Artwork copyright Michael Dal Cerro. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Garden State Parkway, 2000

Michael Dal Cerro
American (born 1953)

Location: Bellingham High School, Bellingham

About the Artwork

Garden State Parkway is part of a series of artworks by artist Michael Dal Cerro that explore the feeling of place and sense of identity to be found in the New Jersey landscape. Playing with scale, Dal Cerro combines highway imagery with overgrown, lush flowers and foliage to cause "tension between the real and the imagined."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Bellingham 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.