1980s LANDSCAPES

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     Below are just a few from what I referred to as Imaginary Landscape or Semi-Classical Sketch Page. They are from throughout the 1980s.

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     There are well over fifty of these landscapes.

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     At the time I was actively showing in The East Village and living at 217 Bowery between Rivington and Stanton.

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     I was working as both a mover and a cab driver, raising a very young son, painting and staying away from the clubs and coke that defined that period.

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     My studio doubled as a playhouse for my son while the street below functioned as an open air latrine and asylum.

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    The sort of free form, paradoxical stream of consciousness in these paintings, fit well with that place and at that the time. 

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