Martin Kreloff
DEMANDING MOTHERS, 1983-1988
Acrylic on canvas
Courtesy of the artist

Martin Kreloff is a hard-edge painter who focuses primarily on portraits, rendering his people with striking color palettes that heighten their emotional impact. His subjects vary from Hollywood stars to friends, family, people in the street, and the Japanese theater celebrities portrayed in ukiyo-e prints. DEMANDING MOTHERS is part of a series he created to honor his mother. In spite of its threatening subject matter, the work is an expression of love. “In early 1983 I learned that my mother was terminally ill with lung cancer, and only had a short time to