24x48 Acrylic on Canvas

I had painted works on this scale before, but ceased because they took so long to complete. This was the first of a new generation of larger paintings for me. Taking less time as I had recently adopted a layering technique of applying smaller dots on top of larger ones, allowing me to fill the entire canvas in less time. This technique has other bonuses as well, one of which is to make my work textured. 

The inspiration for this piece was the film “Bladerunner”. Cyclists navigating through people, vehicles and stationary obstacles. The rain slicked streets, the neon glow. But I chose an opposing notion. One where the world is quiet and still, where people can be at peace by simply riding their bikes through a park in a gentle rain.

12x16  Acrylic on Canvas

Inspired by a friend's motto. A retired sailor who never went to sea. He was an airman whose aircraft were too large to land on a carrier. But his life was an endless journey, both physically and spiritually. As oxymoronic a person as I have ever known.

12x16 Acrylic on Canvas

A portrait of my wife and her father on the streets of Little Italy, Manhattan. The city moves around them. It’s an environment where my wife feels most at home.

16x20. ... Acrylic on Canvas

A quiet rural scene at dusk, where cows graze freely in a field where they don’t belong—thanks to a busted fence. No one’s coming to fix it. Maybe no one should

20x16 Acrylic on Canvas

Little Italy in Manhattan, once covering more than a few blocks, has been encroached upon from all sides. Yet what remains still holds the ambience of a unique culture with an old world charm.

20x16 ... Acrylic on Canvas

Washington Square in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, draws a slew of chess players on any warm sunny day. The chess boards are permanent on cement tables. It’s not uncommon to see several people waiting for their term to play.

12x16 ... Acrylic on Canvas

For Lunar New Year, the streets of Manhattan's Chinatown are closed to cars and filled with people. Some are part of dragon and lion troops with pounding drums, some are there to watch the spectacle, and others are just passing through. I painted this with a distinct yellowish hue to mimic the effect of an old color photo, specifically one where the cyan has faded, shifting the entire image toward a warmer, more nostalgic tone.

14x9 Acrylic on Canvas

I wanted to lean into the pointillist technique which I use with all of my paintings. Those tiny dots aren’t just a style; they’re the dust, the heat haze, the slow erosion of time. 

36x48 Acrylic on Canvas

Painted as a gift for my mother, but also as a challenge to create a painting in three parts, each of which can stand alone. I embraced a Japanese aesthetic — not in mimicry, but in spirit — letting simplicity carve space for silence, stillness.

11x14 Acrylic on Canvas

I am often attracted to painting birds. They live between worlds — earth and sky, motion and stillness, noise and silence