LITTLE ITALY ABSTRACTS
Thomas Prinz + Mike Nesbit, 2019
“Non-referential buildings are entities that are themselves meaningful and sense-making and, as such, no less the embodiment of society than buildings were in the past when they were the bearers of common social ideals.”
- Valerio Olgiati, Non-Referential Architecture (Zurich: Simonett & Baer, 2018) 13.
You are walking this line in the landscape, to your right resides a nurtured plot with manicured turf and wildflowers confined by mulch and brick. To your left the grass grows high and unkept, wildflowers land in the breeze. To your right a house of nostalgic symmetry and painted shingles. To your left a collage of planes, maybe a wall, maybe nothing. To your right the landscape is objectified with comfort and acceptance, to your left uncertainty and vulnerability. A few steps ahead one finds a shed that only the landscape remembers.
might mean nothing
might mean everything
invisible until found
abstract until objectified
a moment of utility
confined by the landscape
revealed through wonder
a path was made
no longer a shed
Show Sponsor:
Lucky Bucket Brewing Co.
Thomas Prinz + Mike Nesbit, 2019
“Non-referential buildings are entities that are themselves meaningful and sense-making and, as such, no less the embodiment of society than buildings were in the past when they were the bearers of common social ideals.”
- Valerio Olgiati, Non-Referential Architecture (Zurich: Simonett & Baer, 2018) 13.
You are walking this line in the landscape, to your right resides a nurtured plot with manicured turf and wildflowers confined by mulch and brick. To your left the grass grows high and unkept, wildflowers land in the breeze. To your right a house of nostalgic symmetry and painted shingles. To your left a collage of planes, maybe a wall, maybe nothing. To your right the landscape is objectified with comfort and acceptance, to your left uncertainty and vulnerability. A few steps ahead one finds a shed that only the landscape remembers.
might mean nothing
might mean everything
invisible until found
abstract until objectified
a moment of utility
confined by the landscape
revealed through wonder
a path was made
no longer a shed
Show Sponsor:
Lucky Bucket Brewing Co.
Photos Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
About the Artists:
Thomas Prinz is an architect and fine artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master of Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. In 1990, Prinz established Arc-Studio to explore the disciplines of art and architecture. He creates works with thoughts of structures as well as paying homage to many past great artists like Giotto. His works are collages, monotype and digital prints on paper.
www.thomasprinz.com
Mike Nesbit is a fine artist based in Los Angeles. With a background in architecture, his multidisciplinary trajectory greatly informs his artwork, allowing Nesbit to explore areas between art and architecture with a focus on technique, repetition, and representation. Nesbit has participated in solo and group shows throughout the United States. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and played four years of professional baseball with the Seattle Mariners.
www.mikenesbit.com
Thomas Prinz is an architect and fine artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master of Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. In 1990, Prinz established Arc-Studio to explore the disciplines of art and architecture. He creates works with thoughts of structures as well as paying homage to many past great artists like Giotto. His works are collages, monotype and digital prints on paper.
www.thomasprinz.com
Mike Nesbit is a fine artist based in Los Angeles. With a background in architecture, his multidisciplinary trajectory greatly informs his artwork, allowing Nesbit to explore areas between art and architecture with a focus on technique, repetition, and representation. Nesbit has participated in solo and group shows throughout the United States. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and played four years of professional baseball with the Seattle Mariners.
www.mikenesbit.com