City Life - Open Streets

About the Work

Though the painting focuses on the sax player, I tried to capture the feeling of being in the street at night, the wind cutting through, the dark that is not darkness because it's Brooklyn and there are lights everywhere. I wanted to paint the darkness being twisted by the music, as if the air itself were at play. 

In addition to the original, giclée prints are available. Each print is printed on Hahnemuhle paper with pigment ink and is signed and numbered by the artist.

About the Artist

Michael James Freedman is a Gowanus-based artist whose expressive, vibrant paintings focus on music, family, politics, and beagles. A lifelong artist, who has shown off and on for 30 years, Freedman has recently returned to his art practice, with a new emphasis on capturing the zeitgeist of the times.