In Memoriam

“A painter and a lifelong New Yorker, Brenda grew up in Washington Heights and moved into the Westbeth Artists Housing … when it opened in 1970. She lived there for over fifty years, painting and raising her family. Beginning in the early 1950s she spent nearly every summer in Provincetown MA, in the artistic community there. … Brenda studied painting first at New York’s High School of Music & Art; … later she studied at Cooper Union, City College, and in classes with Hans Hofmann. She exhibited her work in galleries both in New York City and Provincetown. … Her work evolved over a lifetime dedicated to painting but her focus was on large, vividly colorful landscapes, bridging figurative and abstract. Brenda Horowitz’s paintings are in corporate and museum collections, including the Provincetown Arts Association & Museum, where in 2023 she was honored for artistic excellence.”

“Enrique Lorenzo was born in Camaguey, Cuba, and spent his formative years in Havana, where the life, rhythms and diverse cultures of the city captivated him. In 1968, Mr. Lorenzo emigrated from Cuba to Spain and then New York City. … Mr. Lorenzo’s drawings and paintings reflect his expressionist leanings, and have been influenced by the Spanish masters, particularly Francisco Goya, as well as the masters of the Italian Renaissance and the Dutch and Flemish schools. His use of shadow and chiaroscuro reflect the inner lives of his figures, who are often haunted by truths about the human condition which artists and philosophers have pondered throughout the ages.”
—enriquelorenzofineart.com

Mare created “paintings with collaged elements combining found objects, photos, mass media. The works are influenced in part from the DADA, Pop Art and Surrealist movements yet the artist allows them their own creative independence. … In addition to painting, from 1970 – 2008 [he] worked as an Art Therapist and Recreation Specialist at the Jewish Guild for the Blind in New York City. He taught woodworking, ceramics, metal working, and mosaic workshops for visually impaired clients. … [His] works are in private collections in Europe and the United States.”
-“Home” and “Biography,” emilmare.com

“Born 1934 in Omaha, Nebraska, Jay Milder became a noted abstract painter in the New York art scene in 1958 when he, Bob Thompson, and Red Grooms founded City Gallery. They were all influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but closer to Willem De Kooning than Jackson Pollock because all three were committed to figurative work. Milder was originally shown at The Allan Stone Gallery and then when Martha Jackson took over as Milder’s dealer, her client, Walter Chrysler, became Milder’s first notable collector. … Milder was greatly influenced by the Hasidic mysticism of his ancestors and by the black dominated jazz night clubs he frequented in North Omaha.”
—Jaymilder.com

“Here is how Jenny tells her own story: ‘If art is autobiography, then it seems that I have truly been an artist since childhood. The funny pages of newspapers and the movies that I saw Saturday mornings at the local theater were my first teachers of visual media. I discovered painting in Music and Art High School and the Bauhaus in Cooper Union and Brooklyn College. After I got my BFA, I spent two years painting abstractly, but I found it too limiting. One discovered an individual visual idea that was a sort of signature and repeated it endlessly. The probing, discovering, and ascertaining of an aspect of reality that figuration offered seemed more challenging. When the 1970s ushered in the Feminist Art Movement, I discovered that what I was already doing had a name.’ ”
-persimmon.org
– Photo credit: Robert Bunkin