Though I've been traveling a lot in recent years, I've still managed to keep some friends in New York. One of them is Billy Sullivan, the sweetest painter that I've ever met. Maybe, it's because he is a photographer too and teaches with me over at SVA's photo department. At his opening the other night, there were plenty of other friends of the artist including Joe Gaffney, Marilyn Minter, Mary Heilmann, and Elaine Reicheck. But the best friends were the subjects in his paintings who all showed up and peopled the opening as if the paintings had come alive. Actually, this was not much a stretch since Sullivan captured his models as if they were in mid conversation, fully spontaneous with real life.
Generous as he is, Sullivan also curated a group photography show in the smaller project room of the gallery. My favorite was an image of a chalk outline of human body on the wall by Dustin Wayne Harris, a former SVA student.
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