Mitchell Funk

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: 2nd Avenue Highrise

2007

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: United Nations. The present work is part of an exhibition that spans 51 year and is epic in its scope and inventiveness. The work is ...

Funk's highly stylized composition exaggerates the one-point perspective of the Manhattan street grid. It pushes the viewer's eye towards the horizon, where one's focus is on the flo...

Wherever you look, you see the Chrysler Building. In 1980, it was easier to see it because there was less clutter in the Manhattan skyline. From the Observation Deck of 30 Rockefel...

Warm late afternoon light illuminates a view of Mid-Town Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights. The supertalls of New York are lined up like soldiers at attention and are framed by the glo...

"Chelsea Skyline with Empire State Building" Urban Photography by Allen Singer Archival pigment print on museum fine art paper Edition of 7 Includes certificate of authenticity. Si...

Full Moon, Chrysler Building, New York City, 2012 by Roberta Fineberg is a 24" x 18" signed archival pigment print in an edition of 5 and 2 artist proofs (a/p I, a/p II). The contemporary color landscape photograph was shot on 42nd St and captures the art-deco Chrysler Building -- one of New York City's beloved buildings -- beneath a full moon. Available: 2/5 Provenance: RF Studio *** Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City. In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...

"NYC is undergoing a major energetic shift in many ways, how well it transfoms depends also on how we ourselves shift. I myself always focus on the beauty and positivity of things. T...

Jayson Lilley Chrysler Building Limited Edition Architecture Print Screen Print on Archival museum Board Edition of 12 Size: H 80cm x W 60cm Sold Framed (Please note that in situ im...