This piece was done during the lull before 9/11. While I painted many paintings after the tragic event, this is only one of two I painted before that felt and feel linked to the occurrence. The anticipation, the feeling something was to change, something was coming. The other piece also began with the word WHAT. What […]
Author Archives: Evan Silberman
OVAL was painted after a trip to Denmark and includes a stamp of their Queen. The assistant at the West Village gallery where Oval was shown said this piece spoke to her as being highly female. My X was showing and she felt it. Unfortunately she left my Y to dangle. All my work is […]
My friends Doug and Rachel in Seattle have a wonderful collection of my tobacco sticks full of variety. Three painted, one raw. Artifact to art, these purest tools of practical farming were no longer being used, stacked and under years of dust when I found them. I saw them as individual solid canvas. Slender […]
I had a surface, a woven grass placemat, and I thought, “Just do.” So I did. And this spirited man emerged. He’s detailed and unlike any piece I’ve ever done. 22″ x 16″, RADIANT MAN is made of acrylics and mixed medium on woven grass placemat.
Recent picks (8/23) below. I love the motion in this piece, the bubbles that trail the red, it’s mass. RED AQUATIC is painted on both sides of a clear canvas and has a dimensional surface, great for catching light and offering shadows. 2009 Acrylic and mixed medium on acetate 18 x 23 inches From […]
Part fireworks, part burst of sheer exuberance, this piece determined itself. It was created free-formed, unhindered by straight edges. 12″x 24″, BRILLIANCE, 2004, is painted with acrylics and mixed medium on clear acetate mounted on wood.
Mehmet’s 1st Anniversary, 2017, was painted in celebration of Victoria and Engin’s boy at the one year anniversary of his birth. It is painted on clear canvas acetate using acrylics and mixed medium. I painted the crown, sun and olive branch, the red dot, the underline. They are the details that I drew on first impulse […]
I love the miniature nature of the vessel. I was curious what could be done so small. I painted five. These are them, below. My mother had collected buckles in an old tin box and asked me if I could make use of any. When I finally looked through the container I saw a few […]
During my early advertising days I worked with Steve Jobs on NeXT computers. I was working as a copywriter at the ad agency Ammirati & Puris and for this client I wrote print ads and the sole tv commercial A&P created for NeXT. Recently I found that script. It’s dated November 17, 1989. The commercial was never produced. It’s a 30 second spot and the script, […]
I made this for a friend who just moved into a new place. Rather than bring her flowers I painted a housewarming bouquet instead. Floral Susan has red, white, and blue main flowers which reference her father who was a United States Congressman for many years (serving from the Great State of New York) and who recently died. It’s a versatile piece painted on clear canvas, […]
Modern mosaic masterpieces are now permanently affixed to the walls of the new 2nd Ave subway station at 86th St. And they are glorious. At the helm of this subway’s art direction is the artist Chuck Close. He’s known for large portraits of head-on facial shots. Huge faces eight feet tall. Here his work is done in mosaic and […]
As soon as I heard that the National Museum of African American History & Culture was opening I went to their website assuming it existed and would be open too. It was. Featured was a timed-ticket sign up to visit the museum. They were offering the first batch of passes ever offered to the general public. I couldn’t resist. […]
This was painted on both sides of a clear canvas. Black and White and Hairy All Over 2006 Acrylics and mixed medium on acetate. 80 x 20 inches I used myself as the template for the figure, tracing myself head to toe. It’s painted on a clear canvas and is weighted by five mirrored ovals at it’s bottom. Look […]
For a storefront business in Greenwich Village these days having a sandwich board is ubiquitous. It’s a way to say not only that we’re open but that we have a pulse and that you, the city walker, do as well. Since Relax specializes in deep tissue massage, as well as general relaxation therapy, the ads […]
In 2005, Village Voice covers became canvas to me. I’m sure it wasn’t the Village Voice’s first preference for their paper to be used as material in an artist’s work. But it happened. I was able to engage because they existed. And I’m glad it did. These have never been shown publicly. They’re a time […]