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Brezinski was a passionate, charismatic and clever painter who missed his due. A documentary about his life and the art world screens locally next week.

SKAGIT COUNTY — A red-tailed hawk swooped through the tawny grasses and cattails along Fisher Slough, where yellow and white booms labeled "Olympic Pipeline" floated atop the glassy water last …

Gay painter Edward Brezinski’s brief career and disappearance is the subject of the documentary "Make Me Famous," which visually takes a dizzying journey back in time to the 1980s East Village art scene.

Gay painter Edward Brezinski’s brief career and disappearance is the subject of the documentary "Make Me Famous," which visually takes a dizzying journey back in time to the 1980s East Village art scene.

Gay painter Edward Brezinski’s brief career and disappearance is the subject of the documentary "Make Me Famous," which visually takes a dizzying journey back in time to the 1980s East Village art scene.

Husband-and-wife duo Brian Vincent and Heather Spore capture the gritty life of 1980s East Village neo-Expressionist artist Edward Brezinski (1954–2007) and his circle in this indie doc, still seeking the distribution it is worthy of.

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You’ve likely never heard of the late, gay 1980s neo-expressionist painter Edward Brezinski, though he was a contemporary of famous artists like…

YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE when old people start talking, reminiscing about stuff that happened before you were born, incidents that have seemingly gained personal meaning as they have lost cultural traction, tales from some zeitgeist of yore, stories flowing rapidly into one another as synapses fire off newly recalled shards of an age-strangled youth? Of course you do, just as you know how these stories, slipping between the mundane and the revelatory like absent-minded codgers dancing in their ...