NYC: Looking up

---

Above are 12 examples from my "New York City: looking up" series of over forty paintings, which began in 1999 with photographs. The paintings were derived from both the photographs and` life from 2003-2005. The top 9 images are painted in oil on canvas or wooden panels in sizes ranging from 36"x48" to 48"x24" to 10"x8" and many other dimensions in between. The paintings above are, from top left to bottom right in oil on canvas: 34th St. and Park Ave. (36"x18"), 13th St. and 5th Ave. (36" x 18"), Empire State Building (48"x24"), 37th St. between 5th and 6th Ave. (24"x18"), Rockefeller Center (36"x18"), 5th Avenue (36"x18"), and World Trade Center (36"x18"), WTC from E (24"x24"), WTC from W (24"x24"), and Mott and Houston (24"x24"). Three are done in oil paint on wooden panel and from left to right are Columbus Circle (10"x8"), NoHo Bway near NYU (10"x8"), Lower East Side (12"x10").

This series of over 40 paintings took shape when I began to really look at New York City and to photograph my favorite buildings. I love this city in so many ways and want to share its beauty and intensity. This series of images is about the way buildings communicate with one another and the sky. It is as if the buildings are archetypal monuments to humanity and our diversity. Aligned with the island and light above, surrounded by water and built on the parent rock material below. These images capture the beauty of the city, looking up. These paintings are in a variety of collections within the US. Some of them are available for acquisition. Please contact me if you would like to exhibit them, purchase one or more from this series, or if you would like to commission a new painting!

Email me at jen@jenseron.com to purchase or commission your own Looking Up canvas!