Downtown Dandies Collage

Artist/Architect/Designer, proud PRATT alumna, die-hard New Yorker with passion for cities, buildings, and structures. My Photo Collage Art is about the OTHER New York - the NYC we don't notice or appreciate and mostly ignore or turn away from. It's about bridges and road structures, pipes and hydrants, washed-out brick walls and the signature NYC water towers still defining our city skyline. It's about the architecture and infrastructure holding our city all together, most of which is sculptural in form and quite artistic in expression. As an architect by background, artist and designer now, I notice these fragments of our city, always fascinated by their looks, shapes, and colors. I love the process of discovering and revealing these 'diamonds in the rough' for all to see and marvel. My CITY CLIPPINGS collage series includes artworks made of cut-out photos I've personally taken around NYC and named after city neighborhoods. They feature the ART of city architecture and infrastructure - the colors, curves, and volumes of the parts that make up New York. And the expression and emotion they elicit in our daily lives - if you can see and appreciate the sights. If you love our messy, gritty, artsy New York the way I do, my artworks are for you! Artfully Yours, Pearl