This painting was selected for Storychord issue #53. It is titled 46th Street (Beta version) and as part of my first solo show “enCapsuled”. It made in 2009 by using acrylic and ink on canvas.
The concept with Storychord is simple. One image, one story and one song, each by unexposed talent and apart from me the #53 issue contributors were:
Elizabeth Barker is a Los Angeles-based writer and co-editor of music blog StrawberryFieldsWhatever.com. The former executive editor of nogoodforme.com, she’s currently working on her first novel. Elizabeth also writes stories/essays inspired by Beatles songs, and publishes them as zines at etsy.com/shop/LetItBeBeautiful.
Brian Sendrowitz has crafted hazy, literate, heartfelt pop songs as Beat Radio since 2005. The project’s first full length, The Great Big Sea, released in 2006 (earning an 8/10 rating from Drowned in Sound), and the second album, Safe Inside the Sound, followed in 2009. In December 2010, Beat Radio utilized a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the vinyl pressing for its third full-length record, Golden Age, on Awkward for Life Records, a DIY Boutique Label run by Sendrowitz and his wife Elizabeth. In the spring of 2011, the band was featured on Insound’s staff blog as Band of the Week, and The L Magazine included them as an honorable mention in their annual NYC Bands You Need to Hear feature. In 2012, Beat Radio will release its fourth full-length LP in a series of installments. For more, visit the band online at beatradio.org.