DR. ARTHUR FRIEDMAN

Urgent Care Physician, Smithtown, NY

Arthur went on to open his own urgent care facility in Commack, New York. Though he was best known for his decades of work there, he was working at a clinic in Smithtown over the past year.mArthur loved boating, the outdoors and hoped to retire soon in Florida, to be near his children.

ARTIST - LAURIE SIMKO: I went to the California Institute of the Arts, a school started by Walt Disney to combine all the Arts under one roof: Film, Music, Visual Arts, Design, and Theater. I’m an oil, acrylic painter and mixed-media artist mainly focused on the natural world.When I start a new project I usually work out the ideas in a series of paintings using similar materials, visuals, concepts. I may work for a year on a body of work that is related, then I move on to where that series leads me. It’s an evolving process that allows for experimentation, discovery and growth.