I was painting a lot in those days, in my studio on Fourteenth Street.  Some people called it the "ameoba man."  I never did.

I convinced the guys, kids really, that ran the Lab Gallery, a little hole on Divisadero doing "alternative" art, to give me a show.  They printed a nice postcard, below.

The opening was great.  A lot of people came.

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(NOTE:  See color reproductions of all these paintings in "THE MEMOIRS, CHAPTER 18")

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