Personal Blog of Artist Madeline Sherry

Over the past many years we have watched developers come into America’s finest City and turn it into Condo Heaven for everyone but the locals. I know this sounds like sour grapes. So what. I like sour grapes when it hurts me and those I care about, Talented people who deserve to be able to……

When i was very young about three years old my grandmother insisted that i have ballet lessons. When i was fifteen my sister began taking me to the ballet in New York, In the end my sister did not fare well in the 1950’s and as a result committed suicide in the 1970’s. I have her……

It was a pretty good year for me “Art-wise”. The La Jolla Athenaeum Annual where I received honorable Mention and Members’ Choice Honors. Two invitational shows at the Gotthelf Gallery in La Jolla and sold five paintings to collectors. Even managed to replace my stolen pick up with another pick up! Nothing to complain about.…

This year began with a fab group show at the Brokers Building Gallery: “Let The Good Times Roll”hosted a big crowd due to Silfredo Lao and his Cuban Band and Performers. Very Exciting performers. The walls were adorned with Art from the Brokers Gallery Artists which complimented the Festive mood. A successful evening! Danny and i revisited……

So it was a hot hot Summer without a fall Season, we suddenly went headlong into winter and it has been cold in San Diego. nights have been extremely damp and chilly, Yes we always have a winter but not such a drastic change in just a few days. Last warm week i started pool……

My website host has made it impossible to add new work to my website. After three hours of trying my own ability to do this, followed by calling them and chatting on line for 1 hour, I give up. This person on the other end of this chat could not comprehend what the heck I was doing. so……

How The Grinch Stole Christmas This Year It all started Christmas Eve. I was recalling all the wonderful Crhistmasses I had enjoyed as a child . Even though we are Jews we had Christmas at our house. Everything but the Tree. Stockings were hung and we anxiously awaited Santa Claus..waking just after dawn to rush……

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Madeline Demonstrates Action Painting with an ipod & Help From Talking Heads

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Walkin The Line Stop Action Video http://youtu.be/A2MYS4onPDk Made this video from still photos taken while I danced in front of one of my large abstract paintings. Edited frames and put music to it. Then addtional paintings were added at the end.

On The Subject of Anjelina Jolie’s Recent Mastectomy More than thirty years have passed since I was told I needed a total hysterectomy:tubes. ovaries uterus and all. Uncanny timing since the doctor who said i must have it  also caused the Pelvic inflammatory Disease I had suffered by inserting a coil, (a popular birth control device of……

Year after year, I find myself having to lay down on the bed to fasten and zip up my favorite jeans, These are my skinny jeans and I never seem to be skinny enough to just slip into ’em. Yes they’re tight but baggy is out and I gottabig butt sooo I deadlift and legpress and cardio and……

  I was a new teacher in East New York, Brooklyn,in an elementary school.This was rough very poor neighborhood of black and Puerto Rican families. When the news of his death became known rioting began in the streets outside the elementary school. We had heard that a white boy in the high school 4 blocks……

Julia Child and French Cuisine Never understood her TV show i was too young. Now I am sorry I did not pay more attention to her instruction in the Art of French cooking in the 60’s. At that time I  loved eating out at the most expensive French restaurants in New York and travelled to France .  At……

To Walk or Not to Walk… That is the Question!   I am writing just because. I doubt that anyone will ever read this crap so what the hell. I took my first walk since I tore my ACL on May 27. I had to make my boyfriend come a long with in case I fell over when……

The Day They Shot Martin Luther King I was a new teacher in East New York.in an elementary school.rough neighborhood when the news of his death became known in the streets rioting began. We had heard that a white boy in the high school 4 blocks away had been knifed and killed in the bathroom.……

The Chanukah Song Adam Sandler’s Chanukah Song has truly replaced the drab and boring “I had a little draedle” that we used to sing as kids. This only shows how sophisticated youngsters have become. i guess this goes along with the new fangled IPAD, IPHONE,and in  general the world wide web. Boy have we come a……

Last Night while I was sleeping.. My life must have become so boring that my dreams are far more exciting;  well that may be going too far..they are more mysterious than real li  My life is anything but boring! So for the last two nights I have dreamed about my son as a young four-year-old……

Where in the world? Last night I had the most wonderful dream.  I had done something right and a man was giving me a check for one thousand dollars and asked: “Did you need more? I will write you another check!”   Lord Be Praised!

December 15, 2011 will go down  in my history as infamous! I was married on this date in 1968. The blizzard began in the middle of the night. Should have got the jist of this but it flew right by me.By the time we had to leave for the hairdresser’s about 6 AM the streets were covered……

  “David Webb’s brother, Michael Blake (“Dances with Wolves”) is making appearances at Martha Swift Gallery and in Del Mar in memory of what he regards as an exceptional long time painter and poet who left the planet on 9-11 this year.” Michael Blake  Webb was 56. Relatively unknown until his death, he left behind……

Still No News on Baby Beth Sandy Well time goes on and what has become of my sister’s child is still a mystery to us. She was forced by convention and ignorant people to give up the child. because she was recently divorced from the father who threatened her if his mother found out. So……

Adopted for the Life of Me :                                         I Can’t find My Birth Parents If this sounds like you. If you are female and  were born Dec, 20, 1954 at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, I may have information regarding your birth parents. Send me a comment. Include where you lived with adoptive family and as much……

Four in the Morning Can’t sleep. Too much going on in my head,. Buried Dave’s ashes at Sea tonight. Near Seagrove Park. He would have liked that it was his favorite hangout. My worries and anxiety is due to the fact that my painting studio is now infested with roaches. Told Patrick about the problem on……

The Origin of Yizkor As I was reading the prayer for my relatives (Mother, Father, Siser, Grandmother.& Grandfather)who have passed on, I noticed this explanation of when the Yizkor prayer was first written and recited. It was after the First Crusade 1099 when thousands of Jews were slaughtered. Here is the Wikipedia link if you would like……

Woody Allen….. in my Dreams! While deep in a longnight of dreaming .along came Woody. Oh yes, he wanted to be mine..oh yes I was so utterly flattered. “Why would you pick me , I am not as young, not as beautiful as your other lovers..”Well , he just had to have me and gave me……

LAST NIGHT’S DREAM   This was what I remember.. In a house or many roomed place.Maybe a resort.. There was a younger unattractive  fortyish man supposedly really rich and powerful with his young wife or girlfriend. We watched them from our table as he mistreated her. He was the “boss” of everything it seemed and I  tried……

September 11 Remembered New York City,now having been spared by hurricane Irene will go forward with the 10 year dedication of the Memorial for the victims and survivors of  the 911 tragedy .   We will someday all of us be gone and this is a fabulous “mausoleum” for these people who suffered so much. I do not mean to make light of……

First day of a new month…. So it is August amd half the summer is gone. Well it hasn’t been stellar so what the hell. Last month I turned another year older(and closer to the grave) ,was rejected approximately five times career wise and have never been so utterly poor. I tell mysel: “Cheer up,……

THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD/911 Revisited   As an artist I began blogging to bring people to my website to see my work and buy my paintings!  To my amazement it is not my tales my artistic life or my paintings that interest people, but it is my recounting  of my personal story ” The Windows of the……

A New Year   This is the start of a new year for me. Yesterday I celebrated my birthday. I was born in 1944  & you can do the math. It was a fab day..great california beach day. Lots of salutations from facebook, friends and relatives. Today I am blue. What will the year be like? Bring……

MAY 31 2011 Mom’s 99th Birthday Today would have been her 99th if she had made it one more year. Breast CANCER  took her away from us all. Now my brother . still suffering  from her loss and was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. Funny we never had anyone in our family who had cancer……

Photos of Bin Laden..Should they be released? Photos of 9-11 jumpers were released..how much more horrifying could these be? See my blog entry Memories of the Windows of The World posted september 11, 2009. Photos included. I think they should be released to bring closure for the 9-11 victims ,survivors and their families. Why would they be unfit for……

Well here it is the nuclear disaster we’ve all been waiting for. Buckle your seatbelts it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!

Wish I could push back the clock. It was one year ago today that I lost my mother. How I miss her. She was the best mom. No kidding; all my friends wanted her to be their  mother! I only hope she knows how much she is missed.

Pre-Ground hog- Day- Analysis If you saw”Ground Hog Day” the tongue  in cheek comedy about making the same mistakes over and over until you “get it right” well what tha f is that? I can proudly say I’ve been goin round and round since I was able to make my own decisions. This is after……

Welcome to the Hotel California Growing up in New York I lived in one house for 20 years and never moved Since I have been here in San diego I have moved exactly 46 times in 38 years. I hate moving and now my landlord of six years wants to “Refurbish” in order to raise the rent I……

What ever can go wrong…. Will go wrong Landlord said we have to move so he can remodel He’s full of malarkey So we have been apartment hunting in San Diego Tried Del Mar, La jolla and today we cruised around Point Loma and our car overheated. smoke and water everywhere. thought we were really……

Watch Me Be funny on You Tube! My Cameo is at the END! What do you think? Make a comment!

  Don’t Label Me Upper Middle Class!   Once I was upset to be called upper middle class Now that class is no more. Today I wear the badge of the underdog: America’s Poor In Old shoes old clothes shopping meagerly at grocery store sales. What has happenned to this country? Where have all the opportunities……