He writes, "From the rendering of human structures in geometric architectural form, I would like to illustrate that we are independent individuals, yet dependently connected to each other in the world". (Photo via UC Berkeley Art Practice).
Paradoxically, her juxtapositions of images of organic, geometric and invented architectural forms illustrates that common ground is constantly present as styles evolve and are reproduced.
Throughout history, symmetry has been widely explored as a geometric strategy to conceive architectural forms and spaces.
On the other hand, inadequate maintenance of Renaissance gardens designed as geometric architectural abstractions, to which plant forms were made to conform by clipping and trimming allowed many of the larger plants to resume their natural forms.
Ikard's fake furnishings have clean and simple lines, and the architectural forms flickering on the wall behind the objects also are austere and geometric.
Over the years it grew increasingly emblematic, with figures and architectural forms arranged in intricate patterns that suggested quilts, African textiles and modernist geometric abstraction.
The paintings are all of architectural forms, mostly multiwindowed urban structures, but they read like machine-tooled -- or perhaps digitally tooled -- geometric abstractions: crisp, glossy, immaculate.
Behind her, geometric architectural images flashed onscreen.
Fired up by the architectural forms of spired churches, sailboats and soaring skyscrapers, he eventually developed a distinctive style combining radiant planes with lines and geometric forms.
"What super-surreal architectural forms," she enthused.
