Irene Delka McCray Art

Not Here, oil, 36x60”, 2023

​Irene Delka McCray is an artist and educator. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited mostly in Colorado, where she now lives, and also in New Mexico, California, Missouri, Washington DC, and Arizona. She is a retired professor from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Lakewood, CO.

Not Here: In this painting I told Mother through the window, on our phones, that I was going to paint her, so could she put her hands up by her face. Staying true to her own brand of humor, and being quite profound at the same time, she put her phone down on her lap, covered her face with her hands, and said “I’m not here”.

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