Collection: Paul Mindell

Mid-summer 2009, I was carrying an unfinished painting from my car in upper Manhattan to the 181st Street station. Destination: the Art Students League on 57th Street. For twenty years I’d been teaching painting at a community college, but relished my “student” status at the League. As I headed to the subway, there were three elderly women sitting in folding chairs under an apartment awning.

One yelled to me. “Hey! You paint that?”

“Yeah,” I said, and waited for her praise.

“I wouldn’t give ya a plug nickel for it!”

A week earlier, the Smithsonian had notified me that I’d been accepted into a group show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

My work is in numerous private and corporate collections, and I exhibit in local and regional shows. I retired in 2024 from Bergen Community College, after teaching Painting and Life Drawing for thirty-six years. Now I devote most of my time to my home studio in Accord, NY.

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