Just signed, a new portrait of actor Peter Porte.
To see more of him in action, please see http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=vBaso0l13hI.
And thanks to my subject for being so generous with his time in sittings.
Peter Porte
Just signed, a new portrait of actor Peter Porte.
To see more of him in action, please see http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=vBaso0l13hI.
And thanks to my subject for being so generous with his time in sittings.
Dustin Lance Black
40" X 30" acrylic/canvas 2012
From Lance Black’s website:
“Dustin Lance Black is a screenwriter, producer and director, having won the Academy Award® and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for MILK, the biopic of the late gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn.
An honors graduate of UCLA´s School of Film and Television, Black began his professional career as an art director and quickly transitioned to directing documentaries, television series, commercials and music videos. Black´s documentaries ON THE BUS (2001) and MY LIFE WITH COUNT DRACULA (2003) debuted to acclaim and lead to a successful stint producing and directing TLC´s and BBC´s hit program FAKING IT, which received notices for its unflinching sociological commentaries.
In 2004, Black signed on to draw on his devout Mormon childhood experiences in San Antonio, Texas as a writer and co-producer on HBO´s Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated polygamist drama BIG LOVE. He continued to write for the show until the third season wrapped in 2008.
Mr. Black also penned the screenplay for PEDRO, the first scripted project from Bunim-Murray Productions about the life and legacy of famed openly gay, HIV positive Real World cast member Pedro Zamora. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and earned Mr. Black his second WGA Award nomination when it premiered on MTV and VH1 in 2009.
Recently, Black completed his feature directorial debut VIRGINIA starring Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris and has teamed up with director Clint Eastwood, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Imagine Entertainment to scribe J.EDGAR, the story of famed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Black is currently writing THE BAREFOOT BANDIT for FOX based on the true story of Colton Harris-Moore, and recently signed on to adapt Jon Krakauer´s acclaimed UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN for Warner Brothers.
Beyond his film work, Black is also a civil rights activist. He is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), which is leading the Federal Case against Prop 8 in CA with lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson, and is on the Board of the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ teen suicide hotline providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth.
Since winning the Oscar in 2009, Black has been on a equal rights speaking tour across the country, and was one of a handful of organizers of the LGBT March on Washington in October 2009 where he spoke to an audience of over 150,000 demonstrators in front of the Nation´s Capital.
Black has had two books published, has written for every major screenwriting magazine, contributes to The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post, topped the list of OUT Magazine´s 40 under 40, and has repeatedly been named one of the 50 most powerful LGBT people in America today by that same publication.”
Russell V. Palmore, Jr.
A portrait in memory of Russell V. Palmore, Jr. was unveiled at Roslyn on May 25, 2012. It hangs in the newly dedicated Chancellor's Room.
"Russ lit up the world. I hope my portrait transmits his light and spirit."
40" X 30" acrylic/canvas 2011
Martin portrait Goes to the Smithsonian!
Sad update to a wonderful story. RIP, David.
The Commissioners of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery have announced the acquisition of a 1980 portrait of David N. Martin by Louis Briel.
Martin is the founder of the Martin Agency, one of the Nation's foremost advertising agencies. His enduring “Virginia is for Lovers” campaign is widely viewed as one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history. Today, Martin is an author, speaker and lecturer who lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Louis Briel's 1993 portrait of Arthur Ashe is also in the Permanent Collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
David Martin 1980 60" X 30" acrylic/canvas
TWO NEW PAINTINGS
This painting was a gift for my friend, Dustin Lance Black, human rights activist and Oscar winning screenwriter of the movie "Milk." Lance remembers, "I love my big brother more than I can describe. We survived a lot and of dark days when we were little boys. I won’t go into the details, but I don’t think I would have made it without him."
Michael’s culinary studies started at the Kump Institute in New York City aiding him in his career of hotel and restaurant management. In 2001 he branched out on his own as a personal chef for several of LA’s elite households.
Being a private chef introduced him to the world of photo shoots, and on set catering. In 2003, photographer, Kwaku Alston, and producer Franny Legge introduced him to the industry.
Since 2003 he has enjoyed being at the helm of his own company, Whitehouse Dish, and catering to the photo industry, TV, catering and event planning for weddings, events, openings and private dinners.
OLIVER
"Good portraiture invites us into a relationship with the painting; great portraiture leaves us little choice but to enter into the experience and life of the sitter.
Juliette Aristides
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