Landscape Paintings

These paintings were constructed after looking at buildings around my Brooklyn neighborhood. In these paintings, I was not interested in displaying buildings but created stylized images of buildings, trees, and pavements. Like other paintings, these works are large, shaped oils on canvas that hang from the wall down onto the floor.

"Nightscape"

Oil On Canvas with Mesh

8' X 4.5'

This landscape painting is an illustration of a city night scene. I was interested in using blues, greens, reds, and purples to create this evening scene. Again I chose to use a dark mesh to enhance the feeling of darkness.

"Snowy Rooftops"

Oil On Canvas with Mesh

9' X 4.5'

This is a winter scene representing buildings with geometric rooftops and stylized tree imagery. This painting incorporates the white mesh highlighting the element of snow.

"Winter Storm Over NYC"

Oil On Canvas with Mesh

7.5' X 4.5'

I was still fascinated with buildings in Brooklyn, particularly in winter. This painting not only shows the building but also winter clouds and footprints (my actual footprints on the canvas) in the snow. I was interested in presenting the rooftops as dominating white geometric shapes. It was also important to add another element to the imagery of snow, in this case, the white mesh.

"Brooklyn Streets"

Oil On Canvas

9' X 3.5'

This painting was from a study of Brooklyn streets. The hot black summer streets where buildings are butted up against one another

"Brooklyn Brick"

Oil On Canvas with Bricks

6' X 4.5'

I decided to paint this 3-panel painting while studying brick buildings in Brooklyn. I was struck by the various colors of the building from yellows, reds, and browns. The bricks are constructed out of Styrofoam and painted to simulate bricks

"Brooklyn "

8' X 4.5'

"Brooklyn #2"

8' X 4.5'

"City Sunset"

Oil on Canvas

20" X 10"

This small landscape is com[rised of three seperate coanvases. The black area representing night is slit open to allow me to "stuff" the canvases representing the city skyline and sinking sun.

"Sunrise Sunset"

Oil on Canvas

2' X 1.5'

"Mountain Landscape with Waterfall"

Acrylic, mesh, wood, canvas

32" X20 "

Working to create a more sculptural effect I combined multiple images and materials.

"Mountain Lake"

Acrylic, mesh, and canvas

34" X 42"

Companion piece to Mountain Landscape with Waterfall.

"NYC Winter Scene"

Acrylic, mesh, and canvas

34" X 42"

Halfway between the two stages of my artistic evolution is this painting. It was my first landscape painting following my time working as a constructionist painter. I wanted to move into a form of realism but produce extremely stylized and abstract imagery.