RIJKS MUSEUM, 2010, Oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

Artist Statement:

This body of work recreates memory (anamnesis simulacrum)by

visually reconstructing places known,visited and experienced by the artist.

The idea ofrecreating memory relies on the vital visual cerebral stain of a

location, while each landscape is painted in the artist's New York studio

by mentally recreating the experience.  The use of light, space, color and

atmosphere are each anamnesically recalled momentsin time.  This process

embodies far more studio invention rather than a plein air approach to

landscape painting. 

The artist is indebted to the seventeenth century

landscape painters, although his work is tempered by the modernist

developments of the twentieth century that presented a new approach

to the pictorial picture plane through abstraction, geometry, and color theory.

SYOSSET, 2010, Oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches

PRAGUE II, 2010, Oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches