If it hadn't been for their gifted work and valuable support, we would not have been able to keep our dedicated space back in the late 90s from a skeptical benefactor yet eager developer, David Walentas... Harmony nor Joan were young
painters but I'm sure
great mentors, nonetheless,
of the young
painters that are trying to help support our what used to be a shoe string non-profit stay
alive in hard times....
At a time when the so - called New Image
Painters — Baselitz, Schnabel and co — were reviving interest in neo-expressionist painting, the existential cruelty
of Titian's painting, in which a satyr is skinned
alive, seemed like a message from the past, telling us that the truly
great artist can not so much transcend the infirmities
of old age — failing eyesight and diminished muscular control — as turn them into an aspect
of genius, in works that strip back to the essence
of things, and which can communicate to any age.