The MMGilbert Studios Team
Ever eager to please, our team is composed of highly trained and amazingly efficient professionals who have the dedication and experience to get it done, to your complete satisfaction. Offering the most discerning and particular lady or gentleman, no matter how refined their taste or proclivity, only the finest of product and delectation and falling all over themselves to curry favor and throwing caution to the wind, each and every one of our highly specialized and sycophantic team players is eager to show every customer, large or small, the same deferential, even reverential accommodation, no matter how demanding, assuming that such august personages represent nothing less than the epitome of flamboyant connoisseurship and sense of tasteful elegance. In short, rather than go into the whole training and artist statement rigmarole, this seemed like more fun.
Here they are:
Myron (OBG) Gilbert – Notable for his almost total lack of professional training in the arts, this shameless prevaricator has only one thing going for him; he has been drawing since he can remember. In particular, he can remember an argument with a first grade teacher about whether clouds should have black lines around them. She insisted that they should not. Knowing that she was wrong and that he was right but not yet having seen Fauvist paintings, OBG had no counter-argument and waiting until later to finish his drawing. But, to his credit, OBG has ignored such smarty-pants ever since.
Much younger than he looks, seeming not to have a care in the world, OBG is, nonetheless known for an interestingly peculiar and intense, stream-of-conscious intellect, a rare ability to engage in unfettered and flamboyantly dissociative confabulation and a unique talent for prognosticating with uncanny accuracy and unflappable aplomb. A longstanding supporter of artistic endeavor, his formal training in the arts included instruction by Edward Millman, the WPA muralist and combat artist, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; painting and drawing instruction at Purchase College; and, for many years, design and figure drawing studies with Terry Coyle at the Art Students League of New York. That is, beyond all the baloney and despite myself, I got a pretty good training.
Leonia von Stent – Famous for her cultured refinement, Madame von Stent began developing her professional expertise at a very early age. The only daughter of parents famous in their field, it was only natural that her discerning eye would be noted even before it was cultivated in an extensive apprenticeship that took her to several continents and led to a noteworthy career. Before joining our team of outstanding experts who know their stuff like no one's business, Madame von Stent was already a member of the Ancient Music Chorale, an accomplished equestrian and an ecclesiastical scholar. Madame von Stent is known for her musical arrangements, scientific discoveries and free verse poetry on herbal themes. There is no such person.