First Image, ]]> We had arranged to meet in Hudson, NY so that we could pick up a sculpture of mine from the Pamelas Salisbury Gallery. (see post from September 3, 2022, Opening at The Pamela Salisbury Gallery). I had two early work in the show. Bathroom Wall and Room with. View of Hoboken both, from about 1976. We were only picking up Room With a View, because Bathroom Wall had been sold. After we wrapped and put the sculpture and the base (with the help of a young woman, Alice, who was working at the gallery), Ben headed back to our house in his car and I went on to the Greatest American Glasses store at the other end of Hudson. They have relatively inexpensive eyeglasses. I bought four pair because I go through glasses on a regular basis. I stopped back at Pamela's on my way back through Hudson to pick up something I forgot to take with me. I bought lunch and ate it on the way home. Later Ben put my sculpture in my heated studio, and we put the base in the Dutch Barn Studio. Ben also helped Cathy (Murphy) with something in her studio, did his regular chores and worked on the storage cage he is building in the Dutch Barn Studio. I need to store4 some things in cabinets and cages because of all the critters that make their homes in that studio.]]> In January of 2022 I lost my IPhone. As far as I can figure I put it on top of the car and drove off. The majority of the hundreds of photographs and videos I had on the phone are lost. A few, luckily I had put on the site earlier. Some, like this one I was able to retake. ]]> ]]> Yesterday Darren picked up a Long Grass mower that we were renting for him to use. He and Jean mowed all of the areas that we let grow up during the summer as fields and meadows.]]> In addition to the general Self-Portraits I have also been focusing in on a couple of sub-categories within Self-Portraits. Including Self-Portraits with people I interact with frequently while doing errands. Megan is the manager pf the cheese and coffee sections at Adams Fairacre Farms in Poughkeepsie. She has been at Adams for 9 years.]]> Sub-topic for Self-Portraits with People I have interacted with for years while doing errands.]]>

1. How and when you first met Harry Roseman

BB: In 2017 when I started as President of Vassar, Harry was one of the first faculty to make an appointment and come see me.

2. A statement about your work and/or a brief autobiographical statement. - This can be quite brief (but doesn't have to be).

BB: I am a professor of Science, Technology, and Society and Political Science and I am the president of Vassar. I have three adult children and have been married for 36 years, and have traveled all over the world, deeply in Africa.

3. Examples of or a reflection of your work, whatever is applicable. (Images and/or text) This can be emailed to me or given/mailed to me on a CD or DVD (177 East Dorsey Lane, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601)

BB: Here are some pictures...at UNiv of Edinburgh making links for Vassar, enjoying students over for dinner in the President's House, and performing graduations!

3A. images - if you do not do work that is visual or written, this can be an image(s) of something that you associate with, you, your dog, your garden, or favorite photo of yourself - whatever you would like to be the image on your page. If you are sending written work you can include an image as well,again, of anything that is of interest to you. You can send as many images as you would like.

see image of Elizabeth and John

Elizabeth Bradley - CV

https://www.vassar.edu/president/biography

September 16, 2022

]]> Tomas Nozkowski. 3/23/44 - 5/9/19 Obituary from the New York Times, May 17, 2019 by Roberta Smith Thomas Nozkowski, whose small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and wryly self-aware direction, died on May 9 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 75. Pace Gallery, his representative since 2008, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Kind and soft-spoken, displaying little in the way of overt artistic ego, Mr. Nozkowski was nonetheless a man of ambition, intelligence and firmly held opinions. In the early 1970s, after several years of making large abstract paintings and then more modest Post-Minimal sculpture, Mr. Nozkowski found himself put off by the macho scale of both Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and by what he considered their “imperialist” implications. He decided to work small, and on the easel — initially painting on 16-by-22-inch pieces of art-store canvas board and later on somewhat larger rectangles of linen stretched over wood panels. He wanted, he told one interviewer, “a size that was scaled to my friends’ apartments, that could hang in a three-room walk-up tenement on Seventh Street.” Mr. Nozkowski had studied at the Cooper Union with Abstract Expressionists as well as with refugees from the Bauhaus; he adapted the improvisatory working method of the Abstract Expressionists but used a small brush, scraping down and rubbing off paint in ways that often registered in his finished works. He developed a wide-ranging vocabulary that fused the biomorphic and the geometric into abstract forms noted for their varied colors, their paint handling, and associations ranging from tiled floors or cell clusters to architecture or outer space. He said his untitled abstractions had been distilled from his own experiences of just about anything: memories, relationships, movies, books, other art, and the environment as he encountered it on his daily walks in either upstate New York or New York City, where he and his family lived for years in a nominally refurbished synagogue on the Lower East Side. Mr. Nozkowski’s approach gave him an unlimited supply of source material, which he resolved into orbs, dots, ellipses, bulges, partial grids or arcs. This strategy also protected him, he said, from the predictability of a signature style — although not quite. A Nozkowski is recognizable by its modest size and richness of color and surface, and also by a kind of dissonance both within the compositions of the individual paintings and among groups of them. This means, perhaps paradoxically, that each of his paintings functions as a peculiarly single entity, a world unto itself; whatever you experience with one Nozkowski doesn’t necessarily translate to the next. Mr. Nozkowski emerged relatively late. He did not have his first solo gallery show of paintings until 1979, when he was 35, at the 55 Mercer Street Gallery in SoHo, a respected artist cooperative. For some four decades he arranged his schedule so that he could paint for four hours a day while otherwise working — as a designer for Warner Books and then Mad magazine, as a production director at Mad and, finally, as a painting teacher at Rutgers University. The Museum of Modern Art acquired one of his paintings in 1983, and by the late 1980s he had had the first of several surveys in small museums in the United States and abroad. He exhibited regularly (soon enough in commercial galleries), and almost from the start saw his work analyzed by a widening circle of admiring writers, including Joseph Masheck, Peter Schjeldahl, Marjorie Welish, John Yau and Robert Storr. In 2008, when he joined Pace Gallery, Mr. Nozkowski achieved both a new prominence and elder-statesman status. Thomas Edward Nozkowski was born on March 23, 1944, in Teaneck, N.J., to Edward and Edna (Angevine) Nozkowski and grew up in Dumont, N.J. His father worked in an Alcoa Aluminum factory and then as a postman. His mother worked in factories and as a bookkeeper. One of his aunts was a schoolteacher who provided art supplies for him and his younger sister to use on weekends. His parents loved to travel, and the family took frequent camping trips, partly to save money and partly to be close to nature. The family put an emphasis on learning. Mr. Nozkowski’s mother often arranged visits to major corporations, a high point being a tour of a U.S. Steel plant in Pittsburgh. Mr. Nozkowski acquired his lifelong habit of long daily walks from his father. He was reading at an adult level by age 10 and often read through all the books by an author who interested him. He also began keeping track of all the movies he saw and became a knowledgeable film buff. He traveled to Manhattan on his own for the first time when he was 13, and his school nominated him to take an astronomy class at the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. When he was a senior in high school he won a scholarship to attend a painting class at New York University’s School of Education, where he studied with Robert Kaupelis (1928-2009) and Hale Woodruff (1900-80). Mr. Nozkowski studied at the Cooper Union and, after taking a year off — mostly to watch films — graduated in 1967. That year he married a fellow Cooper student, the ceramic painter and sculptor Joyce Robins. She survives him, as do their son, Casimir Nozkowski, a filmmaker; his sister, Mary Dana Greenwood; and a grandson. He lived in High Falls, in Ulster County, N.Y. When James Kalm, a peripatetic videographer who records many New York gallery openings, buttonholed Mr. Nozkowski at one of his and asked what advice he would give to young painters, Mr. Nozkowski looked into the camera. “The trick,” he replied, “is to do what you love and to be content alone in the studio. And if you have that, you have everything you need.”]]> L to R, Catherine Murphy, Marta Renzi, Daniel Wolff Continued from last entry. The drawing itself is finished. I am now working on an overlay to prepare for the next drawing. My voice (for some unknown reason, happens from time to time) was extremely hoarse during this conversation. They got here about 11:00 and left about 2:30 pm, about a half hour ago.]]> L to R, Catherine Murphy, Marta Renzi, Daniel is Wolff. When they arrived Catherine was already painting. They filmed and talked for a while. I went into my studio to work. Eventually the came in to my studio and filmed me working on an aspect of the same drawing that Marta filmed me working on the last time they came. (See next entry)]]> At Adams Fairacre Farms. One sub area of self portraits is with people I know long term from doing errands. Brad started working at Adams in November, 1988. I started shopping there in 1980. Brad worked behind the counter at the Seafood section for many years. Recently he was promoted to manager of the Seafood Department and he is not behind the counter very often. He is extremely helpful in helping me purchase seafood.]]> In January fo 2022 I lost my Iphone. You far as I can figure I put it on top of the car and drove off. The majority of the hundreds of photographs and videos I had on the phone are lost. A few, luckily I had put on the site earlier.]]> The machine came at 8:00 am (see last visitor entry). Jean and Darren got here at 9:00 am. They are going to dig the whole for the new section of the garden using the machine behind them.]]> Darren and Jean are going to work on the new section of the garden today. The Evergreen section. The front loader is for digging out the bed of the new garden. I thought Ron looked familia to me. After some back and forth it turned out he came here quite some time ago to deliver wood for Williams lumber when Tim Liefer was working on something here.]]> This get together of emeriti of Vassar College is the first in person reception for two years because of Covid. It Covers three (I think) retired professors, including myself who were honored at retirement.

Left to Right - Bill Lunt, Kathy Campbell, Laura Schlessman, Harvey Flad, 1/2 of Doug Winblad,

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From left to right: Bill Lunt, Kathy Campbell, Laura Schlessman, Harvey Flad, Doug Winblad, Mark Schlessman, Elisabeth Arlyck, Michael McCarthy, Bill Hoynes, Debbie Elmegreen, Peter Charlap, Janet Gray.

]]> Ben did the shopping in the morning whole i was at the doctors. After Lunch, he sharpened pencils fo Catherine (Murphy). At the end of the day Ben and I had enough time to set up a book like section of Self-Portraits, 1971, in InDesign for Instagram and Facebook. Ben might work on this before he comes next time.]]> These are two other patients that I would see regularly and chat with at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Westchester. This was Larry's last day for treatment]]> Taken in the rest room at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Westchester]]> Catherine was setting up for a new drawing and needed a stair cut and slightly remade to clear a bit of room for the set up.]]>
In early August, 2023 I was at Adams Fairacre Farms and after I checked out, I realized I hadn't brought my wallet, so no credit card and no cash. The bill was about $85.00. I had a bit of a self-directed fit. Juana said she would lend me a $100. I was very touched by her offer and did accept. I went in the next day and paid her back. A couple of day later when I was shopping there I bought her an orchard to thank her. She seemed surprised and pleased.]]> Benjamin came to work. First he did his regular chores. Then he did the food shopping. Since my regular daily doctors appointments it has been helpful to have Ben do the food shopping, so I can have afternoons to do my work. He spent time in the afternoon looking online for mannequins that Catherine (Murphy) needs to buy for and upcoming painting. He use thee small amount fo time that was left for working on China 1987.]]> When I got down to the kitchen this morning I could smell a slight gas smell from the stove. I proceeded to make breakfast. The toast was done, Catherine's (Murphy) teas water was boiling and the eggs started. The burners kept getting lower until they went out altogether. I poured the eggs in a flat plate and put them in the microwave. They cooked OK, even though there was a lot of spilling. As we ate breakfast I called Suburban Propane. After some back and forth and at first they were going to do one thing and then another. They did send a driver out with a delivery - Nick. We were very glad because we had planned to have a few people over for dinner tomorrow. Nick came out to the garden to speak with me and we all talked about the garden and trees (which is something important for him) for a few minutes before he left.]]> Peter Freeman and Lluisa Sarries took us to dinner at The Stone Barn in Tarrytown. This group of people were sitting to the right of us and I noticed they were posing for a photograph that the waiter was taking. I asked if I could also photograph them. They were extremely nice about it. After I took the photograph they asked me about why I was taking their photograph. I told them and they one of them wrote down the name of the site and they said it was nice to meet me. I returned the compliment. I should have been more methodical so the photograph would have been clearer.]]> This was Darren's first day working in the garden for the season. Jean didn't come because Alyah didn't feel well so she stayed home to take care of her. Darren took down some dead plants from last season and took down all of the Hardware Cloth surrounds on the bushes and small trees. he also put Malorganite around the tulips to keep the dear off. before he left he called us out to look at the stone wall he and Jean built in front of the Dutch Barn. Someone at vandalized the wall and thrown the stones around. This was very depressing. We were angry and sad about it.]]> We had arranged to meet Suzanne Joelson and Gary Stephan at Elena Sisto's (there were other shows opening in the gallery at the same time) opening at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson NY. Then to go out to dinner. Suzanne called us to say that Dennis and Shelly were to take the same train up to Hudson for Elena's show. She suggested they join us for dinner, which we thought a very good idea. So we all had dinner together at Ca'Mea. we had a very good time. the food was only so so. For example, My restaurant made Gnocchi themselves were really good, but the sauce was insipid. Catherine's pasta in clam sauce was reasonably good but the clams were exceedingly tough. ]]> Katie and Eneas were taking a short break and visited us in the afternoon for tea, coffee, snacks and sweets. They looked at Catherine's (Murphy) new painting and drawing. We visited, talked and ate, the afternoon sliding by at great neck speed. The brought us the beautiful flowers in the background of the photograph of Katie.]]> Benjamin came to drive Catherine to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan. I was going to drive her, bit I have to go for treatment every morning Monday thru Friday an hour and 1/2 each way. Saturday we went to Hudson for Elena Sisto's opening at the Pamela Salisbury Gallery. I needed a day off from driving. So I stayed home and drew all day. I was looking forward to seeing the Charles Ray Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show is on through June 5, so I should be able to see it later. Ben tried to see it but the line to get into the museum was so long that he didn't have enough time while Catherine was at a meeting to give out awards and prizes to artists included in the American Academy's yearly invitational. She is the head of the committee. When they got home Ben did a couple of things for us before he headed home.]]> Self Portrait with Keith Martin - Keith is the manager (I think) of the produce department at Adams Fairacre Farm. He has been there for many years I will ask him for how long. I go to Keith to ask for special orders, or when will something come in, or to whine about something. He recently told me he is retiring later this year.]]> March 26, 2022, Saturday. Alec Levinson (our tenant) called earlier today to tell me he had no heat. I called Bottini Fuel Company and they sent over a technician. It turned out the tank was empty. the man from Bottini put in 10 gallons and ordered a delivery]]> Hyde Park, NY]]> Benjamin worked today. First he did his regular chores. Mostly he worked on our taxes.]]> The door to Catherine's (Murphy) studio in the house was broken. The nails had pulled out of the frame so the door wan't working very well. Catherine needed to close the door when she wasn't painting so that Toni (the cat) couldn't get in when she wasn't working. Tim had to shorten the door a smidgy and re-attach a hinge. When he was finished we had coffee and cookies and visited.]]>