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Central Park is New York's largest urban park and one of the biggest in the world with 843 acres. It's the lungs of this great city. Vast and beautifully designed, a kind of poetic and philosophical view of the relationships between urban/rural and person/nature/architecture.

As a painter and resident of New York City for over 10 years, I love painting Central Park, to see the contrast of the green lawns, lakes, treetops and skyscrapers above. Then add the people, time, magnificent seasons and it becomes an evolving work of art.”

Driven by her desire to evoke her experience of the city, Layla Fanucci achieves remarkable harmony in these resonant works. A musician before becoming a painter, Fanucci captures the rhythm of the great metropolis, the lyrical splendor of the skies, and the cacophony of it’s streets. Looking at these scenes one understands why people return time after time to these places, like musical phrases we never tire of hearing, always finding something new in them.

In Fanucci's dream-like paintings the relationship of buildings, massed like blocks, transmit the grandeur and intensity of the urban environment, framing the crowds that swarm below them, dense, deeply felt, intriguing and masterfully painted, her cityscapes draw us in because of the passion with which they were created.

Layla Fanucci (2022)