Tag Archives: abstract

Childhood Impression

When I was a teenager, I had a framed poster of Claude Monet’s, “House of Parliament at Sunset” on my wall.

This chalk drawing in McGolrick Park reminded me of that image.

It brought me back to when I confused Impressionistic  sunlight for fire.

Gray Field

I just can’t seem to escape these abstract minimalist paintings from my childhood appearing on all the walls around me, like here on Apollo Street, Greenpoint.

Four Dimensional Cage

From Bayard Street.

Sidewalk Chalked Trees

Sidewalk Chalk on trees is kind of an interesting take on the medium. That stuff doesn’t harm trees unless it’s repeated.  I don’t think that I would want drawing on trees with anything to catch on, but still, it was amusing when I saw these in McGolrick Park yesterday morning.

Rust Mountains

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From the outside top of a garage on Kingsland Avenue, Greenpoint, BK.

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Crop things and get close and you see naturally occuring patterns made from interactions with nature and man-made objects.  This is what I look for.

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Ruffled Pages

The only time a printed phone book serves any purpose these days, is when it’s laying on the sidewalk, weathered, twisted and beautiful in an abstract, texturey way.  That’s what I think at least. Remember this one? How about this beauty?

From Meserole Street, Greenpoint.

Alternate Tar Universe

I’ve always loved the tar covered rooftops in Brooklyn and how they make abstract forms and textures if appreciated at the right scale.

These pictures I took on my own roof in Greenpoint sometimes look like giant mountain views and other times like the skin of an elephant.

These images look better bigger, so click on individual shots to see them in all their majestic beauty!

Flaky Bricks And Blue Colorfields

More flaky bricks, just the way I like ‘em.

From the ghetto end of Grand Street in Brooklyn that is hard to get to via car.

And a little abstract minimalism as the cherry on top.

The city is a giant museum if you so choose it to be. Rothko lives.

25 Of My Favorite Urban Abstractions of 2011

I’m always looking for interesting abstract images created from every day life in this fine city of New York. Here are 25 of my favorite ones that I took in 2011. The picture above is just rain-soaked newspaper fround on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Spilled and dried latex paint from a Brooklyn sidewalk.

Eagle Street, Greenpoint landscape.

Ikea parking lot, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The Laboratory.

Sidewalk on the Lower East Side.

McGolrick Park lit up while filming for Boardwalk Empire.

Weathered advertising on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

From under the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Building exterior close-up in London, England.

Rooftop gardening junk.

A wall on East 60th Street, Manhattan.

From Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The ole Q60 buses that shuttle people across the Queensboro Bridge.

South Williamsburg street pattern.

Rectangular stones on a beach in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Cardboard on Manhattan Avenue.

An aged sign on Clay Street, Greenpoint.

A door on Devoe Street, Brooklyn.

A beautiful wall on Oak Street, Greenpoint.

Unintended assemblage art created with utilitarian interests in Red Hook.

Fire escape shadows on Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint.

Construction debris on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg.

From a facade being restored in Union Square, New York.

A partly cloudy reflection on the Gotham building on Queens Plaza.

Holy Tactile In Queens

Out in the Queens boondocks.. fun textures abound!!