About This Painting -
Dizzy's, The Finer Diner of Park Slope, Brooklyn

I was very saddened recently to hear that one of my personal favorite Brooklyn restaurants, Dizzy’s, had closed due to the economic impact of COVID-19. When I was living in Park Slope, it had served as the physical embodiment of comfort - a place to go for a delicious relaxing brunch on the weekend, meet a friend for lunch, or unwind over dinner at the end of a work day with my wife, the diner’s entrance just a few steps away from the subway stairs.

While the reasons for closing are completely understandable, it is also somehow unthinkable that this neighborhood touchstone will no longer be there. Years after a growing family prompted our move out to NJ, I still loved driving into Brooklyn with the family on a weekend to meet friends and share some laughs over brunch. I always knew it was there waiting with open arms.

I am usually very happy to sell a painting and move on to the next piece without too much sentimentality. But when I finished Coffee Shop, I had a feeling that I would never part with the original piece. Not only because it somehow managed to capture the magical mood of Dizzy’s, a place which held so many fond memories for me, but also because it was the rare painting that turned out even better than I had envisioned. Everything seemed to come together from the color palette, to the unusual angle, to the happenstance of the My Little Pony that some child had forgotten, but will now linger forever on the countertop.

The closing prompted me to make these high quality giclée prints available to any like-minded souls who would enjoy owning this visual reminder of a special place that now exists only in our many fond memories. It is a lasting tribute to the finer diner that once graced the borough of Brooklyn.

If you have memories of Dizzy’s, tell me your story, I’d love to hear it.