Description

The focus of my art is observation and representation of geometry, color, and the play of light in the built environment. Subjects include rural, industrial and urban structures that provide the stage set and backgrounds for the daily play of living in the world. For many, the pandemic of early 2020 limited access to the outside, and cleared the stage of players, emptying streets, parks, and highways. One way back to normal (or ahead to a post-pandemic new normal) included an acknowledgment that “normal” was within visual grasp. Current work utilizing elements of the Chicago skyline includes a commercial building - light playing across the geometric forms of brick, metal, and wood. Another, capturing the detail of Mies van der Rohe’s Illinois Institute of Technology with its regular geometry and uniform colors, represents stability, familiarity, endurance, and resilience.