Live Painting >> Spring 2015 << NYC

The past couple of weeks have been pretty insane in my life. After an early spring week in the woods, I got back to the city to live painting at a benefit for the victims of the explosion and fire on East 7th Street. E.V. Grieve billed it as: "The sold-out concert, spearheaded by East Village-based writer Alan Kaufman and artist Jim Storm, has pulled

Live Painting >> Spring 2015 << NYC2015-04-27T16:16:23-04:00

Painting a Lee Marvin portrait for Jim Jarmusch

People ask me how it was that I ended up painting a portrait of Lee Marvin for Jim Jarmusch's film Coffee and Cigarettes in 2004. Well, as with every painting, there's a story to it. In January 2002, I opened Zito Studio Gallery in a small storefront on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was just after the insanity of 9/11

Painting a Lee Marvin portrait for Jim Jarmusch2015-03-28T13:22:39-04:00
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