Male Hero
^{Oil on canvas board, 2002, signed lower right}

Lawrence Strauss' "Idoll," paintings based on his children's human-figure toys, was featured in Art Business News, Sept '03. The work was one of Charlene Arsenault's Worcester Magazine Wicked Mint Weekend picks. Watch Channel 3's review of the exhibit in Quicktime format (2.1MB, please allow time to load).

Size: 18" x 22 1/4" (including the frame)

Our culture's superhero has been transformed as my golem series has emerged, from being the rescuer to the tool of rescue created and weilded by a golem-maker (my real hero). Those couple of teenage kids from Cleveland, Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster come to mind, the real heroes of their Superman creation -- truly they changed the world. -Lawrence Strauss