These paintings are based on family photographs, many taken in Williamstown, NJ during the 1950s. The narrative, should i complete, will be loving and unpleasant. You won’t believe it, anyway. That’s one of the things you learn: no one’s going to believe you.
Baba, my Polish great-grandmother, a family legend.
Baba, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
My grandparents’ wedding. I suspect that look was meant for her mother.
Nana’s wedding, 18″ by 24″ oil on canvas
Dolly and Virginia, the sisters who will eventually drive me crazy.
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, essentially destroyed by this point, I suppose.
Dolly, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas
Mom with Chuck. The image captures her characteristic tension.
Spring, 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
Always Mickie and Chuck, but he got to be in charge.
Mickie and Chuck, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas
Nana with Mr. D., her late-life companion, a wholly good man.
Nana and Mr. D., 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Dolly in her blond era.
Birthday cake, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Chuck, hippie period.
Chuck, hippie period, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Me passing as any sulky teenager.
Me, sulky period, 11″ by 14″ oil pm canvas
My mom the plant lady at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Flower show, 14″ by 18″ oil on
And 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.
Red suede jacket, 14″ by 18″ oil on canvas
Chuck, nature photographer.
Chuck, 11″ by 14″ oil on canvas
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