art www.queenscourier.com • march 2013 • lic courier 35 “I particulary like oil paintings because you can change your mind, add and subtract layers as you feel more acquainted with your home view,” she said. One of the works that can describe her best views from her Long Island City apartment is called “LIC Train Workers” and can now be found at the Diego Salazar Gallery. This oil painting, created straight out of her pajamas, details the hard work of train workers under a nice blue sky surrounded by the industrial city. “It’s a reflection of me and me is a reflection of where I live, being a domestic person I was painting my life,” she said. She recalls a specific mentor in her life in the early 1960s, who had a studio right off her kitchen. While the mentor would be cooking dinner for the present dinner party, she would also go about checking her painting in the studio. “My first memories are of art and I always felt most in my element when I was with artists,” she said. Among her inspirations are women who were considered to be eccentric and kept true to themselves in life and in their art works. Some of her influences include, Emily Carr, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keef Marjorie Portnow and many more. “I’m a slow thinker and I mull things over and like to push things too far and then I can reconsider and rub that off and repaint. Push and pull.”
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