Toni-Lee Sangastiano recently made available a small sampling of slides of four of her oil paintings of myself. I have taken the liberty, with her permission of course, to scan them and upload them to the photographs section of the website.
All are currently untitled, but you will find the following images there:

Sword Swallowing - Oil on Wood. 36″ x 48″
An early realism painting of Roderick swallowing a sword while in street clothes. The casual nature of the clothing combined with the intensity of the pose create a curious juxtaposition.

Straightjacket - Oil on Canvas. 24″ x 18″
Exhibiting her wet-on-wet oil skills in a rapidly executed study, Toni-Lee here captures the image of Roderick Russell in the blissful moment before escape.

Straighjacket Tall - Oil on Wood. 60″ x 24″
Exploring the dark side of restraint, the artist here journies into the calm intensity of a performing artist’s mind during that moment of timeless consideration.

Triptych - Oil on Wood. (left) 24″ x 30″ (center) 24″ x 30″ (right) 24″ x 30″
The artist here examines the possibility for transforming ones own living space, internally and externally, into sacred space.

Please note that there is a terrible compromise when putting such work on the web. Color, levels, contrast and a whole multitude of detail are naturally lost in such a digital conversion. I have done what I can to correct for this, but there is only so much that can be done.

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