Just added a couple of new paintings to the website. The largest painting’s subject is Prince Street in Soho, it measures 36×48 inches. The view is from the rooftop of the New Museum looking west and shows rooftops across the skyline of downtown Manhattan. The other painting is titled Street Vendor and depicts a pretzel cart on 5th Avenue. This emphasizes more of figurative element to my work. Besides differing in terms of scale (Street Vendor is 16×20 inches, less than half the size) the subjects are also opposites. The cityscape shows the broad, sweeping, dramatic views of the city while the image of the vendor is a more personal view at street level. Two different views, two different experiences of the city.

Been very busy in the studio preparing a painting for the upcoming Open Studio event on May 1st and 2nd. The new piece is a rooftop view of Soho, measuring 36 x 48 inches – a large one! Details on the open studio are available below.

I’m also offering digital prints of my work at very reasonable prices, the first item has been posted to my etsy store.

Artists’ Open Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Saturday, May 1st and Sunday May 2nd, 2010
from 12–6 pm

Screwball Spaces, Gowanus Canal’s newest addition of artists’ studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn, opens its doors to the public for a rare glimpse into the work spaces of New York’s contemporary artists.

http://openstudios.screwballspaces.com

Pictures of the Gowanus in the New York Times. Toxic gunk makes for some cool photos. Yum, Superfund!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/the-gowanus-in-all-its-gunky-glory/

I’m having an exhibit with John Tebeau at the Sweet Lorraine Gallery in our Red Hook studio. Location is the giant Treasure Island Storage building – featuring an outstanding view of the Gowanus Expressway! Come say hello to the nation’s newest Superfund site and see some great paintings. Drinks are on us.

Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Time: 7-10 pm
Location: Sweet Lorraine Gallery, 183 Lorraine Street, Brooklyn, NY

www.screwballspaces.com
johntebeau.wordpress.com

A few highlights: the giant red disk of goo by Piotr Uklanski, threads of smoke rendered in a gigantic tapestry by Pae White, the delicate intricacy of Roland Flexner’s surrealist ink paintings, and the reductive still-life abstractions of Lesley Vance.