PYRALUX IV Artwork - Limited Edition of 3

(b. 1961 – Miami Beach, FL) I was an architect first, having studied at Pratt Institute and practicing for over 20 years when in 2005, a progressive spine disease left me disabled and unable to continue practicing. I reinvented myself as an artist working in the realm of digital media. Because of my disability, I work digitally. At my age, I straddle two worlds, the analog of the past and the digital of today. Working digitally, I question how the digital modality of creating works of art, being in its infancy relative to the history of art, relates to the history of creative expression. Art and technology is converging in our time. For me, technology as a tool empowers my creative spirit. As my work resides in the realm of virtual computer code, I like to think of the code being the artworks DNA and embedded in this code is the soul of the human element that created it. My architecture never left me. It lives on in my artistic practice. It informs me; always thinking about structure, color and rhythm. Creating geometric constructs offers me a form of invention that challenges me both analytically and creatively. Each work is a formal exercise layered on top of a creative one, revealing the duality of my brain. My architectural/engineering brain deeply rooted in my work is now manifesting itself in a new creative process I call “3D Derivatives”. The idea of an artist being derivative often has a negative connotation, as being imitative of another artist. But I’m using this word in a different context; that of something that is derived from a source, in this case the source being a 3d model. Geometric structures are emerging in my 3d explorations as if architecture is being transformed into artwork. My work has been exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions including a solo exhibition at the Frost Art Museum. My work is in private, corporate and institutional collections, among them the Permanent Collection of the Frost Art Museum in Miami and the Cleveland Clinic Art Collection. My work in public art includes a permanent installation at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland and most recently I was commissioned by the Cleveland Public Library to create “QUADRATALUX’, a 10 x 30 foot art wall for one of its branches as part of the library’s “SEE ALSO” public art initiative.