In Memoriam: Conrad Mecheski (1968-2014)

Picasso and Conrad Mecheski in Barcelona "Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Conrad Mecheski, who passed away in early May from cancer, was an artist who had a very pure sense of the role that art should play in his life. Born in Northern Ireland, Conrad attended high school in Vienna, Austria and then studied at the Art Institute of Boston. After 1991 he spent a number of years in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego, living simply in a small apartment fill...