This work was in part inspired by the state of mind I was when for a little while I lived on Lower East Side in New York in the mid-1990s. The inner state I was in at the time came back at a later phase in my life, 25 years later, and reminded me of that time. For the rest, I used the same iconography and abstraction I have been using in my most recent works. I love using bright, saturated and luminous colors: reds, yellows, blues, aqua, teal and orange. At the same time, I try to keep my palette and use of colors subtle by varying their use through abstract shapes and forms employed in the work. I usually start the painting with recognizable, often figurative underpainting, and as i work in layers, with each new layer the paintings grow increasingly complex, layered and more abstract. I often think of my artwork as research into how art relates to science, music and language. Materials: Golden acrylic paints on gesso-primed, superior-quality, double-weave Belgian linen.
