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Modern Balance | Wilmette, Illinois

This Wilmette ranch renovation opened up a home that had felt dark and compartmentalized, creating light-filled, connected spaces with a clean modern sensibility. The art program was developed to match that sensibility exactly: personal, considered, and woven into the design rather than applied on top of it.

The dining room is anchored by a grid installation of works from my Abstract Interior Series, contemporary collage works on paper arranged with precision across the wall. The grid format is a modernist choice that suits both the architecture of the space and the client's aesthetic, bringing warmth and visual complexity to the room without competing with the clean lines of the renovation.

In the primary suite sitting area, "Step into the Light," a figurative oil on linen by artist Willie Kohler, creates a focal point that is intimate and quietly powerful. Kohler's figurative work has a presence and humanity that suits a private space well, inviting sustained looking in a room designed for rest and reflection. In the bathroom, Kohler's contemporary landscape "Longing" continues that thread, bringing a sense of depth and stillness to a space that benefits from both.

The bedroom program features prints by Alyson Khan, whose work brings a different visual register to the collection, completing a program that moves through four distinct spaces with coherence and intention.

This is what a comprehensive residential art program looks like at its best. Not concentrated in the most visible rooms, but considered throughout the entire home.

Developed in collaboration with Epic Interiors. Photography: Erin Dwyer Photography.