Architect as Artist

Portraits are a way for Dave Wagner to study form and texture.

Architects turn their hands to art pieces

At summer gallery exhibit, they get to show a different side of their creativity.

By Richard Maschal
Special to the Observer
Posted: Thursday, Jul. 08, 2010

Much of the talk at the opening of "Art by Architects" focused on two simple questions. "Got any work?" "What are you doing with your time?"

The response from 31 architects slowed by the Great Recession was, "I've been making art." The results fill the walls at Hodges Taylor Gallery uptown, a good summer show (nourishing, but not heavy) that is worth your time.

Gallery owner and art sparkplug Christie Taylor and the American Institute of Architects invited architects to exhibit, and the response included a variety of work - paintings, prints, sculpture, photographs, drawings and crafts.

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In "Bruno," an oil pastel drawing, David Wagner distorts proportion - a huge arm over a massive head.

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