Sunday with Shyevin is an ongoing video series of interviews and interactive artist profiles hosted by Shyevin S'ng, the owner and director of Vin Gallery. Recently, Shyevin chatted with Matthias Kriesberg about the life and artwork of his father, Irving Kriesberg.
Irving Kriesberg, Father and Son, 1978, oil on canvas, 44 x 48 in (111.8 x 121.9 cm).
Father and Son is an oil painting from 1978, featuring a variation on Kriesberg's signature 'Walker' figures striding across the picture plane against a colorful medallion of paint. The imagery depicts a father looking over his son. The father is portrayed to resemble Kriesberg's recurring owl character, who often appears as a guardian among Kriesberg's coterie of fantastical creatures.