2008 Desiron Show
2006 Craft Installation2002 ArchiveVisionCVContact| Last
Spring I got a call out of the blue from Peter Bentel, the architect
for all of Tom Colicchio's Craft Restaurants about a painting
commission. I ended up with a commission for two large works - a 28
foot by 6 foot painting that would wrap around the entry way of Craft
Dallas and a 6 by 6 foot painting for the private dining room in
Craftsteak here in New York. They needed both works before summer 2006 openings, I had not been painting much in the past few years and had never painted at that scale so it was challenge for me. I am very proud how the works turned out and wanted to show them off. Below is a photo from a series of seascapes by Hiroshi Sugimoto that inspired this series, some older works of mine, a few studies and the work being installed in Dallas. |
| THANKS I am grateful to Peter Bentel at Bentel and Benetel Architects and Tom Colicchio of Craft for having faith in my work and for Katie Grieco for suggesting they consider me. Thanks to my fellow Radical Fairy Howard Nemo Des Chenes for helping me get it all done in two months. Thanks to Artemis Fine Arts for hanging the work in Dallas and Jeffrey William for hanging the works in New York. Ruth Ro was a life saver by letting me share her studio on Little West 12th Street. And I am honored to have my work in the same space as Stephen Hannock who has a painting of the High Line in the main dining room of CraftSteak. Thanks to Matthew Kelleher for his web development. |
2008 Desiron Show
2006 Craft Installation2002 ArchiveVisionCVContact