Friday Night at Alhambra is a painting created around the New Alhambra fight club in Philadelphia. After I completed this painting, asked legendary fight promoter, Russell Peltz, if he wanted to use the painting for an upcoming fight program cover. Russell wanted to use the painting, but on the night of the painting, he wasn’t the primary promoter, so his logo doesn’t appear on the signs above the ring. Asked me if “I could change the painting.” Didn’t want to, so I painted “patches” that could be used to digitally replace the signs in the original just for the fight program. Felt silly just painting the three signs, so I finished out the scene with the ring and the crowd.
