Places | David Sommers

• Another of Tony Soprano's Hangouts

  Oil, Panel, 18 x 24 x 1. Where deals were made etc.

• View from Avalon, NJ

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36 x 1. A view looking north toward Wildwood.

• Living in the Subway while the Bombs go off In Kiiv, Ukraine

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36 x 1. The people of Kiiv set up living spaces in the subways of Kiiv during the Russian attacks, February 2022.

• My Refrigerator

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36 x 1. Based on a series of photos of inside our refrigerator.

• Ray's Pizza

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20 x 1. Ray's Pizza on Columbus Avenue in New York. A favorite place for an authentic New York slice and salad.

• Iovine's Produce - Reading Market, Philadelphia, PA

  Oil, Canvas, 22 x 38 x 1. Reading Market in Philadelphia is a cornucopia of everything and no one place inside illustrates this more so than Iovine's produce. The colors, shapes and lights are simply dazzling.

• Florida Avenue Grill

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 30 x 1. A landmark eating spot in Washington, DC. See this for more info: http://www.floridaavenuegrill.com/

• Shoeshine Stand in Union Station, Washington, DC

  Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36 x 1. What I was trying to show in this picture is a reversal wherein White men are shining the shoes of Black men while a semi-disinterested onlooker listens to his iPod. This reflects my intense di…

• Edward Hopper's Studio on Cape Cod

  Oil, Panel, 18 x 24 x 1. The house/studio where Edward Hopper painted in Provincetown, Cape Cod.

• Andrew Wyeth's Studio - Chadds Ford, PA

  Oil, Panel, 18 x 24 x 1. The studio where Andrew Wyeth painted - at his home in Chadds Ford, PA.

• Stone Harbor Point

  Acrylic, Canvas, 30 x 40 x 1. A nature preserve in Stone harbor Point, NJ. The grassy dunes on either side of the sand path were almost like inclined walls.

• Yonah Schimmel's Knishery, New York, NY

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12 x 1. From Wikipedia - Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery is a bakery and restaurant, located at 137 East Houston Street (between First Avenue and Second Avenue), in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, that has…

• Rothko Meditation

  Oil, Panel, 18 x 24 x 1. The Mark Rothko room in East Building of National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. As Rothko stated - "we favor the simple expression of a complex thought"