New York was the second city in the Twenty-Four series, following San Francisco in 2012. The process was the same: spend a month in the city, document twenty-four locations across the five boroughs — each filmed in a one-hour window at its assigned time of day — then select those twenty-four for video projection and twelve to paint. At each site, found objects were collected and displayed alongside each painting: Korean cigarette boxes in Flushing, jewelry in the East Village, drug baggies near the Bowery Mission, baby pacifiers in Williamsburg. Each show was a continuation of the one that came before it. For New York, I built an installation around one of the paintings in the gallery — a recreation of a magazine stand from a bodega in Jamaica, Queens, constructed as an elaborate frame for the work. The show opened at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, June 29, 2013. Output: twelve paintings, twenty-four hours of simultaneous video, photographs, and found material from each location.
Twenty-four hours, twenty-four locations, twenty-four videos, each documenting a different piece of New York. In the life of a city these seconds, minutes and hours weave together the sights, sounds and activity that form the seen and unseen New York.
