My Love Affair with Alice Neel
Alice Neel, artist supreme.
My Fundraiser.
I had one goal this summer: to do a fundraiser supporting Planned Parenthood in honor of my Mom, Anita Jaffe Seyler, an ardent supporter. My intention was to use the watercolors from my It’s My Body series which consists of 5×7” watercolors depicting a woman in her multiple personas: nurturer; justice of the peace; beautiful;…
My Body is Mine.
My body is mine, in all its power. I have the right to protect it from the invidious invasion of the American government. My right to privacy was recognized by the Supreme Court long before Roe. Keep your hands off me!
Movie Stars
I save photographs and film stills of movie stars that reigned in the first half of the 20th century. To honor my icons, I preserve them forever in my art. This is from a film still of Joel Mccrea and Delores Del Rio in the 1932 film Bird of Paradise. The passion that the scene…
More on Woman in a Daybed.
I love this painting because … her eyes are forlorn; but she reaches for the pink and blue ether above. her other hands are as strong and firm as the couch; and yet her body is painted transparently enough that her interior is on view. She is constrained by the massive gated door, but there…