This was a sign that hung on my father's gallery at Oldtown USA in Buffalo, 1974-75 Some of my best childhood memories include “helping” my father paint huge abstracts in our basement on Parkside in Buffalo, accompanying him to Niagara Falls to sketch, or setting up for outdoor art festivals. I didn’t start painting myself until much later, but those formative experiences made me feel that making things was part of life- and that the process was as important as the end result. A member of the Buffalo Society of Artists and Western New York Artists Group, my father Irving Mink was also a research scientist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute and educator who painted and exhibited locally, nationally and internationally for 50 years. He won many awards, had one-man shows in Toronto, New York City, Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo, and his works are represented in over 800 private collections. I remember that for him, flexibility was the key. When he was doing Pollack-like p