At the end of last week, we spoke with Tim Ford and Alex Lee of Einhorn Barbarito Attorneys at Law (Denville, NJ) to share some insight on how a business owner can deal with on-site health and safety, as well as discuss some new legislation at the federal level in the wake of the pandemic. Laws, programs and directives on COVID-19 are changing quickly, and today’s news can become obsolete in a matter of moments. News, Press Timothy Ford and Alex Lee Featured In Paint Magazine, “COVID-19: A Changing Legal Landscape” April 3, 2020
Paintings in her recent series on quilts represent the stitched-together pieces of complex lives. After graduating cum laude from Lewis & Clark in 2000, she traded pencil for paintbrush and began experimenting with unusual surfaces such as slate, wood, and fabric. The women she portrays, Bernstein says, are very humble and somewhat surprised that she has found inspiration in their “ugly mugs.”īernstein has been drawing with photographic precision since she was a child. Others invented fictional stories about my subjects.” “Some people said that I found dignity in aging,” says Bernstein. In October 2005, several hundred people wandered through Bernstein’s 18-by-18-foot converted garage studio on Alberta Street in Northeast Portland.
The scholarship provides a cash prize and guaranteed entry into the Portland Open Studios annual self-guided tour of artists’ studios. In 2005, Bernstein received the first Kimberly Gales Emerging Talent Scholarship, awarded in honor of a Portland Open Studios artist and board member who died last year. “Becca Bernstein is a painter and a humanist who redefines the art of portrait, expressing the intimate personality of her models beyond their physical appearance,” says Jean Luc Laminette of Portland’s Galerie d’Art Sylvie Platini. “She refused to be convenient or fit in a box.”Īs an artist, Bernstein draws inspiration from the mystery and wisdom she sees in the faces of elderly women. “I loved her powerful personality,” says Bernstein. Yet she considered a former resident named Mary–a tiny birdlike woman with a proclivity for moodiness and confrontation–a true friend. As a part-time activities director at a residential care home in Portland, Becca bernstein isn’t supposed to have favorites.