Yearly Archives: 2021
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My First Lie
Posted on September 20, 2021 by jlesikin08 in Diptych, Multi-Panel Paintings, Oil on Linen.My First Lie oil on linen 20 x 53 in. panels: 20 x 28 in., 20 x 24 in. $2,700. Written on panels’ edges: I remember the first time I lied. I was three years old, alone in my parents’ bed on a weekend afternoon. Uncle Joe looked in to announce dinner. I pretended to […]
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Absence Excuse Note
Posted on June 29, 2021 by jlesikin08 in Diptych, Multi-Panel Paintings, Oil on Linen, Oil Paintings.Absence Excuse Note oil on linen Diptych (20 x 24 in., 20 x 48 in.) $4,000. We children handwrote our own absence excuse notes. Mine always said “Joan was absent from school because she was not feeling well.” I would stand at my mother’s bedside pleading to add the specific ailment like flu, cold, or […]
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Endurance
Posted on March 18, 2021 by jlesikin08 in Multi-Panel Paintings, Oil on Linen, Oil Paintings, Triptych.Endurance oil on linen triptych: 28 x 60 inches. panels: 24 x 20 in., 28 x 20 in., 24 x 20 in. $5,500. Before my sister and I and our boyfriends crowded into the rear of dad’s Cadillac, my boyfriend grabbed me and fervently kissed me, just as our parents approached. I didn’t push away […]
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Dinner & a Show
Posted on March 18, 2021 by jlesikin08 in Oil on Linen, Oil Paintings, Single Panel Paintings.Dinner & a Show oil on linen 48 x 20 in. $2,675. Text: My mother bragged that she never showed off pictures of her children when out on the town – dinner and a Broadway show – with my father and his client and wife. Invariably the wife pulled out her photos. My mother wanted […]
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