Stand Gallery, 2024
Left: Curtain #1 (based on my QRC that leads to petition to get a bike/pedestrian path on the Verrazzano Bridge), right: New Sun #4

I made a series of paintings of strange suns to go with our strange seasons, and created a setting in which I do interviews with locals who are working to get a bike/pedestrian path on the Verrazzano Bridge. I posted the interviews on Instagram.

New Sun #4, New Sun #7
2024
Oil and watermedia on linen
8" x 8"
New Sun #4
2024
oil and watermedia on linen
8" x 8"

The stripes in my paintings are rooted in Danish "almue striber," which translates in English to "stripes of the common/poor people."

New Sun #7
2024
oil and watermedia on linen
8" x 8"
Left: New Sun #4, right: New Sun #1. Table Linen.
2024
oil and watermedia on linen; archival inkjet print
8" x 8," 12" x 12," 20"x20"

The Table Linen is a close-up photograph of New Sun #4

New Sun #1
2024
oil and watermedia on linen
12" x 12"
New Sun #7, New Sun #5 (and flowing Curtain #2).
2024
oil and watermedia on linen
8" x 8"
New Sun #7
2024
oil and waternedia on linen
8" x 8"
New Sun #5
2024
oil and watermedia on linen
8" x 8"
Curtain #2, New Sun #2, New Sun #3, Curtain #3
2024

Curtain #2-3 are close up photographs of Curtain #1, printed on fabric

New Sun #2
2024
oil and watemedia on linen
12" x 12"
New Sun #3
2024
oil and watermedia on linen
12" x 12"
Curtain #3
2024

Curtain is a close-up photograph of Curtain #1, printed on fabric

As part of the exhibition, I conducted a series of interviews on the Verrazzano Bridge, posted on Instagram, and Anthony sent me photo files that I printed - from his walking on the bridge for its 25th anniversary. 2024 is the 60th anniversary for the Verrazzano but officials did not open it up to the public.

Anthony's photo on my Table Linen - that is a close-up photographs of New Sun #5

I hung my petition outside Stand Gallery - it features the QRC on which my pattern for the curtains inside is based.

Gallery visitors signing petition - I have documented some of the signers and the hashtag on Instagram is #walkrunbiketheverrazzano