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28th
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I have a full page painting in Juxtapoz magazine August 2010 issue!!! I have to admit, this is a dream come true - imagine a full page photo… I’m nothing short of proud. However there is no credit given because the painting is the backdrop and set for this Prom photo from Berkeley High School 1997. During the 90’s I was a set designer and painted backdrops for Dan Reynold’s Photographics in Hayward CA, the largest photo company in the bay area at the time. This is my set and backdrop. I painted the grey backdrop, spray painted those large vases black, chose the linoleum floor, and hung the white tulle. I had help with the flowers. The article in Juxtapoz is really about bay area cartoonist Ariel Schrag, and the photo is from a school prom with Ariel and her girlfriend. I remember this photo at the studio. It caused a bit of a scandal there. Two girls in a Prom photo? That’s not a friend, it’s her date? …Lesbians? The crew in Hayward were rather conservative. It didn’t take much to rock their boat. So there you have it, my anonymous moment among the pages of Juxtapoz ~ Thanks Ariel for sharing your prom photo with us!!!

I have a full page painting in Juxtapoz magazine August 2010 issue!!! I have to admit, this is a dream come true - imagine a full page photo… I’m nothing short of proud. However there is no credit given because the painting is the backdrop and set for this Prom photo from Berkeley High School 1997. During the 90’s I was a set designer and painted backdrops for Dan Reynold’s Photographics in Hayward CA, the largest photo company in the bay area at the time. This is my set and backdrop. I painted the grey backdrop, spray painted those large vases black, chose the linoleum floor, and hung the white tulle. I had help with the flowers. The article in Juxtapoz is really about bay area cartoonist Ariel Schrag, and the photo is from a school prom with Ariel and her girlfriend. I remember this photo at the studio. It caused a bit of a scandal there. Two girls in a Prom photo? That’s not a friend, it’s her date? …Lesbians? The crew in Hayward were rather conservative. It didn’t take much to rock their boat. So there you have it, my anonymous moment among the pages of Juxtapoz ~ Thanks Ariel for sharing your prom photo with us!!!
Jul
11th
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Here is one of the sets Mark Leudeman and I built and painted in Manhattan. Mark made the bed from scratch. I faux finished everything else to make it look real. This was built in the middle of a warehouse for a one day photo shoot. This was a cool job I had for 3 years in New York.

Here is one of the sets Mark Leudeman and I built and painted in Manhattan. Mark made the bed from scratch. I faux finished everything else to make it look real. This was built in the middle of a warehouse for a one day photo shoot. This was a cool job I had for 3 years in New York.
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After getting my sculpture degree from Baltimore’s MICA in 1986, I spent a few years in Maine near my family, and traveled all around the country with friends. After seeing the bay area, I moved to California. During the 90’s I painted backdrops and made props for a photographic company in Hayward, California. Most of the events were school dances and proms. In these photos I made everything in the shot except the people. I enjoyed this work because I had not painted much in art school, so I learned a lot about paint, canvas and working with many different materials at this job. I think it’s interesting what artists have to do in order to get by. I painted hundreds of backdrops over the 7 years there.