During the odd and challenging time New York City was on covid lockdown and our theaters (and everything else) was closed, I revisited paintings I had been working on over twenty years ago. I never consciously decided to stop painting; it’s just something that happened while I was founding a theatre company, directing the theater division of an an arts school and teaching university level students classes in acting and directing. I ran out of time and closed down my studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in order to concentrate on my work in the theater.

 A number of my paintings were left unfinished, or existed as sketches prior to being developed as the larger scale works I’ve usually favored. I had the good fortune to still be working during the lockdown, writing and editing full time with a colleague and producer on his autobiography. Still it felt like I had an enormous amount of time and energy; I was not directing plays, and there was no social life to speak of. So I resumed painting. Visual art has always been very important to me and has informed much of what I consider my directing style, yet I came to realize many people I’ve worked with over the years had no idea that my original focus when I came to New York was painting and I felt the urge to share that part of what I do. In that spirit, here is some of my early work, with new pieces coming soon.