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Structrures
Buildings and other structures included here range from grand architectural details to worn industrial spaces, facades, and patterns created by windows, beams, railings, and shadows. These details make each one unique, not simply functional.
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Brownstone Block
Each stoop is nearly the same, yet belongs to a different home with a different story, graced by bare, snow-covered branches.
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Brownstone Block
Each stoop is nearly the same, yet belongs to a different home with a different story, graced by bare, snow-covered branches.
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Brownstone Block
Each stoop is nearly the same, yet belongs to a different home with a different story, graced by bare, snow-covered branches.
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Sugar Factory, Red Hook, Brooklyn
When I first discovered the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, this is what I saw—an old sugar factory among other industrial ruins. I liked it because it didn't look like anything else.
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Old Sugar Factory
This version was a commision. I used a cooler palette and gave the rundown wreck a more polished look.
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Red Hook Ruins
Here we are on the same small island as the sugar factory, in the middle of a canal. The broken framework and worn buildings sit beside the water—part of a bygone era.
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Red Hook Pier
This is a closer view of the defunct pier as a boat in the background moves towards it.
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Canal in Red Hook
Another boat on the canal adds a touch of modernity to the scene.
06
High Tide
Here's a more fantastical version of water meets old buildings done in collage and paint.
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Work Halted
These excavators sat in place of the razed ruins for years—a new kind of blight.
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Urban Ruins
I was attracted to this facade because it was already halfway to abstraction. The doors, boards, windows, rust, and graffiti divided the surface into rectangles, but the wear and damage added texture and colors I couldn't resist.
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Jet Engine
This Collage and Oil on Paper was fun because the mechanical forms gave me permission to make the composition fanciful and a little unruly.
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Up and Away!
The balloon changes the whole mood, escaping the stacked buildings and signs and adding a touch of playfulness.
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Coney Island
This is Coney Island without the rush of the crowd. I liked the odd face above the sign, and the closed gate—details that become more noticeable when everything is still.
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Wonderwheel
The wheel is so large that the spokes and supports take over the composition of rich, mostly primary colors.
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Coney Island Parade
Coney Island rarely gives you just one thing to look at. I wanted the parade, the crowd, the wheel, and the amusement structures to pile into the frame the way they do when you're actually there.
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Arcade Games
The giant wheel towers behind the arcade sign with its bold white-on-red lettering that breaks up the blue and gives the scene its snap.
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Sailing By
The little sailboat seems almost incidental, but it adds a calmness to the scene and reminds me of the song, Beyond the Sea.
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Bikes and Graffiti
The scaffolding, bicycles, and graffiti build a composition of crossing lines and overlapping shapes.
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The Rehearsal
With collage, I created a contrast between the rough city surface and the small rehearsal happening inside. Brick, posters, graffiti, and the figures beyond the doorway all become part of the same story.
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Parade Past St. Patrick's
The elaborate stonework of the cathedral stays fixed and monumental while the parade becomes a dark, shifting band at its base.
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Vesuvio Bakery
The window is packed with exactly the kind of visual abundance I love in old storefronts. The painted lettering and piles of bread make the bakery feel both graphic and enticing.
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Prague
From my trip to Prague, the top of the crowd stretches across the view without losing the architecture behind it.
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Sugar Factory, Red Hook, Brooklyn
When I first discovered the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, this is what I saw—an old sugar factory among other industrial ruins. I liked it because it didn't look like anything else.
01
Sugar Factory, Red Hook, Brooklyn
When I first discovered the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, this is what I saw—an old sugar factory among other industrial ruins. I liked it because it didn't look like anything else.
02
Old Sugar Factory
This version was a commision. I used a cooler palette and gave the rundown wreck a more polished look.
03
Red Hook Ruins
Here we are on the same small island as the sugar factory, in the middle of a canal. The broken framework and worn buildings sit beside the water—part of a bygone era.
04
Red Hook Pier
This is a closer view of the defunct pier as a boat in the background moves towards it.
05
Canal in Red Hook
Another boat on the canal adds a touch of modernity to the scene.
06
High Tide
Here's a more fantastical version of water meets old buildings done in collage and paint.
07
Work Halted
These excavators sat in place of the razed ruins for years—a new kind of blight.
08
Urban Ruins
I was attracted to this facade because it was already halfway to abstraction. The doors, boards, windows, rust, and graffiti divided the surface into rectangles, but the wear and damage added texture and colors I couldn't resist.
09
Jet Engine
This Collage and Oil on Paper was fun because the mechanical forms gave me permission to make the composition fanciful and a little unruly.
10
Up and Away!
The balloon changes the whole mood, escaping the stacked buildings and signs and adding a touch of playfulness.
11
Coney Island
This is Coney Island without the rush of the crowd. I liked the odd face above the sign, and the closed gate—details that become more noticeable when everything is still.
12
Wonderwheel
The wheel is so large that the spokes and supports take over the composition of rich, mostly primary colors.
13
Coney Island Parade
Coney Island rarely gives you just one thing to look at. I wanted the parade, the crowd, the wheel, and the amusement structures to pile into the frame the way they do when you're actually there.
14
Arcade Games
The giant wheel towers behind the arcade sign with its bold white-on-red lettering that breaks up the blue and gives the scene its snap.
15
Sailing By
The little sailboat seems almost incidental, but it adds a calmness to the scene and reminds me of the song, Beyond the Sea.
16
Bikes and Graffiti
The scaffolding, bicycles, and graffiti build a composition of crossing lines and overlapping shapes.
17
The Rehearsal
With collage, I created a contrast between the rough city surface and the small rehearsal happening inside. Brick, posters, graffiti, and the figures beyond the doorway all become part of the same story.
18
Parade Past St. Patrick's
The elaborate stonework of the cathedral stays fixed and monumental while the parade becomes a dark, shifting band at its base.
19
Vesuvio Bakery
The window is packed with exactly the kind of visual abundance I love in old storefronts. The painted lettering and piles of bread make the bakery feel both graphic and enticing.
20
Prague
From my trip to Prague, the top of the crowd stretches across the view without losing the architecture behind it.
- Oil painting of the Red Hook sugar factory with a tall industrial tower, weathered surfaces, and a cloudy sky.
- Oil painting of an old sugar factory on the waterfront with a large conveyor structure, tower, and reflections in the water.
- Oil painting of deteriorating industrial buildings and collapsed framework along the Red Hook waterfront.
- Oil painting of a Red Hook pier with a dense network of beams and pilings reflected in the water and a small boat beyond.
- Oil painting of moored boats on a canal in Red Hook with industrial buildings and construction in the background.
- Collage and oil work showing city buildings with a broad abstract blue-green band suggesting water.
- Oil painting of several parked excavators lined up beside a waterfront area.
- Oil painting of a worn industrial facade with boarded openings, graffiti, rust, and weathered surfaces.
- Collage and oil composition with a jet engine and dense red, mechanical, and graphic imagery.
- Collage and oil waterfront cityscape with a colorful hot-air balloon above the skyline.
- Oil painting of a worn Coney Island amusement façade with decorative signage and a closed metal gate.
- Oil painting of a crowded Coney Island parade with a Ferris wheel and amusement structures in the background.
- Oil painting of an arcade sign with a large Ferris wheel rising behind it.
- Oil painting of a small sailboat seen through large blue pier columns and shadows.
- Oil painting of bicycles and graffiti behind red scaffolding against a brick wall.
- Collage and oil work showing a brick city doorway covered with signs and graffiti, with figures rehearsing inside.
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