In February 2023 I installed 2 of the 3 City banners that were produced for the 2019 (25th Anniversary) edition of the Armory Art Show in my family home located near Detroit, Michigan.
My vintage photographs from the 1990's taken during the early years of the Gramercy Park Art Fair were used for the advertising campaign for the 2019 Armory Art Show. On the left is a photo of a John Armleder sculpture and on the right is a sculpture by Mark Dion.
November 2023 - I made a festive tree made from found objects including birdcages.
Red Marilyn 2023. archival pigment on canvas 36 x 36"
Rainbow Marilyn 2023. archival pigment on canvas 36 x 36"
Reinterpretation of Andy Warhol's 1963 Orange Car Crash 14 Times. My 2023 interpretation renders this masterpiece in deep turquoise with a repeat of the crash panel onto the adjacent empty panel of the original using two blacks.
Printing out a Marilyn on my inkjet printer in July 2023. This roll of prints was thrown in a Penske truck and driven to my family home in Michigan for display.
In August 2023 I installed this 10 x 10' vintage red velvet curtain that once hung at the entrance to the ground floor bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel during the Weissberg years (pre 2006). I hung an uncut roll of Marilyn prints from 2023 next to it on the porch of my family home.
Shuddering Leaf 2020 is a design inspired by a Sycamore (London Plane) leaf from the East River Park. The old park is being demolished and many mature trees have been destroyed.
Mixing centuries and continents, this mashup combines two masterpieces, Yellow Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh (Tate Gallery) and a Blue Jackie by Andy Warhol (Whitney) Created on New Year's Day 2022
Star Gum Tree February 13, 2020 . Taken on my block during the height of the COVID 19 global epidemic this silhouette of a bare star gum tree still laden with fruit is combined with a gradient in deep celestial hues.
Green Brody Vase solarized 2015. This small vase was found in a maid's closet during the first liquidation of the hotel in 2005.
The cut glass goblets of the Gramercy Park Hotel in a blue and yellow duotone. These glasses served multiple roles as red or white wine, or water glasses. 2015
Splintered Gramercy Park Hotel Goblet 2015
Port Wine Pair solarized 2016. These glasses were in use at the first floor bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel pre 2006
Martini glass still life 2015
Beer pitcher from the ground floor bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel acquired in 2005.
The 18th floor High Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel is where I found these square vases in 2005 that I later colored digitally 2015.
Art Deco Champagne set picked up in the Gramercy Park Hotel kitchen in 2005 and later colored in 2015. This became my business card for thecobaltroom.com named after an after hours club that operated on the first floor of the hotel named The Cobalt Club. It was only in operation for a few years and closed in late 2004.
Pair of Square Vases found at the High Bar in 2005. Colored in 2015
Hurricane Lamp 2015. Found In 2005 up in the High Bar located on the 18th floor of the hotel that was unenclosed at the time. A hurricane lamp might preserve some candlelight if things got gusty.
Trio of Vases 2015. Found in an area in 2005 that later became the Rose bar in 2006.
Cut crystal bowls by Arcoroc. This was the hotel's crystal pattern. I found these in the kitchen in 2005 in two sizes. Digitally colored in 2015
Leaf Embossed Patterned Vases picked up at the liquidation desk in 2005. Rainbow roll background added in 2015
Still life of Gramercy Goblets with hot pink background. 2014
Port Wine Glasses from the Gramercy Park Hotel in Green 20 x 30" 2015
Hershey's Colors 2018. A piece that I had printed and fabricated by White Walls. A Hershey's miniature candy wrapper found on the street was the inspiration.
Punic Wars/Brillo a mash up of two masters Warhol and Basquiat in manner only 2016
Dirty Dozen 2014. A composition of wild fonts with words that are spelled out numbers but each word is unrelated. Numero Uno is a chili recipe. The Final Four is a College Basketball championship. The Furious Five is the name of Grand Master Flash's band. The Dirty Dozen is a WWII movie and the Temporary Ten is just a made up name suggesting a fictitious sports team teetering on failure.
Multicolored Guitars 2014. A vibrant composition using my favorite instrument, the guitar.
I Adore Baltimore 2017 is a variation on the I Love New York campaign. My maternal ancestors are from Baltimore so the city will always have a special place in my heart. Done in Black Panther Colors this was made after riots hit Baltimore after Freddie Gray died while in police custody.
A drop out study using the font Helvetica Neue with a photo of a sunset over New Jersey taken from Manhattan showing through 2014
S-Bahn Berliner 1987. Acrylic on dropcloth. A tiny train ticket becomes a giant painting, 90" high.
Double Esso 1988 is a lush oil painted on Easter Sunday of that year. The double overlapped logo with a short word creates a buoyant stability with an operatic demeanor. This painting was included in a solo show I did at the Red Zone in 1989 and at a large group show called Love Among the Ruins at Howl Arts in 2017 that celebrated the run of 56 Bleecker Gallery in the east village.
Chez Felix 1987. Inspired by a napkin from a diner in East Berlin one can peer through to get a sense of the bleakness of divided Berlin. The wall came down in 1989. This painting was sold through Saatchiart.com in 2016.
Born 1990 oil and wax on linen. A collection of Cigar box labels with great compact names was the inspiration for this large painting. It was shown in a summer group show at the Vrej Baghoomian gallery in 1990
Hasslinger Crabs 1989 encaustic on canvas is once again inspired by my Baltimore ancestry. Crabbing is a big part of Baltimore so a napkin from this restaurant is the inspiration for this artwork made of hot drippiing wax. The wax was bouncing and splashing off the bottom easel support back up onto the canvas. The colors were inspired by Andy Warhol.
An Interpretation of Moderne Kunst by Sigmar Polke 2018. Breaking down the Sigmar Polke classic for digital revision piece by piece while retaining it's droll spirit.
Take Five 2015 inkjet on canvas. An early painted version of this was a sophomore college assignment for a color theory class at Washington University in St. Louis. My homework assignment became a work of art. I revisited this early work in 2015 and recreated it in a printed medium. One of my professors told me that I had a "style." This artwork was shown in 2015 at The Architecture of Tomorrow in Brooklyn.
Albers Pile Up 2018. The Albers classic Homage to the Square gets a shake up with repetition, overlaps and color shifts.
Jackson Pollock with Modern Embellishments 2019. A mash up of the exalted master's Lavender Mist with some crisp transparent geometric overlays.
A roll of uncut prints of photos taken on a series of walks to Times Square during the height of the COVID epidemic in 2020
A print of a photo in two variations of a billboard taken in Times Square during my COVID walks in 2020
The Gramercy Park Hotel just keeps on giving! During it's second liquidation in 2023 after everything was just about sold, they brought out these Peter Danko seatbelt chairs in red and put them out on the curb offering them for free. I took two and they said they had 4 more. I kept going back to take two at a time and later UPSed all 6 of them to my family home in Michigan for some TLC.