Coming Out of Storage, 2025
5 x 6 x 15 inches
(size of the postal box - size of individual paintings vary)
4 Day Installation as part of 14C Art Fair presented by The Tiny Gallery of Montclair, I expanded my grandfather’s reach to include 13 additional of his never seen paintings, memorialized in miniature. This tiny storage unit installation serves a dual purpose; while it lends public presence to more of my grandfather’s work it also harkens to the challenge of storage space and what to do with all the work we as artists produce.
Poppy’s Painting Studio, 2021
36 x 36 x 24 inches dimensions variable
On view in Tribeca. The story of Poppy’s Painting Studio is below. The article about the expanded story can be found here.
Custom silk top hat, paper, acrylic paint, canvas, wire, wood, sculpey, clay, glue
"Poppy," born in 1884, immigrated to the US from Romania in 1900. He was a professional inventor and a leader in the plastics industry. Upon his retirement, Poppy started his second life as a painter. He told me his hat was who everyone thought he should be and who he costumed as, but the painter was who he was. That impacted me.
In this context, my grandfather's top hat in its original box contains his painting studio: his world, his object, but my interpretation of how he affected me. Referring to a specific painting of Poppy's I inherited, fruits and books are arranged in a still-life, and a tiny painting replica sits on an easel under a powered clamp light. A miniature top hat sits on the floor under a box of paint tubes. Installed beside the sculpture is the original painting.