acrylics

Rebecca and Eun Entwined   Acrylic on canvas  54" x 30"   December 2024  

commissioned by Emma (Eun) Kim 

Acrylic on canvas, 40" x 35.5"   August 2020

Mom and Ben, before her stroke

acrylic on canvas 36" x 27" October 2018

collection of Benjamin Nakhnikian-Weintraub

closeups

I painted mom as she was the summer we visited before the stroke which paralyzed her left side and left her aphasic. I began this painting during the three years after the stroke, but could not finish it until after her death. I painted Benjamin as he was at the time I finished the piece, so they exist together, mom in the summer of 2012, Ben in the summer of 2018.

Hannah Mute 1 diptych

acrylic on canvas January 2011 22 x 16

Hannah Mute 2

January 2011 22 x 20

closeup

Spring, Sofia 

May 2008 21" x 42" 

artist's collection

 closeup

Winter was long. People I loved died. Our dog Mystic died. I walked our new puppy Pan through the dark and wet. Slowly the morning light returned and the grasses turned green. One morning lavender flowers appeared among the grasses. Each day brought new color. Spring, Sofia is about those colors, the change of seasons and the beauty that change brings. And it is about my oldest daughter. Each color I used in this painting had to be beautiful. The subject is also in the spring of her life, smooth and subtle as the meadow. Even as it arrives I feel the passing of spring and anticipate the departure of this daughter who leaves for college in the fall. My work increasingly depends upon beautiful color to convey what is honorable about the struggles inherent in living.      

Healing Spirits Group Portrait with Devon Trottier, V.M.D.

January 2006  63" x 40"  

My Cousin Jason (Posthumous)            

August 2002 24" x 38"     

Private Collection his wife Jamie

Ben and Mystic        

January 2003 36" x 30"

Private collection of Ben N-W

Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub, 50thAnniversary Portrait    

August 2003 51 1/2" X 42 1/2"

Private Collection David Weintraub

Hannah's World      

March 2004  54" x 34"  

private collection Hannah N-W

Reading at the Beach (Mystic and Mark)   

October 2004  18" x 29" x 32"

donated to auction for Eugene Public Library

Bonny and Amanda     

May 2006  24" x 64" 

 Private Collection Bonny Bettman McCornack

Playing in the Absolute Center of My Heart     

January 2007  4' x 5' 

private collection Mark Weintraub

detail

Dr. Emma Lee Junior     

May 2007 5' x 2'  

Private Collection Dr. Junior

Best Friends U-School Class of 1970 (with ARFF) 

 Summer 2006  October 2007 4' x 4'

Private Collection Dr. Nancy Saltzman