Monumentalrancis Livingston has always created

lush, expressionistic colorfields outof New Yorkk rich architectural

structures, but now he has turned his

attention away from the everyday buildingsand is concentrating on the landmarksthat New York is known for.

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"I'm doing a few more of the iconicimagery," says Livingston. "I stayed

away from that in the past, but now I'mpainting things like the Flatiron Building,the Queensborough Bridge, the ChryslerBuilding. People reallv seem ro gravirare

toward them. These are really wonderful

things, the design is wonderful and there

is a reason they are so famous. Thisgroup of paintings just puts my take on

those buildings."Livingston is also finding that much

of the time, the heroic views that manyof these buildings are known for are

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gone or have been blocked by signage,

storefronts or more modern structures."You can't see them anymore,"

says Livingston. "Standing next to the

Queensborough Bridge, trams, signage

and buildings are now in the way andyou cant get the same views you used toget. \7hat I like to do is a mixture of theold and the new, looking from Queensback to Manhattan, but the view, withthe buildings in the background, is notwhat it looks like right now."

Livingston wants to emphasize thatwhile he edits the scene and makes theviews as comprehensive as possible,these aren't just paintings based on oldphotographs.

"I just want to show less clutter,Iess of the blight of moderniry" says

Livingston. 'All of these structures are

Iarger than life, and I want to show that.They are just so in your face with thedesign of them."

Livingston also takes liberties withcolor to make sure the structures have

the look he is after."If something has a certain general

color field, I dont necessarily followthat," says Livingston. "Color is rootedin how a certain amount of light mighteffect the color. Itt a fine line and ifyou take it too far it becomes unreal,cartoony or weird. I experiment withcolor and light patterns, but I'm stilla realist." o

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The Ga\lery Says . . .

"Francis brings a new and

unique perspective to

Iandscape painting in that

he makes the ordinary

extraordinary. Whether

itt through the heroic

perspectives he depicts in

his urban Iandscapes or his

unusual and vibrant palette,

Francis Ioads up his brush with

atypical collections of colors

and puts them all down at

once with the swipe ofhis brush.'

- Steue Diamant, Owner2006

2008

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