Industrial Scenes

Heavy industry shaped many parts of New York City and still remains important to the health of the city.
Without many of these plants and facilities buildings wouldn't get built, materials shipped
and machinery serviced.  The forms created industrial plants and processes  are unique and powerful.
They speak to the spectacular accomplishments humans can achieve. That much
of what I paint is derelict speaks to other aspects of our civilization.
Cement Plant,  oil on canvas 18" x 24"
Gowanus Bridge,  oil on canvas 16" x 12"

Skyway, Canal, oil on canvas 18" x 24" 
  Union Street Bridge,                   oil on canvas 12" x 16"
Who knew that a sea level canal 
runs to the heart of Brooklyn?
  

The Gowanus Canal present dozens of fantastic views.  
Until recently it was an extraordinarily polluted location--    However, serious efforts have begun to clean it up...

Gowanus Silos,                           oil on canvas 12" x 16"
Long Island City, Queens is home to cranes
  and all sorts of warehouses.


Cement plant's rusting steel tower
 Cement Tower,  oil on canvas 20" x 10"

Steel Tower,  oil on canvas 20" x 10"
Greenpoint Plant,          oil on canvas 12" x 12"

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