Jon Imber, 63; artist kept painting with exuberance in face of ALS
Painter Jon Imber’s death came as a shock to those who knew him and his work. Not because it wasn’t evident he was nearing the end, but because his paintings, right up until the last, were buoyant, tender, and thrumming with life, like the artist himself. Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in fall of 2012,…