“Including the Manhattan Bridge (a cliché) catalyzed an iconoclastic impulse, that I have, to remove details and replace them with color.
Other than a leaning street sign, and the World Trade Center as it blends with the sky, nothing else is recognizable. A shrunken space with a picture book effect.”

View Toward DUMBO from Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn New York
08.2025 (frame), 01.2022 (artwork)
11 x 9.25 x 1 in. (frame), 4.5 × 6.25 in. (artwork)
oil colors, acrylic, paper, fiberboard, museum board, veneer plywood, epoxy, polyurethane

Frames are hand-fabricated by the artist

Series 5
David Eli Tompkins