1996 Summer Sketchbook: Central Park NYC

1996 TV Drawings: Valley Of The Dolls

1996: Here And There...

One of the Lucky Cheng's drag queens at the bar at 7A. Putting their faces on before they walk across the street for their dinner shifts. East Village. NYC. 1996.

Acrylic Side Study During A Painting On Canvas. 1996.

Pinball at 7A. East Village. NYC. 1996.

The Cloisters. Uptown.... Way uptown. NYC. 1996.

More from the 1996 Sketchbooks

TV Drawing: Watching "A Hard Day's Night". 1996.

Mom and Dad's deck. 1996.

Study from old photos (see collage pages) for a painting. 1996.

Monochrome bathers study. 1996.

Bathers. From old photo (see collages) 1996.

Visiting grandparents on Staten Island. 1996.

Visiting grandparents on Staten Island. 1996.

From a Mid-1996 Sketchbook: Noisemakers

1996 Sketchbook Collages

Mid- 1996 Sketchbook Pages

More From Early 1996

Early 1996

At home... notes to self. Tacked up. 1996.

Study for a painting. 1996.

Studies for a small painting based on a small photo Malika gave me of herself as a child.

This was never fully realized, yet somehow doesn't need to be.

At home. 1996.

At home. 1996.

Pop.... one of many visits to the grandparents on Staten Island.

Study for a series of mixed media pieces using vintage imagery and aged colorization.

Work-ups for one of my first (and certainly not last) kaleidescopic NYC pieces.

The Fugliest Stripmall Sign In New Jersey

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I like stripmall decor with 1970s damage. Something from the decade of Pet Rocks, feathered roach clips and 8-tracks. Hilariously enduring amid all the other Post-Millenial, slick and Starbuck-ed Cookie Cutter Corporate signage around it. Hamilton Township, NJ. 30 June 2007.