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes...
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Q: Why do you need to use a photograph as a reference source to make a pastel...
One of Barbara’s reference photos A: When I was about 4 or 5 years old I discovered that I had a natural ability to draw anything that I could see. It’s the way my brain is wired and it is a gift!...
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Pearls from artists* # 42
Balinese dancer * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. Things-as-they-are offer such...
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Pearls from artists* # 78
Barbara’s studio * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. To me, openings are never...
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Q: What is your earliest visual memory?
Arizona road A: I remember being in a crib at the house where I lived with my parents and sister, a two bedroom Cape Cod in Clifton, New Jersey. I must have been about two or three years old. The...
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Pearls from artists* # 103
Quemado, NM * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. There are times when the...
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Pearls from artists* # 151
“The Storyteller,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 20″ x 26″ * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we...
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Pearls from artists* # 192
“Dichotomy,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 38″ x 58″ * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are...
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Pearls from artists* # 415
Staten Island Ferry *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. I like to think of myself...
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Pearls from artists* # 416
“Acolytes,” soft pastel on sandpaper, 38″ x 58″ * an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are...
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Pearls from artists* # 448
Museum of Ethnography and Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we...
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Q: What is your earliest memory of wanting to be an artist? (Question from...
A charcoal self-portrait circa 1988 when I was a Navy Lieutenant A: I don’t believe I have any such ‘early memories.’ I came to art late and my journey to becoming an artist was circuitous, to say the...
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Pearls from artists* # 461
Whitney Museum of American Art *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on. I must not eat...
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Pearls from artists* # 546
Frame grab from our documentary; Photo:Jenifer Cox *an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are...
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