In nearly every city in the world, and in New York especially, the fashion for modern (modernist) consumer goods, the trappings of our lives as found in the furnishings of the home, has supplanted the traditional and the antique. The point with the images you see here is to show you something of my incipient critical study that focuses on, and plays with, the tenets of modernism and some of the origins of its forms. This has been one of my concerns both in my representational works, like those you see here, and in my abstract-figurative work, as well.

The first works seen here are part of an intended series based on a whimsical character I call Mr Modern. Mr Modern's skinny countenance is based on that of Le Corbusier with his round horn rimmed glasses. Phillip Johnson was an acolyte and copied Le Corb's personal style. Mr Modern presents a modern faucet to the world as his iconographic contribution to the WohnStil, the modern style of living!

Graphite and oil on 140 lb. Arches paper, varying sizes averaging 18" x 22" (45cm x 55cm), 2006