...Wouldn't it be sublime...

For this exhibition, I focused on spaces that are transitional and anonymous - staircases, lobbies and hallways. I wanted to interrupt the quiet containment of individual compositions by creating multi-paneled pieces that literally fracture space. I contrast photorealistic painting with panels of abstract patterning- including some of Josef Albers glass paintings,

a Werner Werkstatt vase, or an iron railing- emphasizing the decorative, and suggesting the inconsequential nature of these incredible spaces. Finally, I paired abstracted glass reproductions of vintage objects with painted representations of architectural spaces, collapsing the past and the present, the represented and the real.

Alexander Nagel’s piece on “…wouldn’t it be sublime…”: