Silvercup Studios, Long Island City, Brooklyn, NY

My first sighting of the Silvercup Studios sign was from Queensboro Bridge, aka the 59th Street Bridge (you must be in the terrifying far right lane to see it). I fell in love with it immediately and knew this would be my first painting of New York. To get the angle that I wanted I had to climb the Studios’ parking lot fence and shoot the sign whilst hanging on to the flimsy wire. The colors are an homage to Warhol’s red, white and grey Campbell’s Soup cans, and to the sign itself.

This painting stands in dramatic contrast to the sun-bleached palette of my Los Angeles paintings – a reflection of the high octane vs. chilled out energies emanating from these two great cities.