My solitary female figure drawings. January-April, 2021.
My color pencil drawings.
13 Months Ago
I was looking back at some of my drawings from May 10, 2020. We were still fully masked. There was no opportunity to smell the spring air. I drew imaginary dinner parties with 6 at the table. . I drew what it felt like before when I could wander the halls of the Met on…
On a Daybed
Since March, just about when we were at the anniversary date of living with a pandemic for a year, I began drawing women in cramped spaces. In one series, she is lounging on a daybed. The daybed is based on one located in the Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is dated…
Unbreakable
I heard the Attorney General’s decision of Cuomo’s transgressions toward women, documented as unwanted kisses; and/or groping their breasts and/or manhandling their buttocks and/or otherwise acting as if he had the unfettered right to touch his female employees where he pleased when he pleased. I started a drawing about a powerful woman, unbreakable and strong,…
Wistful to Broken Dreams
This drawing is part of my series titled “Women: Beautiful and Powerful at One with Nature.” In this drawing the bird woman looks wistfully back on different selves and the different parts of selves that come together to tell a journey.