The creativity and expertise of the engineers, designers and laborers is celebrated in bridge paintings by Roland Kulla.  The rigorous compositions dramatically emphasize the grandeur and monumentality of these structures.  Kulla, of Chicago, is a full-time painter of bridges and the built environment.

Kulla states:  “I select certain design elements and eliminate background context in order to emphasize form.  The details of massive structures reveal the many individual components.  What may appear a random arrangement of bolts and rivets has, on close inspection, a rigidly patterned logic.  Abstracted from their surroundings, the bridges take on new aspects.  Some look dangerous, others elegant.  The forms are presented in “natural” bridge colors in bold contrast to the voids that they span.  They float in light that plays across the surface details.”

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