Rust Never Sleeps

is the  name of Pamela Talese’s show (til end of October) at Atlantic Gallery at 135 W 29th Street Suite 601 in Manhattan.  Pamela and I share some large interests . . . like her take on Alice Oldendorff and

and mine.

Hers of Penobscot Bay, now

gearing up for ice-breaking duty, and mine.

Charleston, being painted in dry dock and

fotograffed in KVK.

Pamela has worked in cold weather and

and warm to

capture the ubiquitous

changes wrought by rust and paint . . . in paint.  Below, she travels to her “studio” via the paintcycle.

See her website here.  See her work at the Atlantic Gallery soon.

A description of people along the waterfront in the first chapter of Moby Dick omits a class; Melville mentions some  ”posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks . . .”   To do the unthinkable of completing Melville, my annotation here:  ”still others women as well as men devoted to the arts, brush in hand, gazing in turn at ship and then at canvas . .  or notebook, then searching with paints or inks or charcoal . . . ”  Go Pamela.  Go others!  I love it.    More waterfront art soon.