CURVE Print

"CURVE" is one in my "Underground" series of NYC subway images, done in a non-traditional watercolor technique on archival 100% cotton rag. I love the city, but wanted to paint something more unusual than urban landscapes of buildings and bridges. Then I realized: What could be more New York than the subway? This is the Union Square 456 subway platform, one of only two curved platforms in the city. In the Underground series I try to simplify complex human and station architecture into ragged shapes of light and dark, illuminated by the fractured light of speeding trains. The series explores the rushed, off-balance feeling evoked by traveling in a confined subterranean space -- simultaneously mundane yet vaguely menacing.