80 Greene Street

When I think about the conventions of painting - a tradition I respect immensely - I notice that my concern has always been with the interplay of light and structure. Light, since it defines everything, is what my work is about. How light changes things, how it inflects the surfaces of places we imagine for ourselves and inhabit, like sunlight touching a window sill, illuminating and creating contrasts and shadows.
-Stephen Magsig

Working with images he personally photographs, Magsig looks for crucial details in both the highlights and the shadows, in the brightness and obscurity of each scene. New Yorkers will recognize many of the scenes Magsig paints, yet the universal appeal is the atmosphere and mood which attracts those for whom the images hold no personal significance.
-Catalog excerpt