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Cityscape

Pool Subway Park Carnival

SECRET WISH OF THE CITY

2015 18 X 24. Oils on Canvas Panel. The city calls to you. It caresses you. It tells you a story. It laughs at you. You are its keeper and you are its slave. You are part of it, and it’s a part of you. But only when it rains, can you ever catch a glimpse, of the Secret Wish OF The City.

MAIN STREET AT NIGHT IN THE RAIN

1999 35 X 45. Oils on Laminated paper over plywood. Monday through Friday I slave at my desk. Boss glaring down my neck. Phone ringing to blast my mind. Words from customers not so kind. Friday night we turn things around. That’s when we take on the town.

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TIMES SQUARE WITH LION KING

2009. 36 X 48. Oils on Canvas. This painting, like many of my cityscapes was painted from an original small charcoal drawing I did on site, about 6 x 8 inches. Most cityscape drawings take about one to two hours. They are like a very long exposure photograph , except the camera is my mind. My drawings are not what the camera sees, but what my mind sees. And so what I draw isn’t necessarily literal. It encompasses what see with what I feel , what I think with what I believe. And what I feel about what I think and believe. Many hundreds of ideas will come to me as I draw and these also will be incorporated into the drawing. When I paint from the drawing, everything is magnified. So a long exposure mind photo now becomes an epic film. A film of and from my mind.

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BROOKLYN WITH CAR AND CRESCENT MOON

1991. 18 X 24. Oils on Canvas Panel. The day turns into evening. Then into night. He’s almost home, to his dinner, his wife, his bed. His neighborhood crackles with the smell of Chinese food, arguments, laundry and weariness. It’s good to be back home, in Brooklyn.

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SUNDAY IN NOHO

2003. 30 X 40. Oils on Canvas. This painting, first started in 2000 was finished in 2003. It was 2 separate one day sittings. It was painted from an original small charcoal drawing , about 6 x 8 inches on site in NYC, near where I lived for 20 years. The painting is very detailed, but even more importantly, extremely expressive. The details are closer to the spiritual and emotional aspects of the subject than any camera could possibly capture. I am capturing the emotional and spiritual history of the place as I ‘’see’’ it and feel it. Most artists are unaware of this possibility in art , and if they did, they are at a loss as to how to be able to capture it. In this particular painting I am thankful I was able to do both. Even the reflections in the windows reveal a doorway to another dimension, and another world. A world beyond time and space but of mystery and memory.

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