Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistD.N. Mason Platinum Member CollectionChicago2016
Description Chicago 2016 is both an exercise in civic pride as well as more or less and exercise in futility. The City of Chicago would never ask me to do their new Olympic bid logo for 2016....but if they did, it would look like this. Why? Well, apparently we are moving away from the usage of the torch. This does make for a challenge, but well worth the undertaking. Instead of a torch, I have laid out a representation of the 'Loop' [downtown Chicago] and the lakefront. In lieu of colored rings, I've opted for colors of the playing surfaces used during the summer games. There are many other symbols embedded in this work, which by design and admittedly by happenstance represent the summer games. Enjoy.
D.N. Mason, Chicago Member Since October 2006 Artist Statement I grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, and pursued degrees in Business and in Black Studies/African Art at Amherst College, in New England. I taught myself to paint on a computer about 25 years ago. I believed in digital as the future of art and I wanted to work with the newest art creating technology. As an artist I like to explore humanity’s evolving relationship with computers. Each work explores how much humanity can extract from the computer without ceding artistic control to it. Although I don’t tend to touch on overtly African-American themes, I reference and pay homage to the urban aesthetic and the geometric style that our cities express. African textiles are also common reference as I like to re-interpret them using digital tools. I was a best emerging artist award winner in 2008's Chicago Art Open. In 2009 I won a First Prize in an international poster design contest organized by The Olympia F.U.N. Co-op.