Built Environments
Paintings by artist Craig Rouse
Exhibition Date: Summer 2023
Craig Rouse employs a limited color palette, geometric shapes, and crisp lines to construct imagined architectural landscapes. Built Environments explores humanmade spaces, large and small. Some paintings are inspired by buildings. Others are based on paper cubes the artist has stacked and arranged. Others are inspired by buildings.
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About Craig Rouse

Craig is a working graphic designer and fine artist, with his studio located in the 40West Arts District in Denver. He spends time on both client and personal design projects and expresses his love for art through a variety of different mediums. He has created several unique art series using computer-aided illustration, silkscreen, and linoleum block printmaking. Most recently, he has picked up the paint brush, something he hasn’t touched since college, and has created several series of Architectural Abstraction paintings. Using a limited color palette, Craig interprets architectural forms into abstracted paintings with playful compositions of light and shadow, shape, and balance.
He lives in Lakewood Colorado with his wife, Carrie, and their rescue studio dog, Riley.
This program is funded in part by SCFD.