These paintings are based on family photographs, many taken in Williamstown, NJ during the 1950s. The narrative, once I get to it, will be loving, deeply unpleasant, denied, and dismissed.
Baba, my Polish great-grandmother.
Baba, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
My grandparents’ wedding.
Nana’s wedding, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas
Dolly and Virginia, sisters.
Sisters, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Nana’s second husband standing behind a rosebush, God knows why.
Grandpop, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
My mom when she still had her swagger.
Virginia, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas
Aunt Dolly as a young woman, already lost.
Dolly, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas
Mom with Chuck.
Williamstown, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Nana and me, her captive.
Nana and me, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Me again, in overalls and a babushka, with a chicken.
Red scarf, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
And with my brother and some background drama.
Williamstown, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas
We were always Mickie and Chuck, but he got to be in charge.
Mickie and Chuck, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas
Chuck in his hippie period.
Chuck, hippie period, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Me at that age. (Temporarily removed)
My mom the plant lady at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Flower show, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Dolly in her sophisticated blond era.
Birthday cake, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Nana with Mr. D., her late-life companion, an utterly good man.
Nana and Mr. D., 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Here she is in her Pennsylvania backyard. She always kept a big dog.
Nana and Shep, 18″ by 14″ oil on canvas
Me at the Gulf of Mexico a few years before Katrina, a year before I started law school.
Red suede jacket, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Chuck, nature photographer.
Chuck, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas
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