These are all slender silhouettes. Why? Because I had a great piece of clear vinyl acetate and wanted to make the most of it. The pencil came first. What else could fit in a small strip? A pineapple on a classic column, a smile inducing toothbrush and a test tube showing life. They’re painted using […]
This began with a walk by a lighting store on West Broadway in 2003 and seeing the rounded mirrored plexi element in the window. I had the square canvas and the two seemed a worthy pairing. This piece speaks to life in it’s pronounced dimensionality and many reflective elements. It’s luscious and lively. It’s mirrored […]
Alp is the second offspring of Victoria and Engin. His older brother, Mehmet, got his own named piece as a gift for turning one year old. It’s my way of celebrating their entrance on earth. Smart and loving parents and now a second young son. Inspiring was their holiday card and the four of them […]
ESSENTIAL MAN, 2002, is detail and essence in one. Two depths to this essential man is narratively true. There are two figures in the piece. But the depths to this piece change with light. It has such a rich and deliciously curious surface as to be unlimited in shadows and light capturing. Painted on glass […]
Tied in togetherness, bound in union, the indivisibility of our being is at the center of this piece. UNION floats centered within a fully transparent canvas. It joins human and earth, sky and form. It is a relishable joy to see up close. It’s adorned with a rich dimensional surface including leaves and tiny reflective silver […]
Out of many, one. Undertaking. Anew. These three mottos from the Great Seal of the United States, translated from Latin, and simplified, are incorporated in the triangular eye at the center of this boldly American art piece. In spirit and wish it speaks to the providence of the American cause. E Pluribus Unum uses elements […]
This portrait came to be through the imagination of Nikki whose friends Kathy and Cliff are the lucky companions of Bianca. A Spinone Italiano, Bianca was a pleasure to photograph and a joy to paint. Commissioned with the thought of being a gift given at Thanksgiving, all went perfectly on schedule. In this piece I see […]
Welcome 2021. Welcome, welcome, welcome. In a burst of gratitude to 2021 being right around the bend I did these. I needed to put something down on a surface. And after painting 2021 once I couldn’t resist doing it more so I added three boards to the batch. Four in all. Hope loves company.
It is staff and spring, spirit and conviction, freedom and ability. Exuberant, raw and open. Even the canvas it’s painted on is transparent. LIBERTY 14.5″x 11″, painted using acrylics and mixed medium on glass and frame, 2002, NYC.
America’s vision obscured. This painting speaks to America’s great potential and how poor leadership comes from distorted lenses and blinded principles. Painted in 2005 it unfortunately applies today. Even given all this, I believe America’s DNA is solid and will survive, integrity intact. Principle Obscura 2005 It’s painted using acrylics, adornments, and mixed […]
This is a self portrait of me. Part 1993. Part 2012. A hybrid. Walking home one night in the late 90’s I found this frame leaning against a tree in front of a brownstone ready for pick-up. I could see why they were throwing out the print. The frame, however, was a thrill for me. […]
It’s the activated cell, the explosion of life that emerges with birth. Creation, myriad, alive and expanding outward. Painted on a fabric akin to a western bandana pattern, this piece is earthy and magical. Being beginning before our eyes. BEING BEGINS 30″x30″x1.5″, 2006, acrylic and mixed medium on printed cloth. There is some glitter, […]
I bought five tubes of paint for this piece and used every drop of each. The profile rises from the canvas like the head of a giant looking through a sixth floor window. The Samuel Adams bottle cap, at the center of the eye’s pupil, speaks to an American spirit at the center of the […]
Cathy posed for this many years after we were friends in High School. We were 11th grade sweethearts. It was High School in the 70’s, Long Island, and we sang Janis Joplin’s Mercedes Benz song on our walks. In this painting there is a wedding ring hovering low in the right corner. It’s a testament […]
Since I started painting on things, frames with glass have appealed to me. I had canvas and frame in one. The clear nature of the glass let me paint on both sides, building the art doubly. (The fragility of the glass is why I’ve gone on to acetates and plexi.) In this piece’s case, […]