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

Forest Neighbors, 2000

Michael Dal Cerro
American

Location: Court of Appeals, Division II, Tacoma

About the Artwork

Playing with gravity, scale, and context, artist Michael Dal Cerro created Forest Neighbors as a fictional visual narrative that causes tension between the real and imagined.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Administrative Office of the Courts.

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.