RADWASTE SERIES

"Sam Dorsky", 1980 with "Buried for Posterity" oil painting
collection: The Dorsky Museum of Art

"Gathered &Piled", 1977
conte pencils on paper, 20"h x 16"w
collection: Brooklyn Museum

"#-IV", 1977
color drawing on paper, 20"h x 16"w

"#-XIII", 1977
color drawing on paper, 20"h x 16"w

"Canyon", 1979
pencil on paper, 18"h x 24"w

"Formations-I", 1979
oil on canvas+plaster relief
18"h x 14"w

"Geiger Counter", 1985
Painted rice paper relief
14"h x 36"w

"Radiation Badge", 1978
color pencils on paper

"Work Gloves,II", 1979
color pencils on paper

"Work Gloves, I", 1979
pencil on paper

"Buddha w/Drum", 1980
oil on canvas, 40"h x 30"w

Traveling Exhibition, 1989

"Dispersal", 1980
rice paper relief and collage by Tabak&Atlas

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Description

In 1975, while working for a Brooklyn company collecting and disposing of Radioactive Waste from Universities, Labs and research facilities, I became aware of the environmental impact of this hazardous waste and began to create art to expose this hazard. As the art evolved over the following years, I found an art dealer willing to support my ‘toxic’ art in New York City. His name was Samuel Dorsky (Dorsky Galleries) and he launched my work to museums and traveling exhibitions.
See also the museum he sponsored where I live …
…https://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/information/mission.html