Residential · Commission · Original Painting · Art Advisory

Art in Motion | Evanston Loft

This project began differently than most. The clients did not come to me looking for an art advisor who might include my work in a broader program. They commissioned my painting first, as the anchor of their home, and then asked me to build the rest of the collection around it. That sequence matters because it changes the nature of everything that follows.

The commission was developed specifically for a wide, high expanse running along the upper portion of the main living space, the kind of wall that demands something with real scale and energy. The clients' instinct was a mural. My response was to design something that had all the presence and movement of a mural but existed on canvas, giving them the immersive experience they were drawn to while preserving the intimacy and collectability of a painting. It was conceived as a site-specific work from the beginning, designed for that wall, that light, and that space.

Building the collection around my own work meant selecting artists whose sensibility spoke to mine without competing with the commission at the center of it all. The result is a program I am genuinely proud of. Luciana Levinton's architectural painting brings a structural elegance that speaks directly to the loft's clean modern framework, her eye for built form and geometric rhythm creating a quiet conversation with my own. A Gordon Cheung print adds a different kind of complexity, layered and intense, introducing a contemporary edge that keeps the collection from settling too comfortably into any single register. And a large-scale figurative work with graffiti-inflected mark-making and raw urban energy brings something else entirely: a counterpoint that gives the collection genuine tension and range, the sign of a program that was curated rather than simply assembled.

Together, the four works form a body of work that feels genuinely collected. Each piece was chosen because it belonged in relationship with the others, and with the space, and with the people living inside it.

Art is not decorating the architecture here. It is completing it.

Developed in collaboration with Epic Interiors. Photography: Cynthia Lynn Photography.