By Amanda Staab - Reporter staff writer   
        
    FROM CANVAS TO FURNISHINGS – Mendez said he started painting and has moved on to designing interiors such as this room with a stained-glass fireplace.     
West New York's Cid Mendez, an artist of many mediums, opened his first public exhibit, which focuses on his stained-glass collection, at Gallery Twenty-One in Newark last weekend.

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