Negron

Most of the subjects in this show are from Negron's close circle of show business friends.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

No matter how frenzied and full his stage and screen work has been since his extra days, however, Negron never put down his brushes.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

Despite this duality, Negron observes, My creativity all comes from the same place.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

Most of the subjects in this show are from Negron's close circle of show business friends.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

Negron describes his approach to portrait painting in his essay On Painting:

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

It was a stint as an extra in the Barbra Streisand film The Main Event that by chance drew Negron away from the path of a full-time painter.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

Negron returns to the Barrow Street Theater in New York this summer to perform his critically acclaimed one-man show, The Mayan Countdown.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

Francisco Negron, general counsel of the National School Boards Association, bemoaned the decision as a blow to beleaguered public schools.

Private-School Tax Break Is Upheld Jess Bravin 2011

Negron was chosen out of the crowd "to do a little acting business" with Streisand in a scene--and that chance moment launched his long and successful acting career.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011

Negron's work has something of the crackling electricity of Schiele and the probity of Alice Neel.

Patricia Ciaffa Peyser: Joking Aside: Taylor Negron, Painter Patricia Ciaffa Peyser 2011