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Mamaroneck Storefront Painted With Age Old Technique

18.05.12

Several people briskly walking down Mamaroneck Avenue yesterday afternoon on their way back to work or speed walking to escape the drizzle, slowed down and craned their necks to see what was going on in the window of Vinifera Wine and Spirits.

Pausing briefly, they saw an unusual site: a small, wiry man with curly shoulder length hair perched in the window, delicately applying gently creased and fragile slices of gold leaf with a wide brush over blue stenciled words which read “Wine and Spirits.” In between applications, he deftly touched the brush to his forehead to make “electricity static to pick up the gold leaf,” said Jerry Pagane, the artist.

The story of how Pagane got to where he is today, one of New York City’s few remaining gold leaf artists and possibly one of the most prolific, is no less intriguing than his beautifully painted windows, a remnant of a bygone era.

Pagane—who was born without ears and abandoned by his mother the day he was born, Dec. 24, according to an article in the Villager —was adopted at age 14 by a large family in Pennsylvania and, after surgeries and a device that picks up sound vibrations, was able understand what others were saying. He studied at the Carnegie Mellon and the National Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, eventually moving to NYC in 1983 for its thriving art scene.

Source: Patch.com