Crossed steel beams of the underbelly of the raised highway are a layered pattern of trapezoids.
Divisions between light and shadow and between strands of beams and poles abstract the depth of the space even as the angles maintain a sense of the real spatial relationships/relationships in space.
The underside of the highway continues straight ahead into the distance with the sky on either side.
Painted from the perspective of sitting on railroad tracks that run along a raised area. There is a sunlit and closed-off backyard of a warehouse or some kind of manufacturing in the building below. At the lower right is a dark area with an indiscernible view inside one of the buildings. In front of that is a wall, all of it under the shadow of the highway.
Propped up against the base of the steel beams some distance away are green plastic lawn chairs. They sit in the sunlit area where the weight of the highway and our closest point of view are balanced. They are little characters and serene/tranquil/beautifully isolated. They have a quirky, slightly off-balance posture, which moves out and up at an angle as if in unison with the beams above.
Meeting Point Between Long Island Expressway and Old Train Tracks, Long Island City Queens
September 2022 in Fall
11 x 9.25 x 1 in. (frame), 7 x 5.375 in. (artwork)
oil colors, acrylic, paper, fiberboard, museum board, veneer plywood, epoxy, polyurethane
Frames are hand-fabricated by the artist
Series 4
David Eli Tompkins
Crossed steel beams of the underbelly of the raised highway are a layered pattern of trapezoids.
Divisions between light and shadow and between strands of beams and poles abstract the depth of the space even as the angles maintain a sense of the real spatial relationships/relationships in space.
The underside of the highway continues straight ahead into the distance with the sky on either side.
Painted from the perspective of sitting on railroad tracks that run along a raised area. There is a sunlit and closed-off backyard of a warehouse or some kind of manufacturing in the building below. At the lower right is a dark area with an indiscernible view inside one of the buildings. In front of that is a wall, all of it under the shadow of the highway.
Propped up against the base of the steel beams some distance away are green plastic lawn chairs. They sit in the sunlit area where the weight of the highway and our closest point of view are balanced. They are little characters and serene/tranquil/beautifully isolated. They have a quirky, slightly off-balance posture, which moves out and up at an angle as if in unison with the beams above.
Meeting Point Between Long Island Expressway and Old Train Tracks, Long Island City Queens
September 2022 in Fall
11 x 9.25 x 1 in. (frame), 7 x 5.375 in. (artwork)
oil colors, acrylic, paper, fiberboard, museum board, veneer plywood, epoxy, polyurethane
Frames are hand-fabricated by the artist
Series 4
David Eli Tompkins
