pretation of what you see. It’s not the technique; it’s the emotion that you put into what you see. You try very hard to make what you see personal….Some days you got it, some days you don’t, but you keep working until it comes to you.” These days, Post paints every day for a few hours in his home studio. He sketches incessantly, and especially while traveling. Post had two shows last year at The Temporary Contemporary Gallery on Del Paso Boulevard, and he is currently creating work for a new show. His webpage, davidpost-art. com, contains additional information.
Michael Solomon During the 1990’s, David Post’s paintings were frequently on display at the Solomon Dubnick Gallery, one of Sacramento’s premier galleries first managed by Shirley Dubnick, sister of Russ Solomon, the founder of Tower Records, and later by Russ Solomon’s son, Michael. The Solomon family has supported artists and the art community, collected, and sold contemporary fine art in Northern California for over 60 years. Michael Solomon is a native of Sacramento who is not only a patron of the arts and an important legal adviser to the arts community, but also an accomplished photographer. After graduating from U.C. Hastings College of Law, Solomon moved to rural Humboldt County as an “urban refu-
Photo by Russ Solomon
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gee,” where he hung up a shingle and began providing legal services as well as hosting numerous art exhibits in his office to support local artists—and to always have new, stimulating art on the walls. In 1987, Solomon returned to Sacramento to work as Legal Counsel for Tower Records, where he negotiated over 150 real estate deals and was well versed in entertainment law, skills he now uses representing businesses and artists in real estate matters, gallery contract agreements, and estate planning. In the early 80’s, Tower opened Tower Graphics and Framing which subsequently morphed into Tower Gallery, a local gallery selling high-end limited edition prints. In 1998, Tower Records transferred the Solomon Dubnick Gallery to the Solomon family, and it continued to operate through November 2010 with Solomon as owner and director.
Solomon has served for years on the statewide Board of Directors of California Lawyers for the Arts (CLA), as well as with its lawyer referral service. He has juried many art exhibits, including a 2010 CLA exhibit at the Sacramento Law library, entitled “Creative Mergers,” on the theme of justice and freedom. In his law office-gallery, he has hosted the Modern Masters Art Contest for high school students, sponsored by the Protect and Defend Dialogue on America. Solomon has held several exhibitions of his own fine art photography and published a book of photographs entitled Let’s Go See Some Jazz. Solomon has sold pieces, but prefers to donate them to local causes he considers important. He fondly remembers donating a picture of David Brubeck together with a signed piano key to the KVIE auction. “To me, the most interesting pictures are of people. The most interesting pictures are of famous people or people you know or recognize. A great photographer has access to wellknown people. There are great photographers who take pictures of people in the street. I’m more like that—a street photographer.” He brings his camera with him everywhere he goes, or at least uses his iPhone. He explains, “I like to take portraits. Next in line would be architecture and last would be landscapes. Those are the hardest. I love fashion photography too.”
Photos by Michael Solomon, L to R: Dave Brubeck 1997, The Galaxy Diner, Mick Jagger 1999 www.sacbar.org | March/April 2015 | SACRAMENTO LAWYER
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