The Glenfield Middle School Show

Just prior to this show,

I had a four month long show at the

Verona Public Library.

At the start of that show I reached out to the directors of the art programs at all the schools in Verona and Montclair, telling them of my show and that I was a local resident professional artist with extensive history showing in galleries in NYC, and that I would be glad to come to their school and talk to their students should they be interested.

Amy Cohen of Glenfield Middle School fame expressed interest.

Amy attended my talk / Q & A at the library in which I explained what started out as The Montclair Project.

For the average person, their only experience with great painting is going to museums where they might see 1000 paintings in an hour or two.

Great painting does not give up hardly anything at a glance.

One has to spend time with it.

See it in different moods,

different times of day,

different weather.

Great painting is a living thing and the more time you spend with it, the more it will talk to you.

My Montclair Project is all about finding local public places to hang my paintings for long periods of time so that the area residents can have a natural experience with it.

You don’t have to go to school to understand great painting.

It’s more like understanding great cooking.

All it takes is interest and exposure.

This show of Margaret’s Crosswalks and the first ten of my Universe Series will hang until summer break.

Prior to hanging the show I had the great fortune to visit one of this school’s art rooms.

The energy there was like that music high school in the Fame movie.

I had no idea that Glenfield is the regional art magnet school.

I’m predicting very big things.

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