Brooklyn neighborhoods I have traversed, lived in, and loved

This is the second piece in my Brooklyn series:

"Brooklyn neighborhoods I've traversed, lived in, and loved."

It includes places where I run or ran in high school, places I've lived, places where I've shown my art, places with legendary appeal (Bed Stuy "do or die"), and places I've merely passed through. 

I truly love Brooklyn.

hot commodity

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing everyone a great year in love!

Social fabric; starting anew

Coming up next:

I quit him cold turkey.

Embroidered love notes for VDay at Muriel Guepin Gallery

It's that time of year again: mid-February otherwise known as February 14th or Valentine's Day. 

I believe in honoring the people you love every day. What better way to do so than with an embroidered love note?

I am very pleased to have 13 new post-its, or embroidered notes about contemporary love and dating available at 

Muriel Guepin Gallery

47 Bergen Street, between Smith and Court Streets, Brooklyn. F/G to Bergen Street. 

Open Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-7pm and Sunday 12 noon-5pm.

My pieces are available now through the 14th, and potentially thereafter.

For more info about Muriel Guepin Gallery, click here.

An empty house

"Our love was an empty 

house I tried to furnish.

I got

two of every-   but you

            thing,

never moved in."

Or, 

Our love was an empty house I tried to furnish. I got two of everything, but you never moved in.

Come to Brooklyn

In preparation for this year's Affordable Art Fair, from May 6th-9th at 7 West New York (on 34th Street near 5th Ave), Muriel of Muriel Guepin Gallery has asked me to created some Brooklyn-related pieces. It's fun having an "assignment," and being able to create work on a different theme using some of my tell-tale techniques.

This piece, "Come to Brooklyn," is an homage, one of several to come, for the place where I was born and have lived about 30 of my 34+ years. Yay Brooklyn!

The text says:

Iconic NYC structure seeks runners, walkers, skaters, dreamers, bikers to play on my celebrated footpaths - 1.1 miles of fun, the clack clack of wooden slats.

To prepare for this piece, I have run over the Brooklyn Bridge numerous times in the past month, trying to feel the spirit of the bridge. The female figure represents this spirit. 

Art review by dating coach, Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman

A big thanks to Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman for a review of my "Were I So Besotted" artwork on the the New York Love Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2473-NY-Love-Examiner~y2010m2d2-The-Art-of-Dating-Expressing-dating-lessons-through-art.

Paulette is a dating coach and author of "Dating from the Inside Out: How to Use the Law of Attraction in Matters of he Heart."

After seeing my work in Muriel Guepin Gallery in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Paulette contacted me on Facebook, and we spoke briefly by phone. She then crafted this lovely review.