If you’ve been to the Space Needle or the Seattle Music Experience in, yes, Seattle, these images might look familiar.  Standing adjacent to the SME acting as a visual barrier is a long line of colorful steel panels reaching to the sky.  I couldn’t resist.  Here are a couple iterations of my vision.  Hope you enjoy too.

Here’s an assortment of buildings, tanks, garages and what not that I’ve found interesting and attractive during my travels near and far.

In the old Tampa Museum of Art, there hung this one spectacular photographic still life.  Can’t even tell you now who the artist was or really anything about the image other than it was a beautifully composed and executed arrangement of flowers in a bowl.  But it struck me in its simple and absolute elegance and genius.  I admired it for a long while, allowing feelings of calm and delight to consume me.

So I decided to present my own series of floral still lifes, which you see here.  I wanted to continue my signature of big, bold colorful images, but also sought to capture a warm and inviting feeling that fresh, aromatic flowers bring to a room and to your spirit.  Hopefully, they make you feel as good as they did me.

Put yourself in these lovely venues.  Enjoy the vision of people dining, talking, relaxing.  These cafes and settings are representations of various sites around Orlando and Sarasota, Florida and Philadelphia, PA.  Enjoy.

So, I’m having dinner earlier this year with an inspirational friend who is an art historian and religious scholar and somehow we happened upon the topic of the Exodus – you know, Moses leading the Israelites to freedom from bondage in Egypt. Probably had something to do with her passionate interest in Jewish art. It was a spirited and enlightening conversation. So, then I show her some of my more recent artworks and these images, which I had originally titled “tire tracks on the beach” – imaginative wouldn’t you say? – impressed her the most; to the point of requesting that she present them to her art history class as an example of contemporary Jewish art.

More importantly, as we talked about my life around the time I created these images, the metaphor of liberation kept presenting itself and it then became clearly apparent that these images have come to represent my own personal exodus into a new, different and hopefully more fulfilling life. Hence the new vision for these images and the new titles. Hope you enjoy.

Princeton, NJ is a beautiful town and one day several years ago I’m driving around and happen upon this enormous and fabulous nursery with what seemed like thousands of planter pots stacked everywhere. So, I did a quick U turn and pulled in. It was pot heaven… I sought out the owner and requested permission to photograph the pots. “Sure,” he said, “have at it.” So I did. These images are some of the wonderful results from that feast of color and form.

These are some of my favorite pieces given their bold and dynamic colors and forms. I was flattered to learn that others felt similarly as the jurists at the Art Festival Temple Beth-El in St. Petersburg, FL presented me with an Award of Merit in 2008. And now it’s your turn to enjoy…

There’s this building in Asheville, NC.  It’s the Jackson Building and it’s a wonderful Neo-Gothic style skyscraper–the first in western North Carolina–in the heart of historic Pack Square.  Commissioned by L. B. Jackson in the 1920’s to promote his faith in the continued strength of the local real estate market, the building is fitted with a searchlight to draw tourists to the city and has been a significant landmark since its completion. 

It was a joy to photograph this wonderful structure and then I had a blast creating this portfolio of my interpretations.  Hope you enjoy too.