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NEW YORK CITY, off Union Square, Max’s Kansas City Restaurant, were the breeding grounds for GABE’s pop art sixties inspirations.
FRANK STELLA moved to New York from Boston, and after eight intense years in New York, GABE sought a more quiet introspection in Boston, MA.
In 2008 GABE bought a huge and beautiful home for a more relaxed life at the beach - in Virginia Beach, VA with his new wife Minowtie.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN was assured red-velvet seating at Max’s. The Warhol clan signed ‘Andy’ on anything from bar bills to napkins. Janis Joplin could not be recognized at the end of the bar. Dylan popped in. Mick Jagger was overlooked for VIP treatment.
GABE was manager / maitre’d / host at the center of the Art world, and in the thirty-five years that followed, displayed his most prolific artistic talent.
Thousands of fine line drawings, pen and ink portraits, elaborate round decoupages, paintings, books, drawings, sketches, geometrics, writings and poems--all meticulously archived, catalogued and registered.
MAX ERNST introduced this style of collage but GABE perfected the art form, transforming it into dreamlike textures of images. Uncounted cuttings by cuttings from newspapers, magazines, advertisements, are painstakingly assembled into a surrealistic varicolored design of perpetual interrelationships.
GABE’s collages initially overwhelm you by their size and crisp detail, captivate you by their flow and motion of free association with a theme and rhythm. Cynical at times, naive at others but always open, blatant and screaming out where others rather stay mute.
GABE began in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in high school moved to Hershey, the chocolate town. Served a tour in the Navy, gaining impressions worldwide. Over a year hitchhiking from the east coast to the west coast.
