There was a lot of preparation to put the Club 57 Art Show together. We started hanging the show at 10am and did not finish till people started to arrive at 7pm. As the people began to come into the gallery, I started to mingle and I got a photo of this striking couple. Actually I know them from the ol' days of New York. Kirsten Osthus, or I knew her as the K-Word and John Barnhart.Kirsten is a jewelry designer and a costume designer for film. She was born in the Bronx and is presently living in L.A. She flew to N.Y. for these events. John is a brilliant painter. A master actually. He calls himself a figurative painter, a New York city survivor and actually survives miraculously enough by his painting. It is reassuring that there are artists in New York that are able to do that. Kirsten and John have a special friendship and have been friends for half of their lives and are kind of halves of each other, if that makes sense. It does to me.