Watch your step in NYC! There can be drip paintings
Browsing streets of New York I often notice amazing paintings under my feet. A lot of them can be found in Brooklyn (Greenpoint, East Williamsburg, etc) but you can observe the same artworks in Manhattan (Lower East Side, Chelsey, Soho, etc), too. Some of them are signed and some of them are not. But you will definitely recognize the style.
The name of the artist is Paul Richard. He says: “The largest audience is on the sidewalk not in galleries.”
“On the day of our interview, Paul came down from his studio to meet me in front of the building with his dog, an old, black-and-white pit bull, which happens to be a regular subject of his paintings, and he was dressed up in a black suit wearing a hat… definitely, not what I was expecting.
What followed was not any less surprising… I learned Paul is shy — go figure! He is generous — he did a drip painting of me! He is supremely talented — he completed his drip painting of me in virtually one continuous pour within about five minutes flat! He also does highly intricate oil portraits, some of which take up an entire apartment wall and which are in high demand even among high society. He recently finished a portrait of a Surrogate Court judge that is hanging in the courthouse!”
NYC is a city where you usually look up but sometimes you can look down and discover gems on the ground. Thanks to Paul and other street artists it’s a huge gallery that’s ever changing.
