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

The Final Frontier, 1995

Michael Dal Cerro
(American, born 1953)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Artist Michael Dal Cerro drew inspiration for the collage-like imagery of The Final Frontier from vintage advertisements and product labels. Of his playful composition, the artist states "the different pieces of the picture fit together in a sometimes narrative, sometimes amiguous puzzle. These scraps of visual information, colors and patterning for all their complexity, have a very specific intuitive relationship to each other."

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