An Archive of the Eclectic Interests of an Autodidact
I admit it, I Love Sandra Dee’s old movies. I just made this little film on one of her films. I hope you enjoy it. There is nothing like this anywhere in the world. The film still is not out in DVD or Blu-ray. How many of you remember this sweet little film? Hear Robert Goulet and Andy Williams sing “I’d Rather Be Rich”!
Please click the photograph and it shall take you to my new little movie, All about the one and only New York Subway I hope you enjoy.
To the few who feel I go too fast, this is a little moving picture. This is why I move the photographs at the speed I do. If you want to study a photograph, stop the film. This is a moment in time meant for you to relax and go for the ride. You see what you see and you feel what you feel. Its a little movie trying to take you somewhere else. Relax and let me take you there. To really get anywhere one must let go.
Remember you can see all YouTube videos on your TV . Which makes them so much larger to be able to see.
Bruce Baumwoll
For my husband Andrew Reach, his art has been a lifeline during the pandemic as he has been physically challenged with complications and increased pain. I’m proud of the beautiful work he has created during this time in a new medium for him, prints on composite aluminum panel that are cut-out to shapes on a cnc router. And now he is showing 5 of these new works in a exhibition at the Summa Health Healing Arts Gallery.
Embracing the healing arts in new patient tower
From the Summa Health Website:
“The new patient tower on the Summa Health System — Akron Campus embraces Summa’s commitment to promoting a healthcare environment that surrounds and connects patients, visitors and staff with the healing powers of the arts.”
Incorporated into the building is the Healing Arts Gallery and ongoing exhibitions will feature work by the artists in the Healing Arts Collection where artworks by 53 artists with ties to Northeast Ohio are placed throughout the building, Andrew being among them. Click here to read about his artwork “Ninety One Kites” in the collection on the Summa website.
The second exhibition in the Summa Gallery features Lee Heinen,Diane Pribojan, Andrew Reach, Nancy and Ned Seibert and Maria Zanetta.
“Navigating the Pandemic” showcases the distinctive perspectives of local artists during an unprecedented time of social distancing and isolation. These selections by five artists in our Healing Arts Collection explore the impact of COVID-19 on an artist’s practice, reflecting the influence of the pandemic on the human psyche. Through the diverse use of mediums, scale and subject matter, each artist takes viewers on a journey of self-discovery through an unforgettable time in our history.
Because of Covid-19, with the gallery being located within the hospital, the gallery is not currently open to the general public. The feedback from those working in the hospital has been very positive, providing a place of respite to patients, doctors, nurses and staff.
click here to see the online exhibition on the Summa Health website
All works of art are for sale. To purchase a piece of art,
email [email protected] or call 330.375.3159.
Special Thanks to Meg Harris Stanton for curating and organizing the exhibition.
Below are the five artworks by Andrew Reach in the exhibition
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These works are Euclidean geometric abstractions where vibrant color infuses energetically optical geometric constructions. My creative process is challenged as I consider the material and the ability to shape by cutting uv cured inkjet prints on composite aluminum.
What I hope to express to the audience viewing them is a sensory experience of optical joyfulness and their constructs become a visual language for me to express energy, movement and freedom.
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has unexpectedly heightened my creativity. Disabled from a spine disease, pain is my constant companion and treatments I received on a regular basis were temporarily cancelled. The challenges I face every day with coping got harder as episodes of even greater debilitating pain and immobility ensued. Anxiety and fear of the pandemic added to these challenges. Creating art is therapeutic, now during the pandemic than ever. When technology, intellect and imagination come together in just the right way, I feel an indescribable sense of well-being and for moments, I am taken away from all the worries and stresses of the unprecedented times we live in and am lifted from physical restraint to unlimited spiritual potentiality.
Click on artists name to read more about the artist
The World of Bruce Baumwoll and Andrew Reach: A couple together for 40 years, working together, building a life together, suffering together, laughing together.
From my Baumwoll Archives Blog and videos I have reached over 1 million people. I never thought I would even reach 2000. It was all started from the thought of who would remember us and say the Kaddish Prayer for us when we were gone? There is an understanding that Jewish gay men through the years have been forgotten; many of us thrown away by our families.
Andrew, a talented and successful architect-turned prolific artist, was invited one day to a lecture by Scott Ligon, an award-winning digital artist, filmmaker, and associate professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He spoke about just the doing and putting it out in the world and the rewards that would come back. Scott said to me “just let it all go, Bruce, don’t worry what will come back”.
I have been in the house taking care of Andrew because of the multiple complications from the spine disease, Scheuermann’s Kyphosis, which has continued to increase the debilitating pain for him. Most of his spine is fused but the disease still wants to progress forward, creating severe narrowing in his cervical disks above the fusion and lumbar disks below the fusion. Along with assisting Andrew with the complications of his disease, I have also saved 65 animals over the years from the streets and gave them all great lives. So, after 20 years of being internal, it’s time for me to come back out into the world.
I have allowed others to tell me who I am and what I can be, but this is no longer right for me. I may be a late bloomer but it is time for me to walk out of the shadows. I’ve always said that I will not let myself be a victim. Just because you have been victimized does not mean you must live there. There is so much more to life. My friend and teacher Joseph Campbell (“The Power Of Myth”) once said to me, “you are a soul that would have survived if you had been in the concentration camps”. I still do not quite understand how he saw that in me, but I have survived, and I do know that one must always find the light.