My Latest Art News

Above the Streets Gala
Art Share L.A.
801 E. 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Auction: March 22nd
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Numerous Los Angeles artists have donated work for the 4th Annual fundraising event benefiting Art Share L.A. I've contributed a 36"x36" digital print on canvas entitled, "Notes 101C." Price is $400, all tax deductible! Get tickets here.

Don't miss another chance to see my Mardi Gras mask! Curator Dulce Stein will recreate her mask show at the Brewery Art Walk, April 7th and 8th, in the studio of Ashira Siegal Fox. Visit over 100 open studios from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. Mask: $100

Read my story in "Artists, ART, & Story: A Moment in Time, 2017." Karrie Ross has created a series of books in which she compiles fascinating personal stories and essays on various topics, all written by artists. My story is about my wonderful experience creating and running the Women's March Online Facebook Page event last year. 

My 25 Year Retrospective at the Lobby Gallery at NoHoSAC/The Road Theatre closed today. It has been such a treat to be able to share so much of my work in this exhibition! Thank you to everyone involved and everyone who stopped by to see the show. Onward to the next 25 years!

25 Year Retrospective - Reception Photos

Last week, the North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony presented the opening reception for my 25 Year Retrospective art show. NoHo SAC is one of the arts colonies created by the non-profit EngAGE, Inc., for which I'm Websites/Social Media Manager as well as an Experience Talks Radio Show producer/host. I'm grateful to EngAGE CEO/Founder Tim Carpenter, EngAGE CAO Nancy Goodhart, and NoHo SAC Program Director Sara Debevec for hosting the show in the beautiful lobby gallery shared by NoHo SAC and the Road Theatre on Magnolia. The evening included delicious food from Porto’s and fine entertainment by keyboardist Rex Perry. In addition to celebrating 25 years of exhibiting art, the event also marked my 10th anniversary of meeting Tim and my affiliation with the Experience Talks Radio Show, and my 70th birthday!

The exhibition runs until March 16, 2018. It’s open during regular business hours and in the evenings prior to theater performances. Call to confirm: NoHo SAC (818) 985-2200, Road Theatre (818) 761-8838. I hope you can stop by!

Entrance to NoHo SAC.

Entrance to the theater. Main gallery wall can be seen through the windows.

Partner, Experience Talks Producer/Host John Semper Jr.

Nancy Goodhart, CAO of EngAGE; Megan Hocking, Program
Director at Burbank Senior Artists Colony; the artist;
Tim Carpenter, CEO/Founder of EngAGE.

Early arrivals peruse the main gallery wall.

Children's book author Betty Birney and actor Frank Birney.

Artists Theodore Svenningsen and Wini Brewer.

NoHo SAC Program Director Sara Debevec, left, taking photos.

Michelle Debbaudt and Tim Carpenter

Websites design team Ann Zumwinkel, John Marchena, and Doug
Bland brought an oversized, inflatable microphone to celebrate
the recent launch of the new Experience Talks website.

With Michelle and Betty, mid-munch. Delicious food!

Betty, Sara, Frank

Brent, deciding which one to purchase.

With film composer David Raiklen.

With artist/muralist Andre Miripolsky.

Mom! Very glad she came to the event.

Such a surprise when Sara presented me with flowers!

Another surprise: kind words from Tim.

Laughing because I was so caught off guard that I
was holding my plate during the entire presentation!

With Ann, Michelle, and Tim 

Rex Perry provided excellent music.

Sara and Theo discussing art.

Ready to put a red dot on a sold print on metal.

Betty, John, Frank

John and Andre

Michelle and John

Michelle and I both used to be singers many years ago.
We should not be left unsupervised.

25 Year Retrospective at North Hollywood Gallery

Art by Cynthia Friedlob

The Lobby Gallery

NoHo Senior Arts Colony

Road Theatre on Magnolia

10747 W. Magnolia Blvd

North Hollywood, CA 91601

Reception:

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

7:30 - 10:30 p.m.

Show runs until March 16, 2018

Open during regular business hours

and prior to theater performances.

Call to confirm: (818) 985-2200

Last year I created a Facebook album to mark my 25th anniversary of making art. This year, I'm pleased to celebrate the 25th anniversary of exhibiting my art. In 1992, I was accepted into my first show, the Southern California Juried Open. Since then, I've shown my work in over 80 juried and invitational shows, plus many Art Walks and fairs. 

Over the years, I've made hand-colored photos, mixed media work, paintings, drawings, installations, and digital art. It's been a very interesting exploration of media and style, one that continues today.

I hope you'll join me at the reception to see this eclectic exhibition!

Three blocks west of Cahuenga at Magnolia Ave. and Riverton.

Road Theatre on Magnolia entrance shows main gallery wall.

"My 25 Year Art Retrospective" Concludes on Facebook with New Product Announcement!

In lieu of LACMA or MOCA offering a solo show, I decided to celebrate this special anniversary event on my Facebook Page by posting some of my art made over the past 25 years. Did you follow the posts? My 25th -- and final -- post was made on Thanksgiving Day, which seemed appropriate because I'm thankful for all of you who have supported and cheered me on over the years.

In that post, I also announced new product featuring some of my art. Take a look at some of the cool tote bags, pillows, and phone cases that are now available! Visit Pixels.com to order. More products will be available after the first of the year.

My 25 Year Art Retrospective!

In lieu of LACMA or MOCA offering a solo show, I've decided to celebrate this special event on my Facebook Page by posting some of my art made over the past 25 years. Here's the backstory:

In 1991, I had an epiphany. I mean a real moment of clarity when I was hit by an idea that was like the proverbial bolt out of the blue -- the kind of thing you've probably heard about, but can't fully appreciate unless you've experienced it. "Make art." Okay . . .

Way back when I was an 8-year-old kid, I decided to find out if I could draw, so I copied the picture of Lady from "Lady & the Tramp" that was in a matchbook cover advertisement for a mail-order "Learn to Draw" class (yes, children, those things really existed back then). When I showed the finished picture to my parents, they thought I'd copied it from a comic book. I was appropriately insulted, but had proven to myself that I could draw. Other people confirmed the assessment, even the neighborhood kids who were not easily impressed. I sent the drawing to my grandparents where it was published in their hometown newspaper along with a story about me. My first press!

But, the twists and turns of fate led me in another direction and, rather than studying art, I learned to play the piano and developed my love of music. Then, by the time I got to college, I knew I could write a solid essay, an effective opinion piece, a credible news story. I thought I'd use that talent to save the world, which was what many of us wanted to do in those troubled days of the late '60s.

Over the years, I've had a varied creative career: grantwriter for the War on Poverty, kids' TV and family feature film writer (Hanna-Barbera, Marvel, NBC, Jim Henson, Warner Bros.), now social media manager for a non-profit devoted to "artful aging" (EngAGE) and a radio show producer/host (Experience Talks). In between, I was also an occasional songwriter and a vocalist with a jazz trio. And there was that "make art" moment that resulted in my first juried show a year later, all these years of experimenting with art, and now, my creative focus today.

Most of my beginning art-making efforts were devoted to hand-coloring photographs. After working on some lovely old family photos, I asked a friend to pose so I could work on original, contemporary shots. This led to my first art sale to another friend. When she saw "Communion," she said, without hesitation, "I'll give you $200 for that, unframed!" I was stunned and delighted. I ended up making about a half-dozen original hand-colored "Communion" photos. I think there's one left.

I'm looking forward to sharing images of art I've made over the past 25 years. If I'm really organized, you'll see something added to My 25 Year Art Retrospective Facebook photo album every week on Throwback Thursday. Thanks for celebrating with me! (Pretend there's champagne!)

Here's "Communion" and a bit more info about it:

I love the delicate colors, the ethereal effects of hand-colored photographs. I made about a half-dozen original hand-colored versions of this piece, and years later enhanced the color further on the computer. I was most pleased when it was part of a group show in the early '90s at what is now Providence/St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, CA. Each participant in the group show (about a dozen of us) then had a solo show in some part of the hospital. My selection of various hand-colored photos were placed in the reception area and examining rooms of the oncology department. I hope they offered a respite for the patients.