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Portfolio
Big Sky Country:
Paintings by Ron Milewicz
Showcasing the work of emerging photographers, architects and designers.
Text by Karen E. Steen
January 2004
Ron Milewicz's paintings of New York invert the idea of architecture as the
dominant force in the urban landscape. Ever since 1997, when he became one of
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's first artists-in-residence at the World
Trade Center, he has given equal weight to the sky above the city.
"Somehow things jelled in that experience," he says of his time on
the 85th floor of Tower One. "Of course I can never replace that kind of
view again, but I've continued to look for spaces or views that deal with that
kind of juxtaposition of this enormous panorama and the sky."
In the years since his WTC residency, Milewicz, who was trained as an
architect, has painted in studios all over Brooklyn and Queens, moving whenever
he feels he has exhausted the views through his studio windows. After nine
months next to the elevated No. 7 train tracks in Long Island City, Milewicz is
ready to move again. "Part of the whole thing is the game of finding the
studio," he says. "Right now I'm thinking about the airport, trying
to get a space that has a terrific view of the tarmac." |
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McCarren Park--Late Afternoon |
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