Life & Art

Lorna _Ritz_Paintings_YveYANG-compressed copy   YveYANG Gallery, 12 Wooster St., Soho, NYC 10013, will soothe the heat of downtown Manhattan this summer with abstract expressionist views of rural Massachusetts, courtesy of Lorna Ritz, whose debut New York solo exhibition, “Lorna Ritz, Paintings,” opens July 11th, 2025. Opening...

My little ‘painting performance’ was a hit. My 3-year old and 4-year old grand nieces called out a color for me to paint on the blank canvas. But they had to close their eyes and imagine a color before calling the color out to me....

Lew and Lorna Program                          Discussion ideas:   Intro—conversation about Lew and Lorna’s relationship. How did you meet and how aware have you been of each other’s work?  I was the first person Lew met in the Main House at MacDowell Colony when he arrived. I had been picked up...

Painting has become so much more pleasurable than those days back I tried too hard to get it right. Back then, if I was not enjoying the search, I learned to stop painting and rethink what I was after, and then go right there with...