A chilly spring night wandering the canyons of lower Manhattan, in and out of shops and cozy bars, it’s easy to forget to look up.

On a whole, New Yorkers assume that only tourists look up. This, I would like to assure you, is a fallacy. I have lived in New York City since 1991 and I seem to constantly be gazing up at rooftops and windows and the sky. A symptom of being a painter of the city. But, also I am simply an admirer of the architecture the structure of this beautiful concrete labyrinth.

In this painting of a night in Tribeca, one can get caught up on the street level. Down here the lights reflect through smoke, off windows, creating silhouettes of humans moving thru the city in the distance. The ubiquitous “retail space available” sign and yes, there always seems to be a dentist and a pub.

I wanted to emphasize the dreamy quality of the night windows, sparsely lit above and deep in the canyon on the sidewalk the colors of the world spinning by. I’ve created a slight hazy effect where everything‘s a little bit out of focus.

Using the chilly light of a spring spring night, when your breath still catches and you blow smoke in the air.

Night on Murray Street. April 2022.

I’ll be sharing again soon with information about Art on the Ave. Spring exhibit “Creating the Future”