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6. Verveelen Place
I positioned my easel on the quaint dead end of Verveelen Place, situated directly across from the proposed Tibbetts Path and adjacent to Albany Crescent. A parking lot for the big box mall with the TJ Maxx was to my right. An unidentifiable parking lot is across the street. There are a handful of unmarked…
5. Below Van Cortlandt Ave South Bridge
In this session, I found myself back at the Van Cortlandt Park South bridge. Yet, unlike before, my vantage point shifted beneath the bridge, immersing me in the pathway carved by IDA’s raging flood waters – the future route of the Daylighted Tibbetts Brook. I’m painting a landscape that is technically fenced off. But there…
4. TJ Maxx
Last Thursday, I returned to Albany Crescent, this time to paint directly above the highway. There, I was acutely aware of the fiery essence of this scene – a river-like flow of combustion engines, a stream of vehicles consuming oil. I spotted this particular parcel on livinglotsnyc.org. It is labeled Bronx block 2, lot 10,…
3. Crescent Park
Yesterday’s painting session found me beneath the intermittent shade of a black locust tree along W 233rd Street, near Crescent Park. The sky was a vivid blue, the sun’s warmth a touch too intense. Thankfully, this spot offered both shade and an unobstructed view, unlike the fenced areas. Directly across the Major Deegan Expressway lay…
2. Putnam Ave West
I returned to the site of the historic Major Deegan flooding and painted the largest watercolor I’ve done in some time. #DaylightingTibbetts is about inviting water in and it felt necessary to think in watercolors. The highway is also a river, but of oil. Oil and water don’t mix, but coexist, articulate in expressing their…
1. Van Cortlandt Park South Bridge
Yesterday, I positioned myself precisely where Tibbetts Brook is envisioned to emerge from Van Cortlandt Park, transitioning into the CSX rail line. Just the day before, this abandoned rail corridor had transformed into a raging river, a result of Ida’s torrential rains. Now, it lay calm—still damp, yet reclaimed from its brief life as a…
Upcoming show…
I will have 4 recently finished paintings in the THANK YOU show at Dorsey Gallery, opening May 16th. This painting above, as well as 3 others, will be available for purchase. I hope to attend the COVID safe opening. It will be the first art opening I’ve been to in a long time! @dorseyartgallery “Thank You…
Voices of Lefferts
One bright spot of this year for me has been writing. One of my quarantine journal entries was published in the Voices of Lefferts community writing journal, available at the Flatbush @greenlightbklyn store and on the greenlight website. VOL is a great collaborative project spearheaded by Deborah Mutnick. I am in good company in the pages of…
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