ARTIST STATEMENT:

aturally, the soul of any city is its inhabitants, and for me, one of the key elements of my work is the interaction between the City and its citizens. While many of my paintings would function without the people depicted in them, it is their presence, I feel, that gives the paintings their human (versus merely urban) quality.

In my work, there is an emphasis on the solitary figure, caught up with the masses of the metropolis, finding privacy and tranquility in a city that rarely offers either. I suppose it is somewhat ironic that while I am depicting one of the most crowded and frantic of cities, the people themselves are, with occasional exception, solo and inactive. These people, like their surroundings, achieve a degree of immortality in the paintings that reality does not afford them. Like the paintings on the clock in the painting of the clock repair shop, for them, time stands still.

• Sunset Nocturne, oil on canvas, 19 x 36", 2007
• Handball (Coney Island), oil on canvas, 11 x 14", 2002
• Wonder Wheel, oil on panel, 9 x 12", 2003

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• Time, oil on panel, 36 x 36", 2006

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• Doll Hospital, oil on panel, 30 x 20", 2005
• Laundromat, oil on canvas, 8 x 12", 2006

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• Mr. Gordon, oil on canvas, 40 x 60", 2000

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• Plaza I, oil on panel, 30 x 40", 1996

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