Retrospective: A survey of two decades of paintings
Dying On The Vine. 1994.
Worn childs wooden block, acrylic, and tempera on canvas. 24”x17.5”.© 1994 WL Smith. Collection of The WL Smith Revocable Living Trust.
Dying On The Vine features a split-pea green facade with a baby's wooden block in the window. It might be manipulative; it might be smaltzy, All I know is, thinking about it later, I wanted to cry. Of course, without the title, it would be mirely inscrutable. 
Rebecca Schoenkopf, The OC Weekly
