Measuring six by eight feet, this canvas was one of the two larger pieces in progress in the studio in September of 2001. It was begun sometime in late 2000 and finished in 2002, only to be reworked on the eve of the first solo show with the Durst organization in October 2003.
As a result [...]
“The Garden Gate” was painted over several months in 1999. A large painting, at eight by ten feet, it was first hung in the lobby of the Sumitomo Corporation of America building at 600 3rd Avenue in New York. It was subsequently shown by the Durst Organization, where it hung on the massive west wall [...]
“After Giovanni Bellini” was begun in 1996 as an experiment investigating harmonic proportion through an exact scale copy of a Renaissance painting. I chose Giovanni Bellini’s “The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr” from the National Gallery in London for my study.
Although the evidence of a systematic application of the Golden Section is everywhere in this [...]