THE SUITCASE Print

Painting: Watercolor, Gouache on Archival Paper. "THE SUITCASE" is one in my "Underground" series of NYC subway images, done in a non-traditional technique in watercolor, 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? Two men, perhaps salesmen lugging sample cases up the stairs. Who are they? Where are they going? 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.