My trip along the 70th line of longitude is over and it’s time to consider it. Painting in the landscape has been great fun. Ecstatic, really. Using the word “Ecstatic” to describe a year of plein air painting may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the term is a fair approximation and it makes [...]
Gardens are for touching, walking, sitting, sniffing, admiring, and most importantly, pondering. Approaching the Enid Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden, I wondered if the contemporary cultural world is constrained by its own success. I’d like to think that art is potent pollen, whipped into the air by the need for change and [...]
On the streets of New York City words and pictures fall around you like leaves in the forest. Along the walk there are cascades and… cliffs and… colorful canyons. Shallow pools line the way and offer a chance to reflect… and celebrate the glory of nature. In this Arcadia on the Hudson, Nymphs and… Satyrs [...]
The view from the rooftop of the Avenue C studio. The following 7 paintings were made in New York City. Complete titles coming soon. Wall Street 7th Street Garden Avenue C Avenue C Delivery Seventh Street Garden Seventh Street Garden Wisteria Wall Street
Michelangelo, Creation of Stars and Planets, 1508-1512, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome. Today, April 22, 2008, is Earth Day. Its approach was heralded by Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich and Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, who appeared together on TV, warming a park bench as they promoted cooperation on global heating. Too bad the Pope, while in New [...]
On a fresh April morning after breakfast, I took a walk across the Williamsburg bridge, which connects the cultural hash of Manhattan to the ethnic scramble of Brooklyn. On the Manhattan end Jeffrey’s Meat caters to a diverse group of carnivores, who inhabit the Lower East Side. To appeal to all tastes, the butcher shop [...]
Every time I hear a plane pass low over Manhattan, I wonder if the whine of the engines heralds the next missile made of jet fuel and people. I heard a plane as I was walking through Wall Street, which is at once an historical site, a financial center and, after 9/11, a trauma point. [...]
14th Street in Manhattan is an exhausting, dreamlike space of suggestive and discordant sights that seem logical at the time. It’s a stream of consciousness made from flesh and blood. While walking through this steam, I thought of a recent dinner party. Over calamari, roast duck and red wine, a friend brightened and asked what [...]
The following 8 works were begun out of doors in St. John, Virgin Islands. I’ve been home in New York State for the month of March, working in the studio to complete these Caribbean paintings. The title of each work includes the date that the work was begun, the temperature of the moment, the latitude [...]
I’ve been painting on the beach using a church barbecue shed for a studio, which I occasionally share with a herd of goats that wander freely across the island. One afternoon I heard a loud sizzle and crack, and looked toward the highway from which the noise came. A white pick-up truck stopped in the [...]
