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I draw all the time.  Once a week from a model. Measuring, adjusting assessing, and trying to make ART..out of what could be an exercise to some. For me it’s all part of the game or battle. I was trained and weaned on countless days/years of, sculpting and working from the model. It is one thing I profoundly love. I try to make the model be more then just another model. I try to make it seem as if we have just made love or are about to.

When I was about twenty I would draw with a group of realists in Brigehampton and New York . Geroges, Perlis, Resicka, Frelicher ...I can drink a beer tell and listen to jokes while I drawing. Thats What we use to do. We did it in Art school with Bobby White and Lennart.  Now if I'm with some group... I get a kick out of those who need to sit and struggle in utter silence. I'm usually told by someone to pipe down.  I look around the room my drawings always so seem different.  Better. They are always about making art- composition not schooly exercise.  They are also always better then the rest. I still try to get into New York to draw with friends I long for that camaraderie and I like the bar raised.

The figure always played an over powering role in my art. My landscapes all stated as backgrounds and exercise for my narrative paintings a decade ago. They then became something else but each is thought about as a figure composition. In the late eighties I showed only figure paintings, or better yet, narratives. Two years of work was stolen from a truck my dealer was using to ship from his New York Gallery to Florida . It was rather devastating considering the level of commitment and energy I had expended. Ron Pisano called me looking for some work. When I told him all I had was still life and Landscapes. He ended up using one for his first Long Island Landscape book. Most people who know my work don't know.  I still paint figurative work or ever did.

Bruce Liberman

Nude: Standing

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