Cabin on the Lake, 2017, 12×16, Acrylic on Canvas, $325 Tranquility – an early morning looking out onto a lake in Svolvær. I worked to capture the feeling I had waking up that morning with peace, nature, and an amazing, […]
Cummins Corporate Office Building – Kevin Roche/John Dinkeloo
Oh Cummins Engine Company….I’m probably one of the only kids from Columbus who didn’t have a parent that worked for them growing up. However, without Cummins and J. Irwin Miller, it’s highly likely I would not have become an architect. […]
Reykjavik Sunset
Reykjavik Sunset, 2017, 10×20, Acrylic on Canvas, $350 Perhaps Reykjavik’s most well known and prominent landmark, Hallgrimskirkja is designed as a basalt pillar shooting up through the earth heading towards the sky and God. Utilitarian and a bit brutalist in […]
SC Johnson Wax Campus – Racine, Wisconsin
During the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015, SC Johnson Wax sponsored free tours of the SC Johnson Wax Campus and Wingspread home in Racine, Wisconsin. Even though I’m not a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright (I’m a Sullivan guy through […]
Kahn, Ando, Johnson in Fort Worth
After coming back from my European Study Abroad trip in 2010, I got the chance to visit the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I had to sneak away from the girl I was dating at the time, her kids, and her mother […]
Farnsworth House – Mies van der Rohe
Seemingly like the other architects I know in Chicago, a few years back I made my way to the Farnsworth House in Plano. I mean it was so heavily hyped in architectural history classes and as a modern masterpiece that […]
Irwin Union Bank – Eero Saarinen
When was the last time you saw a bank look this damn good? When Sullivan was designing them, or Deborah Burke’s bank in Columbus, right? Well Eero Saarinen took Sullivan’s (and others) Midwestern Fortress Bank typology and threw it right […]
Chasing Waterfalls
Chasing Waterfalls, 2017, 18×24, Acrylic on Canvas, $600 Inspired by Iceland’s Gullfoss waterfall I wanted to capture the beauty of nature, power of water, and the brisk atmosphere of an Icelandic fall day. An underpainting utilizing an icy blue hue […]
WMS Boathouse at Clark Park – Studio Gang
The boathouse so nice, they built it twice – and for good reason. The boathouse in Clark Park, coupled with the one in Bridgeport and the continued expansion of river walks around the city, are part of Mayor Emanuel’s attempt […]