It was a pleasure to connect with Gigi Rosenberg and have the opportunity to create a portrait. https://gigirosenberg.com/
I thank Gig for the experience to do a portrait of her.
A small world coincidence, knowing the family of artists, her dad is Robert Shore http://www.robertshorepainter.com/
When I attended his classes at Parson’s School of Design, New York City, in the early 1980s, it was Robert Shore was one of the teachers there when I majored in Illustration classes and drawing classes as well.
2006 -2009, I had attended several of Gigi's lectures and workshops about elevator speeches for artists, how to connect and speak with the funders, and workshops on how to successfully write better grants for artists. I had attended the various workshops through RACC (Regional Arts & Culture Council) and Clackamas County Arts Alliance. https://gigirosenberg.com/the-artists-guide-to-grant-writing
Around 2010, Gigi was getting her name recognized in the community, I was noticing how established artists in the community would do portraits of other notable people in the art scene, art community, friends, or art enthusiasts. I then decided to ask Gigi to do a portrait. It was then we've discovered Robert Shore is her dad, and was a teacher at Parson's School of Design.
2013, with help from Kathleen Lansing, an advisor at Small Business Development Center in Clackamas, I finally did receive and was accepted for a Project Grant to create two paintings documenting the workers building the Tilikum Crossing. https://oregonsbdc.org/centers/clackamas-sbdc/
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Here is what Gigi wrote in her LinkedIn page.
In 2010, the esteemed Portland artist, Christopher B. Mooney, asked me if he could paint my portrait. To me, this wasn’t an odd request because I’m the daughter of New York City painter and illustrator Robert Shore. The first portrait my dad drew of me was when I was a newborn and I have several other portraits throughout my life, all done by my father, until this one.
Now that Chris is leaving Portland, he dropped off my five-foot high by four-foot-wide portrait at my house this week. It’s by far, the biggest portrait I have!
The sweetest part of this story is that when I was considering Chris’ 2010 request, I noticed on his resume that he had graduated from the Parsons School of Design - The New School in New York City. When I told him that my father had taught there, I discovered that my dad was one of his favorite teachers.
My dad passed away in 2014 but he did get to see a photo of this portrait so he knows that the tradition of painting his daughter’s portrait continues with his former student! Thank you, Chris!
