“My paintings depict the smaller skyline of New York City. They are inspired by the rooftops of the 19th Century industrial era factory buildings and smaller scale residences of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. On the roofs of these older buildings, I find complex relationships among the shapes, hues and textures of water towers, skylights, chimneys, vents and antennas. Through simplification, abstraction and the editing of color, composition and form, I isolate the objects and highlight their relationships to each other and to the sky. By reinterpreting the scene, I create a personal mood of place and time that expresses my most intimate reaction to the subjects.”