Life and Death was my part of the Winter Exhibition at the Harvey Milk Photo Center in Duboce Park, San Francisco CA. I don’t get to show too often, so it was nice to see some of it up on a wall, many thanks to Thomasina DeMaio.
LIFE & DEATH
These two conjoined groups of paintings are drawn from two different sources. The larger paintings on ovals are derived from drawings made from live models during life drawing sessions at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center. The other group of paintings, four on severely worn and four on hand cut playing cards, are based on Fayum mummy portraits, which are the largest group and best preserved examples of Classical Era panel painting. I am painting in acrylic on card, while the original portraits were painted in either encaustic or tempera on wood panel. The Fayum portraits were probably painted from the freshly dead to imitate life (or possibly painted from life for use after death.) Though painted for funerary purpose they evoke life. Those depicted were of Greek descent living in Egypt in the first centuries before and after the mythical Jesus. The models depicted from life are Andrew Pembroke and Derron Thweatt.
DALE WITTIG
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