Art editor for the Highlands Current, Alison Rooney, captured many of Stanley Lindwasser’s words that have never been in print. Without journalism, the words and thoughts from many people would be left to memory only. For the opening of Stanley’s exhibit in 2018 at Oak Vino, the Highlands Current did a feature piece.
Alison picked up on Stanley’s love for his family, and his desire to stay with them as much as possible. To pay the bills, he did teach full time at “a Bronx school for emotionally disturbed children, then to a psychiatric facility, then to homeless shelters to teenagers at Harlem Hospital,” according to the article.
Here are some quotes from Stanley that Alison was able to capture:
Titled Paintings 2018, it opens on Second Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Lindwasser’s colorful, striped paintings are all untitled because, he argues, “naming things is a misdirection.”
“I work on the possibilities until I get bored.” So every day he paints. “I like making shapes and forms, letting the liquid dry. I like natural forms, gravity, movement.”
He and his wife, Helen Crohn, a therapist and social worker, moved to the Highlands in 2016 from a brownstone in Hoboken. They were introduced to the area by their daughter. “She thought it would be good for us. We were going to Manhattan less and less; the New Jersey taxes were terrible; the transportation was good; and we wanted more of the country,” Lindwasser says.
He began to paint, and there was a period when all he did was self-portraits, “varying the proportions of the features, though not in a fun-house way, although it did scare the kids a little. It was sort of like a collection of ancestors — but they were all me.”
He also taught full-time to pay the bills. He and Crohn met at a synagogue. “He picked me up at a kiddush,” she recalls with a grin.