Arts Editor Captures Stories From Stanley Lindwasser In Highlands Current Article Before 2018 Show

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.

Chronogram Features Stanley Lindwasser; Highlights His Algorithmic Approach To Color and Lines

Hudson Valley based Chronogram featured Stanley Lindwasser’s art in a sponsored piece in November 2018 when Stanley was exhibiting select pieces from his 2018 Collection, in what was an extremely deep but short piece on Stanley’s painting style. During his life, Stanley was immersed in the depth of color at all times, and how the color worked together.

The author of the Chronogram article captured a lot of his approach. “The paintings ultimately affect a deep sense of balance and dimensionality. ‘In the same way that flowers grow or nautiluses grow, the process essentially becomes a fairly straightforward algorithm,’ he says. ‘And then, of course, there are nice accidents.’"

Finding inspiration in nature, like rocks, the sky, land, his approach is reflected in the article: “Each painting in this series [Collection 2018] begins with lines of color running in one direction across the canvas. Lindwasser compares this body of work to the natural striations found in layers of clouds or rock. Beginning with a single tube of paint, Lindwasser's pieces evolve naturally, as he responds to the density, viscosity, and impact of colors on one another. ‘Anything you do affects what you do afterward. It's all provisional, and it's all relative,’" he says.