36 x 48 x 4 inches of architectural mayhem

frontal view

This is the fourth and largest of a series of three dimensional works that are composed of multiple layers of flat paintings. My mentor encouraged me to do something architectural this time, so I got on my bicycle and rode around town making drawings old houses. I also collected images of other houses from the Minnesota historical registry and created a collage. The collage and the drawings generated the imagery for the painting.  For the panel inserts I used clear acrylic sheets instead of opaque primed masonite. It does not photograph very well. Part of the visual interest lies in the process of wandering through the piece: looking through windows or around plastic shapes and the composition changes slightly when viewed from different angles.

view from the side

view from the other side

from above

detail

detail

preliminary collage