A Few Photos Inside Scout - My Work on the Walls

South Wall of Scout

One of Three Cardboard American Flags

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Photos From My Opening Reception at Scout

Thanks to everyone that helped make my opening reception at Scout such a success; Larry, Sheryl, Michelle, Christopher, Zach, Kathy, Duey, Leif, Nicholas....  I could not have done it without you. You made the evening at Scout both a tremendous presentation of my work, and an over the top party - fun people,  just the right cocktail (Dark and Stormy), and sensational music. The vibe could not have been better.

Thank You,

Michael

Scout Invite

Scout Teaser - Work on Panel

Untitled - Acrylic Paint on Panel - 12 x 12 inches

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Save The Date - October 11th at Scout

A Large Commission This Week

I am working on a large commission this week that intails what I refer to as my 'City' Drawings. These are made up of drawings of individual buildings that I repeatedly construct, one on top of another, until they aggregate into a 'city'. These drawings are labor intensive, but I have books on CD and public radio to keep me company, and I'm always happily surprised by the end results. The commission thus far includes five panels, each 40 x 32 inches, created with acrylic paint pen on archival mat board. I've been playing with the color a bit, and with the configuration of the urban space in each piece.

Homage to Japanese Screens

Looking again at some of the Black and White Panoramic Photographs I made at the Magic Hedge in years past. The Magic Hedge is a bird sanctuary near Montrose Beach here in Chicago. The city has let the landscape return to a more natural, prairie-like setting to nurture birds as the migrate up and down the coast of Lake Michigan. It is one of my favorite places in Chicago and I have often made photographs there, most in color but a few in black and white. I came across this panoramic photograph as I was perusing old files and was pleasantly surprised to see it. I can see that one idea I was exploring, both as I shot the individual photos, and as I was assembling them, was Asian folding screens. A shared love a nature is one common denominator. The patterned manner in which the foliage moves across the horizontal format, and the way the flash illuminated individual leaves is a direct reference to some vintage Asian screens. And the still visible edges of the source photographs as the overlap one another, are analogous to the panels that make up folding screens.

A few other examples.