Welcome to my virtual art gallery. All my paintings have a unique serial number. Please contact me for more information, commissions, or art prints.
- 2create Gallery, Ramona California, August 2026
- July-August, 2026 – Point Loma/Hervey Public Library
My paintings explore the stories that shape who we are—memory, identity, resilience, family, faith, justice, and the many emotions that connect us. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, I create bold, color-rich compositions that blend modern, cubist, and abstract influences into expressive portraits and narrative scenes.
Every painting begins with a story. It may be inspired by a childhood memory, a courtroom experience, a prayer, a family history, or a quiet moment of everyday life. While each work has a specific origin, the figures represent universal human experiences, inviting viewers to see themselves and their own stories reflected in the canvas.
My artistic practice explores themes including:
- Memory, Heritage, and Jewish Life
- Identity, Resilience, and the Human Experience
- Family, Community, and Everyday Moments
- Migration, Home, and Belonging
- Portraits, Music, and Communication
As an autistic savant, I experience the world through heightened visual detail, vibrant color, and pattern. That perspective influences my creative process, allowing me to translate complex emotions and experiences into layered, expressive paintings that often communicate what words cannot.
My work has been collected by individuals, displayed in private homes, and installed in Wall Street law offices, medical and mental health practices, shelters, and community spaces. These paintings serve not only as works of art, but as catalysts for reflection, conversation, healing, and human connection.
Whether viewed as a personal narrative or through the lens of one’s own experiences, my hope is that each painting invites viewers to pause, connect, and discover something meaningful within themselves.
Instagram @drhennyk / Tiktok @drhennyk / Facebook @ Henny Kupferstein.
Collection: Holocaust, Memory, and Inheritance
20260725 – Curled Into Tomorrow
16×20 Acrylic on Canvas
Beautiful Trouble
24×36
030526 – Plumeria Moonbeam
Lavender Dreams
20260305 – Sit with Me
013026- Glorious Pink-Striped Sunrise
110125 – Trust Henny
18” x 24”
083025 – Dizzy Achings
24” x 36”
073025 – Saba and Baby
18” x 24”
- Instagram reel of day 1, live painting
- Instagram painting reveal with original inspiration photograph
- TikTok painting reveal
072525 – A Chassidic Holocaust
11” x 14”
- TikTok live painting, 2 minute reel with Belz chassidic music, original sound
051025 – Encourage One Another
Selected works are available for exhibition, acquisition, and institutional loan. I welcome conversations with museums, galleries, universities, and public‑interest organizations seeking visual narratives around trauma, disability, Jewish life, and justice.
For inquiries, please email me directly.
Gender, Law, and the Body
111124 – Sacred Myths
24” x 36”
082524 – Sisterhood
24” x 36”
051524 – Hummingbirds
050324 – Pride Pride
Brooklyn, Migration, and Everyday Survival
042924 -Jay Street, Brooklyn Family Court
041724 – Cis Gender, Transgender, Gender-Bender)
041324 -Taking up more space
20” x 24”
acrylic on canvas board
041224 – Taking up space
101423-Rock and a Hard Place
051723 – Sunbeam
112822 – Brooklyn in November
16” x 32” – rehomed to a Law office at 40 Wall Street, NYC
090322 – Brooklyn Pigeons
18” x 24”– rehomed to Berkeley California, private home
081522 – A Tiny Waisted Polish Prince
16″ x 20″
- Portrait under gold lighting (with narrative).
- Painting from live model
- First time using gold paint
070222 – Woman with Eggs
070422 – Roe v Wade
11” x 14” – rehomed to a Law office at 40 Wall Street, NYC
Autism, Music, and Communication
062922 – Savant Girl on Fire
031722 – First Cellist
Conquistadors in Dominican Republic
A visual narrative chronicles the plunder and destruction faced by the indigenous Taíno people of the Dominican Republic. European colonizers are depicted with harsh, angular features and dark, militant clothing, hauling their loot of cigars, bananas, mangos, and cocoa beans to their merchant vessels. This scene captures their disregard for the land’s natural beauty, as they ravage the landscape, uprooting groves and orchards, symbols of the island’s rich bounty. The tears of the indigenous Taíno, witnessing their near extinction, fill the beaches, highlighting the tragic cultural loss.
Picasso 1901 “Child with a Dove”
Oil pastel and watercolor on Mixed media art paper
A dear friend showed up to my hospital room with an emergency art kit. When I saw the picasso green palette, I immediately wanted to copy this original 1901 painting. The boy looks so tender and innocent, and seems to be offering a peace sacrifice. The emergency art kit has been taken to other friends in their hospital moments, and once more for myself. Everything that is produced from this kit is striking as an existential emergency
Fainting Couches
The psychedelic trafficker showed me his piano, but I couldn’t help wondering if I was in a house staged for tripping. There were three fainting couches and the paintings were suggestive of horror and dissociation. This was the first time I walked away from a piano without touching it. He had his mother’s ashes in red velvet atop the lid. The planter is the only object in this painting that is centrally aligned.
My painting of Chassidic women dancing in Times Square hangs in a mental health clinician’s office where she does intake in the women’s shelter where I was first recognized as a victim of domestic violence. She says ‘every day, women ask about this painting, and then find their own strengths.’
