Welcome
Bernard Greenwald is a long time resident of the Hudson Valley. A colorist, he works from the landscape and also makes figural paintings which sometimes refer to Old Testament motifs.
The paintings are executed on heavily primed birch panels with acrylic paint. The landscapes are drawn on site, color being added subsequently in the studio. The primary concern in each work is the expressiveness of color, and how color can be used to make light.
Landscape Paintings
Landscape paintings are begun on site, color added in the studio. They explore the relationship between the mass of the land, and the sky above it; and how light passes through, revealing form, by the juxtaposition of color. They show how one experiences the landscape from inside it, especially driving through in an automobile as we mostly do in contemporary life, instead of simply viewing it as one might through a camera lens.
view small landscape paintings
view large landscape paintings
Bathsheba Series
The Bathsheba images were begun when Greenwald was living in Arad, Israel some years ago. He could look down on the roofs of the houses in the town and imagined what it might have been like for King David to look down on Bathsheba bathing from his palace. The series evolved into an exploration of voyeurism and erotic titillation from Greenwald’s own adolescence.
Port Chester M.T.A. Commission
In 2010, Enrico Scull, close friend of the artist, suggested he enter a Metropolitan Transit Association competition to produce decorative glass panels for the soon to be renovated Metro North Station in Port Chester, New York. Four finalists were chosen from approximately 400 entrants to tour Port Chester and make samples as final proposals.
Greenwald was chosen to do 40 paintings of various Port Chester sites which would be silk screened and sandwiched between glass panels, by Depp Glass Fabricators in Long Island City, New York. He visited Port Chester numerous times during the winter, spring and summer of 2011, exploring the town and drawing various locations. Installation of the panels as clerestory windows, is slated for the summer of 2011.
View photos of the installation.