[29] He lost the last of his savings -- $15,000to swindlers in a lumber deal: "I was a victim of the old shell game." Hospitalized at John Wesley County Hospital in Los Angeles [30] in April 1966 after being diagnosed with a liver ailment, he lapsed into a coma in July but regained consciousness two days later
Conceived and curated by Miami-based artists Aramis Gutierrez and Loriel Beltranfriends, peers, and longtime admirers of Gelfmans workthe exhibition revisits an artist whose rigor and experimentation shaped generations of painters working in abstraction in Miami
"My problem," he elaborates, "is: Who the fuck cares
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They paint together, he learns from him, and he starts to be sort of a Sunday afternoon painter, like your grandparents maybe world, maybe like you are, you know, imagine somebody who's taking lessons at the community center or taking lessons with a local artist, and he's he likes it
