studio entryway after cleanup
1:43 PM: i could no longer stand looking at all the papers & cardboard piled high on top of my flat files, which are on the right as you enter the studio. same with the stuff piles on my large evaporative cooler on wheels, next to the flat files. so i cleaned them both off, along with a bunch of cardboard boxes. swept the floor and now my entryway, at least, is looking cleaner. i’ll be going through the rest of my studio interior in stages.
1980 photo-collage i made of hockney’s living room
as i sorted through various paper, collages, drawings…i came across this pre-digital age photo-collage i made of david hockney’s living room in 1980. we had been introduced by my then friend, the late henry geldzahler. henry went on to become curator of 20th c. art at the metropolitan museum in nyc, and from there commissioner of cultural affairs for the city of new york. hockney and i have remained friends since that time.
along with this photo-collage, i also came across a number of drawings made in my athens and andros studios in the ‘70’s. the drawing of a man looking off to his right is kyriakos, my favorite model. he was a sreet cleaner on the block in the plaka where my studio was located. i made many drawings and paintings of him, all of which are now in private, corporate and museum collections in greece.
1975 tarlow watercolor of the venetian castle on andros
the watercolor is one of many i made during our summers on the island of andros. it was painted at piso yialia beach, looking towards the old venetian castle, which is a landmark structure in the capitol of andros: chora.
