Harvey Dinnerstein's New York

HARVEY DINNERSTEIN’S NEW YORK

HARVEY DINNERSTEIN’S NEW YORK

February 16 – March 16, 2018

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Since his childhood, when he first put pencil to paper, Brooklyn-born Harvey Dinnerstein has focused on capturing the world around him—his world—his landscape: New York City. While Dinnerstein’s formal art training began in the studio of Moses Soyer, and continued at the High School of Music and Art, the Art Students League, and the Tyler School of Art, his informal and perhaps more lasting training occurred riding the subway from Brownsville to Manhattan. The artist recalls how “the subway enabled me to travel from a provincial neighborhood in Brooklyn to art classes across the river on the island of Manhattan. I studied anatomy, drawing, painting in art school, but I also learned a great deal observing and sketching in the subway. The immediacy of a direct response to the human subject on a moving train forces one to develop powers of perception and memory.

The subway also revealed a view of the great diversity of life in the city that shaped my artistic vision over the years.”

While Dinnerstein’s work derives both stylistically and technically from a long history of realist painting in the United States and Europe, he has brought the traditions into the twenty-first century. His thirsty eyes respond to contemporary life, passages of time, and most importantly, our human connection.

detail

AT THE WINDOW 2016, oil on canvas, 64 ¾ x 54 ¾ inches

LEXINGTON AVENUE EXPRESS 2015, pastel on paper, 16 ½ x 9 5/8 inches

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS 2009, pastel on board, 16 ½ x 21 ½ inches

FLATBUSH EXPRESS 2004, oil on canvas, 54 ¾ x 29 ½ inches

NIGHT SHIFT 2005, oil on canvas, 81 x 33 inches

PIU YI 2013, pastel on board, 17 ž x 16 inches

OLD COUPLE 2015, pastel on paper, 7 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches

OSCAR AND OLIVIA 2013, pastel on board, 22 x 19 ¼ inches

UNDERGROUND DRUM BEAT 2014, oil on canvas, 46 x 60 inches

RESTORATION OF MEADOWPORT ARCH 1987, pastel on board, 15 x 24 ½ inches

BETHESDA 1998-2011, pastel on board, 39 x 58 ¼ inches

HOMELESS 1986, pastel on board, 17 x 28 ½ inches

RAINY EVENING, 7TH AVENUE 2013, pastel on board, 20 ¾ x 7 inches

AFTERNOON LIGHT, 8TH AVENUE 2013, pastel on board, 22 x 14 ¾ inches

AFTER THE RAIN 2010, oil on canvas, 45 x 36 inches

LIFE CYCLE 2008, oil on canvas, 41 ¾ x 71 ¾ inches

UNDERGROUND, WEST 57TH STREET 1989, oil on canvas, 71 x 26 inches

TRIUMPH OF TIME 1991, oil on canvas, 59 x 67 inches

PASSAGE IN WINTER 2009, oil on canvas, 45 x 56 inches

L & H, WINTER 2017, pastel on board, 38 x 24 ½ inches

SUNSET REFLECTIONS, FLATBUSH AVENUE 2013, pastel on board, 17 ¾ x 22 ½ inches

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