Artwork copyright Michael Dal Cerro. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2016.

Catch, 1994

Michael Dal Cerro
American (born 1953)

Location: Republic Elementary-Junior-Senior High School, Republic

About the Artwork

In Catch artist Michael Dal Cerro combines and overlaps recognizable imagery with abstract shapes and dynamic textures. He refers to the intuitive interaction of his fragmented, collage-like imagery as a "sometimes narrative, sometimes ambiguous puzzle."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Republic School District.

About the Artist

New Jersey-based artist Michael Dal Cerro utilizes painting, printmaking and digital media to create elaborately imagined compositions. Interested in the invention of forms and visual language, his works play with conventional perspective and figuration. Dal Cerro lived in Seattle, Washington between 1988 and 1993. Many of his artworks from that period depict imagery of the Pacific Northwest. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Northern Illinois University in 1975.