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Toronto Star Article “Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss”

New article on me in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/article/932594--artist-in-residence-vivian-reiss Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss - thestar.com Outside, it is your standard, upscale red brick Annex house. Inside, it could be…
February 4, 2011

Banana Bird

   I am on the furthest eastward point of St. John US VI in a beautiful rented villa open to the sea and air on all sides. The only discordant part of…
January 23, 2011

The Birthday; A Delight At Any Age

Touring Hungary, several years ago, I had to laugh as we passed Lake Balaton. Even being used to flowery Hungarian exaggerations, the fact that Hungary is a landlocked nation, and that Lake Balaton is the…
December 1, 2010

Happy Chanukah, the latke mobile menorah

Years ago, I went to a garage sale and loaded a cardboard box with old kitchen gadgets, pots, pans, and even an old oil tin from the basement of the sale. …
December 1, 2010

Bull’s Blood Beets

I planted several varieties of beets in my garden including, "Golden, Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt and Chioggio." They range from the lovely pale anemic beet, "Albino", to the "Bull's Blood" beet…
November 20, 2010

In a circular line, it all comes back

   It was announced that for the first time in years the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks were to displayed in the Hudson River. The last time I had seen them over…
November 16, 2010

Cotton is High!

The world price of cotton in October of 2009 was 66 cents per pound. By October of this year, the price of cotton had risen to $1.26 per pound.The price of cotton had…
November 16, 2010

The Vari’s Garden Party

The annual Vari's garden party is always held in late August in honor of George's birthday. I painted their portrait a few years ago in my studio in Toronto. When I paint a…
October 26, 2010

Jason Berger

Today, I received the sad news that my mentor and teacher Jason Berger passed away. A master of  linguistict puns, he taught me that paintings contain visual puns and visual…
October 25, 2010

Summer Squash:Liquid Sunshine

Several years ago I put on an event at my gallery www.vreissgallery.com  called " The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy" http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=#   It was a collaboration with my daughter, Ariel Garten ,who lectured  about…
October 24, 2010