architecture

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Retail facade remodel

Elevation view of an un-built shopping center facade remodel in Dublin, Ohio. The building this was proposed for is a typical, late 80s, suburban retail strip. The area around it is being redeveloped into a dense, walkable district. Our goal with the project was to create a more varied and interesting pedestrian streetscape. Unfortunately the client decided to take a different direction.

I provided schematic design and renderings- 2015 Ford & Associates Architects.

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dublin facade remodel

Pizzuti Collection

Went out for a walk and managed to sketch the Pizzuti Collection before the rain hit. The Pizzuti Collection is a fantastic little art gallery in a repurposed/renovated historical building in the Short North. They feature exciting contemporary artists from around the world. Beyond the galleries, they also have an outdoor sculpture garden, roof terraces, and a public art & design library. The Pizzuti Collection also happens to be right in my backyard (literally), they’re great neighbors! Check out the latest exhibit if you’re in town.

04-29-2016 Pizzuti Collection

 

In Progress: Wexner Center painting

Current work in progress painting of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University in Columbus. For this piece I’m interested in representing the building as a series of solids bathed in light. I’m pushing back against the deconstructivism of the architecture and instead finding cohesion in the building as a collection of forms coming together rather than splintered apart by Eisenman’s grid. I’m looking at the building more like one would look at a street scape and finding relationships between the volumes.

Folks are too quick to dismiss Ohio as a flyover state with little culture. The Chicago Tribune was shocked recently to find a thriving arts scene in Columbus. There are more and more articles like this; I think Columbus is being ‘discovered’ by the rest of the country while it’s enjoying a bit of a growth spurt. I think people tend to forget that Ohio has a solid collection of work by major architects. I’m always eager to share this, and I want my work to be a reflection of that fact. Why not start at my alma mater?

Wexner Center painting

Wexner Center, acrylic on canvas, 24×24″

 

LeVeque Tower painting

This is a little composition that I’ve been playing with of the LeVeque Tower and surrounding buildings in downtown Columbus. I’ve been doing a series of expressionist images of American downtown city areas. So far, they’ve only been black and white and very loose in representation. For this piece I experimented with bright, bold colors, and a tighter, more figural representation. Also, the other paintings in this series have been landscape orientation to capture the wide streets and density of many buildings stacked along them. For this painting, I went vertical and was more interested in the spaces between the buildings. It was a fun experiment that has already influenced me to expand my downtown series.

LeVeque Tower, acrylic on canvas, 18x24"

LeVeque Tower, acrylic on canvas, 18×24″

Eames inspecting my early sketch

Bonus- Eames inspecting my early sketch

Main St Modern

A painting I’ve been working on of the Main St Modern warehouse in Canton, Ohio. They’re a real hidden gem of some crazy mid-century modern furniture finds, tucked away in an old depot in Canton. Check them out.

Their building interested me for it’s simple classic/traditional forms, and the gentle repetition of the arched bays.

The painting's current state, I may continue to work on it some more.

The painting’s current state, I may continue to work on it some more. I don’t think I’ve finished poking at the foreground composition.

Bonus- the initial paint sketch

Bonus- the initial paint sketch

In progress shot

In progress shot

Rent check doodles part 2

We live in The Short North in Columbus, Ohio. It’s the city’s main fancy-pants arts district, and we give our landlord a small piece of art every month on our rent check envelope. Here’s part one.

The Columbus Convention Center, design by Peter Eisenman, and sketched here by Rebecca

The Columbus Convention Center, designed by Peter Eisenman, and sketched here by Rebecca

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The American Gothic Building, home to Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Rowe, and Ladybird; drawn by me

226 Buttles Ave (a building our landlord owns)

226 Buttles Ave (an apartment building our landlord owns), drawn by me

The Columbus Museum of Art, modern wing expansion by Design Group

The Columbus Museum of Art, modern wing expansion by Design Group, drawn by me

Goodale Park gazebo, drawn by Rebecca

Goodale Park gazebo & pond, drawn by Rebecca

Antoniuskirche interior- Moser

Interior of the Antoniuskirche (St. Anthony’s Church) by Karl Moser in Basel, Switzerland.

The sketchercise challenge was to try making two views in the same location. One view focused on the distant background (left), and one focused on the foreground (right).