Nellie King Solomon

Nellie King Solomon was on the cover of Spring '05 , which also contained a memoir by her mother.

On Friday, Nellie e-mailed an update :

You were mentioned Wednesday in my world. Your ears must have been burning: A co-teacher recognized me from the cover of ZYZZYVA in our shared faculty office at Stanford, where I am now teaching experimental painting, as a fall-out/ or fall-up/ from you. David Hannah asked me to propose this course last year as a workshop; now Enrique Chagoya has requested that it be a full-quarter course, maybe more next year.

All this is a result of David seeing my Brian Gross show, which came after Brian asked me to be part of his stable as he sat with a copy of ZYZZYVA on his desk, reading about my mom and seeing the pic of me and my painting on the cover. bla bla...but you get it. You did your part as a key link in that chain reaction to now. Thank you!

Also huge hello from my mom! I seem to have I scored her a solo show at SFMOMA next year through Henry Urbach, a sweet guy I really think you'd like if you don't already know him, new curator of design .

[Editor's Note: Nellie's father, architect Daniel Solomon, appeared in ZYZZYVA Winter '86.]