Les magnolias
Eyes Open
Miami lifeguard II
My dealer sold the first version of this painting, it was the announcement card for my exhibition and was sold a week before the show opened. The first version didn’t have the female figure bending over and spreading her towel in the sand. My dealer said he had another client who wanted the painting and […]
Hearts on the beach
I came from a country where as a child I felt that the summer just began and then it ended. But when I moved to the USA, I discovered the 4th of July. Coming two weeks after mid- summer’s night, it’s a splendid way to celebrate the start of summer, it’s a holiday for all […]
Torn up highways
“The future for me is already a thing of the past.” —Bob Dylan
Dead end
Before going home after a night of clubbing, I was standing in the men’s room and reading the graffiti, when one piece jumped out at me, it read “Just f*ck me and let me get on with my career.” Definitely a side of New York.
Thief
Chinatown
When I lived on Mulberry Street, one heard Italian spoken north of Canal Street and Mandarin south of Canal Street. Today Little Italy has become increasingly fake, gentrified and plastic. But Chinatown has resisted gentrification and it’s still a community, a rare phenomenon in Manhattan. At the end of Mulberry Street is Columbus Park where […]
Christmas eve
Coat check girl
Finally it’s winter in NY and thus the emergence of the coat checker.
