“I make the city quiet.”

Tim Saternow is an American painter whose watercolor paintings explore the lost and forgotten edges of the urban landscape. His work encompasses the empty streets of Lower Manhattan, finding the ordinary and overlooked of New York City, and the dignified old houses of Provincetown, on Cape Cod.

Saternow, trained as a set and lighting designer in theater, and as an art director in film, he frames his settings before the characters arrive. His urban landscapes begin with the precise draftsmanship sharpened by his years of designing theater and film sets, he then attacks that precision with drips and thrown paint, detonating blooms of color across unusually large watercolor paintings.

Saternow's mastery lies in the way shadow interrupts light revealing the textures of brick, glass, and concrete - the worn facades of old buildings and their puddled, neglected side streets. These are streets we pass without a word.

Saternow makes the city quiet.

Membership
American Watercolor Society, Signature Member
National Watercolor Society, Signature Member
Allied Artists of America, Elected Member
Philadelphia Water Color Society, Signature Member
New Jersey Water Color Society, Elected Member
North East Watercolor Society, Associate Member
Baltimore Watercolor Society, Signature Artist
Hudson Valley Art Association, Signature Artist
The Art Students League, Life Member
United Scenic Artists, Local 829 (USA 829), NY
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (The Emmy Awards), Voting Member, LA CA.

His honors include a Clark Hulings Foundation Felowship, awards from the American Watercolor Society and Alied Artists of America, and a 1995 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction.

He studied set and lighting design at the Yale School of Drama.

Tim is represented by the William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA,
and The Prince Street Galley, NYC.