The show “Self-Portraits” is in its last two weeks at The Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in Soho (Spring Street between Greene and Mercer).  Here is the painting, “Across the Table”, which I contributed to the show.

A friend sent me this quote attributed to Eakins. “She [the female nude] is the most beautiful thing there is in the world except a naked man, but I never yet saw a study of one exhibited … It would be a godsend to see a fine man model painted in the studio with the [...]

This is a four-hour short portrait I did of Maya Rock, a writer based in New York. Maya is currently working on a novel, and is a freelance essayist who has written articles about her mixed heritage (click here for an article).