KIND PORTRAITURE
Louisa, 2026
Oil on board
16 × 12 inches
DP, 2025
Oil on board
11 × 9 inches
Curator and former colleague Dan Palmer standing proudly in front of Harold Ancart: Subliminal Standard, project managed by Walsh Hanson and produced by Public Art Fund. Reference photograph taken by Liz Ligon (you will be missed).
Major General, 2025
Oil on board
12 × 9 inches.
Yeshayahu Gavish, head of the Southern Command during the Six Day War. Different times.
The Jujitsu Player, 2023
Oil on board
10 × 8 inches
IBJJF World Champion, Paulo Miyao.
“Cauliflower ear” is a condition caused by repeated, untreated blunt-force trauma to the ear and the necrosis of its cartilage—also a badge of honor among Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners.
The Blessed José Gregorio Hernández, 2023
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
10 × 4 × 8 inches
José Gregorio Hernández (1864–1919) was a Venezuelan physician. He was beatified by the Church in 2017. The miracle: a young girl recovered from a gunshot to the head after her parents prayed for his intercession.
Latihan, 2023
Foam, epoxy, resin, acrylic paint
10 × 8 × 4 inches
Ruth Dinowitz (1907–1988), grandmother of the artist, was a dedicated member of Subud, a spiritual organization founded by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo. The latihan is the central communal practice and is said to give access to the power of God (or the great life force).
The last Days of F. Rolfe, 2021
Oil on board
9 × 12 inches
Frederick William Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo, was the author of Hadrian the Seventh, (1904;NYRB: 2001 ), which HBO’s The Young Pope (2016) seems to draw upon heavily without acknowledgment.
Rolfe also wrote an iconoclastic apologia for the Borgias, Chronicles of the House of Borgia (1901), in which he casts the Medici as the true villains of the Renaissance rivalry.
Eventually, Rolfe’s eccentricities got the better of him. He ended his days in Venice, pimping children and living under an overturned gondola.
Essential Worker, 2020
Oil on board
9 × 12 inches
Vietnam 67–68, 2018
Oil on board
11 × 14 inches
Composure, 2016
Oil on board
12 × 16 inches
The monk Thích Quảng Đức immolating himself in protest of the persecution of Buddhists at the hands of the Catholic-dominated South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm.
Peacock Chair, 2015
Foam, resin, epoxy, bord, acrylic paint
16 × 6.5 × 8.5 inches
The peacock chair was originally made by women interned in the Filipino Bilibid Prison in the early twentieth century.
Famously, Huey Newton is depicted sitting on the chair, holding a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other, in a 1967 photograph by Blair Stapp.
Less famously, Nicole Cohen is depicted sitting on the chair, holding an infant Seth Cohen in one hand and a three-year-old Sacha Cohen in the other, in a 1971 photograph by an unknown photographer.
Azealia Banks: We Really Need to Talk About This, 2014
Oil on board
9 × 12 inches
Azealia Banks on Hot 97, December 18, 2014, tearfully discussing Iggy Azalea and cultural appropriation.
The End of the Sickness, 2009
Oil on board
I0 × 10 inches
Nicole Cohen (unknown–2009)