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THE VISITOR
21 x 34 inches
Acrylic on gessoed panel
Private collection
The Today’s Art Medal of Merit
Included in Inaugural Exhibition of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art

“The Visitor” is a portrait of Rick Mark, a college roommate who spent many of his evenings visiting friends. The idea for the portrait came about after another roommate had brought an antique couch from home for our living room. That evening when Rick came home he immediately slouched down in a corner of the couch, still clad in his jacket and hat, as was his habit whenever visiting. The scene froze in my mind. The hat became a symbol of a visit and the couch was as much a visitor as was Rick. The symbolic hat, the newly attained couch and the person of Rick all combined to make up “The Visitor”.