Old Meets New — Painting, Process, and Provenance
In this new phase of my work, I am bringing together two parallel histories: the immediacy of contemporary painting and the physical legacy of sculpture casting. The setting—an old factory showroom—becomes an essential part of the work itself, not simply a backdrop.
The paintings are expressionistic, built through gesture, compression, and revision. They aim to capture the energy of lived experience—urban density, movement, memory—distilled into form and color. While contemporary in execution, they are deeply rooted in classical principles: composition, mass, light, and the human impulse to construct meaning from chaos.
Alongside these works are foundry artifacts—crucibles, plaster casts, fragments, and sculptural remnants—objects that once served the act of transforming raw material into enduring form. These are not decorative elements; they are evidence of process. They carry the residue of heat, labor, and time.
The connection between the two is fundamental.
Both the paintings and the foundry objects emerge from a classical tradition: one through the discipline of image-making, the other through the discipline of form-making. But both are also shaped by transformation. In the foundry, material is melted, poured, and fixed. In the paintings, perception is broken down and rebuilt through gesture and mark. Each is an act of translation—from raw input into resolved form.
Placed together, they create a dialogue between permanence and immediacy. The crucibles and casts speak to endurance, to the long arc of making. The paintings, by contrast, remain alive in their surface—restless, unresolved, searching. Yet both are records of human intention under pressure: heat in the foundry, urgency in the hand.
The factory setting unifies this relationship. It situates the work within a continuum of production and creation, where art is not separate from labor, but born from it. The viewer is invited not only to look at finished works, but to experience the ecosystem of making—where process, artifact, and expression coexist.
To see more about this unique showing visit Lift Trucks Art
By appointment or open Fridays and Saturdays. 12-5. Through September 2026
Location: Lift Trucks Building 3 East Cross St Croton Falls, NY 10519
