Cityscapes

Several years back, I was looking through a brochure for the McMichael Gallery Juried Show and I was seeing all this work that looked just like what I had been doing – pictures of beautiful landscapes. This is a crowded field. Around the same time, I would be watching C.S.I.-N.Y. and to show that the action was going back to the lab, these amazing aerial shots would be spliced in. We’d be flying over the tops of skyscrapers at reach-out-and-touch height. The magnificent angular abstracts formed from buildings were reminiscent of paintings by Hoffman or Mondrian. The slow pan that amplified the radical perspective gives the feel of dropping into. I could watch a whole show of just these shots.

I wanted to paint what I saw. I started in a very primitive way.