Statement

Furniture

Paul began designing and fabricating furniture after graduating from Columbia University in 1989. He enjoyed the sculptural possibilites of welding and the malleability of metal. He began by creating simple tables with glass tops, book shelves and rudimentary chairs. He then began to experiment with fused glass, creating unique table tops and bases. Several of his pieces were featured in magazines such as New York Magazine, Esquire and House Beautiful and sold at Entree Libre in Soho. These unique designs were inspired by the work of Brancusi and Pierre Chareau. The beauty of these pieces is their lyricism, simplicity and homage to primitive scupture. As he honed his skills as a metal worker, he also fabricated for Architects, such as Bogdanow Partners Architects and Edward Ira Schachner. Paul continues to create a line of lamps, some of which can be found at The Golden Calf, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Paintings

In the past few years, Paul has renewed his interest in painting. Many of the paintings depict comic representations of worlds that are immersed within a structured chaos, where plumbing, roads, webs and explosions are but details of the components that make up larger systems. In the exploration of that detail, he exposes the fragility of the symbiotic relationships that exist between the bits and pieces needed to compose the whole. In a Rube Goldbergian engineered like universe, the pictures reveal to us beautiful complexities of our existence and at the same time tell us to remember the humor and silliness of knowing.

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