This gallery is planned to also feature images of 3D spaces beyond buildings. The artistic lines between often blur. All built environments including sculpture, cityscapes and environmental observations are displayed here.
This gallery is a space for things:
2D/3D – Inside/Outside – Imagined/Imaged/Built
Digital Art created in 2015
Photographed Oct. 2013
This historic building was designed and constructed under sponsorship of the WPA during the Great Depression in 1937. As a federal architect, Howard Lovewell Cheney did many buildings during that era which you may be familiar with. The National Airport Terminal (Now DCA Terminal A) is another fine example of his work.
This digital painting was just created in December 2021. My original photo was taken a few years ago in the Art Deco section of South Beach, Miami Florida.
The Broad Museum, Los Angeles ~ Original photos taken in late Feb. 2020 (Pre-COVID-19)
Digital Art was imagined and longingly created months later, during the COVID-19 lock down. Composited multiple images cutting through to an earlier time and space.
Wilshire Grand Center, Los Angeles, CA ~ Photographed Feb. 2020
The Hotel InterContinental entrance is a focal point between two sides of the brand new Wilshire Grand Center. It features this dramatic double-curved skylight atrium as the connecting element between buildings. Commissioned by Korean Airlines, the center was designed by A.C. Martin Architects. It is 73 stories (now the tallest building west of the Mississippi) with 18 floors of retail below the hotel above. Even though it is all glass the graceful building curves are so much nicer than typical rectangular curtain-wall boxes.
My photo was enhanced with color and posterization techniques to emphasize the glass panels and sweeping lines. Background blur focus was added to contrast against the hard edge glass in foreground.
AT&T Building, Los Angeles CA ~ Photographed Late Feb. 2020
This photograph was captured in downtown LA on a Sunday afternoon. On the way to The Broad Museum, we were just seeing a few tourists and homeless people moving among the financial district’s very empty glass high-rise canyons. That’s when this “mirage moment” happened. The image has caused me to think and read more about many of the striking contrasts evoked. More Research
Digital Artwork from Photo Taken Feb. 2020
Angels Flight is a landmark funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, CA. This inclined railway has two funicular cars, Olivet and Sinai, running in opposite directions on a shared cable (298 ft. long).
The funicular has operated since 1901, using the same cars and station elements. Angels Flight tracks connect Hill Street and California Plaza. Although it is marketed primarily as a tourist novelty, it was frequently used by local workers to travel between the Downtown Historic Core and Bunker Hill. A fully restored Angels Flight reopened for public service in 2017, after many shutdowns for safety issues and being entirely moved two blocks, due to urban renewal projects.
