Artwork copyright Michael Dal Cerro. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Landscape with Painter, 2000

Michael Dal Cerro
American (born 1953)

Location: Maple View Middle School, Covington

About the Artwork

Landscape with Painter is part of a series of artworks by Michael Dal Cerro that explore the New Jersey landscape. After observing an artist who focused his composition on a single tree, surrounded by factories and shopping centers, Dal Cerro was inspired to examine the discrepancy between perception and reality when it comes to our environment.

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