Painting Moments: Art, AIDS and Nick Palazzo

Painting Moments tells the true-life story of Nick Palazzo, a brilliant and prolific young painter who died of AIDS before his thirtieth birthday. Using Nick Palazzo’s own journal entries for material in which he describes his gay love affairs, and showcasing hundreds of his paintings on a projection screen, as well as providing critical analysis of his work by established art critics, this one-man show, based on Mary Melfi’s non-fiction book, Painting Moments, Art, AIDS & Nick Palazzo (Guernica Editions, 1998) and adapted for the stage by the author and by Sharon Malone, takes the audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride. It offers a graphic and detailed portrait of an artist as a young man. Looking to answer the question: “Can a relatively unknown 29-year-old artist produce great works of art that will one day be compared to Francis Bacon’s, Edward Hooper’s, Salvador Dali’s, and yes, even Pablo Picasso’s?”

Date and Time: Saturday, February 7th - 7:00pm, Sunday, February 8th - 2:00pm