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Yes, "the man." He keeps up a running commentary on how he's going to quit modeling, but year after year, he shows up in drawings and paintings, at this student show or gallery or that State Fair art show. I think he likes the hours -- not really an 8-to-5 kind of fellow. The first time I saw a painting of him with some clothes on, I was a bit disoriented. Perhaps that's because all he was wearing was a black leather vest and mini-skirt and fishnet stockings, with a cowboy hat and saddle as props, in a piece called, as I remember, "The New West." (This preceded "Brokeback" by years.) The founders of the Atelier were reportedly not amused.
Some of Daniel Greene's studio models have the same ubiquity. Not only do I see them in various published images by assorted artists, but Greene himself uses them as "extras" in his populated works (such as the auction house scenes).
I'm sure there are a few Bougie Studio stories to tell. (I've got the good dirt on a couple of folks, which I'm holding in reserve, pending my tell-all memoirs.) We were a small-studio microcosm of nearly every "artiste" stereotype and neurosis. In the balance of all things, I've heard more than a few Atelier Lack stories . . .
(But none about you, Debra. Yet.)
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